I never thought that the same group of men and a few women who have been bullying everyone that doesn’t look like them for the last 50 or so years would buckle under the orange crush that is Trump. Never say never, I suppose. His GOP opponents have tip toed around him for over a year. Of course, now the pundits are saying they couldn’t take Trump down because they didn’t take him seriously (which I find odd considering they’ve always known how utterly stupid their base was).
There is literally a treasure trove of information out there on Trump, and it’s so varied and covers so many facts of evil there is something there to offend everyone. The National Review, taking a brief break from licking their wounds in a short bout with lucidity, have compiled a list of epic disasters a la Trump:
www.nationalreview.com/…
If you can’t open the article, here are a few highlights:
1973: The Department of Justice’s racial-bias case against Trump’s real-estate company Trump Management Inc. was accused of discriminating against minorities seeking housing at the company’s properties in Brooklyn and Queens. Two government-sanctioned undercover “testers,” one black woman and one white woman, posed as potential renters in 1972. The black woman was told nothing was available, but a short while later the white woman was offered a choice between two available Trump apartments. Federal investigators found that Trump employees marked applications from minorities with codes and allegedly steered blacks and Puerto Ricans away from buildings with majority-white tenants. DOJ lawyers filed a case in 1973 accusing Trump Management, along with Trump and his father, Fred C. Trump, of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Trump claimed he didn’t want the government to force him to rent to welfare recipients. Eventually he and his father reluctantly agreed to the judge’s order to place ads in local newspapers proclaiming their properties equally open to minorities. Trump Management also had to agree to end discriminatory practices, and he and his father had to “thoroughly acquaint themselves” with the Fair Housing Act.
This goes back to the long known fact among African Americans that Donald Trump, just like his father, is a bona fide racist. Bill de Blasio put it best last night:
Then, there’s this:
1991: Trump Plaza’s violation of anti-discrimination laws in order to please Trump’s Mafia-connected pal Robert LiButti, a famous horse breeder, was banned from New Jersey casinos after his connection to Mafia boss John Gotti was revealed. LiButti’s daughter Edith Creamer said her father and Trump had been comrades: gambling buddies, flying together in Trump’s helicopter, and partying on his yacht. New Jersey state regulators discovered their relationship while investigating allegations by nine Trump Plaza employees that the hotel had booted blacks and women from craps tables after LiButti complained about them. Trump Plaza was fined $200,000 for violating state anti-discrimination laws. Trump claimed he barely knew LiButti, but Creamer maintained that she flew in Trump’s helicopter and partied on his yacht with him and her father.
Racist, misogynist, AND liar, but for Trump, par for the course. However,
To the already misogynistic and racist Trump supporter, this may be seen as a plus, not a minus, so perhaps this indiscretion will heighten their curiosity:
1990: Failure to pay contractors for Taj Mahal hotel and casino While Trump spent $1 million every week on extravagant personal expenses, he cheated builders out of more than $60 million for work on his Atlantic City, N.J., property. The team of construction firms and suppliers that built the Taj Mahal hotel and casino struggled to overcome their losses, with some firms approaching bankruptcy: Marty Rosenberg, then–vice president of Atlantic Plate Glass, said Trump owed his company about $1.5 million in late payments for a glass job on the hotel. Rosenberg formed a committee of construction firms and suppliers defrauded by Trump. He then helped lead the committee’s efforts to procure from Trump what he owed them. Atlantic Plate Glass lost almost half a million dollars in the settlement, and Rosenberg suffered personal financial loss. Trump inveigled Rosenberg and the committee into accepting 20 cents on the dollar of their original agreement. The settlement allowed Trump to dodge an involuntary-bankruptcy lawsuit, but months later he filed for the first of his four bankruptcies.
What a slime ball, but you know his supporters will argue that he was merely taking advantage of the system that made what he did allowable. You know, like welfare recipients…
For the group that just would refuse to go against this charlatan because everything he has done thus far has made him insanely wealthy (which, to his supporters, excuses every wicked deed) the big guns will have be pulled out. Which one is that? What is the issue that Trump fears most above all others, including the possibility of having micropenis? It’s this:
2006: Trump sued a journalist for libel and lost, badly Years before Trump vowed on the campaign trail to “open up libel” laws in order make it easier for him to sue news outlets, he tried invoking the reigning libel laws to sue a journalist for questioning his net worth. He went to court with Timothy L. O’Brien, then a business reporter at the New York Times. In 2005, O’Brien used estimates from people knowledgeable about Trump’s finances to argue Trump was worth between $150 million and $250 million — much less than the $6 billion Trump purported to be worth at the time. Trump sued O’Brien, claiming harm to his business and seeking $5 billion in damages. Trump spent more than $1 million in legal fees over the course of five years. He conceded, under questioning from O’Brien’s attorneys during a deposition, that he had consulted his own feelings to determine his net worth. Needless to say, he lost the suit.
His own feelings, folks. He consulted with his own feelings to estimate his worth. One of the hallmarks of a narcissist is an inflated view of himself. Well, who needs the DSM when you have this walking, breathing case study?
As far as I’m concerned, everything else, from the obvious mafia associations to the adultery to the total disregard for other people’s hard earned money, hinges upon being able to prove that Trump is NOT A BILLIONNAIRE. It’s what terrifies him the most, it’s what keeps him up at night (his former butler claims he only sleeps 3 hours a night anyway-evil never rests).
If I were advising the Democratic nominee, THIS is what I would advise. My sister has a degree in psychology, and she told me to take down a narcissistic, you find a way to deprive them of their narcissistic supply, and for Trump, that’s his purported wealth.
Because if there’s one thing of supply-side economics, dog whistles, and unfettered capitalism has taught us, is that everything is forgivable and allowable, as long as you don’t really NEED the money you’re stealing. It’s the difference between “looting” and “finding”.
