Recently, that investment became known to the public in South Carolina, and to say the least, it is indeed interesting.
A company in South Carolina was in dire financial straits. Donald Trump bought that company and rescued it, or perhaps rather, rescued its owner from financial collapse. Unfortunately, now a large building owned by that company sits empty. Rain seeping in a leaky roof. Full of toxic stuff in drums. Trump wants to sell the building, but the State of South Carolina says it can’t be sold until the toxic mess is cleaned up. That cleanup will cost millions of dollars.
Trump refuses to foot the bill to clean up the toxic mess at his building. He wants the taxpayers of South Carolina to clean it up. He says his company has no relations with the previous owner of the building. South Carolina has a quandary. Dare they go against the powerful soon-to-be President*, fight to make him pay for the cleanup of his toxic waste site and incur lord knows what kind of wrath from him? Or should the taxpayers in South Carolina foot the bill?
Who was the previous owner of the building that Donald Trump says he has no relations with? His son. Yep. He bailed out his son’s failing bidness and now wants to sell an asset of that bidness. Without being responsible for cleaning up the toxic mess first. An asset originally owned by his son. Who he has no relations with.
I just figured out the word to describe Trump’s bidness dealings. Smarmy.
*Trump lost the election in a landslide and is going to hold the Presidency due to interference by Russia, ill-considered public statements by the FBI Chief, and the vote of the outdated Electoral College.
