Like "Timon of Athens," he thought rules you could avoid, did not apply to you.

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“I’ll example you with thievery:
The sun’s a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon’s an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth’s a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing’s a thief.”
― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

Like Timon, Trump has justified his sins by seeing sins in everyone as equal to his. The difference is, where most people see laws as limits to greed, he has seen the many times the legal system has failed to make him accountable as a signal to go forward in his criminal enterprises.