FROM SEPTEMBER OF 2015....
"Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in next year's presidential primary, has been pitching voters on his experience in business.
"I'm running for office in a country that's essentially bankrupt, and it needs a successful businessman," he told Rolling Stone.
Yet Trump has not done nearly as well as other American business magnates, or even a typical middle-class retiree following sound financial advice, as a review of the numbers over the past four decades shows. He is a billionaire today despite this poor performance because when he started his career, his father had already built a colossal real-estate empire. And the wealth Donald Trump has accumulated since then has at times come at the expense of taxpayers or the banks and investors who have lent him money."
The real reason Donald Trump is so rich - The Washington Post