Saturday, January 16, 2016

What Donald Trump’s Plaza Deal Reveals About His White House Bid - The New York Times

What Donald Trump’s Plaza Deal Reveals About His White House Bid - The New York Times:



"The day Donald Trump called and asked for a one-on-one meeting in the winter of 1988, Tom Barrack was a relative newcomer to the high-stakes poker game of New York real estate. He had worked for nearly two years for Robert Bass, the Texas billionaire investor, and had played an important role in winning the Plaza Hotel for his boss the year before. Mr. Trump was the country’s most quotable and ostentatious financial celebrity, a guy with a jet, a 282-foot yacht and a fondness for peach-toned marble."



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