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DonViejo

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Mon Nov 7, 2016, 10:07 AM Nov 2016

Trump’s former business partner warns his ‘temper, bluster and racial rhetoric’ will ‘risk permanent

A former business partner begged Americans not to vote for Donald Trump — who he described as unfit for office.

Phil Satre, writing in the Reno Gazette-Journal, recalled his time as a senior vice president for Harrah’s 34 years ago, when the casino company entered a joint venture with Trump at his Atlantic City hotel.

“Over a period of four years I met with Donald frequently, often multiple times a month,” Satre wrote. “It was not a happy marriage, and it ended badly. Before the divorce, I had ample opportunity to form an opinion of him — an opinion that leaves me appalled by the very thought he could become our president.”

Within a year of the joint venture, Harrah’s was involved in a lawsuit with Trump, who claimed the casino company had mismanaged the project — and Satre said the real estate developer displayed the same negative character traits as a business partner that he shows as a presidential candidate.

“His written response to my letter of May 10 is characteristic of the bluster, threats, intemperance and unsupported and unsupportable falsehoods that have permeated the correspondence we have received from him and his key management employees almost since the beginning of our partnership,” Satre wrote in a 1985 affidavit filed with the court.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/trumps-former-business-partner-warns-his-temper-bluster-and-racial-rhetoric-will-risk-permanent-damage/

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Trump’s former business partner warns his ‘temper, bluster and racial rhetoric’ will ‘risk permanent (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2016 OP
(Not so) minor detail, but none of Trump's business associates and/or employees BeyondGeography Nov 2016 #1
Well, not mentioned nearly enough. How many clues did they need? BSdetect Nov 2016 #3
And where is the media to treestar Nov 2016 #2

BeyondGeography

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1. (Not so) minor detail, but none of Trump's business associates and/or employees
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 10:19 AM
Nov 2016

have spoken up for him. And his supporters point to his business background. Too late now, but this unhappy dichotomy was never touched on with any substance by the media.

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