{"id":37237,"date":"2016-07-07T20:25:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T03:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=37237"},"modified":"2016-07-07T20:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T03:49:36","slug":"clinton-denounces-trump-in-front-of-bankrupt-trump-plaza-in-ac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/clinton-denounces-trump-in-front-of-bankrupt-trump-plaza-in-ac\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Denounces Trump in Front of Bankrupt Trump Plaza in Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton hit the boardwalk in Atlantic City<\/a> on Wednesday to denounce what she called Donald Trump\u2019s legacy of “multiple bankruptcies,\u201d \u201cstiffing contractors,\u201d and \u201chundreds of job losses” in the resort gambling town.<\/p>\n

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Hillary Clinton used the Trump Plaza as a dystopian metaphor on Wednesday, but does her claim that Trump is responsible for Atlantic City\u2019s woes stand up to scrutiny? Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton has plenty of detractors of her own right now. (Image: AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The backdrop of the shuttered, bankrupt Trump Plaza served, in the eyes of the Clinton camp, as the perfect metaphor for a future US economy under a Trump presidency, as Hillary pilloried her opponent for running Atlantic City into the ground.<\/p>\n

Trump achieved this, claimed Clinton, by borrowing hundreds of millions at high interest rates, before defaulting on those loans, declaring his businesses bankrupt, and leaving the casino’s contractors and workers in the lurch.<\/p>\n

“That says everything you need to know about Donald Trump,” the presumptive Democratic nominee said, exactly one day after FBI Director James Comey laid out her unprosecutable server sins in front of the American public. “It\u2019s not about what he can build. It\u2019s about how much he can take.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“He makes over-the-top promises and says if people trust in him, put their faith in him, he’ll deliver,” she added. “Then everything falls apart, people get hurt, and Donald gets paid.”<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s record in Atlantic City is becoming a favorite theme of Clinton\u2019s. Last month she poked The Donald by quipping \u201cHow can anyone lose money running a casino?\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently her staff hadn’t prepped Hillary on the history of the ever-money-losing Revel, or the larger issue of Caesars Entertainment’s ongoing bankruptcy woes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four Bankruptcies and a Casino Funeral<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Trump first bought property in Atlantic City in the early eighties, and by 1984, completed the construction of the Holiday Inn Casino Hotel. He built that in partnership with the Holiday Inn and Harrahs, then promptly bought out his partners and renamed the casino the somewhat more glamorous “Trump Plaza”.<\/p>\n

Next, he purchased the Atlantic City Hilton, which became the Trump Marina, only to sell it off in 2011, before it became the Golden Nugget.<\/p>\n

In 1988, he bought the unfinished Taj Mahal from Resorts International for $230 million. By the time it was completed in 1990, it had cost $1 billion to build. This was at a time when Trump and his business enterprises were experiencing mounting debt and the Taj was declared bankrupt later that year.<\/p>\n

He declared bankruptcy again on the Taj in 2004, a \u201ctechnical thing,\u201d he claimed at the time.<\/p>\n

“I have used the laws of this country . . . the (bankruptcy) chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family,” he claimed last year.<\/p>\n

Did Trump Run AC into the Ground?<\/h2>\n

Trump presided over some of the best years of Atlantic City, but he got out for good in 2009, at the height of the recession. That was not before declaring his fourth bankruptcy, however: on Trump Entertainment Resorts.<\/p>\n

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Four bankruptcies in one city is not a good record, but in answer to Clinton\u2019s question about how someone can lose money running a casino, in 2009, at the height of the recession, anyone could and most did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Trump did not invent the idea of the highly leveraged casino resort, either. It was a model that had been molded by Steve Wynn\u2019s Mirage in the late eighties and it had become the norm.<\/p>\n

Nor can he be blamed for the economic downturn of the late noughties, or for the increased competition from neighboring states, or for the rampant overspending of New Jersey politicians, who relied on the spoils of the Atlantic City casino industry and failed to curb their spending when increased competition pushed the market reached saturation point.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s risk-taking in Atlantic City was a representative of a far broader malaise of economic recklessness and a breakdown in corporate governance that pushed the world into avoidable recession.<\/p>\n

If Trump becomes the next president of the United States, perhaps he will carry what he learned in Atlantic City into the Oval Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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