The New York real estate deals were dirty, the Atlantic City ventures were dirty, the Trump airline was dirty, Mar-a-Lago, the golf courses, and the hotels all dirty. No reasonable candidate could have survived a recounting of even one of these deals. But somehow a genial amount of corruption had been figured into the Trump candidacy- that, after all, was the platform he was running on. I'll do for you what a tough businessman does for himself.
The excerpt from Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" highlights the pervasive corruption associated with Donald Trump's various business ventures, ranging from real estate in New York to his hotels and golf courses. Each enterprise is described as tainted, suggesting a pattern of unscrupulous dealings that would typically disqualify a candidate from political contention. Despite this, Trump's candidacy embraced this image of corruption as part of his...