I can help to introduce the real Donald Trump to his supporters. As one who lived in New Jersey when he was building his casinos, I can remember the news stories about his dealings with local businesses.

He was often sued for nonpayment to his contractors; many of them were small-business owners, and some went bankrupt as a result of Trump refusing to pay them. One of them is a friend of mine.He was known for his relationships with shady characters, such as "Fat Tony" Salerno, a known mafia member.Yet when Trump applied for a casino license to build in Atlantic City, he objected to the strict personal review and business inquiries required, and he pulled strings to bypass most of the investigations.The reason he refuses to release his tax returns is that he is nothing but a "wheeler-dealer" as we used to call him.He regularly milked his businesses of cash as fast as it came in, "for expenses," thereby leaving insufficient funds for business expenses.You can research the details yourself by reading The Philadelphia Inquirer from the late 1980s. (1987, Leventhal Report, "Bankers say Trump is worth less than zero").Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative reporting David Cay Johnson detailed Trump's many bankruptcies and corrupt business practices.Read about how the governor of New Jersey spent millions of tax dollars to save him from a bankruptcy because dozens of local businesses would have gone under if he had gone bankrupt.And several banks would have lost millions of investors' dollars.Linda ZakSaylorsburg