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Some scoundrel examples off the top of my head: Trump hired illegals and casual day labor to build Trump Tower and then didn’t pay them, to the point that they shut down traffic around the whole neighborhood with protests. He said it was a fight against unions but he took advantage of desperate people and screwed them. He bought up old buildings with numerous elderly tenants who had what was called rent controlled apartments- a cap on the rent - and said he didn’t care what happened to them, it was bad business to have apartments going for less than the current market price. Their family members should take them in, he said. He got investors to help him buy failing businesses like an Atlantic City casino which he then allowed to go bankrupt. Just on and on scamming and screwing people. This was way before any kind of celebrity media coverage. Classic con artist making people like you and agree with you and think you’re one of them and you’re going to get them a great return on their investment.

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