These are not the nice, sweet little people that you think, okay?” “These lenders aren’t babies,” he said during a Republican primary debate last fall. He made out well, he claims, at the expense only of his greedy Wall Street financiers. When pressed about the multiple bankruptcies at his Atlantic City casinos, Donald Trump routinely says the episodes highlight his business acumen. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
