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October 10, 2022 - January 10, 2023
“He can’t have two people standing on the podium. He can’t have somebody even getting the silver and the bronze,” Nusbaum said later. “He’s gotta get the gold, the silver, and the bronze all at one time.”
“It’s always good to do things nice and complicated so that nobody can figure it out.”
Others were bothered by the general demeanor of Trump’s local lobbyist, Al Pirro, whose wife, Jeanine, served as the county’s district attorney. They were social friends, and Trump used their home to host a themed surprise birthday party for his adviser Richard Fields; guests recalled Jeanine greeting them wearing a bustier, stockings, holsters that carried tequila bottles,
and bandoliers with shot glasses. Al Pirro was indicted for tax fraud while Trump was trying to win approvals from Briarcliff officials. Trump waved away those planning difficulties as a by-product of a famous name. “I think being Trump is a huge asset and it’s a huge liability,” Trump told The New York Observer.
“I’ll tell you what. If you look, if you look at some of the reservations that you’ve approved, that you, sir, in your great wisdom have approved, I will tell you right now—they don’t look like Indians to me. And they don’t look like the Indians,”
sir.” When a reporter asked him to explain exactly what an Indian looked like, Trump replied, “You know. You know.”
He demanded an increase of more than tenfold over his current pay, citing the combined wages of the six stars of NBC’s hit sitcom Friends. “You’re paying six million dollars for them for a half hour show,” Trump said. All he wanted, he explained, was one million per episode. Graboff and Zucker broke in. Your brand has been enhanced by being on the show, they told him. “Oh, absolutely,” Trump said. “What would you say it was enhanced by, five percent or ten percent?” Zucker asked. “Absolutely,” Trump said. “All right,” Zucker replied. “Then you should be
paying us.” Trump did not have a response.
When Stone created an outfit called Citizens United Not Timid (CUNT) during the 2008 presidential campaign, Bossie’s group sued him.
In 2010, Citizens United Productions released a film about the financial crisis directed by Steve Bannon, the former Goldman Sachs executive turned right-wing media entrepreneur.
