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A good insight about our so-called president:
This also applies to the so-called tax cut and the fantasy that you invest by spending borrowed cash.
Trump appreciates the power of fantasy. Con artists sell their too-good-to-be-true stories with such great ease because people want to believe them. The eagerness to believe is what make’s a con artist’s mark a mark — the mark always participates in his own deception.
Bernie Madoff ripped off a lot of well-off and financially sophisticated people and institutions who really should have known better than to trust his unwavering above-market returns, but they wanted to believe.
With his phony gilt Louis XV chairs, his casinos and beauty pageants, and his succession of prom-queen-jerky paramours, Trump has spent his career performing, and the role he has chosen is that of a poor man’s idea of a rich man. He went so far as to create an imaginary friend, John Barron, to lie to the New York press about his sex life.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455428/donald-trump-porn-star-payoff-why
This also applies to the so-called tax cut and the fantasy that you invest by spending borrowed cash.