Posted on 01/28/2016 11:51:24 AM PST by conservativejoy
In a statement following his announcement that he would not be participating in tonight's GOP debate on Fox News, Donald Trump‘s campaign said, "[He will] host an event in Iowa to raise money for the Veterans and Wounded Warriors, who have been treated so horribly by our all talk, no action politicians." This morning, Ben Ferguson contrasted that with statements the real estate tycoon made in 1991 and 2004, when he tried to get homeless and disabled veterans kicked off of Fifth Avenue in front of the famed Trump Tower.
Trump is decrying "all talk, no action politicians" now just as he was in the 1990s, though the action he wanted the New York State Assembly to take then regarding disabled veterans was markedly different than the action he is blaming President Barack Obama's administration for not taking now. (It should be noted, too, that actions that have been taken by some organizations to aid veterans have turned out not to be all they claim to be.) In a 1991 letter to the Assembly, he wrote, "While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?"
By "detriment of the city," the future GOP frontrunner meant "detriment of Trump Tower," which sits on Fifth Avenue. While it is known as a ritzy shopping district in New York, Fifth Avenue is also the home of dozens of opportunistic street vendors. Many of them are disabled veterans who are given special licenses by the Department of Consumer Affairs. According to The Daily News, the protections and exceptions extended to peddling veterans date back to the 1890s and were created to give those who were disabled in the Civil War an opportunity to support themselves.
Though previous attempts to relocate veterans to streets where they would make less money didn't work, Trump was undeterred. In 2004, he wrote to then-mayor and possible future presidential rival Michael Bloomberg, imploring him to help get rid of the wounded warriors on his street.
"Whether they are veterans or not, they should not be allowed to sell on this most important and prestigious shopping street," he wrote. "The image of New York City will suffer… I hope you can stop this very deplorable situation before it is too late."
The GOP debate and Trump's counter-event begin in 10 hours, so get your strongest drinks ready because this topic is sure to come up once or twice or 15 times tonight
There are no people on Cruz’s lawn to sell items to.
The ad calls attention to a July Washington Post story contending Trump still employs illegal immigrants:
I don’t know any person who could pretend to be a conservative and get away with the way Trump has. He’s like Hillary; he’s an especially brazen liar, too.
Do I have that about right?
Well- this US Army and US Air Force veteran (9 years, 11 months, 29 days- good time) and US Army DOD Contractor (civilian) 40 months downrange in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, is unfazed and WILL be voting for DJ Trump.
I see you’re from Tenneesse. So maybe you don’t know about the eternal fight between shop owners and legal and illegal peddlers on the avenues of NYC. Trump is not the first and will certainly not be the last to hate having card tables set up near his shop and then be forced to demand City Hall to do something about it. It took years to get rid of the 3 monte card sharks on B’way who were ripping off dumb tourists from, who knows, maybe Tennessee.
He employed illegal Polish immigrants to work on one of his hotel destruction jobs where they were exposed to asbestos, too.
“Whether they are veterans or not, they should not be allowed to sell on this most important and prestigious shopping street,”
What elitist crap. Interesting though that when it comes to the murder of innocent unborn children Trump argues that it is settled law, but when there’s a more than century old law to protect veterans, then it should be dismissed to keep the filthy people out of his sight.
I wonder if he’ll mention this tonight while he cowers behind wounded veterans with his buddy, the establishment hit man Mike Huckabee.
Thank you for the service that Trump refused to give to his country.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/nyregion/after-15-years-in-court-workers-lawsuit-against-trump-faces-yet-another-delay.html?pagewanted=all
My conclusion is that you don’t have anything else to say except to post the same damn thing over and over and over again. That is your idea of a discussion? Got it!
Oh, I think I’ll post this same poster again because I don’t have an idea, ‘post’, oh, I think I need to post this poster again because it’s so brilliant, ‘post’.
And another image created courtesy of someone that “cannot think for themselves”. You’re so gullible.
Get real. Half the bums on the street...who get dropped off in brand new vans at every major intersection in town every single morning...carry their scruffy signs claiming to be Vietnam vets.
Come on man?
The GOP didn't get the message, even after their second establishment candidate got rejected by the voters.
Does McCain ring a bell? Then- we got a Romney?
How about the inspirational Dole? Papa Bush anybody? Ol' two wars Jr.? ALL good men. See any street fighters in there?
Your turn- and then I'm out of here.
are you from NYC? did you know they were given special passes to sell on that street?
you’re calling vets bums because they were vedors on fifth avenue?
i’m from nyc. are you?
did you follow it closely as a fellow NYCer?
or are you just making it up as you go along?
Ever think (of course not) that maybe you get the same responses because you give the same message but just with different words?? Of course not. Thinking isn’t for you.
Have to bring up Michael Forbes in Scotland, too.
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