Donald Trump was on his best behavior with the British royal family, give or take a “nasty” used to describe Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. But it must have been galling to them to host him after Trump’s 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.
View the complete June 5 article by Laura Clawson from Daily Kos on the AlertNet website here.