PICTURES: Kevin McCarthy lays a wreath at Ground Zero with sister of pilot who died in 9/11
PHOTOS: Kevin McCarthy lays a wreath at Ground Zero with the sister of the pilot whose plane was hijacked during the 9/11 terrorist attacks
- House Speaker laid a wreath at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City on Monday
- Visited with Debra Burlingame, whose brother pilot Charles ‘Chic’ Burlingame died when his plane was hijacked during the September 11 terrorist attacks
- It’s unclear if McCarthy had other business while in the Northeast
Kevin McCarthy visited New York City on Monday to lay a wreath at Ground Zero with the sister of a pilot killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Photos obtained by DailyMail.com showed the House Speaker and Debra Burlingame laying a wreath and placing American flags and flowers at the 9/11 Memorial at the southernmost tip of Manhattan.
Burlingame’s brother Charles “Chic” Burlingame was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was en route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles before being hijacked by terrorists and crashing into the Pentagon.
All 64 of the plane’s occupants were killed, as were another 125 people at the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters that day.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy laid a wreath Monday at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City with Debra Burlingame, whose brother pilot Charles “Chic” Burlingame died when his plane was hijacked during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
The duo laid a wreath and placed American flags and flowers by the name of Burlingame’s brother at the Ground Zero Memorial on Monday
It’s not immediately clear if McCarthy was on other business in New York, but he stopped by the News Corporation building for an in-studio interview with Fox & Friends.
The California Republican threatened to impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland during that appearance as his party complains about the politicization of the Justice Department after it indicted former President Donald Trump on 37 counts in the classified documents case.
McCarthy and Burlingame paid their respects at a wreath for the victims of the attack.
They then walked to a fountain where the California Republican placed flowers and an American flag to honor the deceased pilot.
The duo were followed by heavy security personnel at Ground Zero.
Posting some images from the wreath laying, McCarthy wrote on Twitter, “In New York at the @Sept11Memorial to pay tribute to all those lost in one of the most horrific days in American history.”
It’s unclear if McCarthy had other business while in the Northeast, but he appeared in the studio on Fox & Friends Monday morning
Burlingame’s brother was piloting America Airlines Flight 77 on September 11, 2001, which took off from Washington’s Reagan National Airport before it was hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the Pentagon — killing everyone on board and 125 people in the building that day came
“I joined the family of Charles Burlingame – a pilot and American hero who lost his life on American Airlines Flight 77,” he continued. “We will never forget.”
It’s unclear if McCarthy is in the Northeast on other business, and his team has not commented to DailyMail.com about whether he will have any other assignments in New York.
However, the speaker was present in the studio at Fox & Friends on Monday morning.
Also unclear is why Monday was chosen as the day to honor and honor Burlingame’s brother at the 9/11 Memorial.
McCarthy and Burlingame were followed around Ground Zero by a large security detail
Memorial visitors and bystanders stopped to watch McCarthy and Burlingame’s wreath-laying ceremony