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In reply to the discussion: Donald and Ivana Trump fight unsealing of divorce records [View all]Kathy M
(1,242 posts)"Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, Heil Hitler, possibly as a family joke.
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitlers collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitlers speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist. "
"Is Ivana trying to convince her friends and lawyer that Trump is a crypto-Nazi? Trump is no reader or history buff. Perhaps his possession of Hitlers speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitlers genius at propaganda. The Führer often described his defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa as great victories. Trump continues to endow his diminishing world with significance as well. Theres nobody that has the cash flow that I have, he told The Wall Street Journal long after he knew better. I want to be king of cash.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
Down a little in the article about the casino end times
"Within days, the bankers agreed to give Trump $65 million to pay his bills. Much of his empire would probably have to be dismantled, but he would retain control. His personal allowance would now be $450,000 a month. I can live with that, Trump said. However absurd this sounds, it was smarter to do it this way than to let a judge preside over a fire sale in a bankruptcy court, one banker told me. Trump crowed about the bailout. This is a great victory. Its a great agreement for everybody, he said.
Not exactly. Trumps bankers were said to be so upset at Trumps balance sheet he was reportedly over half a billion dollars in the holethat they demanded he sign over his future trust inheritance to secure the new loans. Trumps father, who had created him by helping him achieve his first deals, now seemed to be rescuing him again. Total bullshit, Trump told me. I have been given five years by the banks. The banks would never have asked me for my future inheritance, and I would never have given it.
Hope they are able to unseal , there may be some info that would be good to know since he is running for President