As donald trump tries to leverage his brand with a reality-show campaign for president, surging to the top of the 2012 GOP polls, the past is coming back to bite him. The media establishment has been treating him more as colorful sideshow than serious candidate. But now that it seems The Donald might actually run, it's time to take a closer look at the darker corners of his empire. Take John Robbins. When the retired Army officer heard Trump, in a music-filled tent, talk of putting up the tallest building in Tampa, Fla., he wanted in-"because of the Trump name." But Robbins lost half his $150,000 down payment when the condo project went bankrupt and was "floored" to learn that Trump had merely licensed his gold-plated moniker: "I just don't see Trump fitting the role of commander in chief. Somebody has to stand up to Mr. Trump."
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