As Trump Reassured Public, He Reportedly Told Friend to Leave NYC Over Coronavirus
As Trump Reassured Public, He Reportedly Told Friend to Leave NYC Over Coronavirus
According to sources cited by the New York Post, Trump warned real estate magnate Stanley Chera that leaving for his summer home in New Jersey would be safer.
In public, President Trump has repeatedly reassured Americans that the coronavirus is totally under control. In private, however, Trump warned a close friend of his to leave New York City as the pandemic was worsening. The city has become the biggest coronavirus hotspot in the United States.
According to sources cited by the New York Post, Trump warned Stanley Chera, a 78-year-old New York City real estate magnate, that leaving for his summer home near Deal, New Jersey, would be safer. The warning seems to have worked, as Chera fled the city for New Jersey.
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March 24, 2020
Developer and Trump pal Stanley Chera hospitalized
Real estate honcho Stanley Chera has been hospitalized in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The 78-year-old developer, who introduced his good pal President Trump at last falls Veterans Day Parade, was rushed to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in recent days from his summer home near Deal, New Jersey, with an unknown illness, sources said.
As the coronavirus pandemic grew, Trump had advised his longtime friend to decamp to Deal, where many Syrian Jewish families have large homes on the Atlantic Ocean, saying it would be safer than New York City, real estate sources said.
A White House spokesperson in a cryptic email only said that the president connected with Stanley and that all is resolved.