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Botany

(70,501 posts)
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:54 AM Jul 2016

Does anybody know or can find out if Trump used foreign steel in his buildings?

Trump is now running ads in the midwest about how he is gonna bring back
the US steel industry and if he used Chinese steel in his "Trump Towers" and
such that would be one more nail in his campaign's coffin.

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Does anybody know or can find out if Trump used foreign steel in his buildings? (Original Post) Botany Jul 2016 OP
He used Mafia concrete. Google it. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2016 #1
That I can kind of understand because the mob owned the concrete business in NYC @ the time Botany Jul 2016 #3
But he used concrete where steel would have been more appropriate. n/t pnwmom Jul 2016 #5
He said the same thing in Pittsburgh. femmocrat Jul 2016 #2
With modern practices, every I beam, bolt, wedge ChairmanAgnostic Jul 2016 #4

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
2. He said the same thing in Pittsburgh.
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:56 AM
Jul 2016

He is going to bring back the coal mines too. Welcome to the 19th century.

I found this article: https://americanbridgepac.org/trump-built-trump-tower-with-concrete-not-pa-steel-to-save-money/

Also I found this one.... It says that he told the crowd in Iowa he used Pella windows, but actually used Chinese windows in one of his buildings. LOL
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/26/trump-said-he-bought-windows-from-china-because-america-s-were-too-expensive.html

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
4. With modern practices, every I beam, bolt, wedge
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:05 AM
Jul 2016

Contains foreign steel. They have been recycled, meltded, mixed, and recast several times. Ain't no more raw American steel anymore.

The electric arc furnace saw to that.

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