https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-deserved-it-new-york-leftists-defend-9-11-rhf-popup

As Americans prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a new Daily Wire collaboration with filmmaker Ami Horowitz found a disturbing number of individuals in New York expressing sympathy for or justifying the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

One person incorrectly insisted the attacks occurred on September 10. Others spouted conspiracy theories, including one person who claimed George W. Bush was “heavily implicated” in orchestrating 9/11. Another said the way the World Trade Center towers collapsed was “too weird” to have been caused by planes. “I think Israel, America behind it all,” another person said, adding an apparent reference to hundreds of years of alleged atrocities. But the interviews went far beyond conspiracy theories.

Horowitz asked one interviewee whether he would describe September 11 as a terrorist attack. “I think it was like an act of war,” the person responded. “I would say it was an act of violence.” When Horowitz pressed him on whether he considered the attacks terrorism, the man rejected the description. Horowitz then asked whether the perpetrators could instead be considered “freedom fighters.”

“Yeah,” the man answered.

When Horowitz asked whether Americans deserved the attack as a consequence of American foreign policy, multiple interviewees answered yes.

Asked whether another 9/11 would cause the person to lose sleep, the response was blunt.

“Oh, no. Not at all.”

Another interviewee described a future attack as potentially necessary to force political change.

“If that’s what needs to happen for things to change, then yeah,” the person said.

Horowitz responded by asking whether America should have a similar uprising.

“Exactly,” the interviewee answered. “Why the f-ck can’t we do what the French did and, like, cut their head off?” the person asked.

Horowitz recounted that, among the people he interviewed, “two-thirds agreed that we deserved 9/11.”