Donald Trump in his 40-year business career, he has assembled an empire of great complexity along with a serial record of credibility problems.
This is a man who said, under oath, in a 2008 libel suit he later lost: “My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings.”
Although Donald Trump has described himself as an “ardent philanthropist,” he has only donated $3.7 million to his own foundation. In comparison, the WWE has given Trump’s foundation $5 million. He ranks among the least charitable billionaires in the world.
For example, in 2008 alone, Bloomberg’s charitable contributions totaled $235 million. In 2009, Ellison gave his medical foundation stock worth $73.2 million, according to IRS records. Newhouse’s foundation reported making donations totaling $11.8 million on its 2009 IRS return. And a tax return filed last year revealed that the late entertainer Johnny Carson even left his charitable foundation $156 million.
Attacking long-standing rules that aren't working in your favor at the moment isn't about fixing the system, it's about political gamesmanship.
Stirring popular rage about "the system" instead of proposing real solutions and working to change that system may make for good campaign soundbites, but it's bad for democracy.
Adolph Hitler was never able to prove that he’s not suffering from a degenerative neurological disorder that has left him with a damaged mind devoid of all shame or self-awareness; he might just be an asshole. And end the end he did commit the worst genocide in history.
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