Originally Posted by
big dick
WOW - Listen to why lifelong Republican Danielle didn't vote for Trump in 2016
"My family company was one of the many companies that helped build the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. Trump did not pay my family's company $8 million.
So, I always remember going to New York and being like "dad, isn't that the guy that, you know, owed you the money.""
Back on my AC days, I played poker with a guy in the building business who as a subcontractor got stiffed by Trump back in the 90s. At the time, he was a relatively small operator with about a half dozen employees, and the job he did for Trump allowed him, or so he thought, the chance to (1) grow his business, and (2) build his reputation in the construction business for doing larger jobs than previously, both of which rationalized for him accepting a lower price on the job than he would have accepted without those things. I say “thought” because Trump ended up stiffing him on most of the cost of the job, and because Trump at that time was his only customer, he had to layoff his workers and declare bankruptcy as he had used cash-on-hand and bank financing to initially fund the work.
He eventually regrouped a few years later, and was still in the biz when I chatted with him at the table, but he thoroughly hated Trump for what that fucker did to his business.