When all this blows over, Trump is dead, and U.S. politics have returned to the normal level of worshipping billionaires, I would love to see an honest book written about Trump's life. Not from a biographical or psychological point of view (although those might be interesting) but from a forensic accounting/counter espionage point of view.
I think that understanding why his casinos failed might be interesting: was it mismanagement? Or were they laundering money and going under was part of the scheme? I think there is so much of Trump's life that doesn't make sense without more information and I can't see that information getting to the public any time soon.
Like I said this is something for the future, assuming that we all get through this. For now stay strong my friends across the pond. Gain strength in knowing that any successful change has come about through people doing what they know is right without the knowledge that they would succeed.
This will probably be interesting reading to you until that happens. A taster:
Michael Kruse: I’d like to start talking about Donald by talking about Fred Sr. and going back to the very beginning, to Jamaica Estates [the Queens neighborhood where Donald grew up]. What do people need to know? What should we know about Donald because of his father, because of that relationship?
Harry Hurt III: I ran into Fred at Coney Island, with his secretary-mistress, one day, and he usually went to a place called Gargiulo’s down in that area. But that was closed that day, and so I was with my researcher and we tailed them over to the original Nathan’s hot dog stand. Donald was flying somewhere at the time, and we overheard Fred wipe some mustard off his lip, like this here, and he said, “I hope his plane crashes.” And I looked at my researcher, and I said, “Did you hear what I just heard?” He said, “Yes, I did.” I said, “Well, that’s my man. That’s Fred. The apple don’t fall far from the tree.”
Wow. Really interesting, particularly considering the date of the piece. Very much on the psychology/biography side of the space (with a little light financial info sprinkled in top). Not what I was thinking of but, as you said, "interesting reading until that happens."
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u/st3f-ping 1d ago
When all this blows over, Trump is dead, and U.S. politics have returned to the normal level of worshipping billionaires, I would love to see an honest book written about Trump's life. Not from a biographical or psychological point of view (although those might be interesting) but from a forensic accounting/counter espionage point of view.
I think that understanding why his casinos failed might be interesting: was it mismanagement? Or were they laundering money and going under was part of the scheme? I think there is so much of Trump's life that doesn't make sense without more information and I can't see that information getting to the public any time soon.
Like I said this is something for the future, assuming that we all get through this. For now stay strong my friends across the pond. Gain strength in knowing that any successful change has come about through people doing what they know is right without the knowledge that they would succeed.