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On 8 December 2016, the web site InfoWars published a video which purportedly showed a former homeless woman at Trump Tower in New York revealing that president-elect Donald Trump had allowed her to stay at the hotel rent free for years: This video has been circulating since at least July 2016 when it was initially posted by YouTube user Lee Bob. While the woman in it claimed that everything I'm telling you today is true, there are several reasons to be skeptical about her story. For one thing, it is unclear exactly where this footage was taken from. The video does appear to show Columbus Circle, where Trump Tower is located, but the woman didn't show her hotel room or give any other proof that she was actually a resident there. The video could have been taken in a publicly accessible area of Trump Tower, at a neighboring building (such as the Time Warner Center, which offers a similar view of Central Park), or it could have been made in a hotel room at Trump Tower, but by a temporary guest who decided to make an outlandish claim. We tried to match the footage with images from Google Maps and other photographs showing the view from Trump Tower and found that this video was, indeed, most likely taken from Trump's hotel in New York: However, no evidence was provided to show that the video was made from a hotel room (rather than a common area), that the woman had been living in that hotel room for eight years, that Trump allowed her to stay for free, or that he provided her with daily meals and weekly flowers. Jennifer Rodstrom, a spokeswoman for Trump Hotels, confirmed to BuzzFeed that the claims are not real: While this woman was not a recipient of Trump's generosity, the President-elect has allowed other guests to stay at his hotels for free over the years.
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