RICH, POWERFUL, AND COERCIVE

“When erecting Trump Tower, according to investigative reporter and Trump biographer Wayne Barrett, he threatened an [Ed] Koch administration official who had denied him a crucial abatement with these words: ‘I don’t know whether it’s still possible for you to change your decision or not. But I want you to know that I am a very rich and powerful person in this town and there is a reason I got that way. I will never forget what you did.”2 The tower, of course, was built; in 1986, the official left the Koch administration to join the Trump Organization.”

Michael Tomasky, “Trump,” in the New York Review, September 24, 2015, pp: 12-16.