Damn ... just damn. Power Line’s Steven Hayward posts excerpts of a largely positive backgrounder the New York Times did on young real estate mogul Donald Trump in 1984.
They were amazed at his self-confidence, his energy, his charisma, his chutzpah, his over-the-top success, and his growing maturity. And yes, they saw some rough spots too.
You have to wonder how they square their positive words of “then” with their unrelenting condemnation “now”? Thirty-four years later, he is recognizably the same driven, high-energy, wins-more-than-loses guy today that he was in 1984. And he's still winning.
