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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVanity Fair did a big profile on Trump 26 years ago ... pretty fascinating.
with a lot of info about Trump cheating on his wife with his mistress, and many other things ...
here is something from the business side.
Trump spoke in a hypnotic, unending torrent of words. Often he appeared to free-associate. He referred to himself in the third person: Trump says. . . Trump believes. His phrases skibbled around and doubled back on themselves like fireworks in a summer sky. He reminded me of a carnival barker trying to fill his tent. Im more popular now than I was two months ago. There are two publics as far as Im concerned. The real public and then theres the New York society horseshit. The real public has always liked Donald Trump. The real public feels that Donald Trump is going through Trump-bashing. When I go out now, forget about it. Im mobbed. Its bedlam, Trump told me.
Trump is often belligerent, as if to pep things up. On the telephone with me, he attacked a local writer as a disgrace and savaged a financiers wife I knew as a giant, a three in the looks department. After the Resorts International deal, at a New Years Eve party at the Aspen home of Barbara Walters and Merv Adelson, Trump was asked to make a wish for the coming year. I wish I had another Merv Griffin to bat around, he said.
Before the opening of the Taj Mahal, Marvin Roffman, a financial analyst from Philadelphia, correctly stated that the Taj was in for a rough ride. For that, Roffman believes, Trump had him fired. Is that why you attacked him? I asked Trump. Id do it again. Heres a guy that used to call me, begging me to buy stock through him, with the implication that if Id buy stock hed give me positive comments. Are you accusing him of fraud? I asked. Im accusing him of being not very good at what he does. Congressman John Dingell of Michigan asked the S.E.C. to investigate the circumstances of Roffmans firing. When I asked Roffman about Trumps charges he said, Thats the most unbelievable garbage Ive ever heard in my entire life. Roffmans attorney James Schwartzman called Trumps allegations the desperate act of a desperate man. Roffman is now suing Trump for defamation of character.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
underpants
(182,788 posts)He's a sham
klook
(12,154 posts)I'm kind of Trumped out for the time being, after wading in the cesspool of his life obsessively for the past few days.
FYI - The David Cay Johnston book is worth a look, too.
(That's the author, btw, not me -- in case it's not clear! )
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)Reading it now.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. - Sun Tzu
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is such a repulsive piece of shit.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
I asked him to apply the same logic to all candidates.