Quote of the Day (Jimmy Breslin, on a Con Artist Who Played Reporters and ‘Financial Geniuses’ for Suckers)

“[A] famous, well-tested theory…is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York….‘Gentlemen, this is the rule. A sucker has to get screwed.’ [I]nstead of horseplayers, the suckers who must get screwed are a combination of news reporters and financial people. It is all quite simple. Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery…He uses the reporters to create a razzle dazzle: there are five stories in the newspapers in the morning papers leading into 11 minutes of television at night. The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television. Trump is larger than life. No, not Trump. Don't use that name. It's Donald! He cannot lose. The financial geniuses can't wait to rush into the glamour and lights. They want to touch Trump's arm. ‘Here, I'm from Prudential, the rock of Gibraltar. Take our $75 million to build another crap game. Can I ride on your boat?’"—Pulitzer Prize-winning American columnist and novelist Jimmy Breslin (1930-2017), “The Art of the Trump: Call It Corum's Law,” Newsday, June 7, 1990