Trump's hubris has brought about the downfall of his family's business empire | Sidney Blumenthal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : In 1977, Fred Trump and Donald Trump reached a pinnacle of acceptance.
65% : Trump bloated his holdings, emblazoning his name in gold letters on everything he could get his hands on.
59% : The political, corporate and social cream of the city were present to toast Jimmy Carter.
54% : Trump eventually found a new lender to guarantee loans in Deutsche Bank.
51% : So Bailkin proposed using the state's Urban Development Corporation as a vehicle to give the tax exemptions and evade public bidding.
48% : Beame's administrator for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Michael Bailkin, devised a scheme for Trump to buy the Commodore from Penn Central and donate it to the city, which would pay the taxes to itself and lease it to Trump for 99 years, who would reap the benefits but pay no taxes.
40% : But Donald wasn't interested in Washington, at least not then.Donald Trump had crossed the East River into Manhattan with the ambition to be the king of the heap.
37% : Koch, a former Reform Democrat, was voluble and insecure, with a penchant for turning political disagreements into personal battles.
36% : Trump yelled at him for easements and tax abatements.
33% : Donald Trump had been working out of his father's nondescript office on Avenue Z in Brooklyn.
30% : "If people were like me, there would be no mob, because I don't play that game," Trump said when asked later about his ties to what he called "OC", or organized crime.
29% : Then, Trump and the Penn Central manager walked down Lexington Avenue, where a tabloid headline shrieked about the arrest of a New Jersey mayor for taking a $800,000 bribe.
29% : "There is no goddamn mayor in American worth $800,000," Trump said, according to his biographer, Wayne Barrett.
27% : Trump filed six bankruptcies.
23% : The Commodore deal was the making of Donald Trump.
22% : "I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized," he said.
22% : In April 1991, it published a compendium: "How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time: How Donald Trump Fooled the Media, Used the Media to Fool the Banks, Used the Banks to Fool the Bondholders, and Used the Bondholders to Pay for the Yachts and Mansions and Mistresses.
21% : Trump called Koch "a moron", and Koch called him "greedy, greedy, greedy", and said that if he was "squealing like a stuck pig, I must have done something right".
20% : For his financial fraud, Donald Trump must pay $355m in fines.
19% : He leaked to the New York Post a fake quote, supposedly Marla's statement about his sexual prowess, timed for just after Valentine's Day 1990, splashed on the front page: "Best Sex I Ever Had."Spy magazine, edited by Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter, had pegged Trump as "a short-fingered vulgarian" from the start.
16% : Trump tried to cover his financial crisis with stories about his sex life.

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