Posted on 04/22/2016 6:05:14 PM PDT by bobsunshine
When Donald Trump spoke earlier this week in Buffalo, media critics lambasted him for allegedly confusing “9/11” with “7/11.” However, a theory emerged as to why Trump didn’t misspeak, one that the media refuses to acknowledge.
The controversy all began Monday, as Trump was speaking before a crowd in Buffalo on the day before the New York primary. During the speech, he touted his 9/11 activism.
“I wrote this out, and it’s very close to my heart,” Trump said to the audience. Because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came own. And I saw the greatest people I’ve ever seen in action.”
Donald Trump, who has made his advocacy for New York City after the 9/11 attacks central to his candidacy, accidentally referred to it on Monday as 7/11 — the ubiquitous convenience store,” CNN wrote with scarcely contained glee.
However, a new theory quickly emerged — the fact that he was actually talking about the Greenville Fire Department, a department in the New York town of Scarsdale that was one of the first to respond to the 9/11 attacks.
The station is known as 711 because of its address, 711 Central Park Ave. And as one Facebook user close to the situation pointed out, the firefighters there were quoted as “thanking Trump for his generous donations of time, services and goods, both for the firefighters and for the victims.” And keep in mind, the way Donald phrased things made it sound a lot more like he was talking about a location, not a date. His words were “our firemen down at 7/11,” not “our firemen on 7/11.”
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Trump’s finished now. Better get those Jeb! bumper stickers out! ROFL
Well, it’s not like some moron imbecile who stated we have 57 states and kept claiming it was misspeak...
who gives a @#$% either way. we have a president who thinks there’s 57 states.
and a congresswoman who thinks we put men on mars and the constitution is 400 years old, which would mean it was written in 1616.
Ted “Moses” Cruz hardest hit. ;)
And the pattern repeats: Trump says something, people Run in Circles Scream And Shout (RICSAS), some people actually think about it, and decide Trump was correct!
It makes perfect sense, thank you for posting this. Although, even if it was a lapsus linguae, it was a problem only in the minds of the handful of Trump haters here.
.....he baited,they bit,he set the hook.....well done
Levin can’t stop screaming enough to apologize. I hope his show tanks.
“the fire station 711 near his home “
He doesn’t live in Scarsdale.
Wow... someone bothered to follow up the facts.
Was Cruz trying to make hay of this? Oooooops!
However it sounds like he said "fireman down on 711" not "at" like this article says. But yes he did say "fireman down on" and not just "fireman on" which makes more sense as a street address than a calendar date.
He went to the scene, that’s close enough to Scarsdale
Then the Scruzettes get upset that Trump gets another week of free publicity as their mediots and they attack Trump before the reality shoots them down again, again, and again.
AND it wasn’t Trump that explained what he was referring to, it was the people that knew him BEST!!
The Usurper said exactly what he meant.
There are 57 states - in the OIC - Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
When he said “One more to go” he was referring to having the US join that organization ...after a little “fundamental transformation.”
AAH,
Ya Mudder
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