I've always wondered why did they do it? But you know that opening line in Goodfellas, which is I have always wanted to be a gangster. Why? What do they get out of it? They know it's all going to end badly. Has any gangsters life ended highly successfully? The founder of the Gambino crime family, Carlo Gambino, we know he was the founder because we named it after him. And he died a free man. Most of them spend their life either in dying in jail or being killed. It's about search for identity. To come back to Donald Trump, it's about filling some hole in them. So it's a way of
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