Don Jr. begs for $5 handouts as he whines about fate of his Trump Tower 'boyhood home'
To some, it looks like a corporate Fifth Avenue monolith with a golden elevator at the heart of a historic $464 million fraud case.
But for Donald Trump Jr., Trump Tower will always be his “boyhood home.”
Trump Jr. so described the 58-story skyscraper on Manhattan’s East 57th Street and Fifth Avenue — the thoroughfare on which his father former President Donald Trump boasted he could shoot someone and get away with it — in a campaign cash-grab sent out Wednesday.
“The radical anti-Trump Attorney General in New York wanted to seize my boyhood home,” Trump Jr. declared. “She wanted to get her hands on Trump Tower, and take control of one of the most iconic buildings in American history.”
Trump Jr. then asked for $5 to “Save America” from President Joe Biden.
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The former president’s namesake of course is referring to the New York civil court case brought by Attorney General Letitia James, in which Trump and his sons were found liable for inflating the value of their assets to defraud lenders and investors.
During the months-long trial — which resulted in the half-billion dollar ruling from Justice Arthur Engoron — experts testified there was “no question” the price of the triplex at the top of the Manhattan tower was inflated.
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg also testified the penthouse was listed at 30,000 square feet, though he knew it was really 10,000, but “he didn’t notice it because there were other items he was more worried about.”
Trump Tower is also where adult film star Stormy Daniels has said she was invited in 2006 to join the then-real estate mogul after the pair had sex.
This would not be Trump’s lone alleged affair the same year his wife Melania gave birth to their son Barron, as was reported last year by the New York Times.
Former Playboy model Karen McDougal said she and the former president had an affair that saw her spending time in his Trump Tower and a golf tournament where he met Daniels, the report notes.
These alleged sexual encounters with Trump are now at the center of the criminal hush money case Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to bring to court next month.
A Trump Tower doorman is also named in Bragg’s criminal complaint against Trump — who has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records — over claims that books were cooked ahead of the 2016 presidential election to hide salacious stories. Bragg contends Dino Sajudin was paid $30,000 to keep mum about a since-discredited claim that Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock.
These details may be why Trump Jr.’s heartfelt plea was subjected to some light ridicule on social media Wednesday.
“Look how they seized my boy(hood home),” quipped journalism professor A.J. Bauer, along with an image of the fictional “The Godfather” mobster Vito Corleone.
“That’s so ... weird,” replied @BitsofWords. “Is Trump joining the Backstreet Boys?…boyhood. I don’t like this word and how it’s used here, not one bit.”
Bauer shot back, “To say nothing of ‘She wanted to get her hands on Trump Tower.’”