My favorite moment from the debate last night.

That article has been debunked enough times by now, do you really want to go over it again? Please don't post Vox clickbait garbage.

Donald didn't get any inheritence until his father died in 1999. Trump was a billionaire long before he inherited any money from his father Fred Trump. He received a million dollar loan payable from his father, and turned it into a multibillion dollar enterprise. Trump never said he didn't come from a priviliged background, but to claim that Trump is some business failure and not capable of making money is patently false.

Trump made his father a billionaire, not the other way around.

Even politfact, a blatantly anti-Trump site, has debunked it

Occupy Democrats shared an image that said if Trump had taken the money he got from his father and simply put it in a fund that tracked the S&P 500, he’d have $8 billion today. While it's true that Trump got a leg up from his father on the order of many tens of millions of dollars, this specific claim suffers from a key flaw.

The only way to hit the $8 billion mark is to start with $200 million in 1982, and it's wrong to say that was Trump's father's money. While the father's business put Trump on the path to have $200 million in 1982, Trump himself had been running the company for eight years.

We rate this claim False.

So simply looking at how $200 million dollars would have grown invested in the S&P 500 (an index of the 500 biggest and best companies in America) is a complete strawman fallacy.

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