{"id":664,"date":"2009-02-17T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T07:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=664"},"modified":"2009-02-17T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T07:24:13","slug":"in-donald-trumps-book-there-is-only-one-chapter-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"In Donald Trump&#8217;s Book, There Is Only One Chapter:  Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Trump bankruptcy.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\">The Wall Street Journa<\/a>l reports that, once again, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-665\" title=\"Trump\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/trump.jpg\" alt=\"Trump\" width=\"135\" height=\"88\" \/>Donald Trump&#8217;s organization will<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123482989751595525.html?mod=testMod\"> screw its creditors out of their investment<\/a>.\u00a0 This time it&#8217;s the Trump Entertainment Group that includes Trump Casinos.\u00a0 It&#8217;s their third appearance in bankruptcy court in four years.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong.\u00a0 I think individuals and companies need bankruptcy protection laws, and I was opposed to the changes in the law that were made earlier this decade that made it harder for individuals to declare bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>But this is a clear case of abuse, this from a man who scrutinizes other peoples&#8217; business plans on live TV.\u00a0 It leads to the question, if you actually win at Apprentice, what lesson are you actually learning?\u00a0 And one has to wonder, what kind of morons would invest in this guy&#8217;s businesses?\u00a0 I mean really.\u00a0 One bankruptcy normally all but kills a consumer&#8217;s credit for many years.\u00a0 Where does he get the suckers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Trump bankruptcy.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal reports that, once again, Donald Trump&#8217;s organization will screw its creditors out of their investment.\u00a0 This time it&#8217;s the Trump Entertainment Group that includes Trump Casinos.\u00a0 It&#8217;s their third appearance in bankruptcy court in four years. Don&#8217;t get me wrong.\u00a0 I think individuals and companies need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Donald Trump&#8217;s Book, There Is Only One Chapter:  Eleven&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-stuff","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}