Trump lies about the royal family

Alternet - Trump’s [had] decades of promoting his business by lying about members of the royal family planning to buy into his properties.

CNN reports that Trump did just that again and again, centering his lies on Prince Charles and Princess Diana. First they were supposedly going to buy an apartment at the not-yet-completed Trump Tower, “unidentified sources” told the New York Post. Buckingham Palace said there was “no truth” to that, but Trump Tower had gotten a burst of publicity around the persistent “rumors.”

A decade later, in 1992, the New York Post was again the source of a “rumor” that it acknowledged was “maybe started by the Trump Organization” that Diana was going to buy a Trump Tower apartment. Buckingham Palace again denied the rumors. But Trump wasn’t done.

Talking to Howard Stern in 1993, he claimed that Diana was looking at an apartment in the building, and .... He went further. “I hope she’s looking at—She is really hot. She has gained 20-25 pounds, she looks great,” Trump said. “There could be a love interest. I’d become King of England. King of England. I’d have to leave, I’d have to lose the New York accent quickly. See they wouldn’t like my accent over there.” The claim resurfaced—in the New York Post again—in 1994, leading a royal family spokesperson to ramp up the tone in shooting it down, saying “This report is highly speculative rubbish. It is simply not true.”

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