After Gaddafi began killing his own citizens last month, most celebrities and entertainers who had performed for him and his family in the past either returned the money to Gaddafi or donated the money to charity.
Donald Trump would not be one of those celebrities though, because today he is not only boasting about taking Gaddafi's money, but also his ability to screw people in real estate deals. And as is usually the case with wingnuts, the jokes write themselves.
Speaking to Fox News this morning, the likely 2012 GOP candidate said that he had more foreign policy experience than other Republican contenders because he once "screwed" Gaddafi on a land deal.
"I think I probably have more experience of anybody, whether I sell them real estate for tremendous amounts of money," he said. "I mean, I've dealt with everybody."
"And by the way, I can tell you something else," the billionaire added. "I dealt with Gaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land."
I would like to thank Donald Trump for basically saying that the high water mark of foreign policy experience in the pool of Republican candidates for president is the ability to punk a foreign dictator with a fraudulent real estate scam. You could even turn that into a campaign commercial in favor of Democrats.
Granted, the person being punked in this case is a dictator, but is it really wise to campaign on real estate fraud in an economy that was wrecked by -- real estate fraud?