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You cannot possibly know what the fuck he means as a strategy for a presidency, at all, ever.

No president's campaign promises are meaningful, their behavior in office is determined by endless factors.

Taking out special interests on the stump doesn't prevent them from being effective, just from working directly

he'll have to put his assets into a blind trust if elected, so his re-election ain't gonna be proof from their involvement.

It's so easy to find people that have been burned by his behavior as an investor that I know them personally, which is an accomplishment.

In 1991, he took an especially big risk to build the Trump Taj Mahal. He personally guaranteed loans used to develop the project, putting his own fortune on the line if things went sour.

They did. As the U.S. muddled through a recession, Trump was unable to make good on billions of dollars of debt. He put two of his casinos into bankruptcy, sold the airline, threatened to tie up his creditors in court and cajoled and blustered his way into deals that erased much of the guarantees on the Taj Mahal that endangered his personal wealth.

The bankruptcies — four in all, stretching over nearly a decade — left many casino lenders and vendors bitter. They got just pennies on each dollar they were owed.