Donald Trump tells The Washington Post that he’s still trying to evict a woman who is unable to pay for her rent-controlled apartment.
Suzanne Blackmer is a 74-year-old former actress who lost everything but her apartment when her family’s 150-year-old home burnt down three years ago. She has lived full time at Trump Parc East since then.
Trump accuses Blackmer of secretly living in her family’s torched North Carolina home and of spending her money on shopping sprees. If that were true (and there’s no evidence that it is), it would suggest that Trump is spying on his tenants.
In recent years, Trump tried evicting all of the tenants at Trump Parc East so he could convert the property into luxury condos. He went as far as paying a property management company to purposefully let the building and its amenities deteriorate and using empty apartments as shelter for the city’s homeless, hoping that would drive the remaining tenants out of the building.
Instead, the tenants took him to court and won. Blackmer is the only resident he’s still trying to evict.
Blackmer tells The Washington Post that Trump “is a greedy slob” who “wants to buy up all of New York.”
Blackmer’s rent is about $203/month. Trump claims to be worth $3,000,000,000.
The date for this post is based on the date of the article, not the date Trump began the eviction process.
