I’ve disliked Trmp since he first appeared on the public scene back in the 1970s. As a native New Yorker, I could recognize an outer borough boaster when I saw one. As a former preppie, I could recognize a prep school bully immediately (the same vibe on that wavelength as George W Bush, incidentally).
Over the years, it became clearer and clearer that Trmp was a conman and genius (truth be told) self-promoter. That enough of my fellow Americans would vote to make him President was inconceivable to me until it actually happened.
For the last year or two, I have been posting the following scene from “Goodfellas” which explains, perfectly, what Trmp et alia are doing while in office — operating a Mafia bust-out on a national if not international scale:
Seems obvious to me but I have yet to see this idea penetrate into public consciousness.
Now with the news about Trmp’s consistent disrespect of the military and the sacrifices they make, including the threats to disinherit Don Jr or Tiffany if they had the inclination to serve their country in the military, as reported by Rachel Maddow and others, I have taken to posting the following scene from “The Godfather II” which explains, again perfectly, Trmp’s attitude. The relevant portion starts at around 1:35:
Trmp learned from Mob lawyer Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn went to Horace Mann School. So did William Barr who was taught history by the head of the Horace Mann history department, Alfred Briggs, who “lavished praise on Horace Mann’s most notorious graduate, Roy Cohn. ‘We need more Roy Cohns in the world,’ Briggs frequently said. ‘Roy was my best student of all time.’”
Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-untold-tale-of-young-william-barr
Way back in the late 1960s, when I was going to my prep school, Hackley, part of the “little Ivy League” which included Horace Mann, a friend once told me something that has stuck with me. He said, “The Revolution is over and the Mafia won.”
Strikes me as completely accurate now. We have a President who is a conman, fraud, thief, and coward who emulates Mob guys and has been in business with them since the beginning of his career. The American experiment has ended and the Mafia, indeed, has won.
PS: I know from my experience in the little Ivy League that active pedophiles were on staff at both Hackley and Horace Mann when both William Barr and I were students there. Barr’s father, Donald Barr, was headmaster at Dalton and brought Jeffrey Epstein to that school. After the elder Barr left Dalton, he became headmaster at Hackley where, according to Noel Casler who has been violating the NDA he signed when working on Trmp’s Apprentice TV show to tell what he knows about Trmp on Twitter and other places, Headmaster Donald Barr was known as “Chester the Molester.” I can’t confirm that as I have had no contact with my alma mater, which did give me a good education, since graduation long, long ago.
I have Great is the truth : secrecy, scandal, and the quest for justice at the Horace Mann School by Amos Kamil with Sean Elder on order from my library for further research.