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[–] shininghero@pawb.social 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Four casinos actually. Six if you count the two that got bankrupted twice.

[–] Redstone1@lemmings.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 15 points 21 hours ago

Money laundering.

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Bialystock at least preyed on unusually old women, and it was consensual.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

The necking was comcensual.

Idk about the scamming them out of their retirement savings part