Cruz’s father didn’t have a $300M dollar ($1.5 billion today) real estate portfolio to hand over to Ted.
This is a response to your reply, as well as several other kind replies.
Regardless how it came about, Don took what he inherited and wisely parlayed, you say $300 million(?) into $10+Billion. Tomorrow I’ll send you the link to the NYT story of how Donald learned the ropes from his father Fred Christ Trump. How Don’s brother Freddie Jr. spurned his Dad’s “empire” and drank himself to death at 43.
Donald was so affected by what Freddie did that he’s never smoked, drank alcohol OR even coffee.
The Donald learned the business from his Dad, but he broke the mold when he announced that he was going to start doing real estate deals in Manhattan, where his father had never been brave enough to venture.
Finally, this may sound silly, but; Donald Trump’s turning his businesses over to his sons and daughter, and pledging himself to run for the presidency on his own money, and his being beholden to NOBODY BUT GOD....I consider it a literal Godsend. Because he is free to run the government subject only to the Costitution, and will never have to surrender his principles to ANYONE for fear of offending one or more wealthy donors.
That is precisely what it will take to bust up the Uniparty cabal in DC. And I cannot think of another soul in the Nation who has the chops, the energy, the toughness or the financial wherewithall to do what needs to be done without ever surrendering his principles to a financial contributor.