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Donald stopsattack
Daily

News Staff Writer

Call it The Donald to The Rescue.

When he saw "a big guy with a -big bat" bashing another .fellow, Donald Trump did what any self-respecting
billionaire would do: He ordered his driver to pull over.
"I'm not looking to playthis thing up," Trump said yes- _
terday. ""I'm surprised you found out about it."
Witnesses :said . Trump,

with
Marla Maples tugging at his arm to
try to stop him; leaped from his
black . stretch limousine Monday
evening during
the. assault on
Ninth Ave. near 45thSt.

Brutal-looking

''Someone in the car looked over

and said, 'Gee, look at that, it's
s a
mugging,' " Trump said. "I said to
my driver to stop the car because it
was brutal-looking." Trump was at first reluctant to
discuss his daredevil deed, but
then he warmed to the task.
"The guy with the bat looked at
me, and I said, 'Look, you've gotta11
stop this.. . Put down t}?.e bat,'
Trump said. "I guess he recognized
me because he said, 'Mr. Trump, I
didn't do anything wrong.' I said,
'How could you not do anything
wrong when you're whacking a guy
with a bat?' Then he ran away.' .
Trump said the incident occurred at 8 p.m. as he, Maplesand
another couple were heading toward the Lincoln Tunnel on their
way to the Meadowlands for a Paula Abdul concert.
Romeo, a 16-year-old. .
student at St. Michael's Academy

Kathleen

in Manhattan, said cries of

"There's Trump!" went through
the crowd of onlookers.
"A lot of people were surprised
that he got out to see what was hap-
pening," Romeo . said, adding that
the bat-wielder ran off just before
Trump actuany appeared and that
Trump, "just looked around and
went back into his limo.''
.
But another witness, who asked
not to be identified, said, "There
was a guy with a bat, hitting a guy
over the head, and Trump yelled,
'Put that bat down. What are you
doing?' The guy dropped the bat,
came over and started talking to
him."
Trump said the bat-man delivered at least '.'five or six good
whacks" before Trump interceded.
Trump said he left the site only .
after he saw a man who appeared
to be a doctor treating the victim ,
and heard that an ambulance was
on its way. ,
.
Police said the attack was not re-

ported.

The incident may have been a

karmic . sequel to the Oct. 31 mugging of Trump's mother, Ma

whose . attacker
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was

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