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So why do it? Because it’s Trump’s basic mode of action. For his entire
life, Trump has made grandiose promises and ominous threats — and rarely
delivered on any. When he was in business, Reuters found, he frequently
threatened to sue news organizations for libel, but the last time he
followed through was 33 years ago, in 1984. Trump says that he never settles cases out of court. In fact, he has settled at least 100 times, according to USA Today.
In his political life, he has followed the same strategy of bluster. In
2011, he said that he had investigators who “cannot believe what they’re
finding” about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and that he
would at some point “be revealing some interesting things.” He had nothing. During the campaign,
he vowed that he would label China a currency manipulator, move the
U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, make Mexico pay for a border wall
and initiate an investigation into Hillary Clinton. So far, nada. After
being elected, he signaled to China that
he might recognize Taiwan. Within weeks of taking office, he folded. He
implied that he had tapes of his conversations with then-FBI Director James B. Comey. Of course, he had none.
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