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The great businessman (lemy.lol)

submitted 14 hours ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

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[–] shininghero@pawb.social 65 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Four casinos actually. Six if you count the two that got bankrupted twice.

[–] Redstone1@lemmings.world 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How in da fuq

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 8 hours ago

Money laundering.

The financial success or failure of the casinos was a by product of laundering huge amounts of money through them.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The joke of it was how he came out ahead on several of them. Trump discovered you can borrow other people's money for a project and, if it doesn't pan out, just keep a chunk for yourself and don't pay them back.

He's an IRL Max Bialystock, vacuuming up dumb money and leaving legions of broke dowagers in his wake.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Bialystock at least preyed on unusually old women, and it was consensual.