"Trump Rescue Plane" had been seized by the banks because he failed to make payments on his loans

[Miles Archer]

“The Trump campaign has confirmed to Hannity.com that Mr. Trump did indeed send his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami, Florida to transport over 200 Gulf War Marines back home.”
— quote in article titled “200 Stranded Marines Needed A Plane Ride Home, Here’s How Donald Trump Responded,” Sean Hannity Show website, May 19, 2016

It seemed like such a sweet story — Donald Trump sending his personal plane down to Camp Lejeune, N.C., when 200 Marines were stranded after fighting in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. At least that is the story that Sean Hannity of Fox News has touted on his website for several months.



Moreover, take a close look at the photograph. That was not Trump’s private plane at the time. That’s a Boeing 727 jet that was part of a Trump Shuttle fleet — an airline that Trump briefly owned before it was essentially seized by the banks because he failed to make payments on his loans. It had a white fuselage.

Here’s what Trump’s private plane, with a dark fuselage, looked like in 1991:



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/11/too-good-to-check-sean-hannitys-tale-of-a-trump-rescue/?tid=sm_fb

[TonyPDX]

1. Actually paying what you owe is for little people.

[Stonepounder]

2. I was reading somewhere

that when Trump bought the Eastern Shuttle, the deal came with more planes than he could actually use, so he leased several of them to the Army, which used them for, among other things .... drum roll ... to move the troops from Camp Lejeune. The only thing Trump did was take credit for it. The Army was paying him for the damn plane.

Here is the full story:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/11/too-good-to-check-sean-hannitys-tale-of-a-trump-rescue/

[TeamPooka]

3. So he was a military contractor profiting off of war. Of course he was. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Hannity is all for using the troops as a political prop / fundraiser.