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In Past Failures, A Possible Roadmap For Trump

As a businessman Donald Trump re-framed his bankruptcies as wins. As president he's seemingly doing the same with the failure of the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.

President Trump faced a whopping defeat on Friday, when Republicans pulled their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare as it was headed to certain failure.

But this isn't the first time Trump has faced defeat.

Nor it is the first time a president has faced defeat on the very issue of healthcare.

In 1991, the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City was deeply in debt and so was Donald Trump. It was the first of "I don't think he would call it defeat," said Gwenda Blair, author of .

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