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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen Hegseth stated "I was nominated by one of the most successful businessmen of all time", I asked myself....
Elon, why???
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When Hegseth stated "I was nominated by one of the most successful businessmen of all time", I asked myself.... (Original Post)
Lemons UK
Jan 14
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walkingman
(8,785 posts)1. Pleaseeeee.....Successful businesman?
"Trump's unsuccessful business ventures have included numerous casinos and hotel bankruptcies, the folding of his New Jersey Generals football team, and the now-defunct Trump University. He and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 legal actions, including six business bankruptcies."
Lemons UK
(188 posts)8. Those are raging successes in TrumpWorld. Up is down. Black is white.
FSogol
(47,103 posts)2. Sober up, Hegseth. That doesn't make much sense.
Lovie777
(16,176 posts)3. What a joke...............
Emile
(32,078 posts)4. Six bankruptcies does not make a successful business man.
Only a dumb ass would say something like that!
Walleye
(37,339 posts)5. I guess he was talking about Putin
Ping Tung
(1,600 posts)6. "There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success." Lord Acton
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,982 posts)7. and Kim Jong and Putin
are great leaders who love their people !
Disqualifying , But Repubs have to please their master, so YES
Rob H.
(5,611 posts)9. Trump bankrupted several CASINOS,
places where the odds are stacked in favor of the house and people walk in and literally hand you their money.