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Now that Trump has suggested that he might not have won the election that he lost, and his own lawyers in Pennsylvania have backed out, I think it's helpful to look at what his career before the White House actually looked like. Here's a very rare thread from me. Exciting!
Trump rose on borrowed money, barely survived disasters, built few skyscrapers this century, stumbled twice when he tried, and ran a company that was a like a teen’s fantasy of corporate power.
This was edited by the wonderful late @jhomans, we miss him https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-how-trump-invented-trump/
This was edited by the wonderful late @jhomans, we miss him https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-how-trump-invented-trump/
Trump, a teetotaler, launched his vodka at a party in 2007 with Stormy Daniels (!). Like his bankrupt casinos and closed college, it was a flamboyant exercise in failure. The distiller went bankrupt. Trump Vodka's motto was seriously Success Distilled. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-trump-vodka
Taking over 40 Wall Street in 1995 may have been the best deal of Trump's career. And since then it's housed frauds, thieves, boiler rooms, penny-stock schemers, two fake deaths, and the most unregistered brokerages that investors complain about in America https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-trump-40-wall-street
Trump's family has explored selling their DC hotel, which hasn't shaken off a lawsuit accusing him of illegally making money from foreign dignitaries, state government officials and lobbyists. Ivanka handled the spa's Himalayan salt chamber https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-03/forty-nine-straight-hours-inside-trump-s-washington-hotel?sref=w8mEqFdc
The spiritual heart of his empire is Trump Tower, whose value has been falling. This peachy-pink marbled mountain has been home to a cocaine trafficker, soccer racketeer, Ponzi schemer and Russian mobster, plus Paul Manafort, Michael Jackson, and Baby Doc https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-trump-tower
I'll end with what Trump said to me five years ago, when I sat in front of him in his office. Someone had told him, he mentioned to me, that if he lost he would get to go back to being Trump. "Win, lose, or draw, I’m glad I did it,” he said. “Although it’s too early to say that."
A warm thank you to my editor @rfriedman305, who edited just about every word of those five pieces, to my colleagues at @BW, who shaped almost all most of them, and to superstars @ZekeFaux, @zachmider and @JesseDrucker for reporting two of them with me
