I'm not making this up, he entered the mortgage business in 2006, closed it down in 2008.
The subprime mortgage brokerage biz did seem like a surefire scam- at least everybody else was getting rich.
You or I are "smarter" than Trump if you don't count bullying and bluster, greasing palms and structuring speculative businesses in such a way that the lenders and bondholders end up holding the bag.
Hey, I've got a great idea! Let's give him the nuclear launch codes.
