WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Senate candidate Tommy Thompson (R) appears to be exaggerating his response to the 9/11 terror attacks, saying he was handing out bandages in New York the morning after, when he was actually delivering a speech in Washington, D.C.
Thompson, who is locked in a tight race with Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin, was the Secretary of Health and Human Services when America was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, and he's been touting his role in the response on the campaign trial while simultaneously casting Baldwin as a far-left radical because she voted against a bill that included a 9/11 resolution.
Thompson's agency did indeed mobilize a massive response to the attacks, including shifting multiple teams of doctors, morgue workers and supplies to both New York and the Pentagon area.
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