It's a common strategy for people like Trump. For example, his casino pillaging:
1) Lie about personal assets and worth in order to secure a large short term loan. No need to worry about the repayment schedule.
2) Use this cash to buy controlling interesting in an unfortunate business. For example, a casino.
3) Transfer the debt into the casino, instantly crippling the casino with debt repayments they can never afford
4) Pay self a huge salary and expenses because you are the most amazingest and bestest casino ever in world ever
5) When casino runs out of cash reserves, stop paying suppliers and staff but keep paying self.
6) Casino is declared backrupt due to not paying suppliers and staff.
7) Someone buys the assets of the casino (just not the debt of course).
Win, win, win all around. Except for the suppliers who are small people who don't matter. The staff who are meaningless slaves and don't matter either. Where the debt goes, it doesn't matter but it will be passed onto somebody somewhere.
Repeat this with another casino or other business. Trump did this about six times? Always lying about "market conditions" being why "his" casinos failed all the while others survived just fine.
The initial lie about his assets and wealth was the key part of the criminal case against him - pull the rug out and everything else collapses.