"There is a personality type with a New York developer, one Donald learned from Fred when he carried his dad's briefcase to acquisition meetings out in the boroughs and it goes like this:

Donald contracts for a service or good, or the acquisition of a piece of land for $1 million.

He then does not pay you

You ask Donald for your million dollars

Donald yells at you, basely, abusively, wholly out of character to the rich gentleman you broke bread with and made the deal with. He tells you that no, YOU owe him $200,000. Gives you no reason but screams how can you be such a son of a bitch to rip him off, how he's going to sue you, expose you as a cheat, etc.

You're off your pins, defensive. How could this be the guy who was so nice when he picked up the check at Per Se?

So, you compromise, because human nature avoids conflict, right? This is what he's gaming you for because once you compromised, you've lost. You've inferred his premise that you have some complicity in the matter otherwise why would you compromise? You are on the defensive and will never get it back.

You offer $750,000 as a settlement, angry but want it over and done with. He then sues you. Why, because you've already committed yourself to the loss. You volunteered to surrender your position and what will stop you from keeping going?

I've seen many a New Yorker settle things like this with Trump people for 5-10 cents on the dollar and then happy, even eager to keep doing business with them. Why? Because he got in their heads with this aggressively counterintuitive behavior."
How Trump Learned to be a Predator

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

I doubt he interacts with the mob like that.

Or Russia.

I am sure that is true to an extent. I have never heard of a construction project where that wasn't the case. Construction is a whole different animal than what most of you are used to.  

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I :heart; Q

Trump failed so bad on his casino, it made him wealthy.

The bank would lose a billion if it folded or $600 million if they bailed out t tRump. Naturally, they went for the second option.

You tRump voters do realize that you elected a guy that can't get a loan in the US?

....and you expect him to help the economy? Are you really that dumb or did you just make a mistake at the polling booth?

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I was right.

Tax breaks. That's his strategy. Nobody pays the taxes and they all create their own economies. It's like children explaining Santa Claus as a way to get clothes for winter to a poor parent that can't afford the light bill.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.