Never mind the falling polls; never mind the winning cards that Nancy and Chuck hold; never mind the Mueller investigation -- all of which seem to be closing in on a losing Donald Trump.
The sharks who know him best -- Barbara Rez, his former VP for construction in the Trump Organization, and Tony Schwartz, who officially co-authored The Art of the Deal, but who in reality actually wrote the book for Trump -- were both on MSNBC's Ari Melber news show Thursday night.
Rez, who for years oversaw Trump's construction projects and thus had intimate knowledge of his deals, had this to say: "I never thought he was a great dealmaker, to be honest with you. . . . In terms of taking the responsibility for the buck, he just would never do it. It's not in his DNA. He's never responsible. It is always someone else's fault."
Schwartz, also looking back to his early association with Trump, says that he now looks back at the business deals he described for Trump's book 30 years ago, and he realizes that "most of the deals in that book were failures." . . . And the number of deals he's made over the years since then "have overwhelmingly been failures." Schwartz concludes that Trump was "really one of the worst" dealmakers he's ever come across.
It's called "piling on." It's also very likely quite true. Donald Trump is proving to be a terrible negotiator, an ineffective deal maker, and a horrible businessman, who has a bad reputation for not paying his bills. We've known for years that no U.S. based bank will lend him money.
Now we're seeing all those (lack of) skills playing out in the Oval Office. And the nation -- and the world, really -- are paying for the folly of electing this con man to be the most powerful leader in the free world.
Tragedy? Farce? Yes, both.
Ralph
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