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Learn From Criminal Justice Failures: Follow The Data
By David Trone Palm Beach Post I tell those considering a career in business that you have to get comfortable with failure. That’s how you figure out what works and what doesn’t. To find the right way forward, you study those setbacks, collect ... Read more
Trone to Fund Legal Aid For Families Who Could Be Impacted By Travel Ban
By Bill Turque Washington Post Potomac wine executive and likely 2018 candidate David Trone announced a $100,000 grant Thursday through his private foundation for legal assistance to Montgomery County families who may be affected by President ... Read more
Trone Donates to Legal Fund to Assist Local Families Potentially Impacted by Trump’s Proposed Travel Ban
By Andrew Metcalf Bethesda Magazine Potomac businessman David Trone is looking to assist Montgomery County residents who may be impacted by President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban to six Muslim majority countries. Trone on Thursday ... Read more
The Man Behind ‘America’s Wine Superstore’
By Lettie Teague Wall Street Journal TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago David Trone and his brother Robert opened a small wine shop in Claymont, Del. Today, the Trones preside over a $2.5 billion privately held retail empire based in Bethesda, Md., with 149 ... Read more
The Presidential Candidates’ Plans for Small Business
By David Trone Huffington Post Florida has more than 2 million small businesses with over 3 million employees. I’m proud to be the President and owner of one of them, Total Wine & More. Small business is critical to the national economy, ... Read more
An Unfortunate and Unintended Consequence of Donald Trump
By David Trone Huffington Post Donald Trump is bad for business. This isn’t just a fearful prediction of how the economy would fare if a compliant Congress enacted his nativist and isolationist rhetoric. Rather it is what Trump’s emergence might ... Read more
David Trone’s Foundation Donates $2.5 Million to Suburban Hospital
By Joe Zimmerman Bethesda Magazine The foundation of Potomac resident David Trone, founder of Total Wine & More and sometime political candidate, and his wife, June, donated $2.5 million to Suburban Hospital, the hospital announced Monday. ... Read more
Donald Trump and the Lessons of Wharton
By David Trone Huffington Post Friends and associates ask me about Donald Trump as if I possess special insight. Their questions apparently come from the traits we share. We both have degrees from Wharton, are successful in business and active ... Read more
Total Wine Co-Founder Funding $15 Million Push to aid Ex-Convicts
By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post A Maryland couple is donating $15 million to the American Civil Liberties Union to expand a campaign to cut prison populations and promote private initiatives to rehabilitate and employ ex-convicts, the ACLU ... Read more