{UAH} Is Donald Trump a good negotiator? No. He is a good conman

  Carter More (Degree in Political Science, former Congressional aide and Federal employee)

20 years ago, I talked with exhausted lawyers who'd spent the week in a conference room at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza negotiating with Donald Trump.

I'd read about his smooth talking. I'd heard about his "great" negotiating. He wrote the book on The Art of The Deal.

But what we've seen in public, on podiums, and now as President, Donald Trump is the same man who made those lawyers and bankers squirm 20 years ago. Back then, he wasn't smooth, or great, or artful. He held a knife to their throats and threatened to declare bankruptcy if they didn't forgive millions of dollars of debt and cut the interest rates on what was left.

No bank wants to repossess a casino.

Sean Quinn remembers it here the same way. Say what you will, but back after the real estate crash, most of Wall Street was contrite. In pursuing redemption, writes Quinn:

They tried to repay vendors and lenders and renegotiated in good faith with them.

Donald didn't. His negotiating skills didn't matter because he wasn't going to pay them.

Good faith was not in Donald Trump's vocabulary then, and it isn't in Donald Trump's vocabulary now., and will never be.

This is a tycoon who brags that he's too smart to pay taxes. He's too smart to avoid bankruptcy. He's too smart to pay people who work for him. He's too smart to pay back money he borrows.

Donald Trump negotiate?

It doesn't take brains to lie, cheat and steal. Bad guys hold up banks and mug old ladies every day.

Donald Trump is just like them. He just does it in a fancy suit.

Our Society is run by insane people for insane objectives......John Lennon...
Self acclaimed academics  have no business in politics.  Unknown author

 

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