Alternet - Pando writer Mark Ames has dug up some old Spy Magazine issues
from the 1980s and early '90s detailing the legendary satirical
magazine's early spade work in revealing what a dedicated jerk Donald
Trump is. Over the course of several issues, the magazine probed into
the details of Trump's exploits and outrages. Here are some of the highlights:
--- “It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles,” Trump boasted. “I think I know most of it anyway.” He claimed he should be in charge of nuclear negotiations with the Soviet Union.
-- Trump claimed that electricians “make a hundred and some odd dollars an
hour. The concrete people just make fortunes. Laborers make hundreds of
thousands of dollars a year.”
-- A group of lawyers defended tenants at one Trump property who claimed
they were being unlawfully evicted. When the courts sided with the
tenants, Trump tried to launch a racketeering lawsuit against the
lawyers, claiming they were trying to “prevent, frustrate, and inhibit”
him from making profits. The courts dismissed Trump's case.
3 comments:
This little stuff doesn't rise to the level necessary to become a GOP President, such as that trees cause pollution, or a reverent visit to a Nazi burial (where the Nazi's were buried, not their victims). People understand that if Trump were reading goat stories during an attack on NYC, he would at least hold the book right side up.
He is either better informed or more rational than the last three VP candidates from the GOP, but there is a question whether that is a job that suits him. Agnew in that job spent a lot of time in Las Vegas, but Trump would have to curtail his business dealings and do a lot of golfing. On the other hand, the continued free air time at the side of Jeb Bush, or presiding over the senate, an inaugural ball, or meeting with foreign dignitaries, you can't put a price tag on that. Jeb's VP however will likely be someone from his own covert networks, who can fix the election, like Kasich.
I don't believe, as Mike Whitney pointed out on CounterPunch, that
Mr. Trump can expose the US political system as a sham,
and continue on his merry way.
I believe that's been tried before. With predictable results.
Whitney is betting against Trump. Perot, a far better candidate, dropped out when his daughter's life was threatened. Trump is too well connected to scare like that. Trump can start making personal appearances like Sanders and he hasn't ruled out a third party run, which if he went reformist Perotista and paid for a ground game, he could win the White House. 2016 is shaping up as a tidal wave of rejection of the plutocrats. Trump is enough of a plutocrat to want to cash in on that but he has no clue how to formulate an issue for non-plutocrats. If he ever finds out and gets some civics lessons, he could split the GOP. Whitney thinks the end will come from personality attacks, rather it will be from Trump's own personality deficits. Maybe if someone slipped him a book about Lincoln, or Jefferson he could get somewhat informed or excited about how the system is supposed to work, like read the Gettysburg Address a few times. Otherwise there is no point to his admitting the system is corrupt unless he's saying voters should elect him because he's good at corruption.
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