Roy Cohn is widely described as Donald Trump’s lawyer and mentor from the early 1970s until Cohn’s death in August of 1986.
DJT’s style makes a lot more sense when you understand who his mentor was.
Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877 worth about $100 million.
In 1973, 120 of his heirs met. Not one was a millionaire.
Roughly 95% went to one son, William.
By 1885 he had nearly doubled it, to about $200 million.
Then it was split, and the splitting never stopped.
1892. Marble House cost $11 million, $7 million of it marble.
1970. The New York Central, by then Penn Central, went bankrupt.
The mansions outlasted the business that paid for them.
He left instructions not to waste it.
He left nothing that made wasting it hard.
🚨 DOGE DAYS: Remember the "GOOD OLD DAYS" of @DOGE when we thought many agencies in the Federal Govt would be abolished.
DO YOU NOW THINK ANY GOVT AGENCY OR INSTITUTION WILL EVER BE ABOLISHED?
I'd also like to know who the players were in D.C. who successfully fought @elonmusk's valiant effort to do so...