He is the face of Trump’s tariff. But the attacks of 11. September put a homeard pouches on the national stage

In the morning, September 11, 2001, Howard Lutnick took his five -year -old son to school for his first kindergarten day, which is why the Wall Street CEO was a little late to work at his World Shipping Center’s Office in New York.

This delay eventually saved the life of a lounge, which is now an American secretary of the trade and has become a leading figure in the current trade war with Canada.

But on September 11, each of his 658 employees at the Investment Bank of Cantor Fitzgerald, who was in the office that morning, including his younger brother Gary, a puppet brother Gary, was killed when 1 WTC, a northern tower, was deliberately hit by a US airline companies 11.

Two days later, sadness appeared on television and weeping a luttick, interviewed by the then ABC News Connie Chung journalist. Breaking up several times during the interview, Lutnick described how he moved from the hospital to the hospital, looking for employees who were still out of account.

“I’m not going to the hospital or forcing anyone to go to any hospital and say,” Find Gary Lutnik for me, “he said.” I’m going with an employee list and I say, “Here’s my list, here’s all I have, find someone on this list. I don’t care who they are. “

Suffered personal, professional losses

After broadcasting, Lutnick made other media appearances, mostly on CNN -us Larry King, and became a somewhat national figure, presenting only one of those who suffered personal and professional losses.

His picture is then surely in contrast to what the Canadians now see – the confident Pitcman for Tariffs by US President Donald Trump against Canadian exports to the United States.

Since Trump’s announcement on February 1st of 25 percent of tariffs to all goods from Canada and Mexico went to the United States, Lutnick – whose responsibilities as a trade secretary include the imposition of trade limitations – did the circles of American media networks, as it could be ejected by Canadian, but it could happen, but also to happen.

(On Thursday Trump announced that he paused for tariffs on some Canadian goods by April 2)

But even before Lutnick became the secretary of the trade, he was an open advocate of Trump’s tariff plan and as part of Trump’s inner circle, Kopreddi’s own transition team.

When he was appointed secretary of trade, Lutnick stepped down as Cantor Fitzgerald CEO, where, according to his website, he had led the company for four decades and renovated it after the terrorist attacks of 11. September.

At the time, the company had offices among the top five floors of the North Tower of 110 floors. When the plane flew to the floors 93 to 99 towers at 8:46, he captured those people who worked up.

‘We lost every person in our office’

The Bunning Company lost more employees than any other company in September 11-more than two-thirds of the workforce and more than a third of the total killed in the northern tower.

“We lost every person in our office … all brokers, all traders, all sellers at work. We lost them all,” he said during the interview with CNN Larry King.

Lutnick said that when he was at his son’s school that morning, his phone was constantly ringing and interrupting the relationship.

“Later, I learned that my brother Gary was trying to call goodbye,” he said in a post on social media on September 11, in memory.

He also revealed that his brother called his sister and told her “that he would not make him, and the smoke was entering and things were bad,” he replied, crying.

“And he called and said goodbye and loved her and tell me he loved me.”

Lutnick said when he eventually arrived in the building, watching people fleeing and “grabbing them and shaking them,” asking the floor, hoping he would find someone from the 101 to 105 floors, where Cantor Fitzgerald’s offices were located, he told Chung.

“I knew if I had one employee, if one person got off that floor, that I know there must be others,” he said.

Lutnick came into contact with someone running out of the building with the 91st floor, but nothing more. Then he was forced to run because the second world tower of the mall began to collapse after the second plane hit him.

He said he tried to progress from the giant smoke, but was demolished under the truck. He was completely covered with dust and just walked for hours, in the end he called his wife, he said.

Faced with a return reaction due to a decrease in wages

This emotional and convincing interview with Chunga caused a wide sympathy, because the public was to see the public as the Wall Street CEO was connected.

Still, that sympathy was short -lived. Lutnick soon faced a huge contempt when it was learned that just days after the attack, he interrupted the wages of those employees who were missing at the time and assumed the dead.

This return included criticism of some widows of these employees. Chung made a fee story, this time interviewing some widows who were furious at the Benters’ pay breaks.

“Don’t expect these women to cry for a lot of portrayal,” Chung reported. “For days after the tragedy, he did something I cannot forgive or forget.”

Lutnick admitted at the time that he wondered from the widow, asking his salary for his husbands.

“They call me and say, ‘How come you can’t pay my salary? Why can’t you pay my husband’s salary? Other companies pay their own [dead and missing employees’] Pay, why can’t you, “CNN told the king.

“But you see, I lost everything in the company, so I can’t pay their salary. They think we’re doing something wrong. I can’t pay their salaries,” Lutnick said, crying again.

Still, he defended that decision to break his salaries and insist that there was no choice.

“I needed bankers to know that I was in control,” Lutnick told the New York Times in an interview with 2011. “If I had not been sentimental and not less motivated or guided to survive my job.”

He has been well obliged to provide families with 25 percent of the company in the next five years – a total of $ 180 million – and pay their health care in the next 10 years.

In the meantime, some of the family members who were critical of the lottery reset their opinion and offered praise for his efforts.

Lutnick managed to renew and grow Cantor Fitzgerald and become a billionaire in the process. But the attacks on September 11 and those lost in his company still stay close to the surface.

Recently, at the certificate of certificate before the US Senate Committee, Lutnick was suffocating as he remembered the events of that day and those killed.

“I still can’t say that without becoming emotionally, sorry,” he said.