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trump rescued from stalled elevator
CNN ^ | 7-31-2016 | Jeremy Diamond

Posted on 07/31/2016 11:06:15 AM PDT by plain talk

Donald Trump and members of his Secret Service detail were briefly trapped in an elevator Friday before a campaign rally in Colorado Springs.

They were rescued by firefighters with the Colorado Springs Fire Department, which lowered a ladder into the elevator, allowing Trump and his entourage to climb out. Two Trump campaign sources confirmed the incident to CNN. The story was first reported by the Denver Post. Trump eventually took the stage at the rally, where he opened his remarks by blasting the local fire marshal for shutting off entry to his campaign event due to capacity restrictions.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: co2016; rescue; trump; usss
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To: plain talk

Omg. Here is the question the entire election should be based on.

Whom would you rather be stuck in an elevator alone with, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump???


21 posted on 07/31/2016 11:27:18 AM PDT by Yaelle (Sorry, Mr. Franklin. We've been extremely careless with our Republic.)
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To: Fungi

I watched the rally. Trump did blast the fire marshall as incompetent for refusing entry. I don’t know if the venue was at rated capacity and Trump was out of line, but at any rate, less than a minute later he noticed that more people were being let in, so implicitly backed off his complaint against the fire marshall.


22 posted on 07/31/2016 11:27:20 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Oh my. By rigging an elevator?

That’s kind of weird.


23 posted on 07/31/2016 11:28:28 AM PDT by DrewsMum (The public cannot be too curious concerning the charactermaybe public menÂ…(or WOMEN) Samuel Adams)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Oh and your tagline sucks.


24 posted on 07/31/2016 11:29:14 AM PDT by DrewsMum (The public cannot be too curious concerning the charactermaybe public menÂ…(or WOMEN) Samuel Adams)
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To: DrewsMum

Weird, but most would perceive as an accident, right? He should stay away from hot air balloons, too.


25 posted on 07/31/2016 11:29:38 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: Kadric

>>>Possible he made a statement about people not being allowed in due to capacity restrictions.<<<

That is what happened, which I thought was silly on his part. If he just acted like he was kidding around it would have been OK, but he didn’t.

Off the cuff comments got him where he is today, but in the General more people are paying attention and the Media will not let one syllable go by that they can’t make hay out of.

Obama can UH-UH-UH, Okie Doke, 57 States, my Muslim Faith, special Olympics bowling and anything else and you never hear a thing about it, same with anything Hillary says and does.

Trump does not have that advantage, his is THE Target.


26 posted on 07/31/2016 11:30:33 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: DrewsMum

LOL! Truth hurtz doan it?


27 posted on 07/31/2016 11:30:41 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
I don't know how difficult it is to rig an elevator so the brakes fail. But, interesting trivia, Otis invented an elevator brake, a pretty good and reliable one, and was not the inventor of the elevator.

Total speculation on my part, but I bet the elevator in this case is so short as to not even merit being cable/counterweight driven.

28 posted on 07/31/2016 11:31:43 AM PDT by Cboldt
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29 posted on 07/31/2016 11:32:58 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: plain talk

And don’t forget that just a couple of days ago the facility where he was holding his rally wasn’t cooled. He really got on them for not having the air conditioning at a proper level. Sure makes ya wonder.


30 posted on 07/31/2016 11:33:16 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Cboldt

Thank you.


31 posted on 07/31/2016 11:33:28 AM PDT by Fungi (Make America America again.)
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32 posted on 07/31/2016 11:34:08 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: plain talk

The rally is on youtube, listen yourself and see if you think it was a “blast”. It was a joking comment about how many people there were. Listen to what the Donald says, not what the media “report” that he says.


33 posted on 07/31/2016 11:34:17 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Hildy

Regular firefighters recued him, not the fire marshal. The fire marshal is not beyond reproach just because firefighters do good deeds.


34 posted on 07/31/2016 11:34:32 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: shelterguy

They probably never knew he had a military command post set up in the basement of their hotel

Human shields, they were


35 posted on 07/31/2016 11:36:34 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: plain talk

I’ll bet the SS guys were grateful to be in Trump’s contingent rather than Hillary’s. Can you imagine being stuck in a elevator with someone who despises you?


36 posted on 07/31/2016 11:37:43 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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37 posted on 07/31/2016 11:37:45 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: CGASMIA68
--I consider all from CNN as 100% biased slanted BS.

You can add all the rest of the media, too. Their vendetta against Trump is so over-the-top as to be all but unbelievable.

38 posted on 07/31/2016 11:37:57 AM PDT by JPG (Go Trump!)
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To: Hildy

It wasn’t a blast, more like we could have had a gigantic rather than huge crowd.


39 posted on 07/31/2016 11:38:40 AM PDT by major-pelham
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40 posted on 07/31/2016 11:39:33 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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