That is not a convincing argument. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...hUKEwjM_9zB1rTtAhWkGVkFHYs1AIgQ4dUDCA0&uact=5
If the only thing it took was shamelessly demanding from others like a baby cukoo in a nest.. You still have to run the cons. 120 at his best is not high. The way he drained all of the four casinos dry one after another filing for bankrupsy takes some ability as the investors were not naive innocents. In a way he is repeating that trick now with getting the fools he laughs at to bail him out with donations to his phony election defence. Perhaps its all find others to use their skills to defend you before under the bus with them but he has to have had some slight ability to recognise who is not just going to put a round between his beady eyes.
He was first propelled by his father's money and connections, without which no one would know who he is. Beyond that, he was willing to be unscrupulous, basically a thug, with no boundaries. And he surrounded himself with other, smarter thugs who did his bidding for him. The relationship was corrupt and symbiotic. But were it not for the initial kickstart from his old man, he would be nothing. Nothing. And without his smarter and equally corrupt enablers, he would have fallen flat on his broke ass. I don't see intelligence here. I just see willingness and amorality.