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http://www.salon.com/2016/05/31/trump_wants_revenge_his_hunger_to_be_president_is_all_about_gaining_power_to_settle_petty_personal_scores/
Increasingly, the evidence is pointing to a certain conclusion: Donald Trump is running for president because he believes the power and fame of the White House will allow him to settle the score in his ever-expanding list of petty grievances.
Sure, there are other things he likes about it, like the attention and the opportunity to slap the word Trump in gold lettering across the front of the desk in the Oval Office, are motivating factors. But for those who have been following the campaign closely, its hard to ignore the fact that Trump spends much, perhaps most of his time, honing an enemies list of people he imagines have personally slighted him and fantasizing out loud about putting them and anyone he associates with them in their place.
Farah Stockman and Keith Bradsher of The New York Times published a piece Monday detailing a major grudge that Trump holds against a group of Chinese investors that helped save him from a financial crisis in the 90s. He made a lucrative deal with this group of Hong Kong billionaires to sell them the Bank of America building on Avenue of the Americas, allowing him 30% of the profits and paying him feeds to develop the building. In 2005, they sold the building for $1.76 billion.
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Warpy
(111,261 posts)He's running to settle the score over the WH Press Club Dinner of a couple of years ago, when he exited the venue with obvious thunderclouds over his head after being the butt of quite a few jokes.
The man has always been thin skinned, spiteful, petty, and litigious. He would be a complete horror in office and a lot of people would be hurt before Congress got around to removing him.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)and I also think he believes he would get immunity from the many legal things looming over him, like the rape allegations trial, and the Trump U trial, and just bill collectors.
Hell, if he had Secret Sevice protection, his Russian lenders might not be able to get to him.
He's desperate, because he figures to be broke, in jail, or at the bottom of the Volga River wearing cement shoes if this doesn't pan out.