Donald Trump

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I am honestly not sure he is “forgetting” the operative words in these statements any more. I think he is just saying things that are *true* in a way that his cronies and mouth pieces can later claim he didn’t mean in the way it was quoted, as they have in the past with most of his dumbfounding remarks.

He’s moved past trying to hide things, perhaps because his cognitive function has degraded to the point that he can’t consistently do it.

I couldn't think of a worse combination of traits in a World leader: A narcissistic personality disorder coupled with diminished and failing cognitive function.

 

[aguero93:20]

I am honestly not sure he is “forgetting” the operative words in these statements any more. I think he is just saying things that are *true* in a way that his cronies and mouth pieces can later claim he didn’t mean in the way it was quoted, as they have in the past with most of his dumbfounding remarks.

He’s moved past trying to hide things, perhaps because his cognitive function has degraded to the point that he can’t consistently do it.

It'll be interesting to see how people view this period in 40 years time.

 

[SebastianBlue]

It'll be interesting to see how people view this period in 40 years time.

If enough of us are alive to really look back on it with *less* influenced perspectives.

And I don’t even mean that in the context of coronavirus, by the way, as I know many of my posts have been focused on that as of late. There are just so many ways the next 40 years could go catastrophically wrong given current trends, even more so than the last 40 years (and that bloody included the last decade of the ever more tense Cold War, of course).

I just think we are in the first 10 years of a potential 40 year period much more akin to 1920-1960, than 1980-2020, if that makes sense.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

If enough of us are alive to really look back on it with *less* influenced perspectives.

And I don’t even mean that in the context of coronavirus, by the way, as I know many of my posts have been focused on that as of late. There are just so many ways the next 40 years could go catastrophically wrong given current trends, even more so than the last 40 years (and that bloody included the last decade of the ever more tense Cold War, of course).

I just think we are in the first 10 years of a potential 40 year period much more akin to 1920-1960, than 1980-2020, if that makes sense.

I just hope we are not 9 years away from a war to end all wars.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I just hope we are not 9 years away from a war to end all wars.

That is one of my worries.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

He’s not been in criminal prosecution very often until right before the 2016 campaign, which is an entirely different beast, and one in which he is not accustomed to, especially the level of scrutiny he’ll be under.

And I think you are overestimating how badly his businesses are and will be doing when he leaves office. You are right that he is nowhere near a billionaire and his brand is primarily wrapped up in that lie. After he leaves office it will be relatively easy to expose it and his failing enterprises (again the level of scrutiny will be far beyond what he has ever seen in the past) and the legal fees to defend himself in numerous criminal cases will drain him of any revenue he generates from speaking engagements and media rights sales.

And that’s not even counting what Putin may decide to do — Trump is compromised, after all, and who knows if Putin will want to expose him as such to further destabilise US government legitimacy or silence him to allow Putin to repeat it with similar tactics and less relative scrutiny.

Trump knows he will be attacked by all sides, just like most dictators, and will do everything he can to remain in power as that is the only way he can maintain a semblance of control.

He has lived in a $900BILLION tax write-off special exemption from years ago. This has allowed him to NOT PAY ANY FEDERAL OR STATE INCOME TAXES FOR OVER THE LAST DECADE! This is why any money he makes goes directly into his pocket and why he is willing to go to the SCOTUS over anyone seeing his Income Taxes before the November election!

He is a fraud. A con man. The write-offs were taught to him by his father and his decades long association with his right hand finance guy, and he enshrined them in his 2017 tax bill. Real estate DEVELOPERS are allowed to combine losses of their investors, so someone who puts $1 into a deal can write off every penny in the deal on his personal tax forms! It’s a joke loophole that has made him keep every dollar he has ever made! He loves to point to assets, most of which are simply licensed properties (many of which are taking down his name due to the loss of business since he became President) or simply leveraged to death with debt...by the self confessed “King of Debt.”

Indeed, it is that very debt that most people believe is the anvil over Trump’s head. When American banks tired of his write downs and he couldn’t get a credit card let alone a $1B development loan, he turned overseas. In fact, it was one of his so ‘s that let the cat out of the bag when he said they didn’t need American banks, because they were getting all the money they needed from Russia...most of it apparently washed through Deutsche Bank.

https://www.ft.com/trumptoronto

Trump’s son, Donald Jr, was telling a real estate conference: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets . . . We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

Trump has one thing, and one thing ONLY going for him when he leaves office...we don’t normally put our ex-Presidents in prison. Oh, and he should have the money needed to stay far, far away from us!

 

[SebastianBlue]

He has lived in a $900BILLION tax write-off special exemption from years ago. This has allowed him to NOT PAY ANY FEDERAL OR STATE INCOME TAXES FOR OVER THE LAST DECADE! This is why any money he makes goes directly into his pocket and why he is willing to go to the SCOTUS over anyone seeing his Income Taxes before the November election!

He is a fraud. A con man. The write-offs were taught to him by his father and his decades long association with his right hand finance guy, and he enshrined them in his 2017 tax bill. Real estate DEVELOPERS are allowed to combine losses of their investors, so someone who puts $1 into a deal can write off every penny in the deal on his personal tax forms! It’s a joke loophole that has made him keep every dollar he has ever made! He loves to point to assets, most of which are simply licensed properties (many of which are taking down his name due to the loss of business since he became President) or simply leveraged to death with debt...by the self confessed “King of Debt.”

Indeed, it is that very debt that most people believe is the anvil over Trump’s head. When American banks tired of his write downs and he couldn’t get a credit card let alone a $1B development loan, he turned overseas. In fact, it was one of his so ‘s that let the cat out of the bag when he said they didn’t need American banks, because they were getting all the money they needed from Russia...most of it apparently washed through Deutsche Bank.

https://www.ft.com/trumptoronto



Trump has one thing, and one thing ONLY going for him when he leaves office...we don’t normally put our ex-Presidents in prison. Oh, and he should have the money needed to stay far, far away from us!

I am aware of all that, mate — see my and @Trevor Morley's Tache’s previous posts about the incredible Deutsche Bank scandal that is frighteningly being generally ignored right now.

He doesn’t have anywhere near as much money as he claims he does, and there is quite a bit of evidence that government funds are propping up his businesses that were desperately struggling before the injection of dubious cash (likely from Russian sources) and forced US government patronage. In fact, most reports indicate that he has mountains of debt that cannot be serviced with normal cash flow, and his business where going bankrupt before he “won” the 2016 election, which incentivises him to remain in power even more (as he needs to remain useful to those providing the “loans” and patronage of his businesses and maintain the ability to funnel government funding in to his family enterprises). Not to mention to avoid criminal prosecution.

He won’t have enough money to run unless the source of dubious funding persists and there’s really no reason for that to happen once he is not president. In fact, as I alluded to in an earlier post today, Putin will likely want to either expose Trump’s ties to him (to further degrade what little confidence will be left in American elections and democracy) or silence him entirely to allow Putin to continue operating with less scrutiny, continuing to influence US governance to it’s ruin and his regime’s benefit.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Trump has had his sons selling off millions in assets, and, as you say, he is bilking the US government on a daily basis. Currently, he is trying to sell his lease on the old DC Post Office, which is now his Trump International DC Hotel. The price? $500M!!! That’s not for the building, that’s for the lease!!!

Now, let me ask you what happens if the country of Qatar BUYS that lease and gives Trump $500M? What does that buy Qatar from the US Govt????

Corrupt as fuck from A to Z. The end.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Corrupt as fuck from A to Z. The end.

No disputing that.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Trump has had his sons selling off millions in assets, and, as you say, he is bilking the US government on a daily basis. Currently, he is trying to sell his lease on the old DC Post Office, which is now his Trump International DC Hotel. The price? $500M!!! That’s not for the building, that’s for the lease!!!

Now, let me ask you what happens if the country of Qatar BUYS that lease and gives Trump $500M? What does that buy Qatar from the US Govt????

Corrupt as fuck from A to Z. The end.

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