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5:13 Donald you're probably the
5:14 best-known builder particularly of of
5:17 great buildings in the city. There's a
5:20 great deal of question about whether or
5:22 not the damage and and the ultimate
5:25 destruction of the buildings was caused
5:26 by the airplanes by architectural defect
5:29 or possibly by bombs or aftershocks
5:31 do you have any thoughts on that?
TRUMP:
5:33 Well it wasn't architectural defect, you know the world
5:35 trade center was always known as a very
5:37 very strong building, don't forget that
5:38 took a big bomb in the basement now the
5:40 basement is the most vulnerable place
5:41 because that your foundation and it
5:43 withstood that and I got to see that
5:45 area about three or four days after took
5:48 place because one of my structural
5:49 engineers actually took me for a tour
5:52 because he did the building and I said I
5:54 can't believe that the building was
5:55 standing solid and half of the columns
5:58 were blown out of itself
5:59 this was an unbelievably powerful
6:01 building if you know anything about
6:03 structure it was one of the first
6:05 building that was built from the outside, the
6:06 steel, the reason the World Trade Center
6:08 had such narrow windows is that in
6:10 between all the windows you had the
6:12 steel on the outside, so you had steel on the
6:13 outside of the building that's why when
6:15 I first look, and you had big heavy i-beams,
6:18 when I first looked at it I couldn't
6:20 believe it because there was a hole in
6:22 the steel and this is steel that was, you
6:25 remember the the width of the windows of
6:26 the World Trade Center folks I think you
6:28 know if you're ever up there they were
6:30 quite narrow and in between was this heavy
6:33 steel I said how could a plane even a
6:35 plane even a
6:36 767 or 747 or whatever it might have been
6:40 how could it possibly go through this
6:41 steel? I happen to think that they had not
6:43 only a plane but they had bombs that
6:45 exploded almost simultaneously because I
6:47 just can't imagine anything being able
6:50 to go through that wall Both buildings
6:51 are built with the steel on the
6:53 inside around the elevator shaft
6:54 this one was built from the outside
6:56 which is the strongest structure you can
6:58 have and it was almost just like like a
7:01 can of soup
INTERVIEWER:
7:02 you know Donald we were looking at
7:03 pictures all morning long of that plane
7:05 coming into building number two and when
7:08 you see that approach the the far side
7:12 and then all of a sudden within a matter
7:14 of milliseconds the explosion pops out
7:16 the other side
TRUMP:
7:17 I just think that it was a plane with
7:20 more than just fuel. I think obviously
7:22 they were very big planes that are going
7:24 very rapidly because I was also watching
7:26 where the plane seems to be not only
7:28 going fast it seems to be coming down
7:30 into the building so is getting the
7:33 speed from going downhill so to speak.
7:35 It just seemed to me that to do that
7:37 kind of destruction is even more than a
7:40 big plane because you're talking about
7:41 taking of Steel the heaviest calipers
7:44 steal that was used in building these
7:45 buildings were rock-solid and you know
7:48 it's just an amazing it's an amazing
7:50 thing it's this country is different
7:53 today and and it's going to be different
7:57 than it ever was for many years to come
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKlPhFIE7w
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