All posts tagged "Art Of The Deal"

President Donald Trump's dealings with everything from Ukraine to Ivy League universities amount to blatant extortion, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote Friday.

"Trump isn’t a dealmaker; he is closer to an extortionist," Parker wrote. "At least he meets the definition of the term: someone who uses coercion or punishment to get what he wants."

Parker explained how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's "first lesson in the art of the deal" came in 2019, "when Trump essentially threatened to withhold $400 million in military aid if Zelensky didn’t investigate — or at least say he was investigating — Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine."...

Tony Schwartz, the co-author for former President Donald Trump's "The Art of the Deal," doesn't plan on staying in America if the former president is put back in office, he said on MSNBC's "The Beat" Wednesday.

This comes as Trump increasingly starts comparing himself and his own legal problems to those of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died this month in a Siberian labor camp — which Schwartz warned anchor Ari Melber is a red flag for what his plans are for the future.

"If anyone holds him accountable in any court of law in the country, he likes to say he is a dissident, and this is dangerous because other leaders have used this very card abroad to great effect and they can convince large groups of people that they are actually the embattled underdog or that the system is against them," said Melber. "Do you see this as something dangerous, where this is the way he convinces people?"...

In the wake of winning a more than $350 million judgment against Donald Trump this Friday in her business fraud case against him, New York Attorney General Letitia James celebrated the verdict in a post to social media, and summarized its key details.

"In a massive victory, we won our case against Donald Trump for engaging in years of incredible financial fraud to enrich himself," the post from her office's official X account read. "Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and his former executives must pay over $450 million in disgorgement and interest."

"Trump, Allen Weisselberg, and Jeff McConney are banned from serving as an officer or director of any New York company for three years," she continued. "Weisselberg and McConney are banned for life from serving in any financial role at a New York company."...