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The L.A. Times did an excellent job of it in a 2016 story. According to
The L.A. Times, At a foreclosure auction in 1964, Fred Trump bought Swifton Village, a half-empty complex that was the largest in Cincinnati. Donald Trump was just a high school senior in a military academy, but assumed increasing responsibility in managing the complex through college and business school. In his book
The Art of the Deal, Trump described Swifton Village as his first big deal. He recounted, in a chapter titled The Cincinnati Kid, booting poor, nonpaying tenants who had come down from the hills of Kentucky with seven or eight children, almost no possessions."