Donald Trump brushed aside questions about his business record in an interview with NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, saying that he gets paid millions of dollars “because of my genius.”
NBC’s Michael Isikoff probed Trump about several of his business deals that have gone sour, most notably the hotel and casino venture in Atlantic City which bears his name that has filed for bankruptcy protection three times. Trump deflected that question, saying that he was not in charge of day to day management.
“I was chairman but I didn’t run the company,” Trump said. “I had nothing to do with running the company.”
But Isikoff pressed him further, asking why then was he paid $2 million from a failing casino.
“Because of my genius,” Trump responded.
The NBC segment also touched on some of Trump’s real estate deals, such as one in Tampa Bay, Florida that fell apart and prompted dozens of lawsuits from investors. And it also mentioned a little-known Trump venture, Trump University, an online seminar series that was eventually forced to remove “University” from its name by the state of New York because, well, it wasn’t really a university at all.
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