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(61,033 posts)to hire lawyers to protect himself from the little guy contractors he didn't pay what he owed them. Anyone can be "successful" if you don't pay for the goods and services you use people for.
His father gave him a million to start off and he screwed that up and his old man had to even bail him out twice after that.
Gimme a break. What other "successful" businessmen have had to file multiple bankruptcies to get out of paying their debts? After the bankruptcies no American banks would touch him so he had to turn to Russia and launder money for the oligarchs to keep his businesses afloat. And those hotels with his name on them, I'm sure you know they aren't his, he just licenses his name. BTW, many buildings have taken his name down because his brand is in the toilet now over his poor performance as president.
As far as the slogans, he studied Mussolini and Hitler, then used their methods to make Muslims, Mexicans and other POCs the "other", equivalent of the Jewish people in Hitler's Germany.
If his intellect was so great he'd have had more success at governing by now.
Hell, he's got a repug House, repug Senate, a 5/4 repug SCOTUS and he still can't get anything done but create discord and chaos where ever he goes. Look at just this past week. The White House is in complete disarray.
Nah, not smart, but cunning and evil in his appeal to the racist deplorables that make up his base.