Nov 2020:
Donald Trump’s first foreign trip as POTUS was to MBS, not Macron or Merkel. That was because Trump had more in common with Putin and other dictators than democratic leaders. And that’s because Trump, first and foremost, is a financial criminal, as are most dictators. Now that Trump is voted out, people assume he is leaving office on Jan 20th. However, as long as Trump is in the White House we should be very suspect of Trump’s moves.
Trump’s not given up yet, and neither have his allies. Who are Trump’s allies? Besides many of our US corporations and the uber-rich, they are the authoritarians in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, his cowardly sycophants in Congress and the gullible in his MAGA base, who support him even though they get shafted by GOP financial policies. That’s a lot of allies for a man whose uncaring incompetence led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. So how did Donald Trump, a spoiled NYC business man get involved with dictators? Spoiler alert. This did not start in 2016.

When leaders steal from their own governments, they need a foreign safe-place to hide and protect the money they have stolen. There is a sort of dictator’s fraternity on planet earth, and they all meet up where their money meets up, in the banks that protect the identity of their foreign clients and in real estate assets than generate income, like condos and golf clubs.
I knew Donny Trump first from Wharton School and then more substantially from Atlantic City. The AC culture really served as the business school for both of us. Our targets were tourists – not people our kids played with at school. Veritable others. The goal was to get their money and go back to our families and feel good about being providers. I was a jeweler in that scene. I tried not to be a scam artist, but I surely knew a lot of them and how they rolled. AC was had a “carney” ethic going back to prohibition and the Nucky Johnson days. The AC 80’s was like Boardwalk Empire II.
Trump’s casinos made one million dollars a day and he had three of them. This is easy to prove. Gambling profits are a function of volume. His casinos enjoyed the same volumes that Caesar’s and Resorts had in AC. Caesar’s didn’t declare bankruptcy. Their profits mirrored Trump’s profits. but Trump declared bankruptcy.
Trump’s declaration of bankruptcy in Atlantic City, made it clear that Trump was moving major profits out of country to skirt taxes. Trump always enjoyed scamming people. It makes him feel smart without having to be good at anything except selling and stealing. And scamming the US government was a Trump family tradition for two generations.
This is why Trump invests heavily overseas and won’t reveal his taxes. Donald Trump made the choice to be a criminal in the 1980’s. That’s when he met Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and a host of Russian mob players who were also okay with money laundering. Those 80’s connections ultimately led him to Russia, the Miss Universe Pageants and Vladimir Putin. Financial crime is why he is aligned with Putin, Kim Jong-un and MBS and not Macron and Merkel.
There are two kinds of dictators. Some are royal. Their fathers were dictators and they inherited their station. Royals are so powerful that they don’t need to hide their funds overseas. MBS and Kim are in the category. Then there are the new dictators that gain power in a democracy and find a way to subvert their democracy so they can stay in power. Putin, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Castro and Hitler are examples of that kind of dictator. That’s the kind of dictator Trump is trying to become. If successful, the children of these non-royal dictators become royalty. That’s how it has worked throughout human human history.
The European democracies rejoiced when Trump lost the election, but the dictators on planet earth are still rooting for him because if Trump does not stay on as president past January 20th, it bodes poorly for them. Their people are watching all this play out online. They would love to see democracy fail.
Donald Trump needed dictator schooling as he was totally ignorant of world history. So, Putin has been schooling Trump via back-channeling through Kushner throughout his presidency. Jared is the only man Trump trusts enough to be the connection between himself and Putin. Trump uses a go-between because the go-between can be pardoned, if caught. Presidential pardons must be redefined to eliminate pardons for activities that tangentially involve the pardoner. It’s a form of self pardoning.
Putin leaked his tutorial relation with Trump in gangster code in a Sochi CBS interview when playing hockey. Listen to the YouTube video if you missed it. Ask yourself why Putin would say what he did, if not to brag to the world about his knowledge of and influence over Donald Trump? Nothing else makes sense.
Trump should have known that getting into government could expose his life of financial crimes. His father warned him to stay out of politics because there was a family tradition of cheating on taxes. But the greed bug hit him just like it hit the gamblers who went broke in his casinos. Trump used the greed trap to make a fortune and ironically fell in the same trap himself. Trump now has too much to lose to stop fighting. Losing the election is not going to stop him.
These post election firings in key positions are not in the country’s best interest. But rest assured, the country’s best interest is the last thing on Trump’s mind. If he can fire enough people in key positions, and get the USA into a state of war or martial law before January 20th, he just may be able to stay on in the story he is telling himself in his mind. And Trump has always lived 100% entirely within his own mind.
I do wish someone with a large mic in media would show the dictator map. This has always been all that’s been going on since “Russia, if you’re listening.” It’s not about “politics”. It’s about thieves keeping their financial crimes hidden. If being in politics helps that goal for the criminals, they go that way. It’s up to decent people to put an end to all of this. The fate of our country and the planet is at stake. Most Americans are like Trump with regard to world politics. Ignorant. They need to see what’s going on with a picture. No one reads much any more. Georgians need to see this image. The GOP is aligned with big business and they are aligned with dictators via their worship of money.
Tap Jared Kushner’s phone. So what if it’s illegal? It’s jaywalking compared to what the Trumps are doing and people are dying while we watch and wait. Right now, Kushner is getting daily updates and schooling from Putin. Release what you hear like it’s in some spy movie. Reminds me of the film No Way Out. This is a movie in Trump’s mind. He is the villain. Who will be the hero in this film?
America is stronger than Russia was when Putin took over. But be aware: no country in all of history has been impervious to demise.
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relevant prior post: The decision to subvert democracy was made in 2019.
https://englishcode.wordpress.com/2019/05/24/ice-raids/
Joseph Aronesty is an e-commerce pioneer, songwriter, author, linguist, father of five and staunch activist for every day people. He was in a class with Trump at Wharton in 1967 and worked near him in AC in the 80’s. josepharonesty@gmail.com













