Donald Trump has spent his entire life buying his way into deals and out of trouble.  For 40 years, all he did was have meetings, talk on the phone, and buy stuff. He could see the Plaza Hotel from his office window, so he bought it. He wanted a casino he could fly to in his helicopter, so he went to Atlantic City and bought one. He wanted to surround himself with hot babes, so he bought the Miss Universe pageant.

When he had problems, he bought his way out. When there were hold ups at building sites, he bought union bosses and mob-owned cement contractors. He paid-off building inspectors to look the other way at violations. When he wanted zoning changes, or favorable laws passed, he bought politicians by the dozen and bragged about it in primary debates. When he didn’t like what was written about him, he bought expensive lawyers and filed lawsuits threatening damages in the tens of millions. When he wanted hot babes in his hotel rooms in Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, he bought airline tickets and flew them in. When the hot babes threatened to go public, he paid them off.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/money-fear-two-tools-dictatorial-trump-understands/