Trump's For The 'Little Guy'?

[Kathianne]

Is this just 'good business?'

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/


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Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people – carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers – who say he didn’t pay them for their work.


During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza.

The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/The Trump Organization" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; border-bottom-style: dashed !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important; background: inherit !important;">Trump Organization</culink>, the resort’s builder.

Edward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. The reason: the money never came. “That began the demise of the Edward J. Friel Company… which has been around since my grandfather,” he said.

Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.

Trump’s companies have also been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage, according to<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/United States Department of Labor" title="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; border-bottom-style: dashed !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important; background: inherit !important;">U.S. Department of Labor</culink> data. That includes 21 citations against the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and three against the also out-of-business Trump Mortgage LLC in New York. Both cases were resolved by the companies agreeing to pay back wages.

In addition to the lawsuits, the review found more than 200 mechanic’s liens — filed by contractors and employees against Trump, his companies or his properties claiming they were owed money for their work — since the 1980s. The liens range from a $75,000 claim by a Plainview, N.Y., air conditioning and heating company to a $1 million claim from the president of a New <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/York City F.C." title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; border-bottom-style: dashed !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51) !important; background-image: inherit !important; background-attachment: inherit !important; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); background-size: inherit !important; background-origin: inherit !important; background-clip: inherit !important; background-position: inherit !important; background-repeat: inherit !important;">York City</culink> real estate banking firm. On just one project, Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, records released by the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/New Jersey Casino Control Commission" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; border-bottom-style: dashed !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51) !important; background-image: inherit !important; background-attachment: inherit !important; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); background-size: inherit !important; background-origin: inherit !important; background-clip: inherit !important; background-position: inherit !important; background-repeat: inherit !important;">New Jersey Casino Control Commission</culink> in 1990 show that at least 253 subcontractors weren’t paid in full or on time, including workers who installed walls, chandeliers and plumbing.
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[hjmick]

Trump is for the "little guy" if the little guy's name is Trump...




Is no one else stunned by the fact that the best this country gave us for Presidential candidates are a corrupt, lying enabler and a blow hard with nothing but insults and empty rhetoric? Really? These are the best two for the job?





We are doomed.

[gabosaurus]

Trump is for squashing the little guy. Meaning anyone and everyone who stands in the way of what he wants.

But lets face it. If you are on the far right, you don't care about anything except defeating Hillary Clinton. Trump can call for human sacrifices and it will still be about voting the (R).
On the left, we are voting against Trump. If we get stuck with Slick Hilly and Willy, so be it.

To me, it will be worth another Clinton debacle to get a liberal Supreme Court majority and control of at least one side of Congress.

[revelarts]

and against muslims ...if they don't have CASH

http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2015/12/07/donald-trump-loves-muslims-if-they-re-rich/jcr:content/image.crop.800.500.jpg/48320152.cached.jpg

[gabosaurus]

If the "little guy" is the top one percent of income earning Americans, then yes, he is for them. :rolleyes:

[Noir]

Is no one else stunned by the fact that the best this country gave us for Presidential candidates are a corrupt, lying enabler and a blow hard with nothing but insults and empty rhetoric? Really? These are the best two for the job?

Preach!
:clap:

[gabosaurus]

Best case scenario:

A -- Clinton chooses Elizabeth Warren as her running mate.
B -- Clinton wins general election
C -- Clinton indicted over various scandals and is forced to resign
D -- Warren becomes president. :salute:

[Black Diamond]

Best case scenario:

A -- Clinton chooses Elizabeth Warren as her running mate.
B -- Clinton wins general election
C -- Clinton indicted over various scandals and is forced to resign
D -- Warren becomes president. :salute:

She's not picking Fauxchahontas. If you watch house of cards, she needs a Southerner with a penis.

[Gunny]

Trump is for squashing the little guy. Meaning anyone and everyone who stands in the way of what he wants.

But lets face it. If you are on the far right, you don't care about anything except defeating Hillary Clinton. Trump can call for human sacrifices and it will still be about voting the (R).
On the left, we are voting against Trump. If we get stuck with Slick Hilly and Willy, so be it.

To me, it will be worth another Clinton debacle to get a liberal Supreme Court majority and control of at least one side of Congress.

You would be incorrect. I've worked for contractors and know exactly what they're like. They pay you as little as possible and work the life out of you. They're inept at managing manpower and money, in general. They can't grasp the concept that they spend more money in overtime than they would if they paid motivated, quality people that showed up on time and worked 8 hours. They suck at time management and personnel management.

You are right about one thing. It's about defeating that criminal you're going to vote for to me.

[stephanie]

I had my doubts about Trump and I was a Ted Cruz supporter until I saw him align himself with the Democrats, AND Democrat lite, the establishment GopE.


I'm hoping he stands up for the little guy, he was one after all, who actually created businesses to give the little guy JOBS. Something none of these Career politicians like Hillary, Bernie, Obambam, etc can CLAIM.

anyway to me he can't be any WORSE then Obama was and what Hillary, the Obama in a pantsuit will be. It's nice the lamestream medias can dig up crap on him from way back when. But they couldn't find a damn thing on Obama's life. One reason is his life was, Manufactured, made up and then sold to us in these books written for him by his American hating domestic terrorist buddy, Bill Ayers.

what's scary is the people fell for the Obama line of BS and we've suffered so much for it ever since.

[namvet]

how many "little guys" did he hire along the way??


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhN3W3gK6cI