In 1990 Donald Trump traveled to Los Angeles for a meeting with Security Pacific Bank. At the time Security Pacific was the U.S.'s fifth largest bank.
Trump wanted to borrow $50 million (Security Pacific's house limit) to revitalize the Ambassador Hotel, which was situated in Los Angeles's Mid-Wilshire district. The Ambassador was once great, but it had fallen on hard times. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was tragically assassinated there.
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