When Trump became a presidential candidate back in 2015 I had a vague memory of him from back in the 1980s, when I was new to New York City, from the investigative journalism of Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice. Trump was one of many sleazy landlords/developers who tended to own New York City politicians. …

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