Lucky Loser - How Donald Trump Squandered His Father s Fortune and Created the

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life “has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country.;Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, A masterpiece of narrative reporting,

Product details

• Authors: Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2024
• EAN: 9780593834299
• ISBN: 978-0-593-83429-9
• No. of pages: 519
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; True Crime, Biography: business & industry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Political corruption, TRUE CRIME / Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, Biography: business and industry, Corruption in politics, government and society, Popular beliefs