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by jmull 432 days ago
You found a puff piece from 2010 to extoll Trump?

(It appears to be a promotional piece for a "CNBC Titans" episode featuring Trump.)

I try to assume good intent, which includes not writing off the odd things people post as bot-generated, but in this case, attributing this to a bot is quite a positive spin.
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badc0ffee 432 days ago
Maybe it's a puff piece, but it contains examples of what he did with his life and businesses. You couldn't write an article like that after 2015 or so without it being influenced by his disaster of a political career.

My point is, he didn't just sit on daddy's money, he actually pulled off a couple of savvy moves. There are plenty of other things to criticize him for.

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latency-guy2 432 days ago
> his disaster of a political career.

45th and 47th president of the USA as a disaster seems to be setting the bar unbelievably high for failure.

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SpicyLemonZest 432 days ago
Why would you want an article on someone that excludes context from their most impactful and most visible decade? It's true that an author today, who knows about his 2024 conviction for fraudulently overstating the value of his properties, would bring a much more skeptical eye to claims about what a success they were. Did he seem to be making better deals in 2010 because he was better at it then, or because nobody was looking as closely at whether they were really good?
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badc0ffee 432 days ago
Because the first guy I replied to claimed Trump never did anything earlier in his life but inherit money, and I wanted to provide examples of how that isn't true.

The Tiffany's transaction definitely happened, and no landowner in Manhattan has left money on the table like that since. As scummy and self-promoting as he is, he changed the real estate market in NY and made some investments that paid off in the 70s and 80s.

I think that puts to rest this idea that he just rested on daddy's money and then lost money on his Atlantic City casinos, or whatever.

(Standard disclaimer that he has always sucked, and maybe he never made a good business move after the 80s.)

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SpicyLemonZest 432 days ago
Did the Tiffany's transaction definitely happen? Is there any independent verification of Trump's claims that he obtained their air rights under favorable terms because other developers were leaving money on the table?
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