Trump says made ‘a lot of money’ in deal with Gaddafi

JERSEY CITY: Donald Trump said he made “a lot of money” in a deal years ago with Moammar Gaddafi, despite suggesting at the time he had no idea the former Libyan dictator was involved in renting his suburban New York estate.

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“Don’t forget, I’m the only one. I made a lot of money with Gaddafi, if you remember,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” that aired on Sunday. “He had to make a deal with me because he needed a place to stay.”

“He paid me a fortune. Never got to stay there,” Trump said. “And it became sort of a big joke.”

Trump was talking about an incident in 2009, when Gaddafi was in search of a place to pitch his Bedouin-style tent during a visit to New York for a meeting of the UN General Assembly.

After trying and failing to secure space in Manhattan’ s Central Park, on the Upper East Side and in Englewood, New Jersey, the Libyan government turned to Trump’s 213-acre Seven Springs estate in suburban Bedford, New York.