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ralph nader interviews david cay johnston on donald trump:
http://ralphnaderradiohour.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ralph-Nader-Radio-Hour-Episode-107.pdf
listen here:
http://ralphnaderradiohour.com/jonathan-martin-david-cay-johnston/
they are both skeptical of how good of a business man he really is. they figure hes worth a billion dollars. anyways, if your idea of a successful businessman is a big crony capitalist, vote trump lol. i personally think your between a rock and a hard place with whos left on the republican party. trump is probably the only one who will stop the country from coughing up blood.
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And there’s a special law that I wrote about in Perfectly Legal
that if you’re a corporate executive or business owner and your security department simply writes a memo
saying because of threats you cannot fly commercially, you must fly in company aircraft, you get
to fly for virtually nothing as a personal expense to you. Donald is very averse to taxes. And his very first big business deal when he took the decrepit Commodore Hotel by the Grand Central Station in Manhattan and rebuilt it into the Grand Hyatt
-didn’t build it very well. I stayed there. It’s not impressive compared to most Grand Hyatts - he got a deal from his father’s lifelong buddy, Abe Beam, then the mayor: no property taxes for 40 years that an absolute minimum was
worth 400 million dollars.
That’s basically 400 million dollars of welfare.
So, Donald is one of the biggest welfare king
s in the history of America. And whatever his fortune is, a lot of it derives from that. And if you just take that 400 million dollars, that alone would explain the billion - dollar fortune. He’s not a great businessman. When I covered him in Atlantic City for
the Philadelphian Inquirer and he had casinos, Steve Wynn used to - and some of his former executives - would just love to sit and tell me stories about how Donald didn’t know this or that. And a couple of times on my interview, when I asked questi
ons whose purpose was simply to find out did he even understand the gambling games. And so my book
Temples of Chance opens with an anecdote about the world’s biggest gambler, who has been gambling for a week at
Trump Plaza at the rate of $14 million an hour. And it makes it clear that Donald does not
understand the gambling game he’s engaged in with this guy. Donald doesn’t know anything
except if you come up to him and say, “I got a way to put money in your pocket,” he’s all ears.
Ralph Nader: But he’s a big intimidator, because- you mentioned Steve Wynn and others - they know how bad a businessman he is, how quickly he goes into bankruptcy as “a competitive advantage” - to use his phrase that he gave when he was asked about it. Why aren’t more business people who have dealt with him - who have been shafted by him or who know about his inadequacies as a businessman - why aren’t they giving more interviews? A lot of them are retired. There’s nothing that Donald Trump can do to them. We haven’t heard much about the people who really know about his business activities."