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Donald Trump: I ‘helped a little bit’ with clearing rubble at Ground Zero
Washington Post ^ | 4/19/16 | Philip Bump

Posted on 04/19/2016 12:03:34 PM PDT by markomalley

Donald Trump has gotten a lot of attention over the past 12 hours for referring to the Sept. 11 terror attacks as "7/11" during a speech in Buffalo. It's an awkward, amusing slip-up -- but it's just a slip-up.

More interesting, perhaps, is something he said shortly afterward.

Trump was talking about "New York values" -- a means of dismissing Ted Cruz in Trump's home state. As he did during the debate where Cruz first made the point, Trump was using the attacks as a way of espousing what it is that New Yorkers stand for. Unusually for him, he was reading from a sheet of paper.

Then he offered this aside.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; newyork; presidentdonaldtrump; trump; trump911; waronterror
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To: RightLady

Another poster who can’t recognize sarcasm when she reads it.
Thanks for the ad-hominem, dumbass.


21 posted on 04/19/2016 12:36:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Servant of the Cross; markomalley

>> You can’t out-satire the real thing. The parody is outdone by the ones who cheer the satire on <<

Indeed. My wife sometimes bugs me about spending so much time on-line, reading the demented defenses and perverse praises uploaded by the supporters of a candidate who shall be nameless. I tell her that not even the best-paid comedy writer in New York or Hollywood could ever come up with some of this material. The beyond-parody apologeticism and the pretzel-twisted rationalizations are just too precious to miss.


22 posted on 04/19/2016 12:36:33 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: RedWulf

wouldn’t that make Buscemi a New York Actor if he was there on 9/12?


23 posted on 04/19/2016 12:41:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: DoughtyOne

This guy must be your brother from another mother:

https://theamericanindependent.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/the-alternate-reality-of-ted-cruz-and-his-followers/


24 posted on 04/19/2016 12:42:55 PM PDT by Dana1960
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To: markomalley

Trump transcript: “Everyone who helped clear the rubble and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit. But I want to tell you, those people were amazing, clearing the rubble, trying to find additional lives. You didn’t know what was going to come down on all of us — and they handled it.”


25 posted on 04/19/2016 12:45:10 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: a fool in paradise

>wouldn’t that make Buscemi a New York Actor if he was there on 9/12?

He was a NY firefighter on 9/12 and returned to being a Hollywood actor 3 months later.


26 posted on 04/19/2016 12:45:23 PM PDT by RedWulf ((Trump supporter))
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To: norwaypinesavage

>Trump transcript: “Everyone who helped clear the rubble and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit. But I want to tell you, those people were amazing, clearing the rubble, trying to find additional lives. You didn’t know what was going to come down on all of us — and they handled it.”

From what I remember Trump had his hotels send the searchers and workers food during this effort. These type of gestures where very common in NYC after the attacks.


27 posted on 04/19/2016 12:47:05 PM PDT by RedWulf ((Trump supporter))
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To: TigersEye
>> It’s obvious that Ted Canadian didn’t go because he hates America. <<

Hey, let's get our terminology straight:

You were supposed to say Lyin' Ted Canadian.

Shame on you?

Also, every time the Cruz name is mentioned, you're supposed to work in some kind of reference to wife Heidi's work for the hated investment bankers of Wall Street.

28 posted on 04/19/2016 12:48:57 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Servant of the Cross

That’s because you hate trump,mostly out of jealousy,you want what he has,and you will never have. Very sad...


29 posted on 04/19/2016 12:49:06 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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To: markomalley
And where was Cruz on 9/11?

Stealing Trump Delegates no doubt, or in the early stages of figuring out how to do it.

30 posted on 04/19/2016 12:50:15 PM PDT by corbe (mystified)
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To: Hawthorn

I’m new at this, give me a break! ;^)


31 posted on 04/19/2016 12:51:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: corbe
Stealing Trump Delegates no doubt, or in the early stages of figuring out how to do it.

(see profile page)

32 posted on 04/19/2016 12:52:18 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: RightLady

Talk english...


33 posted on 04/19/2016 12:54:31 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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To: markomalley

I think you may have jumped the snark with this thread! ;^)


34 posted on 04/19/2016 12:54:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Trump helped financially and other ways(personnel, construction, demo contacts) with the clean up and restoration of the area..


35 posted on 04/19/2016 12:54:48 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: Dana1960

I should look into it. Loved it.


36 posted on 04/19/2016 12:59:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: markomalley

He was in dc. He was like the rest of us that lived in DC that day. They lived in arlington. They knew people who died. What is your criticism?


37 posted on 04/19/2016 1:15:19 PM PDT by applpie
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To: TigersEye

But it was. It took people days to get home. Everyone had to be creative to get rides and help others.


38 posted on 04/19/2016 1:16:44 PM PDT by applpie
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To: usafa92

I had family up there at that time. And after we finally got in touch, my brother mentioned that Trump pull his men off a bunch of jobs and brought them and the heavy equipment to Ground Zero.....Must have cost him hundreds of $$$$$... That’s helping a little
The Interview link show DT very serious and controlled when you can see the emotion within


39 posted on 04/19/2016 1:20:01 PM PDT by Robe
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To: applpie

40 posted on 04/19/2016 1:31:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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