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RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:36 PM Feb 2016

Trump Won’t Name Any of the ‘Hundreds of Friends’ He Says Died on 9/11

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/donald-trump-s-hundreds-of-9-11-lies.html

By his math, Trump is trying to tell us that at least one in 10 of the 2,983 who died on 9/11 were his friends.

“If he has hundreds of friends, he should be able to tell us about them,” said a Port Authority police officer who never talks about how many comrades he lost. “If he can tell us about the hundreds of friends he lost, who they were, what kind of person they were, I might have some respect for him.”

The PA cop—who has sought to learn all he could about every single person who died in addition to the many he personally knew—wonders why nobody has seen Trump at the September 11 Memorial and Museum.
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Trump Won’t Name Any of the ‘Hundreds of Friends’ He Says Died on 9/11 (Original Post) RockaFowler Feb 2016 OP
Good bullshit call world wide wally Feb 2016 #1
He really is full of BS!!! RockaFowler Feb 2016 #2
He is such a blowhard. He needs to be called out on this crap. Glimmer of Hope Feb 2016 #3
Not so fast. I'm no Trump supporter . . . brush Feb 2016 #4
Maybe they were hundreds of friends in a voting sense. nt valerief Feb 2016 #5
I had three work associates die in the WTC. onehandle Feb 2016 #6

brush

(53,871 posts)
4. Not so fast. I'm no Trump supporter . . .
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:53 PM
Feb 2016

but I give him a little leeway on this. I lived and worked in New York on 9/11 and knew people who died in that building.

So he exaggerated with the word "hundreds" but I'm pretty sure he knew of and/or had business connections with some of the people in those financial services firms that had offices in those buildings.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
6. I had three work associates die in the WTC.
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 02:22 PM
Feb 2016

Met only one of them. Sadly, I can only remember the name of the one I met. Mostly knew them through phone conferences.

But I got Trump beat.

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