{"id":411,"date":"2023-12-18T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebestbiography.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2023-12-18T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:09:03","slug":"donald-trump-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebestbiography.com\/donald-trump-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump (45th U.S. President) Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0(born June 14, 1946,\u00a0New York, New York, U.S.) 45th\u00a0president of the United States\u00a0(2017\u201321). Trump was a real estate developer and businessman who owned, managed, or licensed his name to\u00a0hotels,\u00a0casinos, golf courses, resorts, and residential properties in the\u00a0New York City\u00a0area and around the world. From the 1980s Trump also lent his name to scores of retail ventures\u2014including branded lines of clothing, cologne, food, and\u00a0furniture\u2014and to\u00a0Trump University, which offered seminars in real estate education from 2005 to 2010. <\/p>

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Donald Trump Info <\/strong><\/h2>

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Name<\/strong><\/td>Donald John Trump<\/td><\/tr>
Born<\/strong><\/td>June 14, 1946 (age 77) \u2022\u00a0New York City\u00a0\u2022\u00a0New York<\/td><\/tr>
Education<\/strong><\/td>New York Military Academy (Cornwall, New York) \u2022\u00a0Fordham University (1964\u20131966)\u00a0\u2022\u00a0University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School (B.S., 1968)<\/td><\/tr>
Nicknames<\/strong><\/td>The Don , The Donald, The Trumpstet, Mr. Brexit
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Height<\/strong><\/td>6\u2032 2\u00be\u2033 (1.90 m)
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Spouses<\/strong><\/td>Melania Trump(January 22, 2005 – present) (1 child)
Marla Maples(December 20, 1993 – June 8, 1999) (divorced, 1 child)
Ivana Trump(April 9, 1977 – December 11, 1990) (divorced, 3 children)<\/td><\/tr>
Children<\/strong><\/td>Donald Trump Jr.
Ivanka Trump
Eric Trump
Tiffany Trump
Barron Trump<\/td><\/tr>
Parents<\/strong><\/td>Mary Trump
Fred Trump<\/td><\/tr>
Age<\/strong><\/td>77 Years<\/td><\/tr>
Net worth<\/strong><\/td>\u00a0$2.6 billion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>

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Donald Trump Early Life<\/strong><\/h2>

On June 14, 1946, in Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York City, Donald John Trump was born. He was the fourth child of Scottish immigrant Mary Anne MacLeod Donald Trump<\/a> and Bronx-born real estate mogul Fred Trump, whose ancestors were immigrants from Germany. In the Jamaica Estates district of Queens, Trump was raised alongside his elder siblings, Maryanne, Fred Jr., and Elizabeth, and his younger brother, Robert. He went to the private Kew-Forest School for his elementary and middle school education. He joined in the exclusive boarding school New York Military Academy at the age of 13, and he then enrolled in Fordham University in 1964. He moved to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School two years later, where he eventually earned a Bachelor of Science in economics in May 1968. In Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, threatened to take legal action in 2015 against the College Board, Trump’s high school, and Trump’s colleges if they made public the president’s academic records.<\/p>

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During the Vietnam War era, Trump was granted four student draft deferments while attending college. A medical check in 1966 found him suitable for military duty, and in July 1968 a local draft board declared him eligible for duty. He was given a conditional medical deferment in October 1968 (classified as 1-Y), and in 1972 (classified as 4-F) because of bone spurs, which rendered him permanently ineligible for military duty.<\/p>

Donald Trump Family<\/strong><\/h2>

Trump wed Czech model Ivana Zeln\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1 in 1977. Donald Jr. (born 1977), Ivanka (born 1981), and Eric (born 1984) were their three children. In 1988, Ivana obtained her naturalization as an American citizen. 1990 saw the couple’s divorce as a result of Trump’s extramarital involvement with Marla Maples. 1993 saw the marriage of Trump and Maples, who separated in 1999. Born in 1993, Tiffany is their only child and was reared in California by Marla. Trump wed Slovenian beauty Melania Knauss in 2005. Barron, their only child, was born in 2006. In 2006, Melania obtained U.S. citizenship.<\/p>

Donald Trump Religion<\/strong><\/h2>

Trump attended Sunday school and was confirmed in 1959 at Jamaica, Queens’ First Presbyterian Church. His parents became members of Manhattan’s Marble Collegiate Church, a branch of the Reformed Church in America, in the 1970s. Norman Vincent Peale, the pastor of Marble, served the family well until his passing in 1993. According to Trump, he is a mentor. The church declared in 2015 that Trump was not a participating member. He appointed televangelist Paula White, his personal pastor, to the White House Office of Public Liaison in 2019. He claimed to be a non-denominational Christian in 2020.<\/p>

Donald Trump Health habits<\/strong><\/h2>

Although he doesn’t typically walk the course, Trump has referred to golf as his “primary form of exercise”. Exercise drains the body’s energy “like a battery, with a finite amount of energy,” according to him, thus he views it as a waste of energy. The Trump campaign published a letter in 2015 from Harold Bornstein, the candidate’s longstanding personal physician, predicting that Trump will “be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”. Bornstein claimed in 2018 that Trump had dictated the letter’s contents and that during a raid on the doctor’s office in February 2017, three Trump operatives had taken his medical data.<\/p>

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Donald Trump Net Worth<\/strong><\/h2>

Former US President Donald Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion per year, the New York Attorney General said in a court filing on Wednesday. The Attorney General Letitia James asked a state judge to declare, even before the start of a trial, that Donald Trump committed fraud by submitting false statements to bankers and insurers.<\/p>

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Donald Trump Business Career<\/strong><\/h2>

Trump began working for his father’s real estate firm, Trump Management, in 1968. The company owned middle-class rental properties in the outer boroughs of New York City that were divided based on race. He took over as president of the business in 1971 and started utilizing the Trump Organization as a catch-all name. He filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for six of his companies between 1991 and 2009, including the Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts corporation, the Manhattan Plaza Hotel, and the Atlantic City, New Jersey casinos.<\/p>

From Businessmen To Politician<\/strong><\/h2>

After taking control of the Trump Organization, Trump continued to work in real-estate development but also expanded into other businesses. He purchased sports teams, published books, and served as the producer and host of a reality TV show called The Apprentice. <\/em>He married his third wife and future first lady, model Melania Knauss, in 2005. (Trump was previously married to model Ivana Zeln\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1 and actress Marla Maples.<\/p>

In 2000, Trump ran for president as a candidate on a third-party ticket, meaning as an alternative candidate to those from the two major political parties, the Republicans and Democrats. He dropped out early in the race, but considered running again in 2004 and 2012. In 2015, he announced he was again running for president, this time on a major-party ticket as a Republican nominee. He beat out 16 other candidates to become the party\u2019s official nominee in 2016.<\/p>

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The 2016 Election<\/strong><\/h2>

Trump\u2019s opponent in the 2016 election was Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state and wife to former U.S. president Bill Clinton. Because of Trump’s lack of experience in public service and the untraditional way he ran his campaign, many expected Clinton to become the first female president of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>

In many countries, national elections are somewhat simple: The candidate with the most votes wins. But citizens of the United States participate in a more complex, two-step process. After individual citizens across the country have participated in the popular vote, it’s up to a group called the electoral college to consider those votes and choose the president. Based on population, each state has a certain number of delegates, or voters, in the electoral college<\/a> who vote for the president according to how people in their state voted. The candidate who wins the popular vote in the state gets all the state\u2019s delegates.<\/p>

After the 2016 election votes were counted, Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump, winning the popular vote. But Trump won the popular vote in several of the states that had a lot of delegates\u2014and therefore he won the presidency. Trump is only the fifth president to take office after losing the popular vote, but winning the electoral college.<\/p>

Donald Trump Presidential Acts<\/strong><\/h2>

Like Reagan before him, candidate Trump declared that his lack of experience as a politician made him better suited to represent the ordinary citizens of the country. Enough voters agreed with him, and he was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017.<\/p>

Upon becoming president, Trump promised to follow his campaign slogan and “Make America Great Again.” He began by providing more jobs for the middle class, attempting to lower the national debt (the amount of money that the United States owes to other countries and companies), and raising money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to increase border security and prevent immigrants from illegally entering the country. He also rolled back previous policies directed at reducing pollution and climate change, saying they were too costly for the U.S. government to fund. In addition, to create more jobs, his administration has proposed plans to allow drilling and mining where they were previously off-limits in national parks, and reduced the amount of land set aside for wildlife listed under the Endangered Species Act, a law that helped bring many North American species back from near-extinction. Under Trump\u2019s administration, cruelty to animals became a federal crime in late 2019.<\/p>

During his time as president, Trump also appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States: Neil Gorsuch in 2017, Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.<\/p>

The First Impeachment<\/strong>
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In 2019, evidence emerged that Trump had supposedly withheld aid to the Eastern European country of Ukraine in an attempt to get them to provide damaging information on one of his political rivals. This angered many members of Congress. On December 18, 2019, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump, or officially charge him with misconduct in office. The two charges (called articles of impeachment) were abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, or blocking Congress from doing their job properly. The Senate then held a trial to decide if Trump should be removed from office. After nearly three weeks, the Senate voted to let the president remain in office. Only two other U.S. presidents have ever been impeached: Andrew Johnson in 1868, and Bill Clinton in 1998. Like Trump, neither were removed from office.<\/p>

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Donald Trump Film and Television<\/strong><\/h2>

From 1985 to 2001, Trump appeared in a number of television series and movies as a cameo. Since the late 1980s, Trump has had an irregular connection with the professional wrestling promotion WWE. In 2007, he made an appearance at WrestleMania 23, and in 2013, he was admitted into the WWE Hall of Fame’s celebrity section.<\/p>

Wearing a suit, Trump sits at a packed baseball stadium during a 2009 New York Mets game.
Trump made roughly 24 appearances as a guest on the nationally syndicated Howard Stern Show beginning in the 1990s. From 2004 to 2008, he also hosted Trumped!, a one- to two-minute short form talk radio show on weekdays. He was a weekly unpaid guest analyst on Fox & Friends from 2011 to 2015.<\/p>

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Trump co-produced and hosted the reality series The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice from 2004 to 2015. Playing a charming, highly stylized version of himself, Trump removed competitors with the catchphrase “You’re fired” and presented himself as an incredibly wealthy and successful CEO. For millions of people around the country, the shows altered his perception. They made him more than $400 million with the associated licensing agreements, which he put into mostly unsuccessful companies.<\/p>

After being a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1989, Trump resigned from the organization in February 2021 rather than appear before a disciplinary committee for his “reckless campaign of misinformation aimed at discrediting and ultimately threatening the safety of journalists” and for inciting the January 6, 2021, mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. The union permanently prohibited him from being readmitted after two days.<\/p>

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Trump\u2019s Foreign Policy Moments<\/strong><\/h2>

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Inauguration<\/strong><\/td>January 20, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
TPP Withdrawal<\/strong><\/td>January 23, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Travel Ban<\/strong><\/td>January 27, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Striking Syria<\/strong><\/td>April 7, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Revisiting NAFTA<\/strong><\/td>May 18, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Trump Goes Abroad<\/strong><\/td>May 20 \u2013 27, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Leaving the Paris Agreement<\/strong><\/td>2017 June 1, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Navigating Qatar\u2019s Crisis<\/strong><\/td>June 5, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Rolling Back Ties With Cuba<\/strong><\/td>June 16, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Trump Meets Putin<\/strong><\/td>July 5 \u2013 8, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
A War of Words With North Korea<\/strong><\/td>August 8, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
A New Afghan Strategy<\/strong><\/td>August 21, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Winding Down DACA<\/strong><\/td>September 5, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
A UN Debut<\/strong><\/td>September 19, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Revisiting the Iran Deal<\/strong><\/td>October 13, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Announcing Tariffs<\/strong><\/td>March 1, 2018 \u2013 April 3, 2018<\/td><\/tr>
Accepting Kim\u2019s Invitation<\/strong><\/td>March 18, 2018<\/td><\/tr>
U.S.-China Trade War<\/strong><\/td>April 4, 2018 \u2013 December 1, 2018<\/td><\/tr>
Trump Meets Kim<\/strong><\/td>June 12, 2018<\/td><\/tr>
A New NAFTA<\/strong><\/td>September 30, 2018<\/td><\/tr>
Border Wall Battle<\/strong><\/td>January 25, 2019<\/td><\/tr>
China Trade War Heats Up<\/strong><\/td>May 2019<\/td><\/tr>
Trump Walks Back Iran Strike<\/strong><\/td>June 20, 2019<\/td><\/tr>
Visiting North Korea<\/strong><\/td>June 30, 2019<\/td><\/tr>
Impeachment Inquiry Over Ukraine Dealings<\/strong><\/td>September 24, 2019<\/td><\/tr>
Baghdadi Killed<\/strong><\/td>October 26, 2019<\/td><\/tr>
Drone Strike on Soleimani<\/strong><\/td>January 3, 2020<\/td><\/tr>
A New Mideast Peace Plan<\/strong><\/td>January 28, 2020<\/td><\/tr>
Trump\u2019s Acquittal<\/strong><\/td>February 5, 2020<\/td><\/tr>
National Emergency Over Coronavirus<\/strong><\/td>March 13, 2020<\/td><\/tr>
COVID-19\u2019s Diplomatic Fallout<\/strong><\/td>March 2020 \u2013 September 22, 2020<\/td><\/tr>
WHO Withdrawal Notice<\/strong><\/td>July 6, 2020<\/td><\/tr>
Arab-Israeli Normalization Deals<\/strong><\/td>September 2020 \u2013 December 2020<\/td><\/tr>
Insurrection at the Capitol<\/strong><\/td>January 6, 2021<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>

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2020 Election Results<\/strong><\/h2>

Concerned about catching and spreading COVID-19, many voters chose to vote by mail during the presidential election. That meant that determining the election results took longer than it had in previous years. But once all the votes had been counted, Biden was declared the winner. He won about 81 million votes to Trump\u2019s approximately 74 million, winning the popular vote by 51.4 percent. In the electoral college, Biden won 306 votes to Trump\u2019s 232. (The winning candidate must receive 270 electoral votes in the electoral college. On December 14, 2020, the electoral college formally elected Biden as the next president of the United States, making Trump the 10th incumbent commander in chief to become a one-term president.<\/p>

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An Attack On The Capitol<\/strong><\/h2>

In the weeks following the 2020 election, Trump refused to concede to Biden, declaring that he had won the election even though he and his legal team could not offer any evidence to back up his claims. On January 6, 2021, while Congress was in a joint session to count the electoral votes, a mob of violent protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol to prevent Congress from declaring victory for Biden. The mob consisted of people who believed Trump\u2019s false claims that he had won the election. Five people, including a U.S. Capitol police officer, died during the riots. (Congress met later that night after police had retaken the Capitol to officially declare Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as president-elect and vice president-elect of the United States. <\/p>

Many people believed that Trump encouraged his followers to overrun the Capitol because of remarks he had made on social media and at rallies, including one just before the attack happened. Because of that, the U.S. government moved to impeach Trump for the second time during his presidency to charge him with incitement of insurrection. He was officially impeached by the House of Representatives on January 13, 2021, this time with 10 Republicans joining Democrats to charge him. He is the only U.S. president ever to be impeached twice.<\/p>

The Senate is not expected to vote on impeachment until after Biden begins his presidency on January 20, 2021. Because Trump will no longer be president, he will not be removed from office if the Senate votes to impeach. But the president would be disqualified from running for federal office again and might lose certain benefits former presidents enjoy, including an annual travel budget and security detail.<\/p>

Lasting Legancy<\/strong><\/h2>

Trump will remain president until January 20, 2021, when President-elect Biden will take the oath of office. Trump is expected to move to Florida, where he\u2019ll likely remain active in politics, pending the results of his impeachment trial. He\u2019s expressed interest in running for president again in 2024.<\/p>

Trump\u2019s post-presidential legacy has yet to take shape. He\u2019ll likely be remembered for his multiple appointments to the Supreme Court, an economy that continued to strengthen until the pandemic caused many people to lose their jobs, his controversial approach to handling the coronavirus response, his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election, and the events surrounding the U.S. Capitol riots.<\/p>

Donald Trump Fun Facts<\/strong><\/h3>

\u2022 Trump’s wife, Melania, is from Slovenia. She\u2019s the first foreign-born first lady since Louisa Adams, who was married to President John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) and born in England.<\/p>

\u2022 Trump loves to play golf and owns nearly 20 golf courses around the world.<\/p>

\u2022 Trump has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>

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Trump Remains defiant Amid Calls to Resign<\/strong><\/h1>

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump enters the last days of his presidency isolated and shunned by former allies and members of his own party as he faces a second impeachment and growing calls for his resignation after his supporters launched an assault on the nation\u2019s Capitol in an effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Cut off from the social media channels that have been the lifeblood of his presidency, Trump will nonetheless try to go on offense in his last 10 days, with no plans of resigning.<\/p>

Instead, Trump is planning to lash out against the companies that have now denied him his Twitter and Facebook bullhorns. And aides hope he will spend his last days trying to trumpet his policy accomplishments, beginning with a trip to Alamo, Texas, on Tuesday to highlight his administration\u2019s efforts to curb illegal immigration and border wall construction.<\/p>

Trump\u2019s decision to travel to Alamo \u2014 named after the San Antonio mission where a small group of Texans fighting for independence against the Mexican government were defeated after a 13-day siege \u2014 served as a symbol of his defiance as he faces the most volatile end of any presidency in modern history.<\/p>

Trump has not taken any responsibility for his role in inciting Wednesday\u2019s violence amid a rebellion from members of his own party and ongoing efforts to remove him from office. A second Republican senator, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, on Sunday called for Trump\u2019s resignation after Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told the Anchorage Daily News: \u201cI want him out.\u201d<\/p>

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Trump had delivered a speech to his supporters in which he repeatedly said the election was being stolen and urged them to \u201cfight\u201d before they rushed the Capitol as lawmakers were in the process of certifying Biden\u2019s wins. The violent crowd forced its way inside, ransacked the building and sent terrified staff and lawmakers, including the vice president, into hiding. Five, including a Capitol police officer, died.<\/p>

Rattled by the violent insurrection and images of MAGA-loyalists hunting for them in the Capitol\u2019s hallways, House Democrats moved quickly toward a second impeachment this week, though Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has said a trial in his chamber would not begin before Biden takes office.<\/p>

While people close to Trump said they would certainly prefer he not become the only president in the nation\u2019s history to be impeached a second time, Jason Miller, a close adviser, noted that Trump\u2019s popularity rose after his first impeachment trial. And he argued that, if they moved forward, Democrats risk turning public sentiment against them and impeding Biden\u2019s agenda by continuing to focus on Trump even after he has left the White House.<\/p>

\u201cAs I said to the president this morning, never discount national Democrats\u2019 ability to galvanize the Republican base behind you,\u201d said Miller, arguing that, if \u201cnational Democrats were to go down that path, I think it would boomerang on them very severely.\u201d Joe Biden doesn\u2019t want to spend the first 100 days of his presidency having to own a vindictive and overreaching impeachment trial,\u201d he added.<\/p>

Meanwhile, Trump has largely been absent from his presidential duties since he lost the election, consumed instead with base conspiracies about mass voter fraud that his own government has rejected, even as the coronavirus pandemic spirals further out of control.<\/p>

While his legacy will surely forever be stained by Wednesday\u2019s violence, aides nonetheless are pushing Trump to spend his final days trumpeting his policy achievements. Events have been discussed to highlight his administration\u2019s efforts to bolster Mideast peace, roll back regulations, support jobs and manufacturing and curb China\u2019s power, though previous such efforts have been rebuffed.<\/p>

While it is unclear whether such action would have any practical impact, Trump is also mulling potential executive action as he escalates his war against big tech after he was banned by Twitter and Facebook and as Amazon moves to shut down platforms like the conservative favorite Parler amid concerns about potential future violence ahead of President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration on January 20.<\/p>

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Trump\u2019s Visit India<\/strong><\/h2>

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U.S. President Donald Trump lands in New Delhi early next week to meet his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>. International media is almost certain to focus on a growing friendship between the world\u2019s two largest democracies. Former U.S. President Barack Obama predicted the two would form a \u201cdefining partnership\u201d of the 21st century, and advancing ties with India is one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement in Washington. A broad consensus of foreign-policy thinkers view an India-U.S. relationship as a hedge against the rise of China.<\/p>

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Friends With Benefits: Donald and Rudy\u2019s Long, Strange Partnership<\/strong><\/h2>

long before he was Donald Trump\u2019s personal attorney and devoted defender, Rudy Giuliani<\/a> wasn\u2019t exactly a fan. The first time, actually, he invoked Trump\u2019s name in a high-profile, high-stakes setting, Giuliani was the prosecutor in a public corruption case.<\/p>

The setting was the federal courthouse in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1986. Giuliani was the top gun from the Southern District of New York. And the main defendant, accused of taking kickbacks from companies for whom he helped score contracts with the city\u2019s Parking Violations Bureau, was Stanley Friedman\u2014a former deputy mayor, the Democratic Party chair in the Bronx and a lobbyist who the year before had netted nearly a million dollars. He typically sported a goatee, pinstriped suits with a pocket square and glasses with his initials in rhinestones. He spent his days on the phone, chain-chomping cigars, a human hub of old-style favor-trading. \u201cA bribe broker,\u201d Giuliani called him. \u201cA force to be reckoned with,\u201d his own attorney would grant in his memoir. And the perch from which Friedman presided was his office at the law firm of one of his closest associates, Roy Cohn, and one of his most prominent clients was Cohn\u2019s most noted mentee\u2014Donald Trump.<\/p>

Trump wasn\u2019t on trial but Giuliani didn\u2019t do his reputation any favors. Giuliani sketched for the jury what he called this \u201ccesspool of corruption,\u201d this tale of \u201cplunder,\u201d this story of \u201cthe buying and selling of public office.\u201d Knitting the men together, Giuiliani cast Trump as a preeminent beneficiary of Friedman\u2019s expansive, crooked clout.<\/p>

\u201cDuring the latter part of time that you were deputy mayor,\u201d Giuliani posed, referring to Friedman\u2019s official capacity in the late 1970s in the administration of Trump family friend Mayor Abe Beame, \u201cYou had meetings with Roy Cohn and talked about joining his law firm, isn\u2019t that correct?\u201d<\/p>

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The relationship, in the estimation of those who know them well, always has been a predominantly transactional one, a function of proximity, pragmatism and a kind of philosophical kinship. Starting in the \u201880s, they weren\u2019t friends as much as self-created characters on the same bustling, spot-lit, tabloid-stoked stage, ferociously and transparently ambitious players in New York\u2019s nexus of money, publicity and power. They crossed paths at the never-ending parade of fetes for peddlers of influence and boldface names, of which they were two of the boldest. Both of them vengeful and constitutionally untrusting, indefatigable and resolutely unapologetic, ideologically malleable but politically driven, they boasted showman sensibilities and a willingness to co-opt each other\u2019s fame as their careers rose and fell. Each retained a residue of outer-borough resentment, Giuliani born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Trump a product of a leafy, wealthy enclave past the last subway stop in Queens. They both seemed to see publicity as a sort of sustenance. They both had a taste for black-and-white, law-and-order rhetoric. They both wanted to be president. They attended each other\u2019s third weddings.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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