A few years before he became the 45th and 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump met a woman walking down the streets of New York, sobbing at the loss of his parents, despairing and thinking about suicide.
In an improvised interview, the woman was only identified as Debbie, and told reporters that when she was hosting the NBC Hit Reality Competition show “The Apprentice” years ago, Trump saw her crying and urged her not to do what she thought was thinking and asked if she could pray with her.
NewsMax host Rob Schmitt shared a video clip where the interviewer spoke to Debbie, who had lived in New York City for 50 years and wanted to share personal experiences with Trump, which contradicted the media story about the president.
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“Trump literally saved my life,” Debbie insisted in an interview. “My dad and mother passed away at the same time. I was in a bad place. I was heading towards the Brooklyn Bridge.”
Debbie recalled how Trump got entangled as she walked towards the bridge to take her life. “He was at a friend’s birthday party. I was hysterical with tears in my eyes as I saw him passing me, and he gently grabbed my arm. He replied, “Oh, wait a minute, are you okay?”
“He said, ‘I don’t know what you’re going to do right now, but whatever it is, forget about it and take it out of your head. Your mom and dad wouldn’t want it,” Debbie shared. “And he spoke to me until I forgot everything I was trying to do.”
Debbie recalls Trump saying, “Let me pray with you,” and then he said, “Fold your $100 bill.”
In tears, Debbie tells the reporter that she still had $100 and she framed it.
“He saved my life,” she declared, adding, “Anyone who’s saying anything bad about Trump,” and “He’s a good guy.”
Debbie is not the first to assure Trump’s character as he goes back to his days as a civilian citizen after he entered the political stage. At one of the 2016 campaign rally, in the Wisconsin Republican primary, Melissa Young, former Miss Wisconsin, thanked Trump, who owned the Miss America pageant at the time.
“You saved me in many ways,” she told him at the rally. “In recent years I have suffered from an incurable disease and now I am in the care of my at-home care.”
After informing Trump that “all the tumors have been removed and I will not revive order,” she expressed her gratitude to the then presidential candidate, saying, “At the time, in the hospital, I received a handwritten letter from you saying, ‘To the brave woman I know.” ”
In addition to thanking Trump for his handwritten notes, Young said that Trump won Miss Wisconsin USA when he owned the pageant, allowing him to offer his 7-year-old son a “full ride to college” when he graduated from high school. The then Republican president vowed, “We’re going to see him.”
“These doctors would be so wrong,” Trump predicted Young was optimistic about him going to college and going to high school. While speaking at the rally, Young shared, “I’m writing to him (her son) for when I’m in heaven.”
Young argued that the letter reflected what Trump “did for him” and that her son “has a great responsibility to pay ahead like you did for us.”
In an interview with “Inside Edition,” Young pushed back claims that Trump “don’t know I’m going to say that or that I’m not sure I’ll be there,” and that her appearance at the Larry was staged.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for the Christian Post. He can contact ryan.foley@christianpost.com
