New Investigation Finds Trump STOLE 9/11 Reconstruction Funds [View all]

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http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/09/11/just-new-investigation-finds-trump-stole-911-reconstruction-funds/


At issue is $150,000 which was granted to Trump by the government, which Trump claims was due to his generous help following the worst terrorist attack on American soil. In April, Trump gave an interview to TIME magazine and boasted, “It was probably a reimbursement for the fact that I allowed people, for many months, to stay in the building and use the building and store things in the building.” One can note Trump, even then, hedged his lie by saying “probably a reimbursement,” of which he was just so proud. He went on to create a fake story of emotion, “I was happy to do it, and to this day I am still being thanked for the many people I helped. The value of what I did was far greater than the money talked about, much of which was sent automatically to building owners in the area.”

If Donald Trump is being thanked for his service to New York City following the 9/11 attacks, the individuals doing the alleged thanking can not be located. In fact, there is not a single person on the record ever thanking Donald Trump for allowing them, or their organizations, to use his property at 40 Wall St.

A simple search of records from the “Empire State Development Corporation“, which was in charge of administering the repayment for the recovery program, found that Trump was indeed reimbursed but not for the reasons which he publicly stated. In fact, Trump’s company requested reimbursement for “repair”, “cleanup”, and “rent loss.” Absolutely none of the records show Trump ever asked to be compensated for helping individuals, and there is absolutely zero evidence to substantiate Trump’s claim. What the evidence does show is Trump lied again – and this time his lies dishonor the 2,997 individuals who were killed on that horriffic day.

Furthermore, even if Trump were telling the truth and the records magically disappeared, which they didn’t, there is still the lingering fact that the program recovery program was only for reimbursing businesses which suffered uninsured losses, and not for reimbursing individuals for their philanthropic work. David Catalfamo, who was working with New York’s governor at the time George Pataki, helped to administer the program. He confirmed that Trump was lying and stated, “He’s clearly wrong. I saw him say that and he’s obviously wrong.” Catalfamo went on to describe how the program actually worked for everyone else outside of Trump’s warped version of reality, “It was not part of the program to give money away for the other ancillary stuff. The way the program worked was to help businesses cover for uninsured losses. Businesses came forward with their losses and we covered part of them.”

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