Better than anyone · 2016 campaign · № 18
Understood money better than anybody
“I understand money better than anybody and I understand it way better than Hillary.”
- Said
- , Interview on NBC's Today, discussing his campaign's cash on hand
- Subject
- money
- Topic
- Economy & prices
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What the record showed
He had said the same thing on Today on January 21, 2016. His businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six times between 1991 and 2009, including the Trump Taj Mahal, financed with $675 million in junk bonds at 14 percent interest, which entered bankruptcy in 1991. In December 2016 he named Goldman Sachs alumni Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn to lead Treasury and the National Economic Council.