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Trump Says He Might 'Encourage' Russia To Attack NATO Allies
(www.huffpost.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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Quick reminder: NATO's collective defense clause, also known as Article 5, has only been triggered once. It was invoked in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
Reminder that Trump was happy about those attacks that day because they made his property value go up
He said that on the day.
A few hours after the towers collapsed, he decided to call into a radio station and brag. No one asked him, he just did it. And he said:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/9-11-trump-tallest-building-manhattan-b2164420.html
And, like most things Trump says, it wasn't even true. It was never the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan.
So, on 9/11, while first responders were digging through the rubble and pulling out corpses, Trump called up the biggest radio station in New York to lie about how tall his building was.
Completely normal behaviour. For a narcissist sociopath.
Are you sure about that? It was once the tallest building in the world, then the second tallest (after the Chrysler Building), and (Wikipedia says so) after the 70 Pine Street was build the 2nd tallest in “Lower Manhattan”.
As the article I linked to said-