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Posted on 10/10/2015 11:03:58 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Now that real estate tycoon Donald Trump is running for president, an incident from November of 1991 has resurfaced in which GOP presidential frontrunner actually had his limo stop so he could save a man from a brutal assault by a mugger with a baseball bat.
Trump and his then-wife Marla Maples were riding around New York City in his limousine, headed out to New Jersey’s Meadowlands for a Paula Abdul concert, according to the New York Daily News.
Trump’s limo was about to enter the Lincoln Tunnel at about 8 p.m. when he saw “a big guy with a big bat” swinging away at another guy.
What happened next is absolutely incredible!
Trump noticed the victim taking “5 or 6 whacks,” knew he was about to be killed and instinctively Trump told the driver to pull the car over.
He leaped out of the car as his wife tugged at his arm trying to stop him, and put himself in potential danger by confronting the mugger directly:
“Someone in the car looked over and said, ‘Gee, look at that, it’s a mugging,’” Trump said. “I said to my driver to stop the car because it was brutal-looking.” He got out of the car, with Maples tugging at his coat to get him to stop.
“The guy with the bat looked at me, and I said, ‘Look, you’ve gotta stop this. Put down the bat,’” Trump said. “I guess he recognized me because he said, ‘Mr. Trump, I didn’t do anything wrong.’ I said, ‘How could you not do anything wrong when you’re whacking a guy with a bat?’ Then he ran away.”
Kathleen Romeo, a 16-year-old student at the time, noticed that it was Trump that stopped the fight and yelled, “That’s Trump!”
“A lot of people were surprised that he got out to see what was happening,” Romeo said. She said that Trump had chased the bat-wielder off before he even got out of the limo — and that Trump “just looked around and went back into his limo” — but other witnesses backed up The Donald’s story.
“All of a sudden, a big long limousine pulls up on an angle, and Donald Trump pops out with the blonde, too,” a witness said. “There was a guy with a bat, hitting a guy over the head, and Trump yelled, ‘Put that bat down. What are you doing?’ The guy dropped the bat, came over and started talking to him.”
Donald Trump never sought attention for this story. Eyewitnesses confirmed Trump’s account according to the Daily News and the publication subsequently contacted him for the story.
Trump, being Trump, told reporters, “I’m not looking to play this thing up … I’m surprised you found out about it.”
He said afterward, he thought about the help his mother got when she was mugged three weeks before, in which a witness to the attack chased and caught the man who attacked her.
NICE!
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It’s both believable because of who Trump is, and expected, because of last weeks story about Dr. Ben being confronted by a gunman. Donald provided this story himself. I suppose I can’t blame him.
Wow!
Trump has the stootch to put himself in harm’s way to save someone else.
I was already going to vote for him. This confirms it.
This might be a good place to tell the story of the time Mrs Clinton braved sniper fire in the service of this country.
I have read numerous acts of kindness that Trump has done over the years to help people. One lady whose husband had committed suicide out of despair over the pending foreclosure on their farm, received help from Trump and was able to keep the generations owned farm. Another family with a gravely ill child was given help and flown in Trump’s jet to a hospital that could help their little boy.
This is the first act of bravery of this type that I have seen, but it confirms my suspicion that Trump is no wuss.
Oh, and did I mention the time she saved the little puppies from danger?
Mr. Trump is a decent man. He’s highly self-confident, to put it mildly, but a lot of his bluster is intentional self-marketing shtick around someone with a good heart.
Except that Hillary’s story, as usual, wasn’t true. Trump’s story actually happened.
I’d rather take a baseball bat beating than admit to going to a Paula Abdul concert.
What’s next......?
A litter of puppy’s?
Exactly. I was telling a good friend of mine that a lot of Trump’s bluster is to protect him from those who would take advantage of his kind heart. He really is a very kind and generous person.
At this point what difference does it make!!
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Sorry, I'm just being a smart-aleck. Trump is growing on me. My preference is Cruz, of course, but I'm starting to really like Trump too.
You just know, though, that Hillary is going to have to come up with some kind of heroic story to match. Its just who she is.
Believe it or not, I am considering adopting a golden retriever puppy. The name we picked out is “Trump”. LOL!
Beat that, Ben Carson!
He also pushed an old lady out of the path of a semi truck. And then he pushed a terrorist into the path of the truck.
I like Trump. Not my first choice but I do like him.
But this type of stuff is retarded. Seriously.
Good for him, good for him. Hubby once stopped a mugging in the subway, the mugger had a knife and all, but hubby’s a big guy and basically did the same thing: Just stop it, run away now!
Hubby also did once escape a knife attack on the train (hey, this was NYC pre-Rudy, never underestimate what that man did) because the would-be attacker had to get off at his stop (I swear this is a true NY story!).
Hubby’s sister chided him for not running after the guy, but Hubby wisely said: A crazy man failed to stab me, and you think I should have run after him and given him another chance?
Trump does carry could have held him for the PD.
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