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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew York Times: How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions
Another damning piece about Trump's so-called business "acumen." Where were all these stories during the primaries? Betcha there a few Republican candidates who'd like to sue their campaign consultants for malpractice for allowing Trump to skate through the primaries so.
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..On the presidential campaign trail, Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, often boasts of his success in Atlantic City, of how he outwitted the Wall Street firms that financed his casinos and rode the value of his name to riches. A central argument of his candidacy is that he would bring the same business prowess to the Oval Office, doing for America what he did for his companies.
Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me, Mr. Trump said in an interview in May, summing up his 25-year history here. The money I took out of there was incredible.
His audacious personality and opulent properties brought attention and countless players to Atlantic City as it sought to overtake Las Vegas as the countrys gambling capital. But a close examination of regulatory reviews, court records and security filings by The New York Times leaves little doubt that Mr. Trumps casino business was a protracted failure. Though he now says his casinos were overtaken by the same tidal wave that eventually slammed this seaside citys gambling industry, in reality he was failing in Atlantic City long before Atlantic City itself was failing.
But even as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me, Mr. Trump said in an interview in May, summing up his 25-year history here. The money I took out of there was incredible.
His audacious personality and opulent properties brought attention and countless players to Atlantic City as it sought to overtake Las Vegas as the countrys gambling capital. But a close examination of regulatory reviews, court records and security filings by The New York Times leaves little doubt that Mr. Trumps casino business was a protracted failure. Though he now says his casinos were overtaken by the same tidal wave that eventually slammed this seaside citys gambling industry, in reality he was failing in Atlantic City long before Atlantic City itself was failing.
But even as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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New York Times: How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions (Original Post)
kennetha
Jun 2016
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spanone
(135,816 posts)1. K&R...
napkinz
(17,199 posts)2. kick
tavernier
(12,375 posts)3. Forget the campaign consultants,
where was the media?? Oh yeah... they were mesmerized by the shiny objects in the side show.
And then Trump told them all what chumps he had made of them, and the boom fell. Suddenly his racist remarks that were so amazing and clever in the beginning are now just disgusting and unacceptable. And hey, look at the brilliant business man's actual brilliant record... not!
All to our benefit.
Ain't Karma grand???