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the maggot stays afloat in the 90s
http://theweek.com/speedreads/653354/trump-only-stayed-afloat-because-banks-judged-worth-more-alive-than-dead-lawyer
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Trump Taxes
Trump only stayed afloat because banks judged him 'worth more alive to us than dead,' lawyer says
October 6, 2016
At CNN on Wednesday, Gloria Borger tried to figure out how Donald Trump lost nearly $1 billion in 1995, as declared on a personal tax return leaked to The New York Times. Trump's accountant up until that year, Jack Mitnick, disputes Trump's boasts about his expertise in tax law, and Borger spoke with two people involved in Trump's 1990s collapse who disputed his business acumen. First, she spoke with securities analyst Marvin Roffman, an expert in the Atlantic City casino industry Trump bet big on in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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