Wall Street expert explains how Trump can soak his supporters all over again -- and make billions

"Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump's daughter and son-in-law, made at least $600 million during Donald Trump's presidency."

"Law enforcement and other experts in terrorism and counterinsurgency have continued to warn that Trump's insurrection and coup attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 are just the beginning of a sustained period of right-wing terrorism and other political violence directed against Democrats, liberals, progressives, nonwhite people, Muslims, Jews and others deemed to be enemies of Trump and his movement. "

""Casino capitalism" is a phrase that is commonly used by critics of today's version of capitalism."

"This is the nature of capitalism generally, and the pandemic has exacerbated those tendencies. "

"At Vanity Fair you have written extensively about the alleged insider trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, as well as other questionable financial dealings connected to the Trump administration."

"The apparent media consensus holds that Donald Trump is on the verge of imminent financial collapse."

"Steve Roth has tried to sell them and couldn't do it because of the Trump stink."

"Trump is also facing serious criminal investigations related to his questionable business practices as well as other apparent crimes related to his insurrectionist plot.nn"

"The media consensus is that Donald Trump is facing imminent financial collapse."

"Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump's daughter and son-in-law, made at least $600 million during Donald Trump's presidency."

"I do not think that Trump is going to let it get to that, because it is obviously a terrible time to be trying to sell a Manhattan office tower."

"Instead, Trump gave the party, along with its voters and camp follower permission to be their true, ugly, dangerous, anti-democratic, white supremacist selves."

"The whole Trump administration has been about abusing power, sucking up public money, and being confident that they will get away with it -- and they have."

"There is a desperate yearning for a return to "normal" following Trump's presidency and the coronavirus disaster and all the personal and financial destruction it has caused."

"This means Trump lost the assets associated with them."

"It is no surprise then that Donald Trump remains extremely popular among Republican voters."

"That claim is also part of a much broader narrative of wishful thinking that Trump has been vanquished and will disappear from American public life."

"Then those properties could be sold, now that Trump is no longer attached to them."

"Hundreds of millions of dollars in loans are coming due over the course of the next few years and Trump now lacks the protection of the presidency, along with the ability to exploit public resources to personally enrich himself as well as his family and other allies."

"Public opinion polls and other research has repeatedly shown that Trump's followers believe that he and they were betrayed by the "Deep State" or other such imaginary forces who "stole" the 2020 election from their Great Leader.nn"

"Trump is trying to sell his Washington hotel, but there do not seem to be any takers at the moment."

"Should Joe Biden and Congress investigate these matters?nn"

"And Trump could get that every year."

"And do not forget that Trump is a pretty lazy guy, so the Substack route makes sense.nn"

"Certainly, Donald Trump could sell Trump Tower or 40 Wall Street."

"Trump could also start a Substack site and have somebody write it for him."

"What of Donald Trump's finances?"

"As I wrote in my recent Vanity Fair article, what I've been hearing from people on Wall Street is that Trump could just do the obvious."

"If Trump defaults on what he owes, it would mean that he'd lose a bunch of golf courses or perhaps even Trump Tower."

"In the past Trump has defaulted on loans left and right."

"Who has their hooks into Trump?"

"That's when the American people and the world find out why Trump kowtowed to Putin and other dictators and oligarchs."

"The fact of the matter is Trump is going to owe $400 million to Deutsche Bank in the next few years."

"Trump did not break the Republican Party or otherwise mold it into his vision."

"William Cohan is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair."

"In keeping with his disruptive, chaotic approach to life, Trump ignored convention after convention and saw the presidency as the ultimate grift."

"There is no civil war within the Republican Party about the legacy of Trump's presidency and the future of the "conservative" movement."

"Unlike every other president, Donald Trump did not put his assets into a blind trust."

"We certainly knew that nobody in the Trump administration was going to undertake anything of the sort, because they are all grifters.nn"

"Getting to the bottom of how much Donald Trump and his family stole from the American Treasury, and who around the world had their hooks into him and why, are the great unexplained mysteries of the Trump presidency."

"Law enforcement and other experts in terrorism and counterinsurgency have continued to warn that Trump's insurrection and coup attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 are just the beginning of a sustained period of right-wing terrorism and other political violence directed against Democrats, liberals, progressives, nonwhite people, Muslims, Jews and others deemed to be enemies of Trump and his movement.nn"

"Getting to the bottom -- not of Trump's taxes -- but of his balance sheet and financial projections."

"Chances are there will be time for the economy to improve before the money Trump owes will come due.nn"

"What do we actually know about Trump's money and financial prospects going forward?"

"With the benefit of more information and hindsight, what do you think the American people and the world will discover about the Trump administration?"

"Donald Trump at at Trump International in New Jersey"

"In this wide-ranging conversation, Cohan explains how Donald Trump could potentially use his fanatical followers to make billions of dollars each year."

"Look at what Trump did after the 2020 election."

"So now the thinking is that maybe he buys out Trump, which in turn would give Trump cash."

"I have always wanted to see Trump's audited financials."

"But this consensus about Trump's fading finances and wealth overlooks one important detail: He is a cult leader, and his followers are potentially an almost infinite source of funding.nn"

"He also details how the corruption of the Trump regime likely includes manipulation of the stock market and other financial crimes, which he believes the Biden administration and Congress should investigate.nn"

"Trump is behaving like a type of shadow president who believes he was never truly defeated by Biden and the Democrats."

"Trump will apparently speak at the CPAC political cosplay gathering next week, where he may announce himself as a kingmaker for the Republican Party, call out enemies who are to be purged for "disloyalty" and perhaps even announce that he will be starting a new political party for "real Americans" and "true patriots."nn"

"Too many Americans have tried to replace the horrors of the Age of Trump with happy-pill halcyon tales suggesting that Donald Trump and his movement have been vanquished and made irrelevant by the hopeful possibilities of Joe Biden's presidency, and an imminent return to some new form of "normal."nn"

"For all of the allure of liberal schadenfreude and President Biden's popularity, Donald Trump and his followers have not been broken or otherwise defeated psychologically, emotionally or politically."