He called a reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal, the paper he had delivered as a boy, and raised the possibility that Donald Trump, a bigshot from New York City, was a greenmailer. “Greenmailer” is a term for a suit-and-tie version of a blackmailer, someone who buys a large chunk of a company’s stock and holds it hostage, implicitly or explicitly threatening a hostile takeover, until the company’s executives pay a ransom to ward off the attack, buying back the stock at inflated prices. Bible told the reporter that Trump had hobbled Holiday with a bluff and now looked to be heading in the
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