On 9/11 Trump bragged he now had tallest building in Manhattan
Twenty-three years after 9/11, " we can still hear Donald Trump’s reaction to the terrorist attacks – and it was a strange one.
That’s because on 11 September, 2001, the future US president called into the TV station WWOR to talk about the day’s tragic events. Then, oddly, he turned his attention to the height of one of his properties, which he falsely claimed was now the tallest building in lower Manhattan.
“Well, it was an amazing phone call,” Mr Trump told WWOR. “I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was actually – before the World Trade Center – was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest.”
Nobody who knew him who surprised. Trump has not changed , he just got worse.
After all he has already try to sell one mega tour higher... than the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin listened understanding he had there in his office the total useful idiot in needed to make Russia Great again.
Read the story of these towers
Excerpt : quick translation of one of my old unpublished text
AT THE HEART OF THE CRIME EMPIRE.
DONALD TRUMP'S TOWERS
What it is about, what it has always been about and what it will be about whether he withdraws or not, whether he is re-elected or not, whether he rises from the ashes or not.
?I am surprised that people are surprised that Donald Trump and continues to send populations to their deaths according to circumstances or to consort with criminals of all sizes. We cry out, we are indignant, we question ourselves, we talk about it. I would even say that we talk about it too much in this metadiscourse that agitates the global village in the form of this " babbling of the peoples" which gave its name to the Tower of Babel.
?Let's start by describing his pathology in a few moments before getting rid of it.
?Predatory obsession
And we are going to talk about towers and dare to hypothesize that this intellectual cacophony prevents us from seeing the towers that obsess the President of the United States of America and that write his name in the sky in letters of fire and that are in fact the stupid and wicked explanation of his behavior to which we have lent Machiavellian intelligence that he does not have, ideologies that he does not care about, beliefs that he only uses to buy customer segments or theoretical models of which the only one I would retain is that of the mafias that build an international empire of crime. It is today so well organized and whitewashed that it is difficult to distinguish mafia organizations from large international ones.[i]
He is not a statesman in that he has no awareness of anything other than 1) what belongs to him and the limits of his power. He can do whatever he wants, order executions , etc.
?I will not dwell on his psychopathology. It is no longer important. I will not even make comparisons. He is certainly not the first in the long history of humanity made of delusional princes or fuhrers , nor the vulgar mafia crooks but he may well be the last.
?Because the objective conditions of the history that brought him to power are new, profound and should invite us to an analysis that goes beyond the circus of which he holds the center of the ring.
?Actually, that's what it's there for.
?It is therefore not surprising that, like Al Capone, he is now facing prison for criminal fraud involving a real estate empire built on tower block fantasies.
?What does it matter, say the finally convinced analysts, what is the point of revisiting the crime scene . It is in the past. To which I will respond that this is only the beginning of the story, an unprecedented time of shifting power towards the international private sector devouring space and time.
I'll come back to that. For now, let's get back to the towers.
Dizzying obsessive towers.
?They structure Donald Trump 's psyche . He wants to cover the world with them. A little aside with a Freudian flavor because Donald Trump does not dream of simple towers. He does not just make real estate deals with a bang. He wants them to be the tallest in the world, the symbol of his will to power that has no limits. When the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, his reaction was symptomatic: He did not hide his pleasure. His hotel, the Trump Tower in the heart of Manhattan, was now the tallest tower.
?This is what is called megalomania , a chronic delusional psychoses if we care to consult the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The hyperbole of grandeur has been constant since the beginnings of the young Donald in real estate through the interviews he enthusiastically granted as long as they highlighted his greatness. This is much more than the vanity of a star whose ego is often oversized. His towers are made of reinforced concrete, impregnable echo chambers. Donald Trump speaks only of himself, in himself and for himself. The other does not exist as an other. He can only be a foil or a foil. Any criticism reverberates like a boomerang in an echo tower. In this sense, he is alienated , cut off from the other, a stranger among human beings who believe him to be human because, as a good publicist, he uses words and symbols that stir their most primitive emotions (fear and hatred) that he pretends to feel. In fact he doesn't feel anything.
?He builds his towers at all costs. Absolutely nothing else is ever taken into consideration: law, faith, laws, science, aesthetics . He is the supreme referent. He proclaims himself the best president of the United States since he uses his method to negotiate every contract, every treaty while selling his towers around the world. He sells himself by telling a part of his voters who are crazy with admiration: you are being had by the Europeans, the Chinese, the Canadians, the Democrats, the diplomats, the environmentalists. I, the business genius, will sort this out for you and America will finally become the America of your fantasies again. I am your savior.
In October 2019, He said it himself: he is God's chosen one . When he withdrew American troops from northern Syria, he spoke of his great wisdom without parallel. When he declared a trade war on China. He looked in a mirror that reflects back to him the image of a superiorly intelligent and grandiose man . In 2017, at the end of a conference 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health experts wrote a book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump , claiming that it was their moral and civic duty to warn "America that" for psychological reasons " Trump was "more dangerous than any president in history ", he laughed and replied that he was a stable genius. Let's not get the wrong idea: he is convinced of this and so he persuades. In this he is not a simple publicist who is perfectly aware that his advertising slogans sell junk. A little aside from my young studies in psychiatry and psychology: this type of psychosis is exhausting in that it destabilizes us constantly. Seasoned psychologists face as a team one of the members of this family: the perverse narcissist who often manages to seduce and persuade the shrink solo.Because as in the case of Hitler and many other presidents, kings, leaders, cult gods and others their crazy speech captivates and bewitches. When Donald Trump is attacked he gathers his troops of fanatics, who cheer him and confirm that he is the chosen one. Any fanatic will do: whether he is crazy, feeble-minded, senile, illiterate, Hell angel , brigands , Russian or Saudi agent or French intellectual. He made a big deal when he was shown the article that Michel Houellebecq signed in the American magazine Harper's or the national provocateur, declared that "Donald Trump is one of the best American presidents I have ever seen", For a megalomaniac what does the bottle matter, as long as he has the intoxication.
?Why introduce this element of psychiatric analysis into our presentation of geopolitics. Because his need for the admiration of others that he feeds on is the only murderer in this reinforced concrete echo chamber. We only communicate with Donald Trump by entering his delirium of overpowering power whose specter is a tower. The most crass corruption does the rest. What's more, he borrows two traits from the mafia empire he is building: he demands total and blind allegiance from all his employees who quickly understand that they will have to transgress any other value. And like the good mafia boss that he is becoming, he wants to deal man to man, and directly with the other strong men he respects and who he would like to be admired by.
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Vladimir Putin knows this. He has become a master in the art of catching crooks, predators, and oligarchs of the world who want to grab all the jewels of the endangered crowns and get rid of the law, democratic institutions, social contracts, and all those who in one way or another stand in their way.
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Some experts present this chess champion as a master strategist, who would excel in those areas where we are content with the role of naive people, incapable even of retaining the lessons of history. [ii]For others he would rather be a reactive tactician, where: " Everything that happens is a tactical step, a real-time response to external stimuli devoid of an ultimate objective ."? [iii]? I would say that it does not matter since it has imitators in a world in disorder. In medicine we know that illness is a disorder (hence the word desease in English) thus inviting all opportunistic viruses to invade a weakened system. And this is how states (which are organisms) perish.
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The Russian president played the great game of flattery and fabulous contracts, of these colossal sums lent to those who never have enough money to maintain their delirium. " He said I was a genius ," Trump [iv]keeps repeating to anyone who will listen, as he parades the love letter that Kim Jong-un supposedly sent him . This simple phrase accompanied by colossal sums that have consolidated the delirium of the business genius president is the simple explanation. It is part of these hypotheses that Galbraith tells us " that they are so simple as to be repulsive to the mind. When it comes to such an important subject, a deeper mystery seems to us to be the only decent answer ".
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THE RUSSIAN LOAN VERSION 2016
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Let us add that it was child's play for Vladimir Putin, who had learned the art of catching crooks and oligarchs of all stripes since 1986. This is the beginning of Glasnost , which we want to believe marks the end of the Soviet era, its heavy structures and the influence of the powerful KGB, which nevertheless continues to recruit. The young Putin officiated, for his first post abroad, in Dresden in the GDR, officially as a consular employee, but in fact to recruit spies as a major in the Russian secret services . This is the time when the Russian intelligence services, more active than ever, cast a net to attract influential personalities abroad. (The practice continues to this day.) The Russians would seduce or trap not only eminent politicians and cultural leaders, but also personalities likely to gain importance in the future. In 1986, Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin met Trump in New York, congratulated him on his real estate exploits and invited him to discuss a tour in Moscow. Trump visited in July 1987. There is little else in the public record to describe his visit, other than Trump ’s own recollection in The Art of the Deal that Soviet officials were eager for him to build a hotel there, a [v]magnificent tower named after the man who would rule the world .
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The Russians are not unaware that Trump 's towers are often, if not always, financial abysses. This is an open secret in the business world and a characteristic of the psychosis from which he suffers. The megalomaniac's proclaimed superiority is inversely proportional to his reality principle. Trump is always on the verge of bankruptcy.
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It was a boon for Vladimir Putin , who was putting his pawns in place on the chessboard leading to the presidency he would have in 2000. After a series of financial reversals and his flagrant abuse of bankruptcy laws, Trump realized that it was impossible to borrow funds from American banks and became heavily reliant on unconventional sources of capital. Russian money proved his salvation. From 2003 to 2017, former Soviet nationals made 86 all-cash purchases—a red flag of potential money laundering—of Trump properties , totaling $109 million. In 2010, Deutsche Bank’s wealth management division also lent him hundreds of millions of dollars during the same period that it laundered billions of dollars in Russian currency. "Russians make up a relatively disproportionate sample of many of our assets," Donald Jr. said in 2008. "We don't rely on American banks. We have all the funds we need outside of Russia," his son, Eric , boasted. Trump in 2014 .[vi] Another small psychological aside, Donald Trump always knocks over mirrors, thus protecting his monstrous ego. His son Eric should not be accused of corruption since it is Joe Biden 's son who is guilty of corruption.
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RUSSIAN LOAN DIVIDENDS
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Let’s go back to the Russian loan of 2016. Russian banks are demanding interest in the form of political services and territories of influence that Donald Trump has no hesitation in handing over . Shortly after Trump ’s inauguration , according to Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman, Israeli intelligence officials met at the CIA headquarters, where they were told something astonishing: Russia had “put pressure” on the new president. Consequently, the agency advised the Israelis to consider the possibility that Trump would pass on their secrets to Russia. The Israelis dismissed this warning as extravagant . It wasn’t just them. A good part of the small world of diplomats and international experts could not imagine the impossible.
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Who would believe that the most powerful country in the world was about to hand its presidency to a Russian dupe? That the United States government was essentially going to fall ?[vii]
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BUT THE INSTITUTIONS HOLD: THE INVESTIGATIONS BEGIN
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In the better informed circles of the United States, it was understood but without proof: the impossible hypothesis resembled at best a poorly put together spy film and what is more would be very poorly received. For more than thirty years Hollywood had been producing films or television series (such as X Files ) where the evil conspirators (FBI and CIA) were the American intelligence services. And the press did not have a good press.
Nevertheless, it is talked about enough to call for a report from the American special counsel, Robert Mueller, on Russian interference in the 2016 American election. Donald Trump reacted with horror to the announcement, in May 2017, that a special counsel had been appointed. “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I am screwed ,” the president muttered in the Oval Office, when his then attorney general, Jeff Sessions, told him of the prosecutor’s appointment. Donald Trump “ slumped in his chair.” Even though he has convinced himself that he is the best of the best, he knows he is a crook, but he thinks he has the right to be one because he is the best of the best. He is above the law.
He has some reason to be afraid because the report will conclude that : "the Russian state interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a vast and systematic way . " "First , a Russian organization ran a social media campaign that favored" Donald Trump and "denigrated" his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Then Russian hackers, emanating from the Russian military intelligence service GRU, hacked messages from the Democratic Party and from a Hillary Clinton insider, which were distributed on the Internet by anonymous sites and by WikiLeaks , which had received the stolen messages directly from the Russians. But the prosecutor also concludes that there was no agreement between members of Trump 's team and Russia, despite numerous more or less discreet contacts.
Republican candidate Donald Jr.'s son received WikiLeaks messages , Trump 's entourage retweeted fake American accounts created by Russians, a meeting took place with Russians at Trump Tower ... but there was no evidence that this was a conspiracy. "The evidence was not sufficient to accuse members of the Trump campaign of coordinating with Russian government officials to influence the 2016 election . "
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Let's add the nuance of importance. On this explosive point, prosecutor Mueller does not exonerate Donald Trump : "If this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it does not exonerate him either." But Trump is never nuanced and no one reads the fine print. His team rushed to publish only the exonerating passages and it was a triumph, proof that the best president America has ever had was the victim of a witch hunt by America's enemies: the Democrats and the media, a fourth he does not tolerate. Because the president is in the habit of using the expression "enemy of the people" to describe the American media, accusing them of covering his presidency unfavorably. "There are a lot of people who have done really terrible things, I would even say things that amount to treason against our country." "We will have to look into their cases," he threatened . And the crowd of fanatics surrounding him don't need to be told this. The_Donald 's redditors are not short of imagination when it comes to the abuse they would like to inflict on the representatives of what they call "MSM", or mainstream media , the equivalent of the media caste. They multiply calls for the killing of journalists, going so far as to take as a reference the methods of the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet or using genocidal neologisms, such as " journalocaust ".
Worse, they threaten the journalists’ families. The Daily Beast revealed that several members of Kaczynski ’s family had received threatening phone calls. Information allowing their location was once circulated on the “ pol ” section of 4chan, another digital den of American far-right trolls. According to the Washington Post, the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer called on CNN journalists to resign or face consequences for their actions, explicitly threatening to attack the reporters’ parents, wives, siblings and children.
You have to live in North America and do some fieldwork to understand the severity of the situation. In October, a video was shown at a Trump supporters' conference in Miami and the existence of which was revealed by the New York Times . In a scene from the 2015 British spy comedy Kingsman : The Secret Service , a man whose face is superimposed on that of the American president opens fire on people whose faces have been replaced by the logos of media outlets such as CNN, the Washington Post and NBC. The violence continues in a " fake news church" where the character representing Mr. Trump pushes back worshipers and attacks the late Senator John McCain, Senator Bernie Sanders - one of his Democratic rivals for the next presidential election - or Republican Senator Mitt Romney as well as former President Barack Obama. Certainly a White House spokesperson said that President Donald Trump "strongly" condemns a parody video. But the damage is done in a country where, thanks to the support of the same president, assault rifles and sometimes even machine guns are not subject to any particular restrictions in a large number of states. And they are used regularly with children as a test target.
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Let's not make too easy comparisons with Germany in the 1930s . The context was very different and Hitler did not need to threaten journalists. They were muzzled from the start. German journalists were civil servants within the meaning of the press law promulgated on October 4, 1933, the Schriftleitergesetz , which prohibited the publication of any text "intended to weaken the strength of the Reich." But also the employment of Jews. This text stipulated that journalism was a "regulated public vocation ", that those choosing this profession had to be of German nationality, of Aryan descent and not be married to a Jew.[viii]
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The American press went wild as well as the comedians of the major television networks (Colbert, Saturday night life, John Oliver, etc.) who only have to repeat Donald Trump 's crazy flights of fancy for their rooms to collapse with laughter. (No comedian would have laughed at Hitler) But above all the institutions are holding and the commissions of inquiry continue to follow the Russian trail through detours. It is becoming more and more apparent that the dividends are being paid in Ukraine and Syria. This would even be just the beginning.
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In Ukraine We will not go into the details of this filthy case of abuse of power. Donald Trump had asked his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter's business in Ukraine. However, the US administration had suspended nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine earlier this month. He then gave Donald Trump to his lawyer the diplomatic powers to negotiate the service beyond his credit card to negotiate personal matters, including with the Ukrainians who are not in a position to negotiate anything, especially since everything is done to the great advantage of Russia. Nancy Pelosi , who as Speaker of the US House of Representatives , is chairing an investigation into this financial blackmail prohibited by the US Constitution by Donald Trump in Ukraine, said at a press conference: All roads seem to lead to Putin ... through the towers of Ankara.
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Pelosi 's iron-fisted investigation goes beyond Ukraine. Senior secret service officials and US army generals are breaking their silence, unable to bear seeing their country fall under Russian control and literally become an outlaw, an outlaw. The military is particularly scandalized when it understands that the Kurds are part of the dividends paid to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan . Erdo?an , who has never hidden the fact that he wants to get rid of it, and in the background Vladimir Putin, who, in addition to eliminating all surplus populations, wants control of this strategic region of the world whose subsoil is full of wealth. " Trump and his family have long maintained business ties in Turkey, the most visible example being the Trump Towers Istanbul, which bear the Trump name under license (he does not own the hotel but sells his name at a high price). The Trump Organization on its website describes them as "a landmark in the historic city of Istanbul." It is the organization's first and only office and residential tower in Europe, with offices, apartments and luxury boutiques. [ix]Wendy Sherman, Undersecretary of State in the Obama administration, draws her conclusions "It remains a concern that these business ties, at the very least, are clouding his judgment," she says, adding the impossible hypothesis "and at worst, the reasons for his judgment."[x]?
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[i]At the top of the global markets for illegal goods and services is drug trafficking, all kinds combined: opiates, cocaine derivatives, cannabis and synthetic drugs. For drug trafficking, the market is considered to be controlled by an oligopoly of a dozen transnational players including Latin American cartels, Italian mafias, US organized crime and Japanese yakuza. While mafias do not have a monopoly on global illegal trafficking, we can nevertheless see that they are major players in a market that extends to the four corners of the planet. What if mafia organizations were multinationals like any other? https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/entendez-vous-leco/leconomie-du-crime-13-les-mafias-dans-la-mondialisation
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[iv] at two campaign events in February, three times in April, in a CNN interview in May, at a June rally in California, twice in July and at an August town hall meeting in Ohio
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