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Trump, the New York-based tycoon and former celebrity reality
show host-turned politician, has been all the West Coast city
could hope for, Wasserman said.
"Donald Trump has done everything we could have asked to support
our bid," entertainment executive Wasserman told a small group
of reporters at his seventh-floor offices in central London.
"Every letter, every phone call ... to President Bach... support
of our bid generally ... in my role, from what we need from the
federal government, he's been all I would hope for."
Wasserman did not reveal the details of Trump's call to Bach,
only to say it had lasted a good while.
"They didn't ask me to sit in on those phone calls," he smiled.
"That was a private call between those two which went on for 25
minutes. Just one call."
The U.S. city is vying with French capital Paris for the right
to stage the 2024 Games, although the process has been muddied
recently by the creation of an IOC working group to study the
possibility of making a double award for two editions.
Paris and LA are the only remaining cities left in the race to
secure the 2024 Games, after a number of withdrawals from the
process, including Boston, Hamburg, Rome and, most recently,
Budapest.
Both Los Angeles and Paris have said they see the merits of a
joint-award to provide a period of stability to the hosting of
the Games, but neither city is prepared to wait until 2028 for
its turn.
The IOC is scheduled to meet in Lima, Peru, on Sept. 13 to
choose the host city.
The IOC has not said when it will announce its decision on the
potential double award, but the working group is due to report
to the IOC at its executive board meeting in Lausanne in July, a
few days before the 2024 bidders would make their last pitch to
IOC members prior to that September vote in Peru.
(Editing by Nick Mulvenney)
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