Posted on 02/16/2016 4:23:57 AM PST by Entrepreneur
Here's the story. Not long after 9/11, the World Trade Center Business Recovery Grant program was established to help small businesses recover and rebuild. The program disbursed hundreds of millions of dollars through a New York state development corporation in the years following the attacks...
...the New York Daily News ran an investigative piece about how the program had awarded grants to companies and subsidiaries that hardly seemed like "small businesses." Among them were Dell, Morgan Stanley, and, yes, Donald Trump...
...as Trump said immediately following 9/11, none of his properties were directly damaged by the attack on the World Trade Center. But through a loophole in the rules, Trump was able to squeeze $150,000 of money from taxpayers for his valuable landmark property.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Trump has always said he uses politicians and The System to better his business.
And he once spit on the sidewalk. We have it on a grainy cell phone video.
And that's okay with you?
Many buildings had air conditioner problems. It was a horrible, horrible day.
Trump held up with a gun for the money.
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Sounds like the usual projection on your part, your Trump-hating gland must be fully engorged (puny thing that it is, most likely)
The fact that you clowns have to go back 10 years to try and dredge up *something* that will stick speaks volumes about your impotence in stopping the GOP front runner from becoming the nominee.
Deal with THAT “chumpâ€.
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no facts just personal attacks, just like your idol.
When in a campaign your record is fair game. Just saying your history isn’t relevant is cowardly.
The dems and MSM will bury him with his own words in the general election and we will end up with a dem president and a radical supreme court. His candidacy will destroy America.
Perhaps that is what his long phone call with Clinton was about before he decided to run.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-clinton-donald-trump-phone-call-report-2015-8
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Former President Bill Clinton and real-estate magnate Donald Trump reportedly had a phone conversation in May, only weeks before Trump launched his campaign.
According to a new report from The Washington Post, Clinton called Trump in May and “encouraged Trump’s efforts” to become more influential within the GOP, according to four “Trump allies” and one Clinton associate “familiar with the exchange.”
From The Washington Post’s Robert Costa and Anne Gearan:
“Four Trump allies and one Clinton associate familiar with the exchange said that Clinton encouraged Trump’s efforts to play a larger role in the Republican Party and offered his own views of the political landscape.”
“The tone of the call was informal and Clinton never urged Trump to run, the four people said. Rather, they said, Clinton sounded curious about Trump’s moves toward a presidential bid and told Trump that he was striking a chord with frustrated conservatives and was a rising force on the right.”
Ummm. 40 Wall Street was in the dust cloud after the towers collapsed. The neighborhood was closed for a few days after 9/11. There were losses to be spoken of and damage/disruption to that area.
It just happened to be on the right side of Broadway where the disruption was minimal. Those on the left side of Broadway were without power for months because the substation was in WTC7, which imploded that day.
Hell yes! Do what is legal is what matters to me. Unless you can find where he illegally used Pols and the System the Pols set up I can find nothing wrong with his business dealings!
Where's that can of 'TROLL AWAY'?
You thin skinned Trump supporters need to find another site. Maybe Trump's Facebook page. This is a conservative discussion site. The purpose is to discuss, not shut down discussion.
I want to thank tho OP for this article. I had not seen it before and it is important to understand Trump's business practices to understand the man. I understand why Trump's supporters would see this information to be very damaging to Trump and the knee-jerk reaction to shut it down. The truth is not trolling and the truth is not "lies".
And of course that evil Trump has never contributed a penny to the NYC economy, right Bill Kristol? FAIL.
You sound like you’re in a panic, could be due to the prospect that Trump just might be the first GOP nominee to carry your home state of California since Reagan.
That’s gotta hurt.
Oh please really??? This is the best you have?
Oh yeah I better vote for Rubio.... NO!
LOL! S.M.H.
Are you the freaking hall monitor??
Who’s your candidate? It’s hard to tell, because dang near every one of your posts are about bashing TRUMP!!
We see that you have a seething hate for Trump, but don’t you have anything better to do?? Like post positive things about YOUR candidate?
Bill Kristol has completely exposed himself as a Cheap Labor Express RINO fraud. The Open Borders canal is has passed panic mode and is now in meltdown stage.
Keep smokin’ em out, Trump.
He wasn't in office back then. As a business owner and CEO, his first priority is to maximize the well being of his business and he did everything he could, and quite successfully so, to accomplish that goal. He neither had power nor duty to maximize the well being of the country in his position back then.
Hence the most natural conclusion is that he will work as hard and do as well in maximizing the well being of the country once he becomes its president. If in this process he ends diminishing the well being of Europe or China or Mexico,... etc, I have no problem with that.
He was in charge of his company, not the country or state back then. What this "attack" amounts to is confirming once again that Trump is very good at making the entity he is in charge of prosper. Hence, helping him get in charge of the whole country should make America prosper, too. That's the point of his campaign after all.
Why would I have problem with that? Because Chinese or Mexicans or multinational corporations ripping us off may not do as well then?
Business ethics. Appears that's something Mr. Trump lacks.
Attack the messenger.
Par for Trump.
Next, he’ll threaten to sue.
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