“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.”
Trump was at first reluctant to discuss his daredevil deed, but then he warmed to the task.
“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.”
Trump said the incident occurred at 8 p.m. as he, Maples and another couple were heading toward the Lincoln Tunnel on their way to the Meadowlands in New Jersey for a Paula Abdul concert.
Kathleen Romeo, a 16-year-old student at St. Michael’s Academy in Manhattan, said cries of “There’s Trump!” went through the crowd of onlookers when the erstwhile deal maker emerged from his limousine in front of a Smiler’s deli.
super trump to the rescue! ok, not claiming he didn’t really do that but certainly not difficult for a billionaire to hire some actors and stage the entire drama to make himself look heroic, especially in pre cellphone camera 1991.
hey, huell howser staged a dramatic “heroic intervention” of an instance of looting during the L.A. riots. his camera crew conveniently managed to be all set up and ready for it.
just like FEMA at the WTC on 9/11.
Possibly…But for what motivation, mere publicity? He wasn’t planning on running for office back then and I don’t see much of a payoff for his business.
wow good point. his little show was mostly on local TV. he made it up to PBS once or twice but really nobody even knew who he was.
i liked him, i bet all that theater was a producer’s idea and not his.
I wonder how many people just walked on by, or stood and watched as the guy was getting beaten with a bat. At least trump had the balls to stop and say something. That in itself is more than any other witnesses seems to have done. Two or three others could have stopped this, if they had a set of balls between them.
E for Effort!…..Oblabla would have sicced Mike on him……
Maybe he is the Bat Man.
What phony nonsense.
You ignore his entire record as a coward.
A television comedian recently said: ‘What are you going to do, stab them with your bone spurs?’
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
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In discussing Trump’s “courage,” it’s important to note his record while President.
None of Obama’s foreign affairs horrors have been overturned – from efforts to have mercenaries in Syria use poison gas (taken from the murdered Qaddafi’s supplies) as an excuse for American bombing to threatening a peaceful Russia.
The Pentagon has been given more money than it knows how to spend.
The tanks’ engines are still roaring at the Russian border.
The CIA, which runs America’s extrajudicial killing program, has been given a free hand in choosing whom it kills.
Afghanistan is still suffering under American occupation and increased bombing with no end in sight.
American forces are illegally ensconced in Syria, busy helping terrorists.
The entire Mideast is in flames.
Israel is given whatever it likes and is allowed to threaten a peaceful Iran and continue its own atrocities and human rights horrors.
And all this from a man who in his campaign said that we should get along with Russia and asked why the Middle East was in flames.
He was strong on those vital points. Then.
But when he first actually sat down around a big polished oak table with all that Pentagon brass and those big suits with the stern faces from the CIA, he shrank down into his chair like an 8-year old boy and peed his pants.
The man is beyond ridiculous.
George Bush was contemptible, but I’m not sure Trump hasn’t outdone him in a single year for contemptible behavior.
What a dainty little hand