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Subject: Why Palm Beach, Florida Is The 'New Greenwich' For Wall Streeters
BUSINESS
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Why Palm Beach, Florida Is The
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The Palm Beach finance crowd can paddleboard whenever they please.
Behind a semicircular brick drive and a lawn as manicured as a putting
green sits a 30,000-square-foot masterpiece of Italian Renaissance
architecture called Casa Nana.
John Porter, a real estate associate for Corcoran who oversees some of the
largest sales in Palm Beach County, Florida, points out the spiral staircase,
built by famed 19205 architect Addison Mizner for the founder of the
National Tea Company. "This home went for $30.2 million in 2003; today
that sum wouldn't be in the top 25 highest prices" of houses for sale in this
area, Porter says. "Palm Beach real estate has gone from nothing going on to
nothing left to sell."
Porter is giving me a tour of the so-called Billionaire's Row, a stretch of
South Ocean Boulevard on the island of Palm Beach that is bordered by
some of the highest hedges I've ever seen. Through gaps in the greenery
appear stone fountains, elephant statues, pools the size of tennis complexes
(next to actual tennis complexes), and more clay roofs than one could count.
It's a monumental display of wealth, and it is rapidly expanding, not just
here but in Delray Beach, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens and Boca Raton, as
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money pours out of the Northeast (and in some cases, from as far as London
and Singapore) and into this already wealthy section of southeast Florida.
Approximately 70 hedge and private equity funds are now headquartered
here, many of which have set up shop in the last two years, jacking up home
prices and spurring a countywide initiative to become, as some have said,
"the new Greenwich."
For hedge fund managers who might normally be inclined toward
Westchester or Connecticut, the allure of South Florida is as plain as grits
on toast. The homes are sprawling; the Intracoastal Waterway is a yachter's
paradise. It has a glittering social scene. During high season—October
through March—there might be several fundraisers on any given night.
Perhaps the key factor, however: In Florida, there are no individual income
taxes, no estate taxes and no capital gains taxes. A hedge fund manager
reporting $1 million in income can expect to pay only the federal
government, whereas his counterpart living in Connecticut pays that plus an
extra $67,000. And if the poor schmuck were still in New York City? He'd
better be ready to fork over $104,300.
As for why all of this is happening now, when Florida has long been a sunny
tax haven, so to speak, financiers point to the upcoming application of
Section 457A of the Internal Revenue Code. Before 457A was enacted,
certain fees and related earnings could grow tax deferred in offshore
accounts for up to ten years. But now, according to the section, hedge fund
managers will need to funnel all of the fees that were deferred before 2009
and their related earnings back into the U.S. by 2017. If a manager lives in
Florida when this happens, he's much less likely to pay exorbitant state
taxes on the whole amount. If he still lived in New York City?
Fuggedaboudit.
It's the job of Kelly Smallridge, president and CEO of the Palm Beach
Business Development Board, to ensure that hedge fund and private equity
managers are informed of these benefits, in the hopes that they, and their
firms, will become Palm Beach County's newest residents. She's developed a
red-carpet tour that goes beyond looking at office space and real estate to
include meeting headmasters at private schools, the school-district
superintendent and the mayor and speaking with the governor's staff and
CEOs who have moved their operations here. Plus, of course, a few nights
on the town.
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In the winter, when the well-to-do from all over the Northeast visit Florida
for charity balls, the board hosts dinners and parties for prospective
relocators and local captains of industry. Last year, Smallridge and
company sponsored a soiree aboard a $70 million yacht that featured Veuve
Clicquot, caviar and live jazz. Guests—who included the CEOs of a national
IT company, a major finance company and a land developer, venture
capitalists, hedge fund managers and the creator of Goldman Sachs' prime
brokerage division—took private tours with the captain of the yacht.
Smallridge is also working with former hedge fund CIO Dr. Rainford Knight
to develop a club for local investment managers called SocialAlpha that
encourages bankers in Palm Beach County's ritzy social scene to get to know
each other. Even Florida governor Rick Scott has gotten involved, sending
personal letters to friends and prospects from the Northeast (the governor is
a former Greenwich resident and businessman) to convince them of
Florida's merits.
Smallridge and Governor Scott are hoping to induce a snowball effect, and
so far, it seems to be working. Every financier who moves south chips away
at the primary reason to remain near New York City—the fact that everyone
else is there. That's not to say it's been easy. Florida is still Florida, and
popular opinion has not been kind. Even Palm Beach, which has for the
most part dodged the insults hurled at the rest of the state, is known for its
residents' apocalyptically bad driving and worse Hawaiian shirts.
"There was a fair amount of trepidation," says Al Rabil III, managing
partner and CEO of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors, who made the
move from Armonk, New York, with 20 coworkers this summer. "But once
everybody got past the stereotypes and actually came and looked, that
changed." He says most of his employees weren't looking for bottle service
and models anyway. The majority of those who have reached the upper
echelons of financial management are married with children, and the appeal
of a semi-tropical paradise with luxury restaurants, year-round recreation,
and sophisticated socializing in a community far more tight-knit than
Manhattan (yes, that'sDonald Trump over there) is not lost on them.
Porter's tour of Billionaire's Row was part of a modified version of one of
the Business Development Board's red-carpet tours that I took as part of
researching this story. I ate breakfast at the clubby Top of the Point
restaurant with some of the area's prominent financiers. A waiter in a
captain's outfit served lobster rolls while a CPA, a lawyer and the executive
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director of the Palm Beach County Education Commission touted the area's
benefits. I surveyed real estate and office space surrounded by miles of
water without once having my foot stepped on by a tourist. You can see how
all this might sway someone who's on the fence.
Exploring the sugary beaches of South Florida, one starts to wonder why
Wall Streeters would be on the fence at all. Between the smiling locals and
the shopping on Worth Avenue, the Hiaasen-esque stereotypes recede.
What remains are the facts: Take-home pay is higher, commutes are
shorter, and it's just as fabulous as Manhattan, at least for four months of
the year. Meanwhile, no one in Florida even owns an ice scraper. With the
Internet allowing more and more money managers to perform their work
from nearly anywhere, there are few reasons not to make the move.
"Initially, it was a way to play golf and keep the wife and kids happy," says
Brett Langbert, managing director and head of sales at I.A. Englander & Co.
"But once we moved down, it became a quality-of-life issue. There are
unlimited things the kids can do outside. I have to tell you, my wife and I
are so happy we haven't had to go to one of those indoor bouncy-castle
places since we got here."
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Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
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I'm in Istanbul, private meeting of asian, middle eastern + north african families.
Apparently Donald Trump is also in town today to open the Trump Tower Istanbul.
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Eric Roth
3/24/2015 5:58:34 PM
jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
10:00pm Tonight - CNBC Feature
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Hi Jeffrey,
Hope all is well.
Should you be bored this evening, we will be featured on CNBC's "Secret Lives of The Super Rich" showcasing our S-76
refurbishment for Donald Trump.
Warm regards,
Eric
ERIC H. ROTH I PRESIDENT
international jet
WA!
http://www.intljet.com
2221 Smithtown Avenue, Long Island MacArthur Airport, Ronkonkoma, New York 11779
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From: Richard Kahn
Sent: 3/24/2015 8:00:21 PM
To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Subject: Eric Roth
Attachments: image001.jpg; image002.jpg; image003.jpg
Importance: High
he appears to be looking for a response from me as i never replied to his email offering a 10,000 discount
please advise
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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From: Eric Roth <
To: Richard Kahn <
Subject: 10:00pm Tonight - CNBC Feature
Date: March 24, 2015 at 2:12:01 PM EDT
Hi Richard,
Hope all is well.
Should you be bored this evening, we will be featured on CNBC's "Secret Lives of The Super Rich" showcasing our S-76
helicopter refurbishment for Donald Trump — thought you might enjoy getting a glimpse of what we do.
Best regards,
Eric
ERIC H. ROTH I PRESIDENT
international jet
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2221 Smithtown Avenue, Long Island MacArthur Airport, Ronkonkoma, New York 11779
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From: Richard Kahn
Sent: 9/20/2016 1:05:00 PM
To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Importance: High
http :1/projects. fivethirtyeight. com/2016-election-forecast!
not sure how trump wins without PA..
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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From: Richard Kahn
Sent: 9/21/2016 12:01:29 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
Subject: Trump-Clinton debate expected to shatter records I TheHill
Importance: High
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... gs-records
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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Trump-Clinton debate expected to shatter records
by Joe Concha
The Hill
09/20/16 12:04 PM ET
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The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump promises to be the most watched ever, with an audience that could exceed 100 million people, according to experts interviewed by The Hill.

A debate with an audience that size would be something never seen before in U.S. politics and would be a figure close to what the Super Bowl gets.

{mosads}The figure would be even more remarkable in an era in which Americans have countless cable and streaming options.

The 1983 finale of “M*A*S*H” is the only television show that has hit the 100 million mark. Last year’s Super Bowl in which the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers attracted 111.9 viewers, and pop star Katy Perry’s performance at the 2015 Super Bowl had 118.5 million viewers.

In 2012, the first two presidential debates between President Obama and Mitt Romney averaged 66.4 million viewers across broadcast and cable outlets CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, PBS, C-SPAN, Univision and others.

Monday’s debate, hosted by NBC News anchor Lester Holt from Hofstra University in New York, will be carried by all of the broadcast networks, the cable news networks, Univision, PBS and a number of streaming options.

Experts in both politics and television are expecting huge numbers because they have already witnessed one of the most dramatic, volatile and unpredictable presidential races in U.S. history.

Much of the anticipation is driven by Trump, the television personality turned Republican presidential nominee who created a ratings bonanza for cable networks during the GOP primary.

CNN and FOX News both scored record viewership for a primary debate as Trump battled his Republican rivals — and news anchors, most memorably Megyn Kelly of Fox.

“I think debate ratings, especially the first one, will be through the roof, astronomical, and may even approach Super Bowl numbers of viewers,” says Paul Levinson, a communications professor at Fordham University and author of the book “New New Media.”

It’s not just Trump who is driving interest. This is also the first presidential debate to pit a male candidate against a female candidate as Democrat Hillary Clinton seeks to become the first woman to be elected president.

“Viewers sense the potential for drama and the unpredictable,” said Jeff McCall, a professor of media studies at DePauw University who thinks the size of the audience will surpass the record of 80 million who watched the 1980 contest between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan — who like Trump entered politics with a background in entertainment.

The Carter-Reagan showdown got a huge audience at the time when Americans had fewer alternatives on television, and it was the only time the two men debated.

According to a Morning Consult poll released Monday, nearly 75 percent of registered voters plans to watch the first Trump-Clinton debate. If that pans out, it would mean 95 million people tuning in.

The two will debate two more times on Oct. 9 and Oct. 19.

Their running mates, Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine, will debate on Oct. 4, though that is not expected to be a ratings hit: The 2012 version between Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) drew just over 51 million viewers.

Levinson predicts the debate will hit 100 million viewers, and that social media will drive even more people to the contest.

“The reason, of course, is the extraordinary interest in this presidential election, featuring two unprecedented and highly controversial candidates,” he said. “The first woman [to be nominated by a major party] versus someone with zero political experience or government service.”

Brian Flood, a media reporter for TheWrap.com, went even higher.

“I think the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will surpass 100 million viewers. I’ll make my official prediction 112 million,” he said. “I feel that it will be one of the most-watched TV events in the history of the medium.”

McCall adds another reason for the likely record-breaking numbers: anticipation.

“This first Trump-Clinton debate has been getting a lot of hype from pundits and talking heads who are suggesting this debate could be determinative in the campaign,” he said. “I am not convinced it will be the major factor in the election outcome, but that’s the narrative being fed out there.”

One factor could drive down the debate’s ratings: It’s going head-to-head with “Monday Night Football,” something that led Trump to criticize the Commission on Presidential Debates earlier this year.

The game begins on ESPN at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, a half-hour before the debate is scheduled to begin. “Monday Night Football” averaged 12.9 million viewers per week during the 2015 season.

While the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons will enter the game with a combined record of 1-3, football tends to defeat all comers when it comes to television ratings and is likely to take a chunk of the viewership.

“In ‘Monday Night Football’ versus Trump and Hillary, everybody loses,” says Dave Briggs, a former Fox News host who jumped over to NBC Sports in 2013 as a studio host.

“Bare minimum, even a seemingly regional NFL game between Atlanta and New Orleans will draw 10–12 million viewers. The debates will win the night but never pull away many of those 10 million Falcons, Saints and, most importantly, fantasy football fans,” he said.

It’s not unusual for debates to go up against sporting events.

Presidential debates often compete with football games and Major League Baseball’s World Series.

“The third debate in 2012 took on ‘Monday Night Football’ and Game 7 of baseball’s National League Championship Series and still drew just under 60 million viewers,” Briggs says.

Chad Wilkinson, a former cable news executive producer who is now president of Liberty Media Strategies, believes the NFL will make it impossible for Trump and Clinton to get 100 million, or even 80 million viewers.

“We are looking at massive viewing numbers for the first presidential debate but because of ‘Monday Night Football’ on ESPN, we won’t see a record,” he said.

Wilkinson still puts his final prediction above Romney and Obama first debate in 2012, at 73 million to 75 million viewers.

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Richard Kahn
9/26/2016 3:18:41 PM
jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
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trump is on the move..
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/201 ... -forecast/
please get your rest today as debate begins 3am for you..
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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;[email protected];
humor and trump and evolutionary logic
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was pleased that Robert Lynch's work and my own were cited in a Nation
article on the lack of humor of our Republican standard bearer
https://www.thenation.com/article/have- ... ump-laugh/
congratulations Robert
John and Jeffrey, i will write you shortly
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Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh? As Trump himself might say, there’s something going on.
by Leslie Savan
Yesterday 1:22 pm
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Donald Trump smiles during a campaign rally in Fort Myers, Florida, September 19, 2016. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst)

Not just smile or make funny faces. He does plenty of that. But really laugh—a guffaw, a belly laugh, even a chuckle sustained for more than a syllable’s worth?

Not likely. But for a single verifiable sighting, this possible next president of the United States does not laugh in public. We don’t know what he does behind closed doors, but before the cameras, the candidate hasn’t emitted deep, jocular bursts of air in nearly a year and a half.

This isn’t funny. It’s creepy. Or as Trump himself might say, There’s something going on.

And a lot of people are saying this. Well, maybe not a lot. But Brendan O’Connor wrote at Gawker (before potential Trump Supreme Court nominee Peter Thiel sued the site to death): “[A]fter watching hours upon hours of footage from his campaign rallies, cable news interviews, and debate performances, I realized that I could not recall having seen the Manhattan real estate developer laugh—like, genuinely laugh—a single time.”

And on Reddit, “Ebolatastic” pointed out that “the press has too many articles titled ‘Donald Trump is laughing at <group>’ right now. I can’t find any footage at all and cannot recall a single moment of laughter out of him ever in like 20 years of seeing him on TV.”

O’Connor, the Reddit thread, and I eventually dug up the same lone video clip that shows Trump laughing. The context: In February, Hillary had barked like a dog at a rally as part of a joke (which she pulled off handily, though you’d never know it from the “bitch”-festooned social media pile-on). Shortly after that, a real dog barked at one of Trump’s rallies.

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It’s no surprise that Trump’s one true LOL came at Hillary’s expense. But it was the element of surprise—someone in the audience beat him to his punch line—that caught Trump off guard and forced him to bark out some genuine laughter. (If you find other examples, please send!)

On this matter, I admit I’m a Mirther, someone who fervently believes that Donald’s refusal to laugh in public reveals something dark and disturbing about him. Unless he can produce a long-form belly laugh, not once but many times, and prove its authenticity to my satisfaction, I’m afraid, folks, that I’ll have to send my people to look into this more closely. And they probably won’t believe what they find.

One possible reason why Trump won’t laugh: The less honest you are with yourself, the less likely you are to laugh.

But here’s what we do know:

Laughing Makes You Vulnerable

Trump definitely has a sense of humor, albeit on the cruel side. He can certainly make people laugh, both with and at him. He has performed comedy, though less brilliantly than some hyperbolists would have it. (Mark Halperin swooned in April that Trump has “one of the greatest senses of comic timing since Charlie Chaplin.”) And Donald can, on rare occasions and under controlled conditions, gently goof on himself, as he did recently when he let nonthreatening talk show host Jimmy Fallon muss up his comb-over.

Not to mention, Donald eagerly uses the idea of humor—saying he’s “just kidding” or being “sarcastic”—to deny he was serious about his latest outrageous claim.

But it also seems true that Trump needs to be the center of attention and dominate everyone in his midst. It’s these very compulsions that may be stifling his laughter. He is always the star, not the spectator; the performer, not the audience. The audience laughs at the star’s shtick—with rare exceptions (see above), he doesn’t laugh at theirs. And whether the venue is a town hall, a debate stage, or Chuck Todd’s set, to Trump everyone is an audience.

The very physiology of deep laughter in response to humor (as opposed to polite laughter to keep things friendly) signals vulnerability: your muscles relax, your cheeks might flush, you lose control. Trump doesn’t seem to give up that kind of control.

But it’s Hillary, of course, who is perceived as being too controlled, and there’s definitely some truth to that. But, darn it, the woman can laugh! Like many powerful women, she’s caught in a vocalization vise. On one hand, she’s told she sounds too serious, angry, and “shrill.” (RNC chair Reince Priebus complained that she didn’t smile during the Matt Lauer national-security forum.) On the other, she’s told that she laughs too much, that it’s a cackle, a source of embarrassment. A video that repeats a few clips of Clinton laughing and spins it into 10 hours is supposed to be prima facie proof of witchcraft or something.

A truly frightening experience, however, would be watching 10 hours of unrepeated Trump clips and catching nary a giggle.

It’s Funny Because It’s True

Another possible explanation for Trump’s laugh deficit: The less honest you are with yourself, the less likely you are to laugh.

That’s what Robert Lynch, an anthropologist at the University of Missouri, and evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers at Rutgers University, found and published in a 2012 paper, “Self-deception inhibits laughter.”

“There’s a huge correlation showing that people who score high in self-deception laugh less,” Lynch told me. Furthermore, he said, “there’s a pretty robust correlation between self-deception and an inflated ego, or unwarranted high self-esteem. Some of the self-deception is telling yourself that you’re greater, more powerful, smarter than you are.”

We know someone just like that, but why would that inhibit his laughter?

Trivers’s research, Lynch says, indicates that “it’s easier to deceive other people if you first lie to yourself. If you think you’re more amazing than you are, it’s easier to persuade others you are, too.”

By definition, lying to yourself requires that you deny reality and distort the truth. That carries all sorts of costs. “I tell myself the army I’m facing is small even though I’m getting constant feedback that it’s really large,” Lynch says. “The cost is we get slaughtered.” (Or, to use a current example, we might loot Iraqi oil and call it “reimbursement,” though the rest of the world never knew we were fighting on an expense account.)

Another cost to distorting the truth is that you’re less likely to even get why something is funny, much less laugh at it.

You can begin to see how self-deception may have stunted Trump’s sense of the absurd. It’s a lot harder to laugh when you don’t recognize absurdity. Think of how much Trump must have had to lie to himself, perhaps even unconsciously, in order to convince millions that Obama was born in Kenya, that “I alone can fix” everything, or that he will be the healthiest president “in history.” We don’t know whether he gets how absurd he sounds. But we do know he claims all of it with a straight face.

(By the way, the liars-laugh-less formulation doesn’t work in reverse: People who don’t laugh aren’t necessarily self-deceptive or narcissistic at all. Indeed, some people don’t laugh out of low self-esteem. “Self-deception,” Lynch estimates, “explains about 20 percent of why people don’t laugh.” Besides, if we didn’t tell ourselves little white lies, he adds, “we wouldn’t get out of the bed in the morning.”)

It’s a Shame

Tony Schwartz, the repentant ghostwriter for Trump’s bestselling The Art of the Deal, explained on MSNBC recently what drives Trump’s tendency to project his own faults onto others (Hillary is the bigot; she lacks a presidential temperament). “Trump has a deep self-hatred and insecurity,” Schwartz said. “Any criticisms make him feel inadequate, and it is intolerable to feel inadequate.”

Or to be laughed at. In his stump speeches, Trump often rails against countries like Mexico and China for “laughing at us.”

“Superficially, the problem that torments Trump is trade. But his language—they ‘beat’ us and ‘laugh’ at us—provokes the emotional power of shame,” Trump biographer (Never Enough) Michael D’Antonio writes at The Daily Beast. Trump, he says, is “all about shame—avoiding it himself, and inflicting it on others.”

The supply of shame inside Trump is so great and near the surface that it comes bubbling up in his campaign that we naturally look for its source. As his biographer, I see it in his struggle to satisfy a strict and demanding father and his banishment, at age 13, to a military academy in Upstate New York where, Trump has said, he was subject to violence at the hands of Army veterans who staffed the school.

Trump was major-shamed again, D’Antonio writes, “when he lost his Trump Airline and the Plaza Hotel and became a symbol of failure in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Out of this defeat he fashioned a comeback that saw him become richer and more famous than ever.”

As a businessman who sees every crash as an opportunity, Trump may also see any public airing of his shame as a prequel to ever-greater success.

At the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, for example, President Obama coolly humiliated the birther-in-chief, getting the crowd and soon the whole world to laugh at him, while Trump sat there stone-faced. In all likelihood, that experience motivated him to finally make a real run for the presidency.

As best we can tell, Trump’s whole psychological dynamic might be explained as a serial encounter with public shame over his fear of inadequacy. Again and again he takes risks that everyone thinks will end his campaign—saying John McCain is no hero, mocking a disabled reporter, attacking a Gold Star family. It’s as if he’s courting the thing that hurts him: Each encounter allows him to touch his shame and still walk away.

Like Dostoevsky’s The Gambler, Trump likes the thrill of getting so close to being exposed and still winning—until, of course, he finally loses, which may be what he really wants. Although, if he achieves that, he’ll probably just redefine it as a success.

It’s all too bad. As the shrinks say, “laughter relieves shame.” Laughing, especially at oneself, “is one of the main ways in which shame can be dissipated or released.”

If only Donald Trump could deeply, even convulsively laugh at himself—God knows, he has the material—he probably wouldn’t be running for president today.

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From: Deepak Chopra
Sent: 9/27/2016 12:32:41 AM
To: Jeff Epstein [[email protected]]
Subject: Donald Trump and the Looking-Glass War - SFGate
Importance: High
http://m.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/Donald-Trump-and-the-Looking-Glass-War-9284330.php
Deepak Chopra
New Book: Radicalbeauty.com
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Donald Trump and the Looking-Glass War
by Deepak Chopra, MD
SFGATE
Updated Oct 9, 2018 12:22 p.m.
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More than one observer has remarked that the tactics of the Trump campaign, which misses no opportunity to turn the truth upside down, have taken us to a crossroads. The tightening race indicates that millions of Americans are willing to overlook Trump's insults, misinformation, evasions, outright lies, exaggerations, and character assassination. What is referred to as the "normalizing" of Trump, the steady assimilation of new outrages day by day, is a strange phenomenon. It partly goes back to some positive characteristics that American democracy is known for, such as toleration of extreme views and a willingness to redeem outliers from "normal" society.

There are also some questionable American qualities at work, such as our history of ornery politics and a fascination with celebrity that permits bad characters to be given a pass simply because they are famous in the tabloids. Into this mix, however, must be added a troubling American trait, the passive willingness to let wrong turn into right. This trait has been steadily cultivated by the right wing going back at least as far as Nixon's Southern strategy, which told racists that they were acceptable to the GOP, a fact that still pertains. Ronald Reagan normalized the fringe values that Republican respectability had once rejected. In an effort to expand their white male base, successive Republican candidates welcomed in the religious right, gun nuts, conspiracy theorists, birthers, and the ultra-patriotic fringe with their xenophobic belief in "my country, right or wrong" and "love it or leave it."

It took Trump, however, to plunge us into a looking-glass war, where we are forced to see ourselves starkly and to take a stand. W. B. Yeats's warning from the early 20th century applies to our own times when he wrote, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Yeats faced the horrors of world war and rising totalitarianism, and we live in a different era. But Trumpism touts wrong as right with passionate intensity, while countless people who should see him for what he is lack all conviction to counter him.

The looking-glass war is a contest taking place in collective consciousness. According to a fact-based view of reality, the U.S. is not in imminent danger from terrorism on a mass scale; we are a prosperous, growing economy; our military strength far surpasses any other nation; immigrants are a positive force in our pluralistic society, not a gang of criminals and freeloaders. But facts aren't the same as consciousness, and the wrong-is-right strategy that the Republicans have fostered for decades is rising to claim what is due to it. Because they owe their political survival to the very values that Trumpism expresses in exaggerated form, few Republicans are safe enough, or courageous enough, to speak out against him, and the prospect that this grotesque caricature of a candidate may actually win the Presidency has actually had the opposite effect. It has made estranged Republicans "come home," as they say, which means the embrace of shameless, shameful values as if they are acceptable. Sadly, 95% of Trump supporters are eager to vote for him, as opposed to 80% of Hillary supporters.

Nothing I'm saying is news to anyone who has been paying attention to the campaign so far, and now we are in the hands of an electorate where convinced supporters of Trump and Clinton are not going to budge, leaving the final decision to "low information voters," as they are politely known. They are actually the politically indifferent, and if they cast a middle-finger vote in the same spirit as Brexit, the worst of American values will prevail. I'm not writing this to spread gloom, alarm, or fear. Collective consciousness holds up a mirror to the truth, and in the end there is no arguing against reality, wherever it takes us. My only point is to underline that all of us are reflected in the mirror as individuals. If anyone fails to stand up, stops speaking the truth, stays at home on Election Day, or votes out of spite and resentment against Clinton, the reflection that results from such feeble lack of conviction will be very dark. It will show each of us things about ourselves we don't have to see.

Deepak Chopra MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. The World Post and The Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Chopra #17 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine. Chopra is the author of more than 80 books translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. His latest books are Super Genes co-authored with Rudolph Tanzi, PhD and Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine. www.deepakchopra.com

Sep 26, 2016|Updated Oct 9, 2018 12:22 p.m.

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