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.
It was just a publicity stunt.
You know-to build his brand.
He capitalized on someone else’s misfortune like the opportunist he’s always been./s
I understand what you mean. Trump does grow on a person alright. I am still voting for Cruz in the primary, but I would be very happy with Trump.
“This might be a good place to tell the story of the time Mrs Clinton braved sniper fire in the service of this country.”
ROFLMAO!!!!
Post of the day.
“Here Trumpy!”
LOL
I don’t think this is “retarded” at all. I think it shows something about his character. Certainly not everyone in his position would have put themselves in harms way to save someone.
LOL! Perfect.
There was a video around that did cuts between her statement about being under sniper fire, and the actual video of her landing in Bosnia and meeting and greeting folks on the tarmac. It might be time to resurrect that.
Ha! Here it is. The Internet never forgets.
But did he have any Grey Poupon?
“Here Trumpy!”
He’ll grow up to be YUGE!
Whew! Glad that worked out O.K.!
I was appalled by what Carson told his attacker to do, and also by the idea of telling everyone to mob a shooter so he’d have more of a chance of living.
Probably average, honest sorts of reactions, but not president material on Ben’s part.
That's only because she was going musky fishing and needed some bait........
She saved the puppies! Yay!! Were those the same little puppies she later sold (at a profit) to that now closed restaurant?
Bet he had some Trump Spring Water in the limo bar!
That was a weird answer. I like Trump’s solution better. Nationwide gun permits. Everybody carry!
It was just a publicity stunt.....In 1991? He knew he was gonna run back then? No one has heard about this until now? No news reports? You seriously need to get a get a grip.
You seriously missed cal’s /s tag.
Agreed. I like Trump more all the time.
Sure, he’s not perfect, but it’s looking like we’re blessed to have someone like him stepping up now.
Dr. Ben should have just kept that story to himself. It’ too ‘open ended’ to interpretation, leaves Carson looking less than honorable. I think he wanted to show that even though he’s a mild manner Doctor, he’s a survivor, and knows how to deal with wild and crazy people.
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