How can U.S. trust Trump on economy? | Letter

Donald Trump doesn’t keep his promises and doesn’t pay his bills. Remember when he claimed that donors were offering him “millions of dollars” for his campaign? He said he told them, “I don’t want your money.” If he took their money, he said, they would own him. He would finance his own campaign and be his own man.

Editor,

Donald Trump doesn’t keep his promises and doesn’t pay his bills.

Remember when he claimed that donors were offering him “millions of dollars” for his campaign? He said he told them, “I don’t want your money.” If he took their money, he said, they would own him. He would finance his own campaign and be his own man.

His supporters really liked that. But after they gave him enough votes to secure the nomination, he double-crossed them.

First, he asked the Republican National Committee to reimburse him for the money he spent on his primary campaign. Then he started fundraising for the general campaign, soliciting money from the donors he had previously, with great fanfare, spurned.

Hypocritical? Yes. Illegal? No.

But the next thing he did, soliciting donations from foreign government officials — in England, Scotland, Australia and Iceland –– was illegal, big time.

Trump’s business bait-and-switches are even worse than his political ones and hurt far more people. He says he knows better than anyone how to create jobs. Over 30 years he has created thousands of jobs to build, furnish, maintain, and run his hotels, office buildings, casinos and golf courses.

Impressive, right?

And over those same 30 years he had 3,500 lawsuits, many of them brought against him by carpenters, subcontractors, painters, waiters, bartenders, dishwashers, real estate brokers, lawyers, and small business owners who supplied him with goods or services for which they didn’t get paid. His answer to their demands for payment was, “Sue me.”

A number of small businesses went bankrupt trying to collect from him.

Who would trust a man like that with the moral leadership of our country, not to mention the U.S. economy?

Ann Adams

Oak Harbor