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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: 240 is Back on March 22, 2011, 08:36:53 AM
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Trump was bragging about "screwing over" kadaffi two years ago...
But it doesn't really change the fact that while no american business would let kadaffi (who did kill a lot of american with hir terroristic acts) stay on their property, Trump was happy to do business with the terrorist.
it took the media, the town, and the secret service to convince trump not to let the terrorist stay there? Geez.
It wasn't the public outcry, but rather pressure from billionaire Donald Trump that forced Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to pack up his tent and apparently abandon a plan to spend the night in a ritzy New York suburb.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi slept in the Libyan diplomatic mission in Manhattan as the town lawyer for suburban Bedford issued a stop work order on a palatial tent being erected by the Libyans on an estate owned by Donald Trump. After a rambling, conspiracy-theory-filled speech delivered at the U.N. Wednesday morning, Gadhafi planned to spend the night in Bedford, N.Y., where his agents Tuesday pitched a giant Bedouin tent on a property owned by Trump.
As local officials steamed at hosting an accused sponsor of terror, the Secret Service prepared to escort Gadhafi to the tony town outside New York City.
Just as the town was preparing to deal with the dictator next door, Donald Trump, who said he unknowingly rented a piece of his 113-acre Seven Springs estate to the Libyan, stepped in and asked the leader to take down his tent and find housing elsewhere.
"We have requested that the tenant occupying the property in Bedford, N.Y. remove the tent that was erected. They have complied with this request. Additionally, Mr. Gadhafi will not be going to the property," said Trump Organization spokeswoman Rhona Graff.
The tent was taken down just after Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano said the Secret Service told him Gadhafi would be going to Trump's estate. Spano's office later told the Associated Press that the Secret Service informed him that Gadhafi would not be camping out in Bedford after all, but said that information "subject to change."
"The town's attorney, building inspector and police chief have visited the site and verified that the tent has been dismantled," read a statement posted on the town's Web site.
"Supervisor [Lee] Roberts thanked Donald Trump for his key role in bringing this situation to a close," the statement read.
Following news Tuesday that Gadafhi would be staying in Bedford, town officials ordered the tent be dismantled, claiming it violated building codes.
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The Clintons (rigthfully) took a lot of heat in 2008 because Bill took money from bad guys. Trump thinks its okay because "I deal with everybody, and I like that".
There are a lot of GOP potentials who have NOT accepted piles of money from terrorist leaders who killed hundreds of Americans. I hope people pick one of them.
Potential 2012 presidential candidate Donald Trump is making the rounds of national TV today, alternately claiming that he duped – or even “screwed” – Moammar Gaddafi back in 2009.
The “screwed” claim came during a FOX News interview. The Donald was a bit more subdued during his appearance on CNNMoney. He also says he donated to charity the cash he got from Gaddafi for the rental of a piece of land in Westchester on which the Libyan leader was blocked from pitching his infamous tent.
“As far as dealing with Gaddafi? I deal with everybody, and I like that,” Trump said. “What did I do with Gaddafi? I leased him a piece of land for his tent. He paid me more than I get in a whole year. And then, he wasn’t able to use the piece of land.”
“So, people would say say: Did I take advantage?…So I got in one night, more money than I would have got it all year for this piece of land in Westchester, then didn’t let him use it. That’s called being intelligent….That’s the way we should be dealing…Take advantage of the situation.”
In the FOX interview, Trump proclaims “I didn’t let him use the land,” which isn’t quite true. In 2009, a Trump aide denied reports that Gaddafi was planning to stay in his Bedouin-style tent on the grounds of the real estate developer’s Bedford estate.
A tent was erected by the Lybian government on the property, but an attorney for the town of Bedford ordered work stopped at the site because no permits had been sought for the temporary residence.