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January 5 - January 5, 2018
“He’d lie to you about what time of day it is—just for the practice.”
Donald Trump is not just some cartoon character, a guy with a comb-over and a press agent and a board game named after him; he is and always has been a real and fairly treacherous human being.
Trump received 1.75 percent of the gross, plus 15 percent of the net, plus 3 percent of the Taj’s construction costs, and some analysts believed that no cash would reach the bottom line for ten years.
like saying about a Mets game, “Mets score 7”— not very helpful if you don’t know what the other team scored, and especially unhelpful if the Mets actually scored only 5.
A week before Christmas, Trump had Howard Snyder, an attorney for his father, walk into the Castle, go up to a cashier’s window, buy $3 million in chips and leave with those chips. With that $3 million, Trump had the money he needed to make the bond payment.
