The President Who Wrote The Art Of The Deal Can't Close One
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🛢️ IRAN’S ART OF THE STEAL
Donald Trump told Axios on Sunday the United States is “only semi-negotiating” with Iran. While he refused to clarify what that means, it’s clear the Americans have been sidelined in a war Trump claimed he won. A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — brokered in Muscat, priced without him — is “very close.” The man who once claimed mastery in the art of the deal can’t make one — he can’t even find someone to negotiate with. Even Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rejected Trump’s 15-point Gaza plan — a sitting president’s signature diplomacy, refused amid glad-handing.
What’s made Trump so impotent may be the back-door deals Trump has been brokering for years that line his coffers with millions while denying Americans their place at the table. Ali Khamenei promoted IRGC hardliner Mohsen Rezaei to secretary of Iran’s top security council: Rezaei belongs to the same wing of Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen who appear to have funneled millions of dollars to the Trump family, according to our new reporting on the Baku Files.
🕸️DID EPSTEIN HELP PICK TRUMP SECRETARIES
Jeffrey Epstein walked into Trump Tower on cabinet-picking day 2016 — and wrote it down himself. Ellie Leonard published his emails Sunday; Narativ’s archive holds Linda Stone asking him, seven weeks before the vote: “Will you have a cabinet position?” Todd Blanche now decides how much more of that record the public reads — the attorney general who cut the government’s Maxwell deal, and who answers to Judge Emmet Sullivan for the Epstein files on Wednesday. House Democrats want him under oath about both.
🚀 THE EMPTY MAGAZINE
Trump sold one arsenal twice. Zelensky booked monthly Patriot deliveries Saturday; Feinberg spent the week begging missile makers for what’s left; Narativ counted the shelf Wednesday — 2,300 interceptors down to 800 — and the White House called the count fake. Kyiv stopped waiting and flew its deepest strike of the war, 1,000 kilometers into Russia. The numbers cannot both be true.
⚖️ COURTS OUTRUN TRUMP
Trump keeps losing in court — 21 straight, Reuters counted — so he stopped hiring lawyers to win. His Manhattan trial lawyer took the DOJ at 4:31 a.m. Saturday; his immunity lawyer takes the White House counsel’s office September 1. Both answered to Trump the client first. They still do.
🗳️ OBAMA SHOULD BE INTERIM LEADER
Mike Rogers built a career catching election-doubt operations. Ninety days out, he’s running one — while Obama phones El-Sayed and Wisconsin votes on the same split tomorrow. Rogers is arguing with a count that doesn’t exist.
🎯 THE BIGGER PICTURE
Our democracy is in crisis right now — and everyone is still interested in defending it: Democrats’ own polling puts saving democracy at number one. Every story above is one story. A president too compromised to close a deal. His own defense lawyers running the law. A nominee teaching voters to disbelieve a count. The fight everyone thought was over is the fight everyone is in. Eighty-five days.
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Trump Attacked the Deal. His Family Banked Millions. 17 Americans Are Dead.
On September 9, 2015, Donald Trump stood on the West Lawn of the Capitol, with Ted Cruz at his shoulder, addressing a Tea Party crowd in the late summer heat. "Never, ever, ever in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran," he told the crowd, who roared in approval.
Stay Strong America. No-one said fighting for democracy would be easy or quick, but light will eventually defeat the dark.
Tony Schwartz ghostwrote "The Art of the Deal" for Donald Trump, is credited as THE AUTHOR. Schwartz has stated that Trump did NOT write ANY of the book himself, although he tries to take credit.
Also, “The Apprentice” was SCRIPTED. The producer TOLD him what to say. He can’t take credit for that either.
Trump CAN take credit for all his bankruptcies, failed companies, failed marriages, LIES, ILLEGAL FAILED WAR in Iran, his threatening MOB behavior (people are afraid of him), his TREASONIST behavior, etc.
He never could deliver .. All he delivers is MADNESS & HATE…Growing up in Manhattan.. back in the 80’s ..he was constantly in the headlines. Grifting.. Cheating .. Adulterous behavior
Many of us New Yorkers knew he was a “SLIME BAG” back then.. and what he really perfected.. was elevating himself to be the most DESTRUCTIVE DESTROYER of HUMANITY..‼️‼️‼️