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Donald Trump once took a shady dig at Governor J.B. Pritzker, which managed to be both ironic and untrue at the same time. Speaking to reporters in August 2025, Trump took aim at the Governor of Illinois by claiming, "Pritzker is incompetent. His family threw him out of the business," (via X, formerly known as Twitter). However, the Democrat was never cut off from his family's multi-billion-dollar empire. Rather, he simply chose to forge his own path after they were involved in some high-profile drama. According to the New York Times, in 2001, J.B.'s then-18-year-old cousin Liesel Pritzker sued the family, alleging that her relatives had cheated her and her brother, Matthew Pritzker, out of a billion dollars.

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