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Asked on Annotated · August 4, 2026GENERATED SUMMARY1 takes · 1 person
mc dean stated that from 1986 to 1988 Donald Trump purchased significant blocks of shares in various public companies while suggesting he intended to take them over, then sold the shares for a profit, leading some observers to think he was engaged in greenmail. mc dean further stated that the New York Times found Trump initially made millions of dollars in such stock transactions but lost most if not all of those gains after investors stopped taking his takeover talk seriously.
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