@BlastBunny: It happens in left-wing orgs as well. Always has. You just hear about it less sometimes. That said, the right-wing has it going on far more, statistically.
@BlastBunny: He's always done that, but prior to 2015 he did it behind closed doors and tended to limit it to mostly New York and New Jersey. Also, like Giuliani he's gotten comically sloppy as he's aged, and add that to being in the most powerful political position on Earth and all its accompanying stress and life under the microscope... put it this way, if he was an actual mob boss doing this, he'd be dead already.
In re: Trump bucks: Of course they fall for it. He knows how to play...
@BlastBunny: ...the stupid, the credulous, the angry insecure, the xenophobic, and such. Roy Cohn was his mentor, at least until Roy was exposed as being Teh Ghay, at which point Donnie dropped him like a greasy McDonald's wrapper. Roy was a master carnival barker and con man.