Ben Meiselas

He made this weird post about Ed McMahon and how Donald Trump in 2008 found Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick who was destitute in his final years of life and his home was being foreclosed on.

in Beverly Hills in 2008.

And Donald Trump says that he bought Ed McMahon's home in 2008 because he loved Ed McMahon.

And as a student in Wharton Business School, Donald Trump said, Ed McMahon was someone I'd watch while I was studying for my exams.

So I bought Ed McMahon's home so he wouldn't get foreclosed on and allowed him to live out the rest of his life in this home just out of the goodwill.

And Donald Trump reposts something that says, this is a side of Donald Trump you never saw before.

He never went to the media about this.

He did it quietly.

He gave Ed McMahon the best final years of his life by buying a home for Ed McMahon and letting him live there.

Trump didn't go to the media, understated, selfless, incredible human being.

Trump reposted that.

The entire story is fake, is all not accurate.

The real story is in 2008, Donald Trump ran to the LA Times to seek publicity for himself as that was a particular period of time when Donald Trump was being viewed as like a total loser and he was trying to like

reinvent himself and saying, ah, look how great I am, this, that, and the other.

I need better press.

So Donald Trump runs to the LA Times, leaks this story that he's going to buy the home and that he's about to buy it.

The true story is Donald Trump doesn't buy it.

He leaves Ed McMahon destitute hanging.

Ed McMahon's real estate agents are like, didn't you promise to buy this house?

Trump just wanted the story in the LA Times.