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STEVE WYNN CALLS MAO AN ‘IMBECILE’

Billionaire casino developer Steve Wynn criticized former Chinese leader Mao Zedong yesterday, telling more than a thousand investment advisers at a conference that the communist revolutionary’s “imbecilic” Cultural Revolution “almost ruined” the country.The chief executive of Wynn Resorts that operates a casino-resort in the Chinese special administrative region of Macau, spoke during a question-and-answer session during an investment conference. Most questions were about the political and business climate in China.

“That imbecile Mao Zedong almost ruined that country,” Wynn said.

Later, Wynn clarified his remarks, saying: “I said the Cultural Revolution almost ruined the country. It was imbecilic. I didn’t call him an imbecile, I said it was imbecilic.”

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