Washington – Two days after a Jewish art dealer who had fallen on hard times died in a four alarm fire in his Trump Tower home, a friend of the victim is reporting that the president had once referred to the dead man as “a crazy Jew.”
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As previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2Hm9XD9) 67 year old Todd Brassner died on Saturday after a fire broke out in his 50th floor Trump Tower luxury apartment. Fire officials have yet to determine the cause of the fatal blaze but say that it may have been started accidentally.
Patrick Goldsmith, a long time friend of Brassner’s said that the president made the remark in 1996, after he snuck a look at Trump’s hands as he passed the president in the Trump Tower lobby, according to The Daily News (https://nydn.us/2Hm1T5f).
The size of president’s fingers and hands appear to be a sore sport after Spy magazine first lampooned Trump as a “short fingered vulgarian” in its April 1988 edition, as reported by The Washington Post (https://wapo.st/2HmxIv3).
Goldsmith said that an irate Trump asked the doorman to identify him and was told that he was Brassner’s visitor.
“Oh, that crazy Jew?” the president allegedly said, according to Goldsmith, who said that Brassner had had words previously with Trump about a clogged sink in his apartment.
Goldsmith said that he shared the story with Brassner who waved it off saying “I’m a Hebrew. I’m not a Jew.”
Brassner’s relationship with Trump had not improved over the years, with the art collector coming to hate his landlord and his policies according to Goldsmith. Brassner, who had once been friends with artist Andy Warhol and was the subject of a portrait painted by the artist, filed for bankruptcy in 2015 reported Newsweek (http://bit.ly/2Hkgcr7).
Among the assets listed in his filing were a collection of artwork, jewelry, fine watches, vintage electric guitars and amplifiers valued at approximately $3.4 million and his Trump Tower apartment which Brassner estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
While Brassner hoped to sell his apartment and to find relief from his hatred of Trump as well as the tight security measures that were instituted at Trump Tower after the last presidential election, his efforts to find a buyer proved fruitless.
“When people heard it was a Trump building he couldn’t give it away,” said Stephen Dwire, a long time friend of Brassner’s.
Rachael Cain, another friend of Brassner’s said that the art dealer hated living in Trump Tower and considered the president to be “a horrible lowlife human being.”
“He talked about not living there almost nonstop,” said Cain.
The president took to Twitter after the fire, tweeting his praise for the firefighters who had responded to the blaze and commenting that the well-constructed building had stood up well to the flames, making no mention of Brassner who later died in his subsequent tweets.
A statement later released by White House’s principal deputy press security Raj Shah also included no remarks about Brassner’s death, but categorized The Daily New’s decision to run the story about the allegedly anti-Semitic remark as ludicrous.
“Basing a front-page story maligning the President solely on a decades-old unverified claim by a critic of the President – whose own family members are Jewish – is absurd,” said Shah.
So Goldsmith admits to not only being a voyeur but also an eavesdropper? Doesn’t sound like he simply “passed” as he stayed long enough to hear a conversation.
Big deal I call lots of jews crazy jews. That doesn’t make me an anti semite.
Classic fake news nonsense.
Facts are, Trump freed Rubashkin for no gain. He got no money and wont carry jewish areas either because you need to win the state. Plus elections were 3 years away. Would Trump free a muslim or Latino whom he hates?
(Please do not compare it to the Clinton skvera commutations that did not even set them free rather it shortened their sentence and it was exactly during elections and Hillary gained actual votes from that. 3 huge differneces. Plus its really irrelevant. If you want to argue that Hillary also loves jews fine. But it still shows that Trump loves jews too.)
Facts are, trump is proud of his jewish daughter, shows her off and promoted both her and Jared as his advisor. Doesn’t sound like something a jew hater would do.
Facts are, he is moving that embassy.
Fake news
Fake news. If the media would’ve let out even a fraction of the deep Jew hatred Obama the snake has for our people, it would make your blood curdle.
fake news. our dear president may he be well loves Israel and sorrounds himself with smart non liberal Jews.
The NY Daily News which headlined thet story, has an anti-Trump agenda. I think that this was a beef between a tenant and a landlord, over repairs. However, I thought that if one buys an apartment in Trump Tower, then it was their responsibility to do the maintenance, and not the responsibility of The Trump Organization. I think though, that Trump should have expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased, after he tweeted that Trump Tower was well built. So far, he has been silent. He should have shown that he was a bigger mench than Mr. Goldsmith was, with his twenty two year old Loshon Hora. Incidentally, Mr. Educated Archy, Trump has a Jewish daughter-in-law, and not a Jewish daughter.
Trumpf is not an antasemit. He’s an all-purpose hater, with crude comments vs nearly every ethnic group or entity he hates. A real role model for frum yeladim everywhere. And hate speech matters as we enter 1933 with the New Fuhrer of Mar-A-Nurenburgo…
I did a search on the web, and it seems that Brassner’s family are in the art dealing business, and presumably well to do (to quote: “Brassner was born into a family of wealthy art dealers”). So how come Brassner’s bankruptcy filing (2015) states “The limited support of his family coupled with his medical problems caused the debtor to fall into arrears on his mortgage, credit card payments and line of credit payments” His own (wealthy?) family would not help him out? What kind of “medical problems”?
And those complaining about Trump not mentioning Brassner – well (to quote) “Brassner’s family declined to comment”. So why should Trump irritate the bereaved’s relatives by commenting on Brasssner when obviously they do not want any comment?
Further to my previous post, some more context;
“Todd Brassner … loved fast cars, electric guitars, expensive watches …” Yep, people really liked him for “himself”, not his money (or lifestyle bought by money).
“Mr. Brassner, 67, lived alone amid a collection of about 100 vintage electric guitars … and artwork …”
“… Mr. Brassner started leaving the apartment less and less frequently, and he resisted offers from friends to visit or bring food. “
“Mr. Brassner’s struggle with drugs brought him into contact with “shady characters, who snookered him out of masterpieces,” “
And I just read that after he filed for bankruptcy he inherited some money from his father and “He showed up at my house the next day in a brand-new red Lamborghini”. So clearly his money problems were not his own fault.
To #24 - Your loshon hora, about the alleged background and shortcomings of the deceased Mr. Brassner, are despicable, and reprehensible!
To all the others, regarding Ivanka- I have never questioned her conversion; however, even though she converted, she is still not Trump’s daughter, but his dauther-in-law, period!!