Donald Trump’s limo was weaving it’s way through the streets heading for the Lincoln Tunnel in 1991. He was with his then girlfriend Marla Maples and another couple. Someone said, “Look, there’s a mugging and Trump looked out and saw a man using a ball bat on another man. He ordered the limo to stop. Maples tried to prevent him from getting out of the limo, but he insisted on helping. He moved toward the mugging and the mugger must have recognized Donald and he quit beating on the man.
He told Trump he wasn’t doing anything wrong. Finally the man leaves the area and the victim is receiving first aid and an ambulance was on it’s way, so Trump gets back in the limo and head to the Brendan Byrne Arena to hear Paula Abdul. You’ve never heard this story before, have you? That because as big an egomaniac Trump is, he likes to do his philanthropic deeds in secret. It’s always someone else who spills the beans.
Trump said the incident occurred at 8 p.m. as he, Maples and another couple were heading toward the Lincoln Tunnel on their way to the Meadowlands in New Jersey for a Paula Abdul concert.
Kathleen Romeo, a 16-year-old student at St. Michael’s Academy in Manhattan, said cries of “There’s Trump!” went through the crowd of onlookers when the erstwhile deal maker emerged from his limousine in front of a Smiler’s deli.
“A lot of people were surprised that he got out to see what was happening,” Romeo said, adding that the bat-wielder ran off just before Trump actually appeared, and that Trump, “just looked around and went back into his limo.”
But another witness, who asked not to be identified, supported Trump’s tale.
“All of a sudden, a big long limousine pulls up on an angle, and Donald Trump pops out with the blond, too,” the witness said. “There was a guy with a bat, hitting a guy over the head, and Trump yelled, ‘Put that bat down. What are you doing?’ The guy dropped the bat, came over and started talking to him.”