Reacting to news that Donald Trump had pretended to be other people while calling reporters, Roger Stone said: “James Madison, John Adams,Alexander Hamilton — they all wrote under pseudonyms, they all had things they wanted to say and they wrote under pseudonyms.”
Indeed, the John Barron Center of Trump University has uncovered an example: the long-lost 86th Federalist Paper:
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Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated. But they did make terrific statues. Let me tell you, we will bring those statues over here and put them in beautiful fountains.
But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. So to hell with angels. Now, our country needs a truly great leader, and we need a truly great leader now. We need a leader that knows the art of the deal.
I'm a uniter. There are three methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; two, by controlling its effects, three, by putting me in charge. Trust me, you want number three.
A lot of you don’t know the world of economics. Don’t worry. Leave it to me. In political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four.
Forget all this talk, talk, talk about reflection and deliberation. If ever you hear low-energy losers talk about the mild voice of reason, just drown them, okay? Energy in the executive, that's what it's all about.
So what kind of president will the new Constitution give us? Just listen to what the haters are saying. He has been shown to us with the diadem sparkling on his brow and the imperial purple flowing in his train. He has been seated on a throne surrounded with minions and mistresses, giving audience to the envoys of foreign potentates, in all the supercilious pomp of majesty. So what do you think? Doesn't that sound terrific? I guarantee you, we will have the classiest diadems and the best minions!
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, into my very large hands would be fantastic. After all, you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. So leave it to me, folks, I've been saying this for a long time: everybody will do as I say.
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated. But they did make terrific statues. Let me tell you, we will bring those statues over here and put them in beautiful fountains.
But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. So to hell with angels. Now, our country needs a truly great leader, and we need a truly great leader now. We need a leader that knows the art of the deal.
I'm a uniter. There are three methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; two, by controlling its effects, three, by putting me in charge. Trust me, you want number three.
A lot of you don’t know the world of economics. Don’t worry. Leave it to me. In political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four.
Forget all this talk, talk, talk about reflection and deliberation. If ever you hear low-energy losers talk about the mild voice of reason, just drown them, okay? Energy in the executive, that's what it's all about.
So what kind of president will the new Constitution give us? Just listen to what the haters are saying. He has been shown to us with the diadem sparkling on his brow and the imperial purple flowing in his train. He has been seated on a throne surrounded with minions and mistresses, giving audience to the envoys of foreign potentates, in all the supercilious pomp of majesty. So what do you think? Doesn't that sound terrific? I guarantee you, we will have the classiest diadems and the best minions!
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, into my very large hands would be fantastic. After all, you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. So leave it to me, folks, I've been saying this for a long time: everybody will do as I say.
