Well, this is an illuminating piece of intel about Donald Trump.
The billionaire front-runner to be the Republican candidate in the U.S. presidential race says he sometimes refuses to pay bills from contractors he has hired and then forces them to negotiate the final figure down.
"I've had many people that when they work for me they get very rich," Trump said in an interview with Reuters, but, "sometimes I renegotiate." Adding: "I'll do that with probably 10 or 15 percent of contractors."
The strategy has left some small business owners who have done jobs for him over three decades of real estate deals saying they have felt cheated and don't want to ever work for him again. In a number of cases they have also faced big legal bills from subsequent court action.
Reuters scoured more than 50 legal proceedings related to his deals and interviewed dozens of people. About a dozen contractors who worked for him felt totally cheated.
Who knows—maybe Trump could refuse to pay the nation’s bills as president and then just “renegotiate” our national debt. Genius.