Over the course of five decades in his rise to political and economic power, Donald Trump has been accused of numerous crimes, including but not limited to sexual assault, tax evasion, money laundering, non-payment of employees and the defrauding of tenants, customers, contractors, investors, bankers, attorneys, charities and, finally, the American people.
Not unlike the great capitalists, con men and fraudsters of the 19th century, Trump was in the right place at the right time, albeit more than a century later under very different economic conditions — that is, he was in New York real estate and Wall Street finance. He also took advantage of the era of heightened and deregulated monopoly-capitalist fraud where lawlessness and corruption were in close alignment with rampant scamming and financial entrepreneurship.
