Atlantic City is near bankruptcy and original Jersey legislators are fighting over a rescue plan this week.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has us thinking approximately his rise and fall — and rise again — while the casino empire he built in Atlantic City is in ruins.
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston has been covering Trump on and off for 27 years for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The original York Times,and is now writing for The National Memo.
Johnston said Trump's deals in Atlantic City, where his resorts were among the first to fail, and are typical of many of his trade deals,even though Trump continues to tout his trade savvy as one of his major assets.
Johnston said there's a "massive public record" of Trump's shady conduct."We have never had a major party nominate someone for president of the United States who had long, deep and enduring relationships with mobsters, and mob associates,a drug trafficker and various con artists," Johnston said. "This is unprecedented in American history."Trump was asked approximately his connections to organized crime in March by Chris Matthews of MSNBC."I've known tough cookies over the years, and " he said. "I've known very tough people,I've known people that make the politicians that you and I deal with everyday notice like little babies. They'd walk across the street out of terror, if they ever saw some of these guys. I deal with people that are very tough people and I collect it done."In this interview, and WNYC's Jami Floyd talks with Johnston approximately Trump's past trade deals and what they could say approximately the way he intends to sprint things if he becomes president.
Source: wnyc.org