{"id":38057,"date":"2018-09-21T05:47:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38057"},"modified":"2018-09-21T05:47:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T10:47:54","slug":"tomgram-nomi-prins-cooking-the-books-in-the-trump-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38057","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Cooking the Books in the Trump Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Cooking the Books in the Trump Universe<\/a><\/h3>\n
There\u2019s a clear pattern to Donald Trump\u2019s life. Put simply: he gets away with it. Yes, sometimes (but not usually) he has to pay a penalty, but generally he has a knack for leaving others holding the bag. He\u2019s stiffed<\/a> untold numbers of people (plumbers, painters, cabinet-makers, waiters, lawyers, bartenders) whom he hired to do something — almost anything — for him; he stiffed undocumented immigrants<\/a> who worked for him; he stiffed<\/a> the students of Trump University (until they got a $25 million settlement); he stiffed<\/a> American workers at his Mar-a-Lago and other private clubs, hiring cheaper foreign guest workers instead; and above all, the most successful businessman of all time (by his own account) took down five casinos in Atlantic City as his business empire of that moment crashed and burned — and somehow he came away with the money, leaving his investors holding the bag and his casino workers losing<\/a> millions of dollars in retirement savings.\u00a0 As the New York Times<\/em> put it<\/a>, \u201c[E]ven as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses, and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen.\u201d<\/div>\n
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In other words, there\u2019s a record of \u201csuccess\u201d that Donald Trump brought to the presidency. The only real question is: When things begin to go badly for this country, who will he stiff this time? It\u2019s not unreasonable to assume that, as with so many previous crews enamored of The Donald, he\u2019s taking this country and his base, in particular, for the ride of their lives and when this particular roller coaster goes down, who will go down with it?<\/p>\n

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Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Cooking the Books in the Trump Universe There\u2019s a clear pattern to Donald Trump\u2019s life. Put simply: he gets away with it. Yes, sometimes (but not usually) he has to pay a penalty, but generally he has a knack for leaving others holding the bag. He\u2019s stiffed untold numbers of people (plumbers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7844,575,6463],"class_list":["post-38057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-donald-trump","tag-nomi-prins","tag-tom-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38058,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions\/38058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}