The Image of Trump as a Successful Businessman Has Always Been a Con

found online by Raymond

 

President Trump paid no income taxes in 10 of past 15 years      [Image from ABC Channel 6, Philadelphia]

From Earth-Bound Misfit:

What he does is come into a large sum of money, whether by inheritance or from self-promotion and, from that, he relentlessly enters into business deals where he is taken to the cleaners.

There is a lot of detail in the second story in the Times today, how Trump used his stardom from The Apprentice to enter into one shady marketing deal after another, including one company whose business model is little different from a pyramid scheme. He took the money that he made from that and bought a series of golf courses, which have been losing money hand over fist.

That has put Trump into serious financial trouble…

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