Donald Trump offered Thursday to buy out a major investor in the real estate partnership that controls the site near ground zero where a Muslim Group wants to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque.
The offer, though, fell flat nearly instantly. “This is just a cheap attempt to get publicity and get in the limelight,” said Wolodymyr Starosolsky, a lawyer for the investor. The current planned location is just two blocks north of the site.
Trump offered to pay the owners of the property the amount they purchased the property for plus an extra 25%. Â Â As part of the deal, Trump is asking that the mosque be built at least 5 blocks from the WTC site.
“I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not), but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse” .
Funny. If it was the Nation of Islam or the NAACP being offered money to move elsewhere, we’d a be crying ‘racism’. Well, at least he offered money. When they wanted blacks out of New Orleans all they offered were pint-sized FEMA trailers and a lot of red tape.