"Nearly four decades ago, Donald Trump deceived me into including him on the first Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. He claimed a net worth of $100 million but was actually worth less than a tenth of that. Last week, President Trump declared a national state of emergency to bypass the constitutional budgeting powers of Congress and divert money to build a wall on the border with Mexico. What do these acts have in common? Only that they are the first and latest entries on the continuum of cons that have defined Trump’s success." -- investigative journalist Jonathan Greenberg, writing today in the Washington Post. In his excellent article, Greenberg goes on identify and detail six cons that define Trump:
To borrow billions, Trump lies to inflate his net worth.
To avoid taxes, Trump lies to deflate his net worth.
To be a winner, Trump makes losers of those he does business with.
To win in politics, Trump makes voters believe that his presidency benefits them.
To avoid accountability, Trump makes the media, and truth, the “enemy of the people."
To stoke fear, Trump recasts perpetrators as victims.The details of the various cons and lies that Greenberg provides are outrageous and disgusting. It points to Trump as a malignant, cheating narcissist with no core except to aggrandize himself.
