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Trump Offers to Buy Out NYC “Mosque” Investor

09/09/2010 4:11 pm 0 comments

Source: AP / CBS News

Donald Trump is offering to buy out one of the major investors in the real estate partnership that controls the site near ground zero where a Muslim group wants to build a 13-story Islamic center.

In a letter released Thursday by Trump’s publicist, the real estate investor tells Hisham Elzanaty he would buy his stake in the lower Manhattan building for 25 percent more than whatever he paid.

Trump says he’s making the offer not because he thinks the location is spectacular but because it would end “a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation.”

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