WASHINGTON — President Trump said Sunday he would consider releasing classified documents related to the 9/11 terror attacks in response to public pleas from victims’ families to clarify Saudi Arabia’s purported role in the atrocity.

“I’m going to look at it when I get back,” Trump told reporters as he prepared to depart Ireland’s Shannon Airport. “I know they asked me Friday. I’ll be looking at it.”

Groups like 9/11 Families United, led by Terry Strada, have pursued legal action against the Kingdom, arguing that Riyadh should be held liable for the attacks that killed 2,977 people on Sept. 11, 2001.

Terry Strada, National Chair of 9/11 Families United, speaks at the podium during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center on Friday, September 11, 2026, in New York City. REUTERS

On Friday, Strada tore into the Saudis after reading the name of her late husband, Cantor Fitzgerald employee Tom Strada, during the remembrance ceremony at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.

“How can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder?” asked Strada, adding as spectators applauded that “administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families.”

Addressing Vice President JD Vance, attending on behalf of the Trump administration, Strada added: “Tell the Saudis to stop lying. Tell them that if they want to be friends with the USA, they cannot continue to deny all of this, all of the pain, all of the destruction, that we have been suffering through.”

Vance locked eyes with Strada during her call to action — and even patted his heart in recognition of her words, she told The Post after the ceremony.

“We appreciate President Trump’s efforts and trust that upon his return, he will set into motion a historic shift in policy that sees the United States demand accountability from the Kingdom for its role in the 9/11 Attacks,” Strada told The Post in a statement Monday. “As I said on Friday and as others in the 9/11 community echoed afterwards, it is time for the Trump administration to do their part in helping the 9/11 community hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for its proven role in the deaths of our loved ones.

“His predecessor stopped with releasing documents. The president has surely seen these and affirmed his beliefs. He should apply pressure now, as only he can, and secure the accountability the 9/11 community has long sought.”

Trump said Sunday he would consider releasing classified documents related to the 9/11 terror attacks in response to public pleas from victims’ families to clarify Saudi Arabia’s purported role in the atrocity. REUTERS

Strada wasn’t the only one to call out the Saudis.

The nephew of another victim, Marsh & McLennan vice president Lisa Marie Terry, urged Trump to “release the unredacted files that implicate Saudi Arabia while what’s left of the victims’ families are still alive.”

Fifteen of the 19 Al Qaeda hijackers who used passenger planes as missiles to attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon were Saudi nationals. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was also born in Saudi Arabia, though the Kingdom revoked his citizenship in 1994.

The Saudi government has emphatically denied that it played any role in the attacks.

A September 2010 FBI memo, declassified last year, reported that two state employees — Mutaib al Sudairy and Adel Mohammad al Sadhan — had a “past connection” to the hijackers and others who assisted them and may have served as an “advance team” for the terrorists.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman await the signing of strategic partnership agreements between France and Saudi Arabia at the Élysée Palace in Paris, France, on Monday, August 24, 2026. Anne-Sophie Guebey -Pool/SIPA/Shutterstock

The records from a FBI investigation conducted out of the New York Field Office and code-named Operation Encore — first reported by independent journalist Catherine Herridge and shared with The Post — show that after al Sadhan initially visited southern California in December 1998, he flew with al Sudairy to Washington, DC, in June 1999 before the pair went to San Diego and stayed for six weeks with Omar al-Bayoumi, who helped secure California lodging for a pair of American Airlines Flight 77 hijackers.

Fahad al-Thumairy, an imam at the King Fahad Mosque in Culver City, Calif., was listed as “a contact” for al Sadhan during that first visit to Los Angeles. The imam — who had been placed at the mosque by Musaed al-Jarrah, director of Islamic affairs at the Saudi embassy in Washington — also provided unspecified “assistance” to Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who helped take control of Flight 77 and drive it into the Pentagon on 9/11.

Al-Bayoumi – who had murky government ties, a web of official contacts, and who according to a 2017 FBI memo was on the payroll of Saudi intelligence – also hooked the Riyadh officials up with “a place to live and looked after them,” according to the FBI files, “at the same address in San Diego where al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar would later stay near the Al-Ribat mosque.”

Zohran Mamdani attends the 25th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Ground Zero in New York on Sept. 11, 2026. Lev Radin/Zuma / SplashNews.com

The imam at the Al-Ribat mosque was Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-Yemeni dual citizen and Al Qaeda operative assassinated in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen authorized by then-President Barack Obama.

Questions about how the FBI handled Bayoumi’s case have grown as evidence seized from him becomes public. In another document released last year, a FBI source claimed there was a “50/50 chance” that Al-Bayoumi had “advanced knowledge” of 9/11.

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A 1999 video, unsealed by court order in 2024, shows al-Bayoumi filming the US Capitol and talking about a “plan.”

Lawyers for the victims’ families say al-Bayoumi was “casing” the building – with 30 minutes of footage of the hour-long video focused on the iconic building’s entrances, showing its security procedures, and even its interior columns.

The 2004 9/11 Commission report concluded there was a high probability that the Capitol was the intended target of United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania.

Another video, from February 2000, shows a “welcome party” al-Bayoumi threw for the future hijackers soon after they moved to San Diego, at which another Saudi government official can be seen.

The Commission concluded that while it found no evidence that Riyadh played a role in the attacks, the Kingdom was a primary source of terror funding through private citizens and Islamic charities.