LUCKY LOSER

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FT AND SHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 Inheritance Fraud Deceit Drawing on decades worth of confidential tax information business records and insider interviews Lucky Loser is an explosive investigation into the reality behind Trump s wealth Meticulously documented This is a page turner with spectacular anecdotes Washington Post Scalpel like Damning Sunday Times A first rate financial thriller deserves even demands to be read New York TimesSoon after announcing his first campaign for the U S presidency Donald J Trump declared life has not been easy for me He spun a fable of how he turned a small loan from his father into a multi billion dollar empire and argued this made him singularly qualified to lead the country Except none of it was true Born to a rich father Trump received the equivalent of more than 500 million today The story of Trump s finances is one of rises and falls of squandering fortunes on money losing businesses to be saved by blind luck He tacks his name to buildings while taking out huge loans he ll never repay He obsesses over appearances while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits He tarnishes the value of the Tru