Hillary Clinton Trolls Donald Trump Over Failed Business Dealings in Atlantic City
“What he did for his businesses ... is nothing to brag about," she said.
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- One day after the FBI recommended that no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email while she was secretary of state, the Democratic presidential candidate continued her campaign schedule as planned -- descending on New Jersey’s seaside town of Atlantic City with one thing in mind: to troll Donald Trump.
Speaking on the city’s boardwalk in front of the now-shuttered Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Clinton offered a scathing attack of the presumptive Republican nominee, reiterating a case her campaign plans to double down on until Election Day: that Trump is not as successful a businessman as he portrays himself to be.
“What he did for his businesses and his workers is nothing to brag about,” Clinton told the crowd, made up of both Clinton and Trump supporters. “In fact, it’s shameful. And every single voter in America needs to know about it, so we don't let him do to our country what he did to his businesses.”
Then, after listing off a series of what she described as failed business ventures in both Atlantic City and other cities across the country, she concluded: “I want you to understand, what he did here in Atlantic City is exactly what he will do if he wins in November.”
Trump has come under fire for his business record in Atlantic City, a town that has been decimated by bankruptcy.
A New York Times investigation earlier this month of his dealings in the city concluded there’s “little doubt that Mr. Trump’s casino business was a protracted failure” and that “though he now says his casinos were overtaken by the same tidal wave that eventually slammed this seaside city’s gambling industry, in reality he was failing in Atlantic City long before Atlantic City itself was failing.”
A local union worker speaking ahead of Clinton at her campaign event, and chosen by the campaign, said Trump had "ripped us off" and "overworked us."
Trump, however, has defended his handling of his business in Atlantic City, saying he was very successful there and employed thousands of workers.
He took to Twitter ahead of Clinton’s event to make this point.
“I made a lot of money in Atlantic City and left 7 years ago, great timing (as all know). Pols made big mistakes, now many bankruptcies,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, just blocks away from Clinton’s campaign event this afternoon, Atlantic City casinos workers gathered to strike outside of the Trump Taj Mahal.
The hotel -- which has gone through a series of bankruptcies since opening in 1990 -- was once owned by the Republican presidential candidate; however, it’s since been taken over by billionaire investor Carl Icahn.