Donald Trump has told a myriad of "lies, insults, and slights" involving the World Trade Center attacks, Daily Beast columnist Michael Daly charges.
"Six months after Donald Trump claimed to have lost 'hundreds of friends' in the 9/11 attacks, his campaign continues to ignore a request from The Daily Beast that he name even one," Daly writes in an opinion piece published Friday.
Daly also says Trump has spoken of "standing at his apartment window and possessing such remarkable eyesight that he could see the jumpers [at the World Trade Center] four miles south."
As far as being charitable, Trump presented the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum this year "with his very first recorded charitable donation in connection with 9/11" for $100,000.
"But it was drawn on his foundation, to which he has not contributed a penny in more than six years," Daly writes.
"He therefore continued a perfect record of not giving a penny of his own money to the memorial, not even the admission price, which the museum said was waived for him and his entourage, a saving of $24 for the adults, $18 in the case of a senior citizen such as Trump."
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