Trump's offer for Islamic center site called a 'pathetic' PR attempt

Turborama

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Fri Sep-10-10 04:41 PM
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Trump's offer for Islamic center site called a 'pathetic' PR attempt

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Source: CNN

September 10, 2010 | 03:08 PM ET

Donald Trump's offer to buy the lower Manhattan site where a Muslim group plans to build an Islamic community center is just a "pathetic" attempt to get publicity, said the lawyer for one of the land owners.

Real estate mogul Trump made the offer Thursday in a letter to Hisham Elzanaty, an investor in the controversial Islamic center site. But Elzanaty does not consider Trump's proposal a real offer, attorney Wolodymyr Starosolsky said Thursday night.

Elzanaty has received other offers, but has declined them, the lawyer said. Elzanaty thinks the property might be worth more down the road, so he might hold on to it. Trump had offered 25 percent more than the current owners paid for it. Elzanaty owns more than 51 percent of the property, and has no more than three partners, the lawyer said.

Trump's offer stipulated that, if a mosque is to be built, it will be located at least five blocks further from the World Trade Center site. He also said he would pay cash for the site, with an immediate closing.

Read more: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/10/trumps-offer-for-islamic-center-site-called-a-pathetic-pr-attempt/

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Fri Sep-10-10 04:48 PM
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1. They expect us to believe Trump would grandstand for his own ego?

No way!

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Fri Sep-10-10 05:23 PM
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2. +1...

Trump's entire life is nothing but a bad publicity stunt.

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awoke_in_2003

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Fri Sep-10-10 05:24 PM
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3. If I was this imam...

I would cash in, then buy another site close to the WTC. Rinse and repeat a few times and milk the idiots out of money while you can.

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Fri Sep-10-10 05:44 PM
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4. It's not a mosque. Let me repeat that. IT'S NOT A MOSQUE.

Sheesh.

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Turborama

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Fri Sep-10-10 05:50 PM
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5. It can't be repeated enough & I should have added this to the OP too

But I forgot and time's run out.

I posted a refutation of this "Mosque" thing in this earlier OP: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4535729

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Fri Sep-10-10 10:10 PM
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6. Who takes the bad comb over seriously? At leats Ghoulini cut his.

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Fri Sep-10-10 10:20 PM
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7. "Trump" and "pathetic PR stunt"

Aren't those redundant?

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