[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6997]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             TRUMP MORTGAGE

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, last week we learned that the Republican 
presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, actually rooted for the collapse of 
the housing market just before the Great Recession wrecked our economy.
  In 2007, before the crash, Donald Trump said he was excited about the 
housing market crash because ``I've always made more money in bad 
markets than in good markets.''
  Today we don't know if he made money or not because, unlike 
Presidential candidates for decades, Donald Trump refuses to release 
his income tax returns. In fact, there is one report that suggests that 
he paid no income taxes in 1 year.
  Even worse, his own company, Trump Mortgage, actually pushed people 
into subprime mortgages. Millions of people lost their homes in the 
housing crisis, and 8.4 million Americans lost their jobs, but Donald 
Trump was the winner.
  He is doing what he does best--putting himself above everybody else. 
He does not want to make America great. Donald Trump wants to make 
Donald Trump richer.

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