Summary of The Making of Donald Trump: by David Cay Johnston | Includes Analysis

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Summary of The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston | Includes Analysis

 

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David Cay Johnston’s The Making of Donald Trump is an examination of Donald Trump’s character and activities. It focuses specifically on his financial dealings, his

• Language: English
• Publisher: Instaread, Inc
• Release date: Feb 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781683784630

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David Cay Johnston’s The Making of Donald Trump is an examination of Donald Trump’s character and activities. It focuses specifically on his financial dealings, his perpetration of frauds, and his association with criminal and Mafia figures.

Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, left Germany to escape the draft. He went to Alaska, where he established a bar frequented by prostitutes. Fred Trump, Donald’s father, made a fortune in real estate in part through war profiteering. He set up a lucrative trust fund for his son Donald when the latter was still a child. Donald did not excel in school; his grasp of business theory and policy was weak, though he often boasts of attending the Wharton School undergraduate program in business.

Trump’s main influence outside his family was Roy Cohn, a lawyer infamous for his work with Joseph McCarthy during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the 1950s. Cohn had associations with the Mafia and with mob-controlled unions. Trump took advantage of these connections in his real estate dealings. In one instance, he hired undocumented Polish immigrants to subvert union rules about site safety and worker pay.

Trump routinely engaged in fraudulent business dealings. He withheld information on his application to run a casino in Atlantic City in 1982; the authorities let him get