Are Trump’s business practices legal?
Well, yeah, in a way, if cheating and stealing is okay.
The only problem is that it requires Trump supporters to remember way back, back to the days before the primordial ooze was formed, six whole months ago, which is farther back than any Trump supporter can recall at all.
At the time, Trump was being pressed gently about two facts: 1) that his companies tended to go habitually bankrupt, leaving his creditors in the lurch and 2) that he once attempted to use eminent domain to screw an old woman out of her home so he could build a limousine parking lot for one of his casinos.
Trump’s response to these undoubtedly true charges was “I took advantage of the laws of this country and did what any businessman would have done.” There was no justification offered for why these actions were right or fair; they were legal and they helped Trump get ahead, so his minions actually used them as evidence that Trump was a brilliant business man possessed of great foresight.
The operative word is ‘gently.’ Trump has never been pressed hard about any of his multitude of business sins... and he may not be ... unless ...
Unless we should be so unfortunate as to nominate him.
Then the media will go full bore with enough ammunition to defeat Mars if they attacked.
Very good posting, altura!
I think that eminent domain on the little old lady is not entirely accurate in that particular case. However, Trump did support the new efforts in using ED to include building private facilities like hotels that would “upgrade” an area, as opposed to primarily roads and other needed services.
Trump will need to rely heavily on ED to build a wall the entire length of the border. Already there are issues with taking private ranch land, walling off the border - and the Rio Grande River that the ranchers depend on. The Fed has already bought areas for future development. Pay for a 200-foot swath along the river, but cut off thousands of acres from the water.
One of the reasons that I like Cruz’s idea of Border Security. A “wall” (or fence) where it will work, and increased personnel and remote monitoring where a wall is impractical.