Posted on 04/21/2016 5:33:57 PM PDT by true believer forever
According to Kerick, who by the way spent a great deal of time down at Ground Zero, Donald Trump displayed incredible generosity and concern towards the volunteers and first responders who worked down at “The Pile” sifting through debris for body remains. Bernie told me without hesitation, “Trump instructed hundreds of his hotel workers to head down to Ground Zero and offer a hand doing whatever needed to be done. Be it hand out water, food, etc, etc.” I asked if the cameras caught any of this? Kerick explained there were no cameras permitted in the area, and Trump knew this. Meaning, he didn’t do it for the fanfare or press clippings. Perhaps Donald did it because he loves America, and because he cares about the American people?
Kerick went on to say Trump himself visited Ground Zero to help lift spirits and to thank the tireless workers who were down there each day and night searching for bodies. “He didn’t have to do it, he wanted to do it. That’s the Trump I know.”
It is a really good piece of writing, isn't it? Later this week, I am going to try and extract some pithy excerpts and post them about ... I think the length is discouraging to a lot of people who like their news on the run. Glad you read it though!
“sicked”
It’s ‘sicced’.
Don’t mind me. I was once a spelling bee champ.
Eat a few bunches of sour grapes on Tuesday, kinsman redeemer? :)
Way back when, he and I were "friends", of a sort. We'd post back and forth and he often complimented me on my posts. Then one evening he posted something which was completely wrong. As is my wont, I corrected him and posted the correct FACTS.
All of a sudden, he was posting the most VILE, disturbing, threatening CRAP I had ever seen posted to FR!
I don't back down for anyone, least of all someone like him!
He got even nastier and claimed that he had NO idea who I was, after years of us posting together here and I am NOT the only one he did this to.
I have NOT listened to him since, nor bought any more of his books.
Lots of assumptions there.
What you “feel in your bones” isn’t reflected in polls.
Trump is a liberal. I know it because of what he says.
And “Yes!” It makes a difference what people say and do.
I think that’s Levin’s cover .. Levin believes he can say anything and justify his insane ranting by throwing Reagan and the Constitution into the mix ..Levin is a pure pro-war , pro-bad trade deal, pro-open borders Neo-con ...Levin is no Conservative
Donald Trump Hailed as Hometown Hero in Staten Island
Sam Frizell / New York City @Sam_Frizell Charlotte Alter / New York City @charlottealter April 17, 2016 Updated: April 18, 2016 1:22 AM ET
When Maria Andrews’ mother came home with a load of heavy groceries and found a broken elevator at the modest brick Tysens Park Apartments on Staten Island, she wasn’t expecting to get much help from building management.
But then she saw Fred Trump pull up in an elegant black limousine. She put down her groceries and rapped on the limo’s tinted window to complain to the real estate royal who owned her building. To her surprise, the elder Trump came out and helped her carry her groceries up five flights of stairs, Andrews says today — and he stayed for coffee.
Forty years later, the daughter is voting for the son.
At a Staten Island fundraiser for the Republican Party of Richmond County on Sunday, Andrews recalls seeing Fred and Donald strolling around her childhood apartment complex, chatting with her mother.
“He was just a nice man,” Andrews says of Fred Trump. “And Donald was with him a lot. So I was a fan of them from back then.”
Trump has been a national celebrity for decades and his gold-plated name has propelled him to victory in far-flung states from Georgia to Michigan. But as the primary comes to Trump’s home state on New York on April 19, there are few places where he is as big a force. In Staten Island, New York City’s most isolated borough, where the Trump family’s roots run deep, his support is as strong as anywhere in the country.
The locals grew up in his father’s buildings, saw him on television, commuted to Manhattan to work in his towers. Trump conjures up the combativeness, the straight-talking bluntness and success prized among New Yorkers, particularly in the heavily Republican borough.
At a press conference at the Hilton Garden Inn fundraiser lunch on Sunday, Trump recalled the days when he drove with his suited father in a limousine around the island. “In the summers I used to work on Staten Island,” he said. “The greatest people. These people are incredible people.”
If New York City is a microcosm of the national demography, then Staten Island is a holdout of mostly white conservatives in a city that is quickly diversifying. Staten Island went for McCain in 2008, even as the rest of the city voted for Barack Obama. And the borough, a blue collar county with heavy Italian and Irish heritage where the Trumps owned Tysens Park and apartments in Grymes Hill, has long been Trump land.
At the event on Sunday, Staten Island’s women in four-inch heels and men in jerseys with “Trump” written across the back gave him a standing ovation when he arrived, and they didn’t sit down for the entire speech.
Trump repeatedly appealed to the concerns of white voters who feel increasingly marginalized as a political minority in New York City, even though they’re not a racial one. During the event, he got big cheers for saying we need “less political correctness,” and accused China of waging an “economic war” against the U.S. And he recast Ted Cruz’s now infamous dig at “New York values” in his own way. “We’re New Yorkers, we’re smart,” he said matter-of-factly. “We have New York values.”
The family real estate empire was largely built by his father Fred in the post-World War II building boom and included low-to-middle-income housing across the boroughs, some of it built with government assistance. The family faced repeated allegations of racial discrimination and was sued by the federal government in 1973 for refusing to lease apartments to African Americans.
Shelomo Alfassa saw the Trump developments growing up near Coney Island in Brooklyn and still sees the Trump Pavilion developments in Jamaica, Queens, on his commute to work. “I lived right near Coney Island. I grew up hearing the name Trump,” said Alfassa, the director of marketing at a security company.
Because Trump is both a national celebrity and a local businessman, everyone who’s crossed his path has a story to tell. Donald Pagano, a Staten Island-based contractor, said he worked a job in the Trump Tower on 57th Street and Fifth Avenue as a 23-year-old and once rode an elevator with Ivana Trump. He didn’t recognize her as Trump’s wife, so he started flirting with her.
“I said, ‘You have the most beautiful blue eyes, enveloping bigger than the Pacific Ocean,’ something like that,” Pagano said, laughing. “So I always like to refer to myself as ‘the other Donald’ in her life.”
Despite his name recognition, Trump is as controversial in Staten Island as he is anywhere else. The protesters outside his Sunday event carrying anti-Trump signs called him a fascist and a racist. “If greed and avarice and chicanery are New York values, then yes,” Trump is a New Yorker, said Pete McParland, who works in maintenance at the College of Staten Island. “Unfortunately, it’s a very racist borough.”
It helps that in a city that is grappling with racial tensions over police brutality, Staten Island is cop country. On Sunday, Trump accepted an award from the New York Veteran Police Association and told a group of retired NYPD officers he had a “tremendous amount of respect for the work you do.”
“He understands and is sensitive to how tough our job is,” says Lou Telano, president of the New York Veteran Police Association, who says he has spoken with Trump several times on this issue. Telano presented Trump with an award for his “dedication, concern and support for America’s law enforcement.”
With Trump looming larger than life over Staten Island, Democrats have come to contest his popularity. “Donald Trump was here today but he certainly wasn’t welcome in my part of Staten Island,” New York State Assembly Member Matt Titone said at a Hillary Clinton event later that day. “We have to show the world what Staten Island truly is about. And we are about inclusion.”
Yet perhaps more on Staten Island than anywhere else, Trump is still a byword for success.
“All of the stuff Trump had going on in the ’80s. The hotel. The board game. The football. He’s synonymous with wealth,” said Richard Luthman, a Staten Island man who is registered as a Democrat but plans to write Trump in. “Trump is New York.”
Luthman was one of several registered Democrats in the audience who had chosen Trump over their party’s candidates. “I don’t like any of the Democrats running,” says Angela Gianino, a second-grade teacher and registered Democrat. “From the very first day when they threw his name out there, I thought he would be a great President.”
Her sister Jacqueline Allen, a pediatric nurse practitioner, put it this way: “Everything he touches turns to gold.”
Yet despite his family’s history in the borough, Trump rarely crosses the Verrazano Bridge to this part of the city. When he was asked by a reporter what his favorite pizzeria in Staten Island is, he was decidedly vague.
“I have a lot of them,” Trump said. “I have, like, 12.”
I posted your entire article in case some late comers missed it. Thanks, great story, especially considering how much Trump has said his father impacted him.
Trump isn't a "liberal", he most assuredly is NOT "stupid", and as far as being "inconsistent" is concerned, unlike Ted Cruz, who is about as unprincipled and wavering as a person can be, Trump has held many of the same positions he has now, since at least the 1980s!
I suggest that YOU "fix" your mordant ignorance about Trump.
I’ve never heard of restroom attendants before. But now that you bring it up, that probably would be a good idea.
Good on you for not letting her into the restroom without someone with her.
Everything you posted is 100% correct.
I don't know what Levin is except that I can't listen to him anymore rant on about Trump. I have been surprised to see this side of him, but then many many others have told me they always knew this about him. So maybe I wasn't paying attention enough, or was lucky enough to miss a lot of his tirades about other things.
Why don't you take the hint and just leave?
Thank you. I have dyslexia and spelling can be a real challenge for me. I don’t mind being corrected.
All of a sudden, he was posting the most VILE, disturbing, threatening CRAP I had ever seen posted to FR!
I don't back down for anyone, least of all someone like him!
He got even nastier and claimed that he had NO idea who I was, after years of us posting together here and I am NOT the only one he did this to.
I have NOT listened to him since, nor bought any more of his books.
I believe your every word, and it is very similar to what others have told me though in different contexts. I am just wondering why I missed so much of this for so long. Young and starry eyed, I guess.
That’s my view as well. Just because the corner grocer smiles at a mafia errand boy as he pays his protection money doesn’t mean he likes it.
Levin is a true scum bag..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3423442/posts?page=33#33
Ping to bobsunshines info on Trump’s view of the BLM (the feds).
I tend to agree that the populace had indeed fallen in love with him...or at least serious like.
You have said a great truth ... about the top three issues. When was the last time you heard a politician - in the middle of a speech - say I love you, I love, we love you - and then pick up his thought? That to me was the first extraordinary thing I noted about Trump - the connection at his rallies. I know this new toned version is much needed going forth, but there are some things about the old Trump that I am going to miss a lot. Maybe he'll find the right balance.
When the Clintons moved out they trashed the place and stole some items. When the Obamas moved in it was spotless and gift baskets had been left for the Obamas and the two girls.
Makes you wonder whether the Obamas will continue the restored tradition of class or trash it worse than the Clintons did.
Levin is more crazed about Trump than he is about any of the DIMs ... I find this to be very disturbing ...the question remains , who are Levin’s paymasters ? Like sellout Rush always said , follow the money ...Levin is total scum ...
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