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Vice President JD Vance said Thursday he knew of no \u201cspecial security concern\u201d that would lead President Trump to skip next week\u2019s 25th anniversary commemoration of the 9\/11 attacks at Ground Zero \u2014 before joking he was looking forward to \u201cintellectual conversations\u201d with former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

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Trump will attend a remembrance event at the Pentagon rather than in his birth city \u2014 a decision that has drawn intrigue and speculation amid Iranian assassination threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a special security concern,\u201d Vance told The Post during a White House press briefing, before qualifying: \u201cThough actually, I will \u2014 we\u2019ll follow up with Secret Service just to get you an actual answer on that. But that\u2019s not what I\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, you know, you have a vice president, you have a president [and] we\u2019d like to be in three or four places on 9\/11, but you can\u2019t have one person be in multiple locations at the exact same time,\u201d the VP added. \u201cAnd so we just decided as a team that I would go to New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In July, Trump secretly ditched Air Force One while leaving the annual NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey \u2014 flying to the UK on a military plane after US intelligence received word of a credible threat to shoot down the presidential jet.<\/p>\n

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All other living former presidents \u2014 including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Biden \u2014 will attend the ceremony in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden,\u201d Vance joked. \u201cI\u2019m sure that we\u2019ll have many, many intense intellectual conversations, and you know, it\u2019ll be great. We\u2019ll have a great time with Joe Biden and the other presidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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