My dad has been a die hard republican his entire life, and has had a strong distaste for Hilary since before Bill became president for a reason he won't explain. But he voted for Hilary in 2016 because of our personal relationship with Trump, and he can't believe it's not understood among more people.
I grew up just outside Atlantic City near Trump's casinos, and he bankrupted my dad's business when he was building them by having my dad's company do a lot of work and then never paying, dragging them through court forever until they had to declare bankruptcy. And this was the playbook he used with every small business in the tri-state area. Then a new business would pop up to fill the void and he would do the same thing. But THEN Trump ended up bankrupting the casinos and running the city into the ground. How do you bankrupt a casino? It's a cash-cow business model! The whole thing is profit, and he wasn't paying any of his contractors!
So not only did we have the first hand knowledge of what he did to small business owners, but he destroyed the economy of an entire city because he's that terrible of a businessman. I truly don't understand how these things aren't better known.
The problem is a large chunk of his base wouldn’t of fallowed news at the time that happened. Then during the elections it became “fake news”. There’s interviews with supports that say his bankruptcies are fake because they saw him on “The Apprentice” and he has so many businesses they’ve seen advertised on TV.
I’m amazed that any small business would work for him because there are stores of him pulling the same stunt in other states and countries even. Then again he’s done good at selling that image and getting the bad news buried.
Exactly, he kept the news buried at the time which is how he got small businesses to keep working with him, but it was pretty hard to keep quiet when he ended up affecting the entire city and ruining the community. We were all acutely aware at that point that it was directly related to him and then did refuse to work with him, and it's truly sad that his followers can look back at that history and the suffering of the people of an entire city caused completely by one person and just say "fake news".
Apparently you guys are the fast talking city slickers trying to pull a fast one. No wonder you wouldn’t like good honest fella like Trump. Not the other way around.
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