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Harrop: Trump turns to tycoons

His Cabinet picks might help him more than country

By Froma Harrop
Published: December 11, 2016, 6:01am

Donald Trump has long sold himself to a credulous public as a business genius worth many billions. So it was something of an inconvenience when New York Times reporter Timothy O’Brien put Trump’s holdings at barely a quarter of the way to one billion.

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