Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
This cannot be true.
I think I have to wave the Bullshit flag here.
Originally Posted by petegz28:
I believe it's code to have brail so yes, most likely bullshit
It is actually alleged, whatever that makes it.
By way of explanation, former Trump exec Barbara Res, who Trump hired to manage his construction projects long ago says he used this to berate an engineer in 1980-81, while first Trump Tower was under construction.
She says she witnessed it happening, but that Trump knew it was against code and would not happen. The purpose wasn't to actually remove the Braille, but to run a power play on the engineer by making a knowingly unreasonable demand.
Res was a vocal never-Trumper in the campaign, and brought this allegation up to supposedly reflect his history of making outlandish and impossible demands more to exert power than see them fulfilled in order to explain the behavior outlined in the anonymous NYT op-ed.
Who knows if it's true, accurate, complete or fair, but it's what she's saying as a former high-level employee who has made her current opposition known.
I think that's a fairly comprehensive and fair encapsulation. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
It is actually alleged, whatever that makes it.
By way of explanation, former Trump exec Barbara Res, who Trump hired to manage his construction projects long ago says he used this to berate an engineer in 1980-81, while first Trump Tower was under construction.
She says she witnessed it happening, but that Trump knew it was against code and would not happen. The purpose wasn't to actually remove the Braille, but to run a power play on the engineer by making a knowingly unreasonable demand.
Res was a vocal never-Trumper in the campaign, and brought this allegation up to supposedly reflect his history of making outlandish and impossible demands more to exert power than see them fulfilled in order to explain the behavior outlined in the anonymous NYT op-ed.
Who knows if it's true, accurate, complete or fair, but it's what she's saying as a former high-level employee who has made her current opposition known.
I think that's a fairly comprehensive and fair encapsulation.
so now we are just looking for shit to because there is nothing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
so now we are just looking for shit to because there is nothing.
To be fair/accurate, this isn't a case of a biased 'journalist' scouring the back alleys of history for dirt.
Res herself wrote an op-ed responding to the NYT anonymous op-ed, ostensibly explaining Trump's 'style' with an example from from her personal recollection.
Newsweek tweeting it as an unexplained headline is the real egregious act. [Reply]
Fox News, posting about Trump's UN address on Twitter, cuts off the video of him crowing about his accomplishments before the part where assembled world leaders laugh at him
.@POTUS: “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” #UNGApic.twitter.com/7423ogQbNT
WOW! The UN audience laughs at Trump after he claims, "my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country." pic.twitter.com/tXg50ejQqy
