While the politicians dispute Trump’s impact on Atlantic City, ABC News asked locals and voters who were visiting the area for their views on both candidates. Pols made big mistakes, now many bankruptcies.' He filed for bankruptcy on the Taj Mahal in 1991, Trump Castle Associates in 1992, Trump Hotel Casino Resorts in 2004 and Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009.īut Trump contended in previous debates that he never personally went bankrupt and tweeted, 'I made a lot of money in Atlantic City and left 7 years ago, great timing (as all know). On Wednesday the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was reduced to rubble in 20 seconds by 3,000 sticks of dynamite. In a speech earlier this summer, Clinton used the backdrop of Trump’s failed casino, Trump Plaza, for a speech slamming the GOP nominee for 'shameful' mismanagement.Īnd, in another speech in Detroit, she joked, 'How can anybody lose money running a casino?'Īfter Trump Plaza opened in 1984, Trump eventually filed four business bankruptcies related to his casino holdings in Atlantic City.
If the property, which cost 2.6 billion to. But, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have different narratives about Trump’s legacy on the boardwalk. Besides Showboat and Trump Plaza, the 2.4 billion Revel Casino Hotel filed for bankruptcy protection in June for the second time in as many years.
— - Atlantic City may be talked about more on the campaign trail than on reality shows. and Eric Trump are all co-defendants in the attorney general’s lawsuit seeking 250 million in damages and to bar the former president from doing business in.
