A Short History of the Trump Family

[red dog 1]

London Review of Books
February 16, 2017

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TRUMP FAMILY

By Sidney Blumenthal


The most enduring blight left behind by Donald Trump, long after he has smashed things up, will be the pile of books devoted to trying to make sense of him.
It will grow after investigative journalists have spent years diving for hidden records, exploring subterranean corporations and foreign partners but never reaching the dark ocean bottom.
It will continue after political scientists have trekked through mountain ranges of survey data seeking the precise source of his magnetic attraction for the aggrieved white lower-middle and working classes.
It will outlast the pundits holding forth on TV, collecting lecture fees and cranking out bestsellers that retail inside dope gleaned, single-sourced and second-hand, from somewhere near the elevators of Trump Tower.
It will not be stemmed even after the memoirs of Trump's associates, unreliable narrators in the spirit of their leader, have been removed from the remainder bins of used bookstores.

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[murielm99]

1. In other words,

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they will be doing everything later that they (the media and the writers) should have done before the election.

[dchill]

2. That was my first thought.

[dalton99a]

5. Bingo.

[underpants]

3. Marking for later read

[red dog 1]

6. It's a long book review, but worth the time.

(They may ask for your email address to see the whole thing)

[ATL Ebony]

4. History of Trump Family . . .

They lived, they breathed, they lied, they stole, they cheated, they went to jail. END OF STORY

[red dog 1]

7. I think Fred Trump did go to jail, but his lying, child-raping, asshole of a son hasn't yet

[ATL Ebony]

8. I know, but he's on da way (I hope)

[red dog 1]

9. I hope so too