Where Trump Learned the Art of the Quid Pro Quo

Where Trump Learned the Art of the Quid Pro Quo

On a debate stage during the 2016 Republican primary, Donald Trump explained why he’d given money to Democratic politicians: “I give to many people,” he said. Like oligarchs in the former Soviet Union, the Trump family accrued wealth by controlling a highly valuable national resource with the permission of the governing class: New York real estate. All New York real-estate developers do this.