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Egnever

(21,506 posts)
Fri May 20, 2016, 02:05 AM May 2016

Hahah Hanity you sucker! [View all]

http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/200-stranded-marines-needed-a-plane-14727522/

200 Stranded Marines Needed A Plane Ride Home, Here's How Donald Trump Responded

blah blah Hanity bulshit trump bulshit

TLDR Trump saved the day by sending some of his planes to give stranded troops a ride home .....Except.

This supposedly happened in 1991

When Corporal Ryan Stickney and 200 of his fellow Marines prepared to return to their families after Operation Desert Storm in 1991, a logistics error forced them to turn to a surprising source for a ride home: Donald J. Trump.


What a touching tribute to our troops! rah rah!

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. No further details were provided.


And Trumps campaign confirmed it happened! Really really!

Oops!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Shuttle

Trump Shuttle never turned a profit. The high debt load incurred in the company's formation unnerved Trump's creditors as his other high profile, highly leveraged interests failed. In September 1990 the loans were defaulted and ownership of the airline passed to its creditor banks, led by Citicorp. With airline share prices depressed by the recession and anticipation of the Gulf War, they were unable to sell the operation at a desired price despite lengthy negotiations first with Northwest Airlines, then American Airlines and US Air Group.


Took me two minutes to figure out this story was bullshit. Google is your friend Sean. Sucker!

Posted in case you see this propaganda posted on your Facebook timeline like I did.

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Hahah Hanity you sucker! [View all] Egnever May 2016 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #1
Nah the photo is of a trump shuttle. Egnever May 2016 #2
Trump Shuttle, doing business as Trump Airlines, was an airline owned by Donald Trump from 89' to 92 Demonaut May 2016 #3
OK so this part doesn't count? Egnever May 2016 #4
it does or does not, it negates your argument as his supporters only see what they want to see Demonaut May 2016 #5
Well that is glaringly apparent Egnever May 2016 #6
I completely agree with you, donald does nothing unless it benefits him Demonaut May 2016 #7
Hold on... tomjones69 May 2016 #8
I dont think that article got it right Egnever May 2016 #10
but as late as september 199 he wa running the day to day operations rdking647 May 2016 #18
So your 1st post here is to defend Trump? Welcome to DU TeamPooka May 2016 #27
There's also Snopes oberliner May 2016 #9
different story rdking647 May 2016 #19
No, it's the same story oberliner May 2016 #20
the problem is rdking647 May 2016 #21
Right oberliner May 2016 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #11
See ya. joshcryer May 2016 #12
well that was fast! Egnever May 2016 #14
Nice, they got him before the jury even came back. joshcryer May 2016 #15
Hi foolish republican Egnever May 2016 #13
You're ticking off all the righ people here. herding cats May 2016 #16
as much as i hate trump rdking647 May 2016 #17
Serious question. Raine1967 May 2016 #22
One more thing... This happened in September of 1991 according to HAnnity. hmm: Raine1967 May 2016 #23
Rethug media will provide a fact-free fog for tRump. People will google for Amazon kairos12 May 2016 #24
nope BringBannannanana May 2016 #26
Good try but Egnever May 2016 #28
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2016 #29
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