A severely underrated—and underreported—part of The Trumpian Mystique is the Donald's prowess as a scheming business tycoon. He hasn't just made a lot of money: A lot of people have accused him of scamming them on his way to his tacky gold plated palace in the sky. Most (in)famously, there's Trump University, but there are also the countless small contractors he's allegedly stiffed through the years. Some of those were in Atlantic City, where Trump sought to build a casino empire. Arielle Brousse, an A.C. native, and had some thoughts, via tweetstorm, about the Republican nominee's conduct in her home city:

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I've said it before: I grew up in Atlantic City. My parents, my friends' parents, my neighbors, they all worked in Atlantic City. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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Donald Trump's systematic monopolization of trade, mismanagement of funds, and destruction of community there is personal to me. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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As a matter of course, he hired small local businesses as contractors, did not pay them, and then filed bankruptcy. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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Take a moment to consider how much money you'd be able to amass if you just didn't pay your bills and then got people to forgive you for it. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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But also consider what it's like to be the small business owner who takes on a huge, glittery contract and then NEVER 👏🏽 GETS 👏🏾 PAID. 👏🏿 — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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You're promised prosperity. You're sucked in w/ catchphrases and dreams. You lay out your own capital & labor & you're left w/ empty hands. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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Trump orchestrated his own mini version of the housing bubble in my hometown. He came in. He prospected. We're left dragging his failures. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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The people in my mother's labor union have lost their retirement funds because he built a business based on gold leaf and marquee lighting. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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He's an ego. He's a character. He's a joke. But that joke has human cost. It's financially and culturally destroyed the town I grew up in. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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And we get to hear him brag about how it means he's a great businessman. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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It's insulting. It's gaslighting. To watch a man destroy you, and to hear him tell other people how good and powerful it makes him. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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To see them believing it. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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Please don't believe it. Please stand on the side of the worker. Please help defeat him. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

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These stakes are personal to me. Trust me: I have seen firsthand the damage he can do in a home community. A nation would be catastrophe. — Save the USPS // fix your hearts or die (@thewordunheard) September 27, 2016

As you were, then.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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