Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
Trump's base and the owners and operators of the Republican Party are two entirely different groups. The real owners find Trump and his base useful, or not so much if Trump tries to purposefully damage New York City and all the 1% who live or work there. If that was ever the case, Trump would find himself in an assassin's crosshairs immediately. That's always been the penalty for screwing with the 1%.

See: "Bernie Madoff"...or "Cuba".
And that was just a little bit of screwing, by comparison Trump would be committing grand larceny on just about every single member of the New York City cognoscenti.

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