As the son of a builder, and holding a real estate broker license for over 25 years, you showed me you do not know what you are talking about.
Are you a builder? Do you have a real estate license? What actual experience do you personally have in the fields?
Common sense. A "developer" develops land. He understands what it is he is doing - whether he got there from the construction end, from the real-estate law end, from the brokerage end.
A guy who just seems to be in the middle of these deals, without training in any of the fields; who is incredibly rich but with no dirt under his fingernails...is suspect. CONNECTED.
We have it from Donnie's foul mouth that he HAS passed bribes. My assertion is that that is just about ALL HE KNOWS of this field.
Compare him to REAL developers. Henry Kaiser, say.
Henry Kaiser got his start paving roads. An asphalt applicator. From that he moved on to road-grading; from there to full-service construction, on Federal highways; from THERE to the Hoover Dam, and from there to Kaiser Shipbuilding - the Liberty ships built during WWII. On an assembly line.
His reach exceeded his grasp when he tried to move into automobiles - Kaiser-Frazer and Kaiser-Jeep; but he was successful setting up Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Permanente. He was less so with Kaiser Broadcasting; but he was getting further from his expertise. And older.
Or, the Queen of Mean. Leona Helmsley.
She got started as a real-estate sales agent; and to some extent worked her way up. Took a shortcut, obviously. Was not a nice person - obviously. But we KNOW how she got into hotel development; it was obvious.
Did Trump have an organization like the Harry Helmsley group? HAS Trump ever held a real estate license?
Has he ever worked in finance? What his his management training? Daddy Fred give him the job?
He's a bagman who came up at the right time, when the Yuppie was being romantasized; he cleaned up pretty good in an Italian suit. He wrote, or had written for him, a book.
The Art of the Deal.
Not "The Art of Construction" or "The Art of Real Estate Development."
He thinks he's clever because he can pass off a "deal." I could put the essence on the flyleaf: Wrap a deal in large-denomination bills, paid for out of the "costs" - and you have what New York businessmen call a "good deal."
Everywhere else that's called a "kickback." Or "graft."
The more I look at this scum, the more obvious it is to me, how vacuous, how dull, how inept, he really is.
