Posted on 01/28/2016 9:05:09 AM PST by AuntB
"What we do here tonight begins to undo the terrible injustice We have opened the eyes of a new generation to the les-sons of the past. Said developer Donald Trump. who donated $1 million to the veterans and In a jobs program set up by the city to help unemployed New York veterans -It s a great evening I only wish it could have taken place 10 years ago-"
Vincent McGowan, who has been with the organization since its inception in 1983 and currently sits on its board, says that if it wasn’t for Trump, the project in lower Manhattan would have never happened.
"McGowan says the property downtown was gifted to the veterans by the Koch administration but they had no money. Trump committed $1M in a matching fund and they "couldn't have built it without him." http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/leader-york-veterans-group-defends-donald-trump/story?id=32571459
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I worked in an office overlooking that memorial in 1987 and 1988. It was a very nicely-done park.
Trump is the same guy today that he was in the 80's. I've read his books and watched old interviews on YouTube. What he's saying now is nothing new! No matter what party he was registered in, he's always been a patriotic American with a deep and profound love for this country!
Trump is a true American patriot. So different from the career politicians.
Nice story and Trump is a good man.
Only when it is convenient. When it comes to his support for liberals and the causes they support, that's another story.
Trump has proven he is for Vets!
Can’t wait to watch the fundraiser tonight.
Thank God for people like Trump. I’ll be watching him. I can’t believe I used to defend Fox for the Faux News claim by the left.
“Thank God for people like Trump. I’ll be watching him. I can’t believe I used to defend Fox for the Faux News claim by the left.”
The best thing Trump has done is expose this rotten media. SO many of our ‘conservative’ institutions, like Club 4 Growth, ACU, CPAC, Freedom works, NRCC, NRSC have been found to be corrupt and anything but conservative.
Fact Checkers Bust GOP Lie: Trump Donated A Lot More to Republicans Than Democrats
“since 1989, he’s contributed over $350,000 more to Republicans running for federal and state offices, campaign finance records show.”
Although I only wore a yellow tag, I remember marching that day. From Cadman Plaza, over the bridge with Puff and a few helicopters passing overhead and truck drivers on the BQE blasting there air horns below us and on down to the Battery. We passed near Pace College. People were on the roof cheering......quite different than the reception they had given the hard hats fifteen years earlier. After, we walked over to the Memorial with the flowers floating in the pool. For many years after I would visit that Wall every Memorial day.
Thirty years.....where did they go......
Thank you for your service!!
Please, I’m never comfortable with that. I served because I HAD to. I was never in Nam and never in combat. Those that were at the parade will know that the “yellow tag” was what was issued to us “era vets” for the day.
I understand.
“Trump is a Repblican”
That is meant as a HIT PIECE to paint all Republicans as “kooks” by firmly making Trump as the face of the GOP. I don’t buy their “fact checking” abilities.
He obviously has an extensive history if influence peddling, depending who he finds pliable. However, there are many other sources, who show he has given to both parties, favoring liberals and their causes. Either he has poor judgment when praising the Clintons, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer and Reid or he’s one of them. Take your pick.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/28/trump.democrats/index.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-donation-history-shows-democratic-favoritism/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/04/27/trump-gave-more-to-dems-than-gop.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-donations-democrats-hillary-clinton-119071
http://www.teaparty.org/donald-trumps-donations-democrats-helped-put-reid-pelosi-power-101714/
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2012/05/which-politicians-does-donald-trump-give-his-money/52973/
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/02/donald-trumps-donations-to-democrats/
Cruz’s con job isn’t working.
Support among white evangelical voters Trump UP/Cruz down
Trump 37% (+5)
Cruz 20% (-9)
These results are according to the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll conducted online from January 18, 2016 through January 24, 2016 among a national sample of 9,690 adults aged 18 and over, including 8,215 who say they are registered to vote.
Trumps newly minted “conservatism” will eventually wear thin.
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