Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016 | 2 a.m.
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Donald Trump espouses a mandate to increase the middle class’s economic status, providing jobs in the private sector and social and financial security for citizens. While he has yet to enunciate his plans to accomplish all this, we can look at his history to better understand from whence he comes.
He has used legal means to refuse to pay his creditors the contractual amounts in his businesses. He has the right to do so, and it shows his disregard for people who work for a living even in the middle class. It appears that he will litigate a conflict that would be fiscally imprudent for his creditor to proceed through a trial, and therefore, will settle the claim for a small percentage of the amount due. Trump has the financial resources to do this (as do many other extremely wealthy individuals).
Now he espouses concern for those people who lost business, jobs, financial security. What he did, contrasted to what he now says, in my mind, shows an inability to be sincere with the American public.
He should be reminded that there is no bankruptcy court that can absolve him of his promises, vague or “detailed,” as it did his debts.
