Without doubt no one reading this has ever heard of Edward Friel Jr. During the casino boom he got the contract for Trump Plaza in Atlantic City to make all the slot bases, registration desks, bars and cabinets. Friel ran a small woodworking company outside Philadelphia that had been started by his father. It was by far the biggest contract he ever signed, $400,000. During construction, the general contractor said it was the best wood work he had ever seen. Then it came time to turn in the last bill, $84.000. Well you can probably guess what happened. Trump said he had paid him enough for the work he had done. After a meeting Trump said, “You can work for me again but I’m not paying you.” Friel’s lawyer told him taking him to court would cost a lot of money and time. So not being able to recoup his losses in 1989, he folded the business and declared bankruptcy.

Now here’s the thing, I could write the same kind of letter for the next 3,500 days and never tell the same story. That’s how many times Trump has been sued since the 1980s by the same kind of small businesses. Every trade in construction. He even got sued by several law firms that were working for him against the people that were suing him. When it comes to ripping people off, no one was safe. And let us not forget Trump University. Are you kidding me? What did they teach there, how to go bankrupt, maybe how to inject Clorox or Lysol? Maybe you could write a report if you had ever gone to Yosemite National Park or if you had ever visited Thailand. Almost everyone has a laptop so just punch in “Trump’s worst ripoffs.” My gosh there is even a little girls singing group that he stiffed.

The point of this letter is to show all you Trumpers just how your hero has treated people over the years. I said it before and I’ll say it again, Donald Trump was no damn good before he was president and he will be no damn good in January 2020 after he was president, in my opinion. But that’s a great thing about this country. If you want to support a lying, racist, ripoff you have the right. They always say the president is a counter puncher. If you punch him he will punch you back. The question that needs answered is, why do people want to punch him?

KEN DAUBER

Cogan Station

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