Apparent source of claim that Trump paid off slain officer's mortgage walks back statement

[Tom of Temecula]

Right-wing news outlets and MAGA influencers were quick to jump on rumors that Donald Trump had paid off the mortgage of fallen New York police officer Jonathan Diller, but it appears that's simply not true. While the ex-president has yet to comment on or debunk the claim that he paid off the home of the man whose wake he recently attended, the apparent source of the information has walked it back.

According to publicly available information, Diller's mortgage was paid off, but it was by an organization called Tunnel to Towers Foundation. "Tunnel to Towers is honored to announce a mortgage payoff for the family of NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, who was fatally shot and killed during a routine traffic stop on March 25th," the group said. "Officer Diller is survived by his loving wife, Stephanie, and their one-year-old son."

This detail was also reported by CBS News. This may have been the source of the Trump rumor, as David Zere, host of Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News, has implied.

"I may have been mistaken about Trump donating the money to Tunnel and Towers for the Diller family," he said. "I had several people approach me this was the case. I apologize if I reported misinformation. But it was a special day with Trump meeting with the Diller family! #Backtheblue" In a separate post, Zere said, "I just feel awful."

https://www.rawstory.com/apparent-source-of-claim-that-trump-paid-off-slain-officer-s-mortgage-walks-back-statement/

[jimfields33]

1. Glad their house is paid for. Tunnel to tower is a good group.

[underpants]

3. Yes and yes.

[PCIntern]

2. Oh...it was a "special day", eh?

Tinhorn Mussolini shows up somewhere, panders, begs for money and leaves.

Sounds like every other day here in America.

[Marthe48]

4. traitor paid off the mortgage like

he paid the tab at Versailles in Miami last year. Yep. big shot, no bullets

[malaise]

5. Hacks will be hacks. -

He would never do that.
K & R for visibility.

[oldsoftie]

6. I always quote "Back the Blue!" when I deal with Ashli Babbit people.

Who say she was murdered.
"Always follow the orders of officers" they say. Had SHE done that, she'd be alive.

[rampartc]

10. somehow they do not get that one.

officer sicknik is regarded as a hackbooted thug of the deep state and ms babbit will be memorialized as a hero'/saint.

i just had a memory of the capital in baton rouge, where the rounds that missed huey long are celebrated with a plaque. maybe speaker taylo green will name the window after that deluded cultist ashley babbit. . .

[RandiFan1290]

7. Tunnel to Towers Foundation did nothing for officers that died from Jan 6 attack. nt

[tanyev]

8. Yeah, the guy who cut off funds for his nephew's baby with cerebral palsy

is not going to pay off a stranger’s mortgage. No way, no how.

[rampartc]

9. i'm glad to hear (but not surprised) that trump did not pay the mortgage

we are aware of trump's definition of charity.

the trump fortune was made by fred foreclosing on widows and orphans.

[hatrack]

11. His Holy Beneficence and Grace, let us praise Him . . . . oops!!

Another venomous farce by way of the Ambulatory Bag Of Septic Garbage of the United States.

[dalton99a]

12. And no, Donald Trump did not pay off the mortgage of a man who helped him fix a flat tire

[Wonder Why]

13. Close. He foreclosed on the officer's mortgage.