Jul 20, 2015, 1:31 PM ET
By John Santucci
Vincent McGowan, who has been with the organization since its inception
in 1983 and currently sits on its board, says that if it wasn’t for
Trump, the project in lower Manhattan would have never happened.
By John Santucci
With all the fire coming at Donald Trump (click here) since his comments this weekend against Sen. John McCain – one of the leaders of New York’s Vietnam Veterans Plaza tells ABC News Trump “has not been a bad guy to us.”
McGowan says the property downtown was gifted to the veterans by the
Koch administration but they had no money. Trump committed $1M in a
matching fund and they “couldn’t have built it without him.”
Trump Saturday suggested McCain, who was beaten and tortured as he was
held captive as a POW in Vietnam for 5 ½ years, was only a war hero
"because he was captured."
"He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump said the Family
Leadership Council summit in Iowa. "I like people who weren’t captured."...
