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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Scam Behind Donald Trump’s Political Rise
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-wealth-myth_us_57b09a63e4b007c36e4f1bff<snip>
For the past year, Donald Trump has been selling himself to Republican voters and party leaders as a master developer, casino mogul, airline executive and all-around brilliant businessman.
What they didnt hear much about, though, was his single greatest talent: master self-promoter.
Now, with the general election just three months away, they are learning they may have been sold a bill of goods. That Trump was actually a so-so developer. That his casinos failed and pushed him to the edge of personal bankruptcy. That his airline was a money-losing vanity project that he eventually lost when he missed loan payments. That his business acumen, far from brilliant, is now fodder for millions of dollars worth of negative TV ads.
He is, as someone said, the hobos idea of a billionaire, said Rick Wilson, a Florida political consultant who is now working for independent candidate Evan McMullin. Ive had donors say: Im a billionaire. Trumps a clown with a credit card.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)malaise
(269,186 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)I'm sure those little hands don't need to be any bigger, considering what they have to work with.
malaise
(269,186 posts)He's facing more than little hands in Jupiter Florida - looks like he will have to repay those members 6M. DOn the Con's scams are catching up with him
kimbutgar
(21,207 posts)Because he has brain washed them into believing the press is against him because he is a truth teller.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)ludicrously overvalued net worth?
I posted this somewhere.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-lies/
For two straight days, they asked Trump question after question that touched on the same theme: Trumps honesty.
The lawyers confronted the mogul with his past statements and with his companys internal documents, which often showed those statements had been incorrect or invented. The lawyers were relentless. Trump, the bigger-than-life mogul, was vulnerable cornered, out-prepared and under oath.
Thirty times, they caught him.
The Washington Post sent the Trump campaign a detailed list of questions about this deposition, listing all the times when Trump seemed to have been caught in a false or unsupported statement. The Post asked Trump whether he wanted to challenge any of those findings and whether he had felt regret when confronted with them.
He did not answer those questions.
malaise
(269,186 posts)Looks like the judge insists he must repay those Country Club members 6M - was on the news a few minutes ago - no link yet.
Background here
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/lawsuit-over-trump-golf-club-contract-so-complex-e/nqryb/
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)because of about $25 K he tried to stiff a paint store out of, causing him to spend over $3 HUNDRED thousand to defend?
did you see that one?
haaaaahaaaaaa
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/23/trump-stiff-small-business-nailed-300000-attorneys-fees.html
malaise
(269,186 posts)The disconnect is scary