Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will campaign in New Jersey, a non-swing state, in order to hit Donald Trump over his failed business ventures in the city.
According to her campaign, she will deliver her speech Wednesday night on the front of Boardwalk Hall, near the Trump Taj Mahal casino, which may bear his name but is no longer owned by him. It also collapsed into bankruptcy in 1991, a year after it opened and has done so four times since.
A former small business person hurt by Trump will introduce Clinton.
“Today, in Atlantic City, Hillary Clinton will make the case that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president based on the wake of destruction his fraudulent business dealings have left in the seaside town and for businesses and families across the country,” the Clinton campaign said early Wednesday. “Clinton will highlight Trump’s fraudulent business history in Atlantic City of multiple bankruptcies, stiffing contractors and spurring hundreds of job losses while pocketing cash for himself.”
Clinton also released a video ahead of her Atlantic City speech called “Who got hurt?” It goes on to critique Trump’s “Atlantic City Gamble.”
The 81-second video begins with a clip from a Republican debate when the businessman was confronted about his business record.
“Who got hurt when Trump abandoned Atlantic City?” the video asks.
Excerpts from newspaper articles flash with headlines that highlight Trump’s business failures in Atlantic City, such as “[Trump] defrauded contractors & construction workers by upwards of $60 million” from the National Review in March.
“He left Atlantic City with so many empty hands out that he owed money to,” Steven Perskie, a former casino regulator, says in the video. An Atlantic City resident then says Trump “doesn’t have no heart.”
“In Trump’s Atlantic City gamble, small businesses lost … vendors lost … local businesses lost …. casino workers lost,” the video continues. “And Donald Trump stacked the deck for himself.”
“For many years I took money out of Atlantic City,” Trump said in an interview in January. “The money I made in Atlantic City fueled a lot of projects.”
