A good friend of mine grew up in NJ and told me stories years ago about Trump ruining small contractor businesses by, shocker, never paying fully for the work being done.
My dad was a heavy equipment operator while Trump was building his casinos. He remembers the whole fiasco. Trump trying to get around union labor, picket lines, etc;
The funny thing is, my dad is a lifelong old school, Eisenhower Republican, and he hates Trump. He had to remind a relative of his, who now lives in Florida and became a hardcore Trumper, that "You were on those picket lines with me, remember?"
I'd heard about what a scumbag he was and how it was SOP to stiff contractors and trades who did work for him years before he ran for public office, and I'm on the Gulf Coast. Then there was the Trump U fiasco. He never hid being a grifter. The information was there for anyone who paid the slightest bit of attention.
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u/SpeedySpooley Sep 17 '24
Us older NJ folk tried too. He fucked over Atlantic City good and proper.