Want to know who killed Jimmy Hoffa? Ask Donald Trump. He
claims he knows.
A new book, just out in the past month, gives the details of
how Trump build his empire. “The Making of Donald Trump,” by Pulitzer David Cay
Johnston.
But much of this information has been out there for decades.
Deals Trump cut to get concrete when crooked union bosses had started strikes
that denied the building material to other contractors.
“The breadth of Trump’s controversies is truly yuge, ranging
from allegations of mafia ties to unscrupulous business dealings, and from
racial discrimination to alleged marital rape. The stretch over more than four
decades, from the mid-1970s to the present day.
“To catalogue the full sweep of allegations would require
thousands of words and lump together the trivial with the truly scandalous.
Including business deals that have simply failed, without any hint of
impropriety, would require thousands more,” writes Atlantic.
He has settled thousands of lawsuits, despite claiming he
never lost. His buddy was the late Roy Cohn, who had been Sen. Joe McCarthy’s
consigliere when the Red Scare was on.
Before he died of AIDS, Cohn had been disbarred.
“Decades later, Mr. Cohn’s influence on Mr. Trump is
unmistakable. Mr. Trump’s wrecking ball of a presidential bid — the gleeful
smearing of his opponents, the embracing of bluster as brand — has been a Roy
Cohn number on a grand scale. Mr. Trump’s response to
the Orlando massacre, with his ominous warnings of a terrorist
attack that could wipe out the country and his conspiratorial suggestions of a
Muslim fifth column in the United States, seemed to have been ripped straight
out of the Cohn playbook.
“I hear Roy in the things he says quite clearly,” said Peter
Fraser, who as Mr. Cohn’s lover for the last two years of his life spent a
great deal of time with Mr. Trump. “That bravado, and if you say it
aggressively and loudly enough, it’s the truth — that’s the way Roy used to
operate to a degree, and Donald was certainly his apprentice,” the New York
Times reports
Compare that to what Hillary did with her emails, according
to her predecessor, and two before them.
“What I did when I entered the State Department, I found an
antiquated system that had to be modernized and modernized quickly.
“So we put in place new systems, bought 44,000 computers and
put a new Internet capable computer on every single desk in every embassy,
every office in the State Department. And then I connected it with software.
“But in order to change the culture, to change the
brainware, as I call it, I started using it in order to get everybody to use
it, so we could be a 21st century institution and not a 19th century,” Powell
told PoliticusUSA.
Government and private industry were caught with their pants
down when the Internet explosion occurred. Millions of works found themselves
using equipment that was slow and often crashed. The best equipment bar far was
from private companies like Apple, but Microsoft, not even graphic, had
captured the market and held it for years.
