I voted for Trump because he's a capitalist, and because I've listened to, and agreed with, the majority of his political ideas/thoughts/and commentary for almost 30 years now. ~shrug~
Except that, as a capitalist, he’s gone bankrupt 7 times, leaving a trail of business failures in his wake. He had one great success - Trump Tower, and everything since then has been a litany of failures up to his TV show.
It was only after Putin’s election when Russian oligarchs started laundering money buying pricey New York and Florida real estate that Trump started making money. In 1999 he was dead broke and no one in the US would lend to him.
Interesting that you agree with him politically, since his politics have been all over the map.
You realize that almost half of all businesses fail right? Out of over 500 only 6 of Trump's have gone bankrupt - and really it's only 2 because the other 4 "bankruptcies" were actually chap 11 restructures (which means the businesses don't shut down, their debts and assets are reshuffled to maintain solvency. The filer also repay's their debt, it may be "less" than actually owned, but that's between the businesses and the debtors [the banks] who are owed the money to decide how much, or little, they're willing to wash.) His track record is actually pretty amazing.
No, in the first couple years of 1990 two of his casinos went bankrupt, like almost all the Atlanta casino owners; Trump happened to have two there so he got hit harder. He was /personally/ $900 million in the hole, not even including the debts of his businesses, (because he'd [foolishly] personally guaranteed that much in loans for his casino's - he never made that mistake again.) The banks didn't want him to go bankrupt (because then they'd get nothing) so they, and Trump, worked out an asset deal with some of his other properties (the Grand Hyatt, Trump Tower, and half of Trump Castle.) By 1994/1995 Trump, and his casinos (as well as the Atlanta economy) had stabilized, and Trump recovered fully. - See also,
Fact-checking claims about Donald Trump's four bankruptcies
It's easily verifiable that in 1999 Trump's father passed away, and Donald received $35 Million from the estate. He was worth an estimated $5B in 1999... (
Trump proposes massive one-time tax on the rich - November 9, 1999 - proposing a Reform party idea of a one-time 14.25% net worth tax on the rich to wipe out the debt... They started taking 26% of income and /still/ couldn't/can't balance their budget ~sigh~ Government is such a mess with spending.) In any event, your "facts" about Trump being "broke" are simply not true.
You're also mistaken about his political views, he's be remarkably consistent on almost everything but perhaps SSM (he was against it, then 'okay' with it.)
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2012:
There's more as well, in 1999 he almost ran on the Reform Party ticket (basically Independent) but the party fell apart, but I figure you probably won't even watch the two so whatever.