2) Did you know that the owner of Building 7, Larry Silverstein, said “We've had such a terrible loss of life that maybe the smartest thing to do is ...
Jan 18, 2017 - Do we have any evidence that Donald Trump knows more about 9/11 .... On September 11, he said on UPN 9, "You look at Larry Silverstein, who's a terrific owner in New York and a very good friend of mine who I just called. ... phoning Silverstein on September 11 during an address in November 2001. ................................
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Six weeks before the terrorist attack in New York, Larry Silverstein leased the Twin Towers for 99 years, paying $3 billion. Their collapse was also the collapse of the deal of his life, and since then, he has been trying to put the pieces back together in the face of fierce public criticism, some of it anti-Semitic. His business dealings in Israel haven't given him much satisfaction either
Shortly after the events of September 11, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Larry Silverstein, a Jewish real estate magnate in New York, the owner of the World Trade Center's 110-story Twin Towers and a close friend, to ask how he was. Since then they have spoken a few more times. Two former prime ministers - Benjamin Netanyahu, who this week called Silverstein a "friend," and Ehud Barak, whom Silverstein in the past offered a job as his representative in Israel - also called soon after the disaster. Yaakov Terner, the mayor of Be'er Sheva, sent a letter of condolence.
Many Israeli politicians are acquainted in one degree or another with the 70-year-old Silverstein. For 10 years, he tried to bring about the establishment of a free-trade zone in the Negev, until the project fell apart. "This is a tragedy," Silverstein, deeply disappointed, said then.
Now he has bigger troubles. The collapse of the Twin Towers after being rammed by terrorist-piloted planes, in addition to being a full-scale American tragedy, shattered the dream of Silverstein's business life, caused him immense losses, and thrust him into the midst of a public battle over whether to rebuild the towers.
Six weeks before the events of September 11, Silverstein leased the Twin Towers and buildings No. 4 and 5 of the WTC complex for 99 years from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He agreed to pay $3.2 billion for the properties. Becoming the owner of them, on July 24, was the high point of his career and marked the end of a grueling quest.
In February of this year, five days before the bids in the privatization process were due, Silverstein was injured in a road accident. In April he was informed that he had lost the tender. A few weeks later, though, events took a surprising turn. The winner of the tender dropped out, leaving Silverstein and his partners in Westfield America, who had finished second, as the new winners. Worn out but happy, Silverstein was photographed in the New York sun holding the symbolic keys to the towers, and spoke of a dream that had come true.........................................
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Jul 18, 2013 - Larry Silverstein, who made a killing out of insurance payouts after 9/11, is to have his ... from the demolition of the World Trade Center complex on September 11th, 2001. ... (A nationwide ad campaign called “Re-Think 9/11” will remind millions of ...... Mahmoud El-Yousseph on Donald Trump and the New ...
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Sep 10, 2016 - Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took different paths on that day. ... of the video from September 11, 2001—plucked exclusively at POLITICO's request .... He called Larry Silverstein, the real estate magnate who recently had ...
Donald Trump did a pretty shocking interview with Bill O'Reilly, in which he calls Russian President Vladimir Putin a killer but also says so is the United States.
Fox News Channel released a snippet of the interview which will air before tomorrow's Super Bowl. Trump says he respects Putin, but goes on to say, "He's a killer, though. Putin's a killer."
Then the bombshell. Trump says, "There are a lot of killers. We got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?"
It's possible he's referring to individuals in our country who kill, but that's a stretch, because he says, "you think our COUNTRY is so innocent?"
A source tells Crain's that the Republican nominee was in Florida—not New York, as Trump claimed—when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center
Whenever a source claims to have the makings of a blockbuster story, my ears perk up even as my BS meter climbs to 11. That was the case recently when a source told me she knew where Donald Trump was on Sept. 11, 2001, and it was not, as the presidential candidate claims, in New York. Trump said at a rally in November that he watched from his Trump Tower terrace on Sept. 11 as people jumped out of the World Trade Center—four miles downtown.
The source, who did not want her name used because she feared being targeted by Trump supporters, saw his remarks and offhandedly said to her daughter-in-law: "Well, I know he didn't see that happening from his window because he wasn't even in New York. He was in Florida with Neal and Tolly."
Her friends Neal Travis—founding editor of the New York Post's Page Six—and his wife, Tolly, were at Trump's Palm Beach getaway, Mar-a-Lago. The source says she knew this because Neal called her from Florida after the attacks and asked whether there was any information about when planes would be allowed to land in the city again. Neil said, "Here's Donald; talk to him," she recalled to me last week. "Then I just heard this brusque voice going, 'Have you heard anything?' And I'm thinking, 'Why are you asking me?' I told him the same thing: I saw something in the [New York] Timesabout easing up on plane traffic."
The article she saw, published online on Sept. 13, 2001, announced that commercial air traffic had resumed that morning "on a case-by-case basis." If Trump were in Florida on 9/11, Sept. 13 would have been the first day he could have returned to New York. Indeed, the first visual evidence I've seen of Trump in New York City post-9/11 was on Sept. 13, 2001. He gave an interview near Ground Zero to a German television station.
Crain's looked into the source's claim, but Neil Travis passed away in 2002 and we were unable to reach Tolly, who the source said does not remember the details of that day clearly. We compiled a list of aircraft owned by Trump or his businesses and sent the information to a flight-tracking company. The firm told us that none of those planes were in Florida at that time.
Journalists have exposed Trump's lies during the campaign. New Yorkers rightly take umbrage at the idea that he would tailor the history of those days to advance his own narrative about himself. But previous reports of Trump being in Chicago on Sept. 11 have been discredited. And definitive evidence proving that he was not in New York on that tragic day seems to be as elusive as info showing that he was.
A Donald Trump September 11 interview, which recorded him giving a statement on the very same day of the attacks, was uploaded on YouTube in mid September by the pro-Trump group TrumpCommission.org, which has partnered with 911Experiments.org in seeking the truth about unanswered questions concerning that fateful day in American history.
The people who run TrumpCommission.org believe George W. Bush was actively involved in covering up certain details about the September 11 attacks. On the organization’s homepage, it says, “You [Trump] were one of the first, on the same day, to recognize that bombs must have been used on the WTC towers because steel is so strong. Over 2,500 Architects and Engineers agree, along with PhDs in Physics, writing research papers for scholarly journals.”
The reason the Donald Trump September 11 interview exists in the first place is because in the wake of the attacks journalists thought, giving his expertise on real estate and building structure, his opinion regarding the specifics of the devastating damage was worth taking into consideration.
During the Donald Trump September 11 interview, he gives specific details for how the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center buildings were able to penetrate the stalwart steel cage of the buildings’ exterior, saying there had to have been bombs planted that exploded on impact, otherwise it would have been almost impossible for them to cause such damage.
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Wonder if the #NeverTrump PAC Knows About Donald Trump’s Post-9/11 Gift to a Scientology-Adjacent Charity
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40 Wall Street, a.k.a. the Trump Building. Photo: Getty
On Tuesday, the #NeverTrump PAC posted an attack ad on Youtube accusing Donald Trump of stealing $150,000 of taxpayer money intended to help small businesses recover from the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. The ad is pretty much correct, but didn’t mention Trump’s other, weirder post-9/11 financial activity: a $1,000 donation to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund, which was co-founded by Tom Cruise and offered firefighters a treatment program designed by the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. Here’s how it all went down.
In 2003, the Empire State Development Corporation—the state agency administering the federally-financed World Trade Center Business Recovery Grant Program—took back $1.2 million from 66 companies, after a federal audit suggested that about 1 percent of the $558 million in payments it made to 14,215 businesses might have been overpaid. The New York Times reported:
Under the grant program, businesses from 14th Street to the Battery with fewer than 500 employees could apply for aid. The amount a business received depended on its proximity to ground zero, its revenue in the fiscal year immediately before Sept. 11, 2001, and its economic losses related to Sept. 11 that were not reimbursed by insurance.
The grants averaged around $40,000. Firms in the financial industry received an average of about $70,000; stores and restaurants averaged $20,000.
Kevin Corbett, then ESDC’s chief operating officer, declined at the time to identify which companies had had grants retracted. “Some cases involved figures they gave us that on auditing didn’t match up,” he told the Times.
A few years later, a New York Daily News investigation identified some of those businesses, and the Trump Organization was among them. Part of the issue, theDaily News reported, was that the ESDC had used a different definition of “small business” than the federal government did: The state agency used head count, and federal law used annual revenue.
Trump was one of several business owners to—at least temporarily—benefit from the confusion. (So did the Rockefeller Group, Ford Models, Morgan Stanley, the AXA, the Bank of China, and Larry Silverstein.) The Trump-owned 40 Wall Street LLC received a $150,000 grant for losses at what is otherwise known as the Trump Building. From the Daily News:
The grant application describes the corporation through which Trump owns that building as having 28 employees and $26.8 million in annual revenues. That passed the ESDC’s small business test of less than 500 employees. But the revenue amount would put the single Trump property over the federal definition of a small business—which is $6 million annually for lessors of nonresidential buildings.
Not only was the Trump Organization ineligible for federal aid intended for small businesses, but Trump himself, in an interview conducted shortly after the actual attacks, said that 40 Wall Street had not been damaged. “I have a lot of property down there, but it wasn’t, fortunately, effected by what happened to the World Trade Center,” he said. “We will be involved in some form in helping to reconstruct.” He added, “The location is such, and the importance of the monument is such that we have to rebuild, not necessarily in the form of the Two Towers, but something that’s very big and very majestic.”
Indeed, as it happened, Trump had nothing to do with rebuilding the World Trade Center. But around the time that construction began on the project, the Donald J. Trump Foundation—the charitable organization of which Trump is president—finally did take action, according to The Smoking Gun: it made its first and only charitable contribution to any group dedicated to ameliorating the suffering of 9/11 victims in 2006. The foundation donated $1,000 to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund, which, according to a 2004 Slate article, “purports to ‘flush’ poisons from the body’s fat stores using an intensive regimen of jogging, oil ingestion, sauna, and high doses of vitamins, particularly niacin.”
Trump’s generosity to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund was matched only by the generosity of his constructive criticism: “In a nutshell,” he told reporters in 2005, “the Freedom Tower should not be allowed to be built. It’s not appropriate for Lower Manhattan, it’s not appropriate for Manhattan, it’s not appropriate for the United States, it’s not appropriate for freedom.”
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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