The WSJ doesn't do political endorsements – not since they endorsed Herbert Hoover.<\/p>\n
But Trump, not popular at the Wall Street Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n How did Donald Trump get rich?<\/a> \u201cMr. Trump\u2019s father, Fred C. Trump, built a real-estate empire after World War II and in 1999 left an estimated $250 million estate,\u201d writes Andy Kessler<\/a>. \u201cOne of his success secrets was taking advantage of Federal Housing Administration financing to build cheap houses in Brooklyn and Queens.\u201d Mr. Kessler then explains how the Donald has avoided paying taxes<\/a> on some of his signature properties…Columnist Kim Strassel contrasts Mr. Trump\u2019s promise to do \u201cwhatever is good\u201d<\/a> to reform proposals from other candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The WSJ doesn't do political endorsements – not since they endorsed Herbert Hoover. But Trump, not popular at the Wall Street Journal. How did Donald Trump get rich? \u201cMr. Trump\u2019s father, Fred C. Trump, built a real-estate empire after World War II and in 1999 left an estimated $250 million estate,\u201d writes Andy Kessler. \u201cOne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8145,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}