<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Jeff Horwitz]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=32799Author <![CDATA[In Business and Politics, Trump Stokes Internal Rivalries]]> Sat, 28 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500 WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Donald Trump acquired a pair of Atlantic City casinos in the mid-1980s, he pitted his managers against each other in a ferocious competition over everything from booking entertainers to attracting high-rolling gamblers.

That one of those managers was his wife, Ivana Trump, didn't earn her any slack.

"His tactic there, as our success surpassed the Castle's in 1987, was to shove the Plaza's performance in Ivana's face, like a mirror, holding it up for her to see the reflection of a less than successful manager," John O'Donnell, Ivana Trump's rival in the casino wars, wrote in a 1991 book.

Trump's penchant for encouraging rivalries is now roiling...]]>