The Making of Donald Trump (28 page)
3
She told Trump that her sister would be joining her in New York:
Harry Hurt,
The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), p. 386.
4
“He’s living with Marla and he’s got three other girlfriends”:
Sue Carswell, “Trump Says Goodbye Marla, Hello Carla and a Mysterious PR Man Who Sounds Just like Donald Calls to Spread the Story.”
People
, August 8, 1991.
5
“Trump is obviously a lunatic”:
Michael Qazvini, “Former French First Lady and Fake Ex-Lover: ‘Trump Is Obviously a Lunatic.’ ”
Daily Wire
, April 5, 2016. Accessed June 8, 2016.
www.dailywire.com/news/4690/former-french-first-lady-and-fake-ex-lover-trump-michael-qazvini
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1
“I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees”:
Paul Farhi, “What Really Gets Under Trump’s Skin? Questioning His Net Worth.”
Washington Post
, March 8, 2016.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-time-trump-sued-over-the-size-of-hiswallet/2016/03/08/785dee3e-e4c2-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html
.
2
On a Friday morning, Trump called NBC’s
Today Show
: Marc Fisher, “In 1991 Interview, Trump Spokesman Sounds a Lot Like Trump.”
Washington Post
, May 12, 2016.
3
“No, I don’t know anything about it”:
Eun Kyung Kim, “Donald Trump Denies Posing as Spokesman in Recordings
Washington Post
Uncovered.”
Today News
, May 13, 2016.
www.today.com/news/donald-trump-denies-posing-spokesman-recordings-washington-post-uncovered-t92421
.
4
“
No
,
and it was not me on the phone”:
Kim, “Donald Trump Denies Posing as Spokesman in Recordings
Washington Post
Uncovered.”
5
Hours later, Katrina Pierson:
Situation Room, transcript. “Trump Denies Posing as His Own Spokesman.” CNN, May 13, 2016.
www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/13/sitroom.01.html
.
6
The last option would seem unavailable to Trump:
Katy Tur and Ali Vitali, “Amid Latest Controversy, Trump Claims ‘World’s Greatest Memory.’ ”
nbcnews.com
, November 24, 2015.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/amid-latest-controversy-trump-claims-worlds-greatest-memory-n468621
.
7
Trump’s emphatic
Today Show
denials left no escape hatch:
Callum Borchers, “Trump Claims He Didn’t Regularly Use a Fake Name. That’s Not What He Said Under Oath.”
Washington Post
, May 13, 2016.
8
The success of Trump’s strategy was illustrated:
“Donald Trump Denies Posing as His Spokesman.” CBS Evening News, May 13, 2016.
www.cbsnews.com/videos/donald-trump-denies-posing-as-his-own-spokesperson/
.
9
On the
Today Show
,
Trump employed another of his strategies:
Kim, “Donald Trump Denies Posing as Spokesman in Recordings
Washington Post
Uncovered.”
10
Had Carswell wanted to make news:
“Big News? Trump Posed as PR Man; Plus, Megyn Kelly’s Trump Truce.”
FoxNews.com
, May 15, 2016.
www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/05/15/big-news-trump-posed-as-pr-man-plus-megyn-kelly-trump-truce/
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1
Trump International Golf Links:
Trump Golf Scotland. Accessed June 8, 2016.
www.trumpgolfscotland.com/awards
.
2
The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences holds its honors:
“Trump Acquaintance ‘Joey No Socks’ Helms Firm That Lavished Awards on Trump Businesses.”
Tribune News Service
, May 20, 2016.
3
At the 2014 Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party, Cinque presented Trump:
Hunter Walker, “How a Convicted Felon Nicknamed ‘Joey No Socks’ Covered Donald Trump in Stars.”
Yahoo News
, May 20, 2016.
4
For years, those trustees included none other than Donald J. Trump:
Walker, “How a Convicted Felon Nicknamed ‘Joey No Socks’ Covered Donald Trump in Stars.”
5
A majority of the trustess bestowing these awards on
Trump:
Walker, “How a Convicted Felon Nicknamed ‘Joey No Socks’ Covered Donald Trump in Stars.”
6
Another trustee was Anthony Senecal:
David Corn, “On Facebook, Trump’s Longtime Butler Calls for Obama to Be Killed.”
Mother Jones
, May 12, 2016.
www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/trump-butler-anthony-senecal-facebook-kill-obama
.
7
Senecal, decked out in formal butler attire:
Walker, “How a Convicted Felon Nicknamed ‘Joey No Socks’ Covered Donald Trump in Stars.”
8
In his role as ambassador extraordinaire:
Tribune News Service
, “Trump Acquaintance ‘Joey No Socks’ Helms Firm That Lavished Awards on Trump Businesses.”
9
Cinque is known by other names:
John Connolly, “The Preppy Don.”
New York Magazine
, April 17, 1995.
10
Gotti told Clinque that he would:
Connolly, “The Preppy Don.”
11
Clinque described himself very differently:
Connolly, “The Preppy Don.”
12
In addition to whatever stolen goods fencing or drug dealing:
Walker, “How a Convicted Felon Nicknamed ‘Joey No Socks’ Covered Donald Trump in Stars.”
13
He told the Associated Press that he hardly knows Cinque:
Tribune News Service
, “Trump Acquaintance ‘Joey No Socks’ Helms Firm That Lavished Awards on Trump Businesses.”
14
As for his children and employees being trustees:
Walker, “How a Convicted Felon Nicknamed ‘Joey No Socks’ Covered Donald Trump in Stars.”
15
“If a guy’s going to give you an award”:
Tribune News Service
, “Trump Acquaintance ‘Joey No Socks’ Helms Firm That Lavished Awards on Trump Businesses.”
1
Rebchook also questioned Trump’s nattily dressed traveling companion:
Charles V. Bagli, “Real Estate Executive with Hand in Trump Projects Rose from Tangled Past.”
New York Times
, December 17, 2007.
2
“Satter’s” name appears with just one T in a host of places:
Ben Mathis-Lilley, “Oh Look, Another Violent Psycho With Close Ties to Donald Trump.”
Slate
, April 6, 2016.
www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/06/donald_trump_and_felix_sater_felon.html
3
The name Sater with one T also appears on federal court papers:
Bagli, “Real Estate Executive with Hand in Trump Projects Rose from Tangled Past.”
4
Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, and Alan Garten:
Bagli, “Real Estate Executive with Hand in Trump Projects Rose from Tangled Past.”
5
When Sater left Bayrock, he moved into the Trump Organization suite of offices:
Jeff Horwitz, Associated Press. “Donald Trump Picked Stock Fraud Felon as Senior Advisor.”
Washington Times
, December 4, 2015.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/4/donald-trump-picked-felix-sater-stock-fraud-felon-/
.
6
“Purchasers had a right to know who they were dealing with,” Altschul said:
Michael Sallah, “High Court
Reveals Secret Deal of Trump Developer’s Crimes.”
Miami Herald
, July 31, 2012.
7
“On this one, they got very, very fortunate that they didn’t put their money down”:
Michael Sallah and Michael Vasquez, “Failed Donald Trump Tower Thrust into GOP Campaign for Presidency.”
Miami Herald
, March 12, 2016.
8
According to Lauria—and the court files that have been unsealed:
Michael Sallah, “Strange Bedfellows: Swindler, Stiger-missle Brokers, the CIA.”
Miami Herald
, September 10, 2012.
9
Yet when the Associated Press asked about Sater in 2015:
Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, “Former Mafia-Linked Figure Describes Association with Trump.”
1
Prospective buyers were given:
Michael Finnegan, “Trump’s Failed Baja Condo Resort Left Buyers Feeling Betrayed and Angry.”
Los Angeles Times
, June 27, 2016. The promises, newsletters, and other events drawn from O’Brien v. Trump and related cases consolidated as Judicial Coordinating Coordination Proceeding No. 4642.
2
Ivanka Trump told sales reception attendees:
Michael Finnegan, “Trump’s Failed Baja Condo Resort Left Buyers Feeling Betrayed and Angry.”
3
Nearly two hundred people bought in:
Kaitlin Ugolik,
“Developer Pays $7M to Settle Suit Over Trump Mexico Resort.”
LAW360.com
. October 4, 2012.
www.law360.com/articles/384254/developer-pays-7m-to-settle-suit-over-trump-mexico-resort
.
4
A June 2007 newsletter notified buyers that construction was underway:
Michael Finnegan, “Trump’s Failed Baja Condo Resort Left Buyers Feeling Betrayed and Angry.”
5
“From the desk of Ivanka Trump”:
David K. Randall, “Trouble for Donald Trump: The Money for a Condo Project Didn’t Come Through.”
Forbes
, October 29, 2008.
6
The actual Baja developers, it came out later:
Stuart Pfeifer, “Donald Trump Settles Lawsuit over Baja Condo Resort That Went Bust.”
Los Angeles Times
, November 27, 2013.
7
He also declared under oath in those cases:
Deposition of Donald J. Trump. CASE NO. BC409651, Superior Court of California. County of Los Angeles, Central District.
8
Trump in fact owned real estate in California:
Steve Aaron, et al v. The Trump Organization, et al. United States District Court. Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. No.8:09-CV-2493.
9
“More importantly,” the Trump lawyers continued:
Opposition to Motion for Order Determining “Good Faith” Settlement. Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding NO. 4642. Superior Court of California. County of Los Angeles, Central Civil West Courthouse
10
The only duty the Trump parties had:
Opposition to Motion for Order Determining “Good Faith” Settlement. Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding NO. 4642.
11
The court sealed the terms of the settlement:
Pfeifer, “Donald Trump Settles Lawsuit over Baja Condo Resort That Went Bust.”
12
Trump boasted that the combination of his name and Waikiki:
“Donald J. Trump and Irongate Announce Plans for Luxury Hotel-Condominiums at Waikiki Beach Walk; Trump Tower Waikiki Includes Hotel-Condos, Retail and Dining.”
Business Wire
, May 31, 2006.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20060531006182/en/Donald-J.-Trump-Irongate-Announce-Plans-Luxury
.
13
On page twenty-three of the brochure:
“Trump Tower Might Not Really Be a Trump.”
Star Bulletin
(Honolulu), July 14, 2009.
archives.starbulletin.com/content/20090714_Trump_Tower_might_not_really_be_a_Trump
.
14
And in another Florida case:
Natalie Rodriguez, “Condole Buyers Want Previous Trump Testimony On Record.”
LAW360.com
. December 10, 2013.
www.law360.com/articles/494613/condotel-buyers-want-previous-trump-testimony-on-record
.
15
In the Tampa case, Trump was asked about disclosures:
Steve Aaron, et al v. The Trump Organization, et al. United States District Court. Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. No. 8:09-CV-2493.
16
Those buyers received a sales brochure:
Drew Griffin,
Nelli Black, and Curt Devine, “Buying a Trump? Better Read the Fine Print.” CNN, February 22, 2016.
www.cnn.com/2016/02/22/politics/trump-properties-investigation/
.
17
The project failed and buyers wanted their deposits
back: Shaun Bevan, “Jury Sides with Donald Trump in Fort Lauderdale Condo Lawsuit.”
South Florida Business Journal
, May 14, 2014.
www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/2014/03/jury-sides-with-donald-trump-in-fort-lauderdale.html
.
See my first book,
Temples of Chance
(Doubleday, 1992), for additional information on Trump’s relationship with Kashiwagi. This chapter’s sources are found in that work and Kashiwagi’s obituaries in Japanese newspapers.
For sources and additional information of Trump’s and Libutti’s complex, and at time tenuous, relationship, please see my 1992 book,
Temples of Chance
(Doubleday).
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
is an investigative journalist and winner of a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for journalism. A longtime reporter for
The New York Times
and the former president of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), he is also the author of several
New York Times
bestsellers, including
Perfectly Legal
and
Free Lunch
. He has won the IRE Medal and a George Polk Award for his investigative reporting, and is a columnist for
The Daily Beast, The National Memo, Tax Notes
, and
USA Today
. Johnston lectures widely on economics, journalism, and tax policy. He teaches at Syracuse University College of Law and lives in Rochester, New York.