“I sort of hope [a housing crash] happens because then people like me would go in and buy.”

— Donald J. Trump

How to Build a Fortune (2006), Trump University audiobook, quoted in * 2016-05-19 Jeremy Diamond Donald Trump in 2006: I 'sort of hope' real estate market tanks CNN https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes/index.html
2000s

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