Donald Trump took a shovel to John DeLorean’s estate

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“DeLorean spends the rest of his life in and out of court. He declares bankruptcy in 1999. His Bedminster estate is purchased by a Connecticut-based golf-course development partnership, who within two years will sell it to Donald Trump.

On a wet Saturday in 2002, in front of news reporters and guests, the future president of the United States digs into what was once John DeLorean’s lawn with a gold-painted shovel.

‘Let’s take a little dirt out of here,’ Trump says, hefting a small heap of soil in the direction of a group of news photographers. ‘Okay, now let’s throw it on the press.’”

— Alex Pappademas, The Outline

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1 Comment

  1. William C. Durant and John Z. DeLorean, two men with visions of what General Motors could be, and both at the end, forgotten men.

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