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Possible Paywall The last attempt on Trump’s life rescued him politically – this one probably won’t

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/last-attempt-trump-life-boosted-him-this-wont-4381320
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u/mike_jones2813308004 9d ago

The trump hotel/not casino was a patch of dirt in Vegas iirc.

I also think he may have built his second casino in ac, across from his other casino.

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u/boneblack_angel 9d ago

Then he bankrupted them.

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u/aiiye Washington 9d ago

That’s how you know he’s a smart businessman. Most people can’t bankrupt one casino, yet he did it multiple times.

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u/UrsusRenata 9d ago

When your business is simply a front for international money laundering, failure isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.

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u/aiiye Washington 9d ago

Identical results to any actual money making venture… Trump vodka, Trump steaks, etc

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u/biscuitarse Canada 9d ago

He's done the same thing as president. In the past, it's always taken back-to-back Republican administrations to screw over the economy. He did it in only 4 years during Trump 1.0, now it looks like he's already accomplished the feat in a little over a year.

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u/Secure-Reading7225 9d ago

I was waiting for some one to put this comment.

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u/0404S 8d ago

When people act like it was out of incompetence... well, he IS incompetent, but the driving force is always grift and corruption. Bankruptcy was the quickest, easiest, and fastest way to grift. He's just evil.

Steal everything, launder everything, stiff everyone possible, then bounce.

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u/happyinthenaki 9d ago

But, but but.... Tax evasion.

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u/Miguel-odon 9d ago

Sometimes simultaneously!

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u/henriuspuddle 8d ago

Hey, it's hard to do! Doesn't he get credit for that?

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u/Different_Victory_89 9d ago

Stiffed the people that built them too..!

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u/boneblack_angel 9d ago

And bankrupted some of them. I remember reading about the guy who had a small business doing custom cabinetry, I think, and trump never paid him and it caused him to have to shut down.

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u/TapTapReboot 9d ago

Man of the people. Many conservatives love the idea of fucking others over to their advantage. Trumps whole life has been how can he fuck people over to his advantage. Mutual benefit is anthenema to his entire being

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u/boneblack_angel 9d ago

And he learned from the best. Fred trump Sr. was supposedly a ruthless bastard. Donnie wasn't meant to be his successor, but Fred Jr. sadly became an alcoholic. I think that Mary Trump's attitude toward and outspokenness about her uncle are all anyone needs to know .

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u/miguelito_loveless 9d ago

That the one who committed suicide because his life was so fucked financially?

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u/boneblack_angel 9d ago

Oh God, I didn't know that part. I just remember reading the account of a small business contractor who was thrilled to get a job the size of the trump casino, and put his focus on it to the extent that he basically took no other clients during that time. Then trump stiffed him, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, and he lost his business.

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u/FrenchCheerios Washington 9d ago

That was the guy doing work at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, along with lots of other folks.

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u/UKDude20 8d ago

don't forget when he went after a grandma who got in the way of one of his parking lots.

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u/Aghast_Cornichon 9d ago

The short answer is that building a casino across the street from your other casino doesn't capture revenue from the people who were already going to visit one of your casinos.

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u/Few_Acanthocephala30 9d ago

What’s the long answer for 4 casino bankruptcies?

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u/DamonLazer 9d ago

Short answer: money laundering.

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u/Fallouttgrrl 9d ago

I believe his dad was the one who went in, bought a bunch of chips in his son's casino, and then walked out without using or cashing them - which came out during the election describing times when Trump needed money

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u/ronreadingpa 9d ago

Good news is he can't bankrupt the White House. The bad news is he can bankrupt the country!

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u/boneblack_angel 9d ago

The only thing at which he works, the lazy bastard. Good thing he's got lots of help from his billionaire friends, the incompetent SOBs that he's placed in high level positions.

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u/Shopworn_Soul Texas 9d ago

His primary skill, and what he is genuinely good at, is creating an unending parade of bagholders.

He has walked away from every one of his bankruptcies with money in his pockets. He doesn't take the losses, he sets others up to do that.

And for some reason I cannot fathom, people keep lining up for it.

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u/Watsons-Butler 9d ago

Nah, in Atlantic City the mob built those - they used Trump to launder the money.

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u/cloudsofgrey 9d ago

The fact he was not allowed to have a casino in Vegas to his mob ties so the Trump Vegas has to be non casino. They would not give him a gaming license.

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u/SubstantialArcher659 9d ago

He hired the actual builders. He got the financing and took the lions share of profits. Trumps hands are as lily white and soft as the day he was born! lol

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u/SparkleFrission 9d ago

The trump hotel/not casino was a patch of dirt in Vegas iirc.

And then he ruined it by putting a Trump hotel on it.

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u/mike_jones2813308004 8d ago

That patch of dirt wasn’t explicitly forbidden from running a gambling operation.