As the casino company that bore his name sank deeper and deeper into the red this year, Donald Trump went head to head with bondholders trying to buy it and take it private — and lost.Now the real estate mogul, whose distaste for losing is legendary, is back in the ring and pushing a plan to buy Trump Entertainment Resorts out of bankruptcy.To succeed, he’ll have to beat out a competing offer advanced by the bondholders.The three Atlantic City casinos owned by Trump Entertainment still bear his name, but that’s the extent of Donald Trump’s involvement with them right now. He had to relinquish day-to-day control of the company following a 2004 bankruptcy — the second of three the company would file.When his offer to buy the company and take it private was spurned in February by board members allied with bondholders, Trump resigned as chairman, saying his stock was now “worthless to me.” His daughter, Ivanka, also resigned from the company’s board.Mark Juliano, the company’s CEO, said…
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