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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump didn't "lose" a billion dollars over 10 years, he laundered it [View all]
The press are completely missing the point here. Sure, it's kind of funny for a Very Stable Genius to lose a billion dollars on a casino. Why is that funny? Because it can't actually be done; casinos can't lose money. The machines don't even have a setting for that.
What they can do is "lose" money by sending it to the person who was the actual beneficiary of the loan, but who needs to be off the record for legal reasons.
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Trump didn't "lose" a billion dollars over 10 years, he laundered it [View all]
Recursion
May 2019
OP
We did groupon for the Mob Museum. While there I thought of Trump because the mobsters called
dem4decades
May 2019
#26
He lost plenty, most of it the banks money, which is why he had to turn to the Russians.
brush
May 2019
#6
You can definitely lose with a casino if you borrowed too much money to run the business. nt
Lucky Luciano
May 2019
#8
Not to forget that Trump was competing against himself in AC. Not a monopoly.
no_hypocrisy
May 2019
#12