Preface
Everything I'm about to say in this essay, other than my opinions, is public knowledge. One may have to dig just a little to find some of the information, but it's all available to anyone who looks.
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1. The Don was a millionaire by the time he was eight years old. Thank you, Daddy.
2. He likes to tout the fact that his father gave him a "small loan" of a million dollars (when he was a young adult), and from that he built a billion dollar business...supposedly. Indeed, Fred did give his son that loan...and then, over the following years, he did it again, and again, and again, etc. The total wound up being sixty million dollars. Thank you, Daddy.
3. When his business was on the verge of utter and complete bankruptcy in the 1980's, various banks bailed him out and put him on a generous monthly allowance. The financiers figured his name on a viable business was worth more than what they'd get out of his bankruptcy.
4. So much for Trump's narrative that except for a "small loan" from his father, he essentially built a business from nothing. It's one of an infinite number of outright lies.
5. The Don learned how to lie, smear his opponents, and psychologically gaslight from the former Mob lawyer (and former Chief Counsel for Senator Joe McCarthy), Roy M. Cohn. Cohn was his personal lawyer for a time.
6. During his years in both real estate and the casino business, several times he shafted employees out of both jobs and wages. At the same time, some independent contractors were shafted out of duly earned fees. If they sued, he would countersue. Cases would drag on until the aggrieved parties quit trying to recoup their losses.
7. He's an autocrat wannabe, but appears to be a shallow, weak person who admires most of the dictators on the world stage. That alone makes his Presidency an embarrassment to all decent people in this country.
8. Thanks to the mistakes, misdeeds, and sheer nonsense of the Establishment Oligarchy, The Don pretty much fell into the Oval Office. Shenanigans by the Republican Party operatives prior to and during the 2016 election certainly helped, but mostly it was because most people were fed up with same ol', same ol' crap from politicians. They thought The Don would change things to their benefit. They were about 99.9% wrong about that.
9. Since getting into office, he has been crass, boorish, a serial liar, foolish, ignorant, unstable, alienating, and dangerous. I believe he's the most dangerous President in my lifetime...and I was born in 1942.
10. The Don should not be hated...hate engenders more of the same. Instead, he should be pitied... and booted out of office. Maybe then, we can return politics to some degree of sanity here. Maybe then, 80% of the world's adults will stop believing that our Gov't is the greatest threat to stability and peace on Earth.
Not only my opinion. Be Well
p.s. Again, for any new readers, I'm not a Republican or a Democrat.
