Joe Rogan Experience #2552 - Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston · Aired Sep 10, 2026
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The owner of the building that housed Tower 7 insured it against terrorism shortly before the 9/11 attacks and did not go to work that day.
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This mixes up two different things. Larry Silverstein had owned and developed 7 World Trade Center since 1987, he did not buy it shortly before 9/11. The terrorism coverage bought weeks before the attacks was on his new lease for the Twin Towers and other buildings, and fact checkers found that was routine all-risk insurance tied to when he took on that lease, not a suspicious late addition. The dermatologist appointment that kept him home that morning is true, but plenty of people simply were not at work yet when the towers were hit.
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Is it true that the owner of the building that housed Tower 7 insured it against terrorism shortly before the 9/11 attacks and did not go to work that day?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. This mixes up two different things. Larry Silverstein had owned and developed 7 World Trade Center since 1987, he did not buy it shortly before 9/11. A guest said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2552 - Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston, aired Sep 10, 2026, at 2:15:33. The supporting source is snopes.com, linked below.
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