business deals. He used OTHER people's money in the form of loans and investments. THEY lost their shirts, but his assets were all separate and untouchable. That's how he operates.

So he doesn't care beyond his ego if a business goes belly-up.

Even his crypto-crap is based on foreign investments where he got billion$ in investment capital in exchange for favorable terms in governent deals and contracts. Absolutely corrupt and illegal, but "who ya gonna tell?". Besides those investments by UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc were always understood to be payments to him, not actual investments expected to find gains.

Millions of regular people have lost their investments, but HIS are all in protected venues.

He is a conman through and through and will use ANYONE dumb enough to invest with him.