Posted on 08/14/2015 2:22:53 PM PDT by conservativejoy
The private Boeing 727 of real estate tycoon Donald Trump arrived from Los Angeles at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday morning, carrying aboard an Orthodox Jewish child with a rare and still undiagnosed breathing illness.
The child, Andrew Ten, age 3, arrived with his parents — accompanied by three nurses who attend to him around the clock — to try to seek medical help in the New York area.
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Trump made his plane available for the special trip to New York after the boy’s parents, Judy and Harold Ten, called Trump and told him of their plight.
Commercial airlines refused to fly the child because he could not travel without an elaborate life-support system, which includes a portable oxygen tank, a suction machine, a breathing bag and an adrenaline syringe.
“Mr. Trump did not hesitate when we called him up. He said ‘yes, I’ll send my plane out,'” 29-year-old Harold Ten recalled shortly after he landed here Tuesday morning.
Asked why he thought Trump made his private jet available, Ten replied, “Because he is a good man. He has three children of his own and he knows what being a parent is all about.”
Ten said he believes that Trump fulfilled the Talmudic saying that “he who saves one person’s life is as if he saved the entire world.”
Among the relatives at the airport to greet the child and his parents were the paternal grandparents of the sick boy.
“Donald Trump is a miracle, just a miracle,” said grandmother Feigy Ten, who came to the airport with her husband, Phillip Ten.
Both grandparents thanked Trump’s generosity over and over again.
Andrew, who is called by his Hebrew name, Avraham Moshe, was taken from the airport to the Schneider Children’s Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical Center for treatment and evaluation.
Andrew was healthy at birth, but one morning when he was 10 months old he suddenly stopped breathing. The second incident occurred six months later. Doctors had no explanation and to date have not determined what is causing him to stop breathing.
Andrew has not cried in the last two-and-a-half years. He now eats with a feeding tube since he lost his gag reflex and the ability to swallow. He is monitored around the clock by nurses, and sleeps with an apnea alarm.
Harold Ten said he and his family “are determined to do anything possible to save Andrew. We believe in God and we have hope,” he said.
Barry would harvest tissue while he played golf.
Bless Donald Trump!
You just can’t buy PR like that. Smart move. Trump is not going to have to deal with the “uncaring rich guy” albatross that the Dems hung around Mitt’s neck. It wasn’t true then either, but Mitt had no clue how to respond to that sort of mud. Trump doesn’t respond, he anticipates and preempts. Just like a good chess player, always thinking ahead. The sort of competence you’d like to see in a president.
Trump is brash, blustery and outspoken, but you cannot accuse him of not having a heart.
A great story.
Killary would have done something equally as ghoulish and be praised for it by the state media.
Hillary would have used a jet to send the server and her accomplices out of the country.
My husband used to do Angel Flights. It’s one of the most rewarding things a pilot can do. I once went along when he took several young burn patients to a burn camp in CA. When we arrived there were lots of kids and it was as if they didn’t see the burn scars...they were so happy to see each other - many having seen each other the summer before.
He is a Mensch, with a capitol M!
I’ve written before how he helped the Central Park jogger - years before he talked about running for office.
He definitely has a good heart. This act was also many years before he decided to run for office. He never talks about these good deeds. To think people criticize him saying he has no faith.
Proof positive that he's not a conservative </liberal idiot>
Andrew Ten would be thirty now. Does anyone happen to know how he’s doing today?
No, Jane Long brought this article to my attention. I’ll see if I can find out anything more.
A sweet story from 1988 where trompeten glablasen about an act of kindness by bless his little ole heart the Donald we’re suppose to remember. But foget about eminent domain n all dat udderhanded stuff.
AMEN !
but Clintons did donate their used underwear to charity
Little known fact - the 757 was to be called the updated 727.
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