Rick Tyler - Schumer’s ’Apprentice’ praise of Trump

DEM LEADER'S 2006 COMMENTS ABOUT TRUMP COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Schumer's 'Apprentice' praise of Trump goes viral: 'Going to go places'.  'Even when he was much younger, you knew that he was going to go places,' Sen. Schumer said of fellow New Yorker Donald Trump.  With President Donald Trump's former reality TV show "The Apprentice," streaming on Amazon Prime as of last month, politically astute viewers across the political spectrum have zeroed in on an episode from when Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., now one of the president's biggest political detractors, praised his fellow New Yorker as a business prodigy.  During Season 5, Episode 8, of "The Apprentice" in 2006, contestants were given a challenge — as was typical during each episode — and the winners of said challenge got the chance to fly to the nation's capital and have breakfast with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. During the breakfast, Schumer sought to draw parallels between his family and Trump's, while also showering praise on the president, telling the contestants he always knew Trump, even as a young person, "was going to go places."  "I was born in Brooklyn, the same place where Donald Trump's family comes from," Schumer reminisced with the contestants during breakfast at the famous Hay-Adams hotel in Washington, D.C. "His father, and my grandfather, were builders together in Brooklyn."

Director of the Advanced School of Politics at the Leadership Institute RICK TYLER