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Inside the Taj, one of three casinos he once owned, shoppers can still browse the Trump Exchange store, which sells all Donald Style, from branded apparel to a dinner table set with gold charger plates and crystal glassware. A black-and-white blowup of the Donald, circa 1980, with windblown hair and firmer jaw, holds pride of place behind the cash register, beneath a bit of his CEO wisdom embossed on the wall: I like thinking Big. You have to think anyway so why not think big? D. Trump. Atlantic City hasn’t forgotten Trump, and the Republican front-runner for president can’t forget Atlantic City, where his casinos employed thousands and where his companies filed for four bankruptcies between 1991 and 2009.

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When Trump walked the boardwalk, people applauded. Police cruisers accompanied his limo, fore and aft. In 1991, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino, which had opened just a year before, filed for bankruptcy. Trump had financed it with $900 million in junk bonds. Although the company—and not Trump personally—filed for bankruptcy, he unloaded his legalizing casino gambling. Politicians promised gambling would pay for schools and roads, not just in the ailing seaside city but across the state. At the time, only faraway Nevada offered casino gambling, and Atlantic City was a short drive from many cities in the densely populated Northeast.

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