• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        Money laundering.

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

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    9 months ago

    To all the people who are learning about this through this meme bit voted for the guy anyway: you’re probably not on Lemmy anyway.

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    9 months ago

    I’m convinced the casino bankruptcies were just a way to launder money and abuse the system. There’s probably a few hundred contractors that never got paid while he benefited from their work long enough to make profit out of it.

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      9 months ago

      He could have been working with Epstein far sooner than we think with his schemes to launder money and smuggle arms.