While this woman was not a recipient of Trump's generosity, the President-elect has allowed other guests to stay at his hotels for free over the years. “There is no validity to the video,” said, who answered a BuzzFeed News request sent to a transition team spokesperson. Jennifer Rodstrom, a spokeswoman for Trump Hotels, confirmed to BuzzFeed that the claims are not real: However, no evidence was provided to show that the video was made from a hotel room (rather than a common area), that the woman had been living in that hotel room for eight years, that Trump allowed her to stay for free, or that he provided her with daily meals and weekly flowers. We tried to match the footage with images from Google Maps and other photographs showing the view from Trump Tower and found that this video was, indeed, most likely taken from Trump's hotel in New York: The video could have been taken in a publicly accessible area of Trump Tower, at a neighboring building (such as the Time Warner Center, which offers a similar view of Central Park), or it could have been made in a hotel room at Trump Tower, but by a temporary guest who decided to make an outlandish claim. The video does appear to show Columbus Circle, where Trump Tower is located, but the woman didn't show her hotel room or give any other proof that she was actually a resident there. This video has been circulating since at least July 2016 when it was initially posted by YouTube user "Lee Bob." While the woman in it claimed that "everything I'm telling you today is true," there are several reasons to be skeptical about her story.įor one thing, it is unclear exactly where this footage was taken from. “Donald Trump is not a bad guy, he’s a wonderful wonderful man, and everything I’m telling you today is true,” she concludes. 23 police shooting of 29-year-old African American Jacob Blake, who was shot several. “If it weren’t for him I’d be homeless – I’d be dead right now, I’d be in the street,” she says, adding that Trump hasn’t asked her to pay a dime. Photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, on Aug. The African-American woman expresses her displeasure at the characterization of Trump as a “bad guy”. LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) The Los Angeles Police Department Thursday was looking into several physical altercations that erupted in downtown Los Angeles during a pro-Trump demonstration held. “Not only did he not evict me off the property, he made sure that I ate three meals a day by room service and that I get a delivery of fresh flowers every week,” she adds Instead of evicting me off the property, he said that I can stay and it’s been eight years I’ve been here,” the woman reveals. Trump over the phone and he came down here. “When I told them I would not go, they contacted Mr. Police arrived the next day and told the woman to leave or she’d be arrested. A homeless black woman reveals that she has been living in Trump Tower for eight years with the blessings of the Donald himself.įilming from her hotel window, the woman says she originally snuck in the building before becoming a squatter in one of the empty rooms.
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