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<blockquote data-quote="floridays" data-source="post: 5400455" data-attributes="member: 68849">Read this and get back to me<h2>The claim: While former Vice President Joe Biden supported constructing a mosque at Ground Zero, President Donald Trump offered $6 million to stop it</h2>On the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a decade-old controversy about the so-called &quot;Ground Zero Mosque&quot; resurfaced on social media.One viral post tied the issue to the current contest between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump.&quot;BIDEN supported building a mosque at Ground Zero. TRUMP offered 6M to keep it from being built,&quot; the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kristin.shortt.7/posts/10164103415370181" target="_blank">post</a> reads. &quot;Never forget.&quot;&nbsp; <h2>Trump offered $6 million for one investor&#039;s share of the site</h2>It&#039;s true that Trump made a bid to stop the construction of the mosque at the site.On Sept. 9, 2010, Trump wrote a letter to Hisham Elzanaty and offered to purchase his $4.8 million stake in the project for $6 million — around 25% more — per <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704644404575482093330879912" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a>.Trump also specified that any agreement would require that a mosque be built at least five blocks from the former World Trade Center.&quot;I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not) but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse,&quot; Trump reportedly wrote in a letter to Elzanaty at the time, according to the Journal.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/15/fact-check-donald-trump-offered-6-m-stop-mosque-near-ground-zero/5791809002/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="floridays, post: 5400455, member: 68849"] Read this and get back to me [HEADING=1]The claim: While former Vice President Joe Biden supported constructing a mosque at Ground Zero, President Donald Trump offered $6 million to stop it[/HEADING] On the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a decade-old controversy about the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" resurfaced on social media. One viral post tied the issue to the current contest between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. "BIDEN supported building a mosque at Ground Zero. TRUMP offered 6M to keep it from being built," the [URL='https://www.facebook.com/kristin.shortt.7/posts/10164103415370181']post[/URL] reads. "Never forget." [HEADING=1]Trump offered $6 million for one investor's share of the site[/HEADING] It's true that Trump made a bid to stop the construction of the mosque at the site. On Sept. 9, 2010, Trump wrote a letter to Hisham Elzanaty and offered to purchase his $4.8 million stake in the project for $6 million — around 25% more — per [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704644404575482093330879912']The Wall Street Journal[/URL]. Trump also specified that any agreement would require that a mosque be built at least five blocks from the former World Trade Center. "I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not) but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse," Trump reportedly wrote in a letter to Elzanaty at the time, according to the Journal. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/15/fact-check-donald-trump-offered-6-m-stop-mosque-near-ground-zero/5791809002/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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