FINDINGS: The best of reporting on Donald Trump
by Sarah Smith, ProPublica If elected president of the United States, Donald Trump has promised to “open up” libel laws so he can sue news organizations like they’ve “never got sued before.” While the First Amendment is still intact, ProPublica compiled a list of some articles he might have his eye on. Trump’s Bad Bet: How Too Much Debt Drove His Biggest Casino Aground The Washington Post, January 2016 In 1988, when Donald Trump took control of the Taj Mahal (the Atlantic City hotel-casino, not the Indian palace!), he promised to finance his operation without junk bonds. Banks, he said, would