NEW YORK — Terry Strada, national chair of 9/11 Families United and widow of a man killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, called on President Donald Trump to bring the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to justice for fomenting terrorism. She made the appeal after accusing former presidents who attended Friday's 25th anniversary 9/11 Memorial of protecting the kingdom. All four living former U.S. presidents — Bill Clinton, George W.
Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden — attended the event along with Vice President JD Vance. “For 25 years, administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families. They withheld evidence. They vetoed JASTA (Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act); they broke promises, both public and private,” said Strada after reading several names of 9/11 victims, including her late husband, Thomas “Tom” S. Strada.
Tom Strada was a 41-year-old bond broker and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald when he was killed on the 104th floor of the North Tower during the September 11 terrorist attacks. “It has been one betrayal after another. President Trump can still change that. Tell the Saudis to stop lying. Tell them that if they want to be friends of the USA, they cannot continue to deny all of this. All of the pain.
All of the destruction that we have been suffering through.” The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, is a law passed in 2016 that allows American citizens and victims of international terrorism to file civil lawsuits against foreign governments and their officials for providing material support, assistance or conspiring with terrorist groups. The law was initially vetoed by President Barack Obama but Congress voted to override his veto.