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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Trump’s career:
Fans and foes, love and hate
By BERNARD CONDON
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK — To his
supporters, the business ca-
reer of Donald Trump is proof
he’s got the decisiveness and
smarts required to lead the
country. To critics, his exag-
gerated claims, burned cus-
tomers and four bankruptcies
suggest a man wholly disqual-
i¿ed for the of¿ce.
The truth: It’s complicated.
Criticized by Republican
rivals for his crude comments
and what they call iffy conser-
vative credentials, Trump now
¿nds his business acumen in
the political crosshairs. Florida
Sen. Marco Rubio has started
calling Trump a “con artist”
who has been “sticking it to
the little guy” as he built his
empire, and says he would be
“selling watches in Manhat-
tan” if he hadn’t gotten help
from his millionaire father.
Trump’s business record
gives Super Tuesday voters
inclined to praise or condemn
his boardroom bona ¿des a
way to support either view.
Gutsy, shrewd and armed
with an uncanny sense of tim-
ing, Trump built a business
that spans the globe, much
bigger in scope and riches than
when he took it over from his
father. Yet some of his failures
have been as spectacular as
his successes, and he’s stiffed
creditors and has licensed his
name in ways that raise ques-
tions about his judgment.
“Donald has proven him-
self an innovative and smart
businessman,” says real estate
developer Don Peebles, a reg-
istered Democrat who does
not plan on voting for Trump
if he makes it to the general
election. “I respect and admire
what he’s accomplished.”
The fortune built by
Trump’s father, estimated
at several hundred million
dollars, came from low- and
middle-income housing in
Brooklyn and Queens. Trump
wanted more. So he bet big on
much richer Manhattan, a risk
for the son of an outer-bor-
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a speech at a rally
in Oklahoma City.
Secret Service-media tussle at rally
RADFORD, Va. (AP) — A raucous and
protest-ridden Donald Trump rally on the
eve of Super Tuesday featured a verbal and
physical altercation between a news media
photographer and a Secret Service agent,
complete with profanity, a choke hold and a
body slam.
Chris Morris, the photographer who is
contracted to cover the campaign for TIME,
was escorted out of the tense rally amid an
anti-Trump protest, and detained before
being released. The Secret Service says it
is investigating “the exact circumstances.”
The agent has not been identi¿ed.
ough builder.
His timing was near per-
fect. He began construction
in 1980 on his signature Fifth
Avenue building, Trump Tow-
er, just as New York City be-
gan a long boom following a
brush with bankruptcy.
He put up more buildings,
bought an airline and rolled the
dice in another industry — ca-
sinos. In 1984, he opened the
Trump Plaza in Atlantic City,
Trump’s hour-long speech at Radford
was interrupted multiple times by pro-
testers — some individual, others acting
in groups. Videos of the incident taken
by reporters and attendees show Morris
attempting to secure a better position to
photograph some of the many protesters
kicked out of Trump’s Radford event. Re-
buffed, Morris is heard cursing at the agent,
who then grabs Morris and takes him to the
ground.
Seconds later, Morris touched the agent
to demonstrate his version of what hap-
pened. He was then escorted out.
New Jersey, and he opened
Trump’s Castle the following
year. In 1991, he took an es-
pecially big risk to build the
Trump Taj Mahal. He person-
ally 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. 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.
“People forget that he left
bondholders out to dry ...
that these were not victimless
events,” says Michael D’An-
tonio, author of the Trump
biography “Never Enough.”
“When he tried to do other
kinds of business — airlines
and casinos — he stumbled.”
In 2001, Trump complet-
ed the 90-story residential
Trump World Tower in New
York City. Then, three years
later, he discovered a Àair for
reality TV with the launch of
“The Apprentice” on NBC. As
his celebrity star rose, Trump
moved to squeeze more dol-
lars out of his name. He’s
branded everything from bot-
tled water and suits to hotels
and residential towers, striking
deals to put his name on prop-
erties built and owned by oth-
ers in Panama, Uruguay, Tur-
key, India and the Philippines.
As he has extended his
brand, he’s faced criticism that
he’s gotten careless, or worse.
Rubio has focused in the past
several days on Trump Uni-
versity, which charged stu-
dents $1,495 each for semi-
nars that would teach them the
billionaire’s secrets to making
it big in real estate. A lawsuit
¿led by the New York attor-
ney general claims the classes
fell so short of promises that it
amounts to fraud.
“This is a guy who says he
stands for the working class,”
Rubio said Saturday. “When
in fact his entire business ca-
reer, he’s been sticking it to
working-class Americans.”
It’s clearly struck a nerve with
Trump, who on Saturday called
the litigation “a small deal, very
small” and told supporters he
could have settled, but is continu-
ing to fight on principle.
For a man who measures
his success in dollars, Trump
has managed to grow them sub-
stantially. According to Forbes
magazine, Trump’s wealth has
risen to $4.5 billion from $1 bil-
lion in 1988, a 350 percent gain.
That’s half of what he would
have earned if he had invested
in a broad U.S. stock index, and
that doesn’t count dividends.
Trump, by the way, says
Forbes is all wrong.
“I borrowed a tiny amount
of money, $1 million,” he said
Saturday. “I started a business.
It’s worth much more than
$10 billion right now.”
Trump timeline
—1978: Opens glittering
$100 million hotel at
Grand Central Station in
New York to replace decay-
ing Commodore Hotel.
—1980: Breaks ground on
Trump Tower, his soaring
Fifth Avenue luxury condo
building.
—1984: Gambles on casi-
nos, opening Trump Plaza
in Atlantic City. Trump’s
Castle follows a year later;
next, the $1 billion Trump
Taj Mahal.
—1987: Publishes “The
Art of the Deal,” a New
York Times best seller.
—1989: For new airline,
Trump Shuttle, promises
“best of everything,” but
loses control to lenders
and eventually sells it.
—1991: First of four
Trump casino bankrupt-
cies. Trump Taj Mahal
threatens his personal
fortune because he person-
ally guaranteed debt, but
dealmaking spares him big
loss.
—2004: Joins forces with
NBC to launch “The Ap-
prentice,” the long-running
reality TV show.
—2005: Expands brand
into clothing and acces-
sories with the “Donald
J. Trump Signature Col-
lection” so fans can wear
Trump-branded suits,
shirts, ties, cuflinks,
eyewear, leather goods and
belts.
—2008: Opens irst
property in Chicago, the
92-story Trump Interna-
tional Hotel & Tower.
—2009: Tells crowd of
5,000 in Miami that his
new health products
company, Trump Networks,
will be the “biggest in the
industry.” Company strug-
gles and Trump sells it four
years later.
—2012: Wins right to con-
vert Old Post Ofice Build-
ing in Washington into
300-room hotel, promising
“one of the most luxurious
in the world.”
—2014: Buys Ireland’s
Doonbeg golf club and
Scotland’s Turnberry
Resort, the site of several
British Opens and his 17th
golf course.
SUPER TUESDAY
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
East Oregonian
Super Tuesday is the biggest prize Rubio takes gloves
By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Super Tuesday
is the big gulp moment for any presi-
dential candidate who makes it that far.
It’s the biggest day of competition in
American democracy except for Elec-
tion Day itself. It’s super nail-bitey, su-
per expensive and often super-clarify-
ing — the killer and maker of dreams.
So will it set everything straight in
the chaotic presidential race?
Maybe. Quite possibly not.
Voters in a dozen states head to the polls on Tuesday, March 1, with 1,460 delegates
at stake. More delegates can be won on Super Tuesday than on any other day during
the presidential nominating process.
DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES
Why it matters
Immigration policy, the swollen
U.S. debt, the uneven spread of wealth
and hard questions about how to ap-
proach the Islamic State, terrorism and
civil liberties are all in play for voters.
So is the fate of fundamental social
policy as the Supreme Court stands
ideologically divided. A vacancy may
not be ¿lled until after the next presi-
dent takes of¿ce in January.
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
Associated Press
ON SUPER TUESDAY ...
4,765 total
21% of available pledged
Democratic delegates will
Super-
delegates
Remaining
delegates
be awarded, while 24% of
available Republican
delegates are up for grabs.
REPUBLICAN DELEGATES
3,030
Marco ‘Rambo’ & Co.
Five Republicans are still mixing
it up, but all the bellowing is either
by or about GOP front-runner Donald
Trump. The New Yorker is driving to-
ward the Republican nomination and
his rivals are trying to splatter him with
everything they have.
Tuesday will answer whether Mar-
co Rubio’s debate-night transformation
from bland RubioBot to Marco Rambo
can begin to take down the months-
long leader in preference polls and now
delegates.
The ¿ght that the Republican es-
tablishment long wanted has been en-
gaged. Whether it’s too late to stop the
outsider capitalist-populist is the ques-
tion.
And it’s not all high-minded rhetoric
by any means. Trump made fun of Ru-
bio’s ears; Rubio cracked that Trump
may have wet his pants during the de-
bate.
Similar suspense, with fewer insults,
animates the Democratic race.
Hillary Clinton, the establishment
pick, scored a weekend blowout in
South Carolina on Saturday, looks
strong in many Super Tuesday states
and would become an overwhelming
favorite for the nomination if she per-
forms to expectations.
A surprise could reinvigorate Ber-
nie Sanders, her socialist-populist rival
who has tapped deep political passions
but needs more actual victories, and
soon.
off with Trump
The road to Super Tuesday
2,472 total
2,383
Needed for
nomination
Remaining
delegates
1,744
1,237
Super
Tuesday
delegates
865
156
Past
races
133
SOURCE: AP Election Services
Trump’s agenda lacks detail on most
fronts and often seems improvised. But
there’s little doubt about his intended
approach on several major matters.
He would try to browbeat trading
partners and others into doing his will.
He would be on the hook for some-
how carrying out mass deportations
of people in the country illegally, for
temporarily banning non-U.S. citizen
Muslims from coming into the coun-
try and for replacing President Barack
Obama’s health care law with a system
that does not, as he put it, leave people
to die on the street.
Democrats have a choice between
liberal pragmatism and liberal ambi-
tion.
Sanders preaches free college, a
transformation of health care to a gov-
ernment-¿nanced “Medicare-for-all”
system and a breakup of big banks as
part of an agenda centered on shrinking
the gap between rich and poor.
That means a far heftier safety net,
at the cost of higher taxes and what a
lot of economists say would be higher
national debt. Clinton says his goals are
politically impossible and she would
follow an achievable, yet still activist
path.
A transition
Until now, it was ephemeral. Who’s
doing better and worse than expected?
Who’s rising and falling? Who’s got,
AP
you know, momentum?
It’s mainly about the number of del-
egates now — the inexorable grind of
arithmetic.
Until now, voters in four states have
picked not much more than a sliver of
the delegates who are needed to clinch
the party nominations.
That changes overnight, with each
party holding contests in 11 states.
Democrats also vote in American Sa-
moa.
Republicans will allocate 595 del-
egates from the results of Super Tues-
day, nearly half of the 1,237 needed for
the nomination.
Democrats will allocate 865, more
than one-third of the necessary 2,383.
What’s the score?
3-1 for Trump and Clinton.
He won New Hampshire, South
Carolina and Nevada. She won Iowa,
Nevada and South Carolina.
Republican Ted Cruz won Iowa.
Sanders won New Hampshire.
In the Republican delegate race: it’s
82 for Trump, 17 for Ted Cruz, 16 for
Rubio, 6 for John Kasich and 4 for Ben
Carson.
In the Democratic race, factoring
in the hundreds of superdelegates, or
party insiders who can support a candi-
date of their choice, Clinton leads with
544 delegates, according to AP’s count,
while Sanders has 85.
ATLANTA — Inviting
audiences to “have a little
fun,” Republican presidential
hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio’s
jabs at front-runner Donald
Trump are getting personal.
In a sharp shift from pol-
icy to personal attacks on
Trump, Rubio mocked ev-
erything from the billionaire
businessman’s tan to mak-
ing subtle remarks about his
manhood. He even implied
that Trump wet his pants
during a recent debate.
Crowds across the South
have appeared receptive to
the Florida senator’s change
in tone, exploding into
cheers and laughter at the
digs. But individually, many
voters sheepishly smile and
acknowledge that the turn is
unfortunate but necessary for
anyone to take down Trump.
Come what may for Ru-
bio, his attacks on Trump,
the favorite in most of this
week’s Super Tuesday polls,
exposes a deeply-root an-
tipathy for Trump among a
segment of the Republican
electorate.
“You’ve got to break
Donald Trump somehow,”
said Elizabeth Neal, who at-
tended a Rubio rally down-
town Atlanta on Monday.
“To some degree it means
doing whatever it takes —
even if it means getting down
to his level.”
In Georgia on Saturday,
Rubio Àipped his rhetoric
from focusing on policy
comparisons to ripping on
Trump’s appearance.
“It’s amazing to me. A
guy with the worst spray
tan in America is attacking
me for putting on makeup,”
Rubio told an audience of
7,000 parents with children
on a Christian high school
football ¿eld Saturday. The
grandstands roared. “Donald
Trump likes to sue people.
He should sue whoever did
that to his face,” he added.
In Virginia on Sunday,
Rubio again mocked Trump
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“You can’t trust them!
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It sometimes begins with
Rubio pulling out his phone,
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While it may appear that
Rubio’s newfound play-
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from the serious indictment
of Trump’s ethics and politi-
cal past, Rubio aides say that
the maneuver is aimed at try-
ing to knock Trump off of his
message and break through a
cable and network television
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“I suppose I could sit here
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