Trump invokes Manhattan property development feud in Nadler attack

Trump says he battled Democrat Jerry Nadler who is demanding the Mueller report in full ‘for years’ on a Manhattan property development after report says he’s still calling his New York nemesis ‘Fat Jerry’

  • President Trump tore into Democrat and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold ‘Jerry’ Nadler again on Tuesday
  • Dispute between the two New Yorkers goes back decades, before they moved to Washington
  • Trump said in tweets on Tuesday that Nadler, whom a report said he called ‘Fat Jerry’ as recently as last month, and he made amends after disagreements
  • ‘I got along very well with Jerry during the zoning and building process. Then I changed course (slightly), became President,’ he claimed
  • Nadler and Trump have butted heads over the release of the Mueller report and the Democratic congressman’s move to compel testimony and documents 

President Trump tore into House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold ‘Jerry’ Nadler again on Tuesday, shoving a decades-long contest between the two New Yorkers into the national spotlight.

Nadler and Trump have butted heads over the release of the Mueller report and the Democratic congressman’s move to compel testimony and document production from former White House staffers, including gatekeeper Hope Hicks and attorney Don McGahn.  

Trump said in tweets on Tuesday that Nadler, whom a Washington Post report said he called ‘Fat Jerry’ as recently as last month, and he made amends after disagreements in New York over development projects. 

‘I got along very well with Jerry during the zoning and building process. Then I changed course (slightly), became President, and now I am dealing with Congressman Nadler again,’ Trump tweeted. ‘Some things never end, but hopefully it will all go well for everyone. Only time will tell!’

President Trump tore into House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold ‘Jerry’ Nadler again on Tuesday, shoving a decades-long contest between the two New Yorkers into the national spotlight

Trump and Nadler clashed in the ’90s over the future president’s pursuit of a grand real estate project he branded Television City. 

The businessman wanted to redevelop a rail yard into apartments and condominiums on a 76-acre property that included retail space and 3.6 million square feet for studios he hoped would relocate.

Nadler was a member of the New York State Assembly at the time, representing the New York City area. The young real estate mogul leaned on him to support the project, but the Democrat resisted. He thought the extravagant project was not in his constituents’ best interests.

The president eventually named the project Trump City after television networks declined to relocate to the proposed property. That name was abandoned, too, as the project faltered. In the end, it adopted the name Riverside South.

Riverside South included a 46-story building that the businessman named after himself. Trump sold the development project to Chinese investors in 1997 while it was under construction, but it retained the name Trump Place for two decades. Residents paid $1 million dollars in 2000 to license the real estate mogul’s name. 

Condo owners in the building had the president’s last name removed from the property last October. They renamed it 200 Riverside Boulevard, the property’s postal address.

Nadler continued to play foil to Trump from Washington, where he joined with Sen. John McCain to oppose federal financing for the Riverside South project in the early ’90s, a Daily Beast expose on the long-standing feud.

So angered was Trump, that he began to refer to the obese congressman as ‘Fat Jerry.’

Nadler has shed much of the weight but that didn’t stop Trump from calling him ‘fat’ in a trade meeting last month with House Republicans, according to a Monday evening Washington Post report.

Trump seemed to be responding to the article that appeared in Tuesday paper in his morning tweets. 

He said, ‘Congressman Jerry Nadler fought me for years on a very large development I built on the West Side of Manhattan. He wanted a Rail Yard built underneath the development or even better, to stop the job. He didn’t get either & the development became VERY successful.’

Trump went on to claim that he and Nadler were getting along until he became president. 

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