Donald, where's yer hairspray?
“Judge Arthur Engoron's ruling in a civil fraud case - related to the inflation of property values and lying on financial statements to obtain better loan terms - undermines Mr Trump's entire narrative. It instead paints him as a fraud and inflicts a massive blow to his business empire and wealth”. A fraud.
Trump “has personally been banned from holding any directorships for three years and his company cannot secure loans with financial institutions registered with [New York] city during that time either … He has been hit with an enormous financial penalty of $355m (£282m; €329m) - which jumps to more than $450m once interest is included - that far exceeds how much cash he has to hand”. He will appeal. But that will only make matters worse.
The reality is that Trump is not the multi-billionaire he would like the world to believe. Paying that penalty will mean getting a loan, which will be difficult because financial institutions now know where he’s at, and will demand any property used to secure that loan be independently valued.
In other words, they won’t take his word for it. And if he chooses to sell some of that property empire in order to pay the fine, the world will see just how much it’s really worth. Lawyers will begin to ask for payment up front, because something else that is becoming better known is Trump’s habit of not paying his bills in full, or in some cases, not paying them at all.
Making money by stiffing suppliers, refusing payments for spurious reasons, and not even paying workers. As well as, it seems, fiddling property values and lying about it. But this is a tycoon who has his own Boeing 757, isn’t it? Well, maybe. But that aircraft is over 32 years old, it will cost him more and more to run, and you don’t skimp on maintenance on a 757.
Trump Force One, as it is known, has not, as far as is known, flown this year. It won’t be worth much now. So getting to all those other court cases won’t feature it. But the lies will continue, if not from Trump himself, then from members of his immediate family. After Judge Engoron handed down that penalty, it was son Eric who was first out of the dishonesty traps.
Eric claimed his father “built the skyline of New York City”, to which Rick Larios responded “Take random photos of NY's skyline...none will show Trump labeled buildings. If you were paying homage to NY's skyline, it would feature the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the World Trade Center, the Woolworth Building, the UN, etc. But not Trump”.
And MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell had heard enough. “Think about the size of this Eric Trump lie. Not one building visible in the NYC skyline is a Trump building. Now imagine the media reaction to Hunter Biden telling a lie of this size tomorrow.” Maybe those media double standards will fade a little as those pushing them realise what a fraud Trump really is.
The people want to know if their President’s a crook. Well, he’s not the President, but he is a crook. Shame on those promoting him.
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21 comments:
Trump is toast because he made the elementary mistake of disturbing the status quo.
Of course this had nothing to do with idealism or what is best for US society. He simply tapped into obvious widespread discontent to further his one dimensional aim for more power. Unfortunately for him this meant interfering with established geopolitical objectives at home and abroad. Which meant he gambled and failed.
He was an idiot to think he could take on the Pentagon, Langley and a bought-and-paid-for Congress and come away unscathed.
Trouble is, we now live in a topsy-turvy world where every truth told about Trump is a lie in his supporters' eyes and merely makes him stronger. He was straight out of the traps yesterday selling gold (of course) high-top 'Trump' branded sneakers yesterday at, I think, 399 dollars a pair. And twerps will rush to buy them.
Depressing, isn't it?
Noo Yawk?
An appalling place full of cold cartoon people. London on steroids and/or opioids. Trump is a logical product of both; if he didn't exist he'd have to be assembled from bits of the others.
" because something else that is becoming better known is Trump’s habit of not paying his bills in full, or in some cases, not paying them at all. "
Does that mean that the law will actively encourage people (to whom the creosoted one owes moolah to) to kick the living fuck out of him for "being delinquent" while the law stands by?
Now that'd be fun.
I'm working on the assumption that everywheres awful.. Apart from the modestly sized bubble produced by your ego.
Yer wha'?
This is a very optimistic assessment, Tim. I've been reading for years what a business failure Trump is, how many of his projects have been failures and how his whole empire, like the sysstem on which it is built. is a house of cards just waiting for a malevolent gust to bring it all down.Nevertheless, he and it are still there.
I have no more faith in the system actually bringing him down than I do in half the US public ever recognising what a dimwitted, cringey, malevolent and amoral embarrassment they've let themselves build a cult around.
I hope you're right but I wouldn't bet a prime minister £1000 on it.
PS New York's a great city, Anonymous. You need to get out more.
Bertie - our 'anonymous' friend is probably too scared to step out of his bedroom for fear of some spooks whisking him away. I'm sure the boys and girls at Menwith Hill pore over every missive of his.
In those far-off pre-Internet days, he reminds me very much of an individual on the newsgroup uk.railway (which Tim also used to frequent) who used to make frequent reference to security service 'bods', as he called them, would only accept PGP-signed e-mail and communications only in plain text and under no circumstances in any 'proprietary format'.
I wonder...?
Best description of New York (from a former life resident who fled to rural California): If you're not at first excited by New York there's no blood in your veins. If you want to live there, there's no brain in your head. That place is a fuckn zoo.
According to my aviation correspondent:
“[TЯump] is likely to make a very great deal of money from the upcoming IPO of Truth Social which, despite the scorn with which it was greeted and is still treated, is expected to raise $3-4bn. Trump's share of that is around 58%. It will easily cover his recent fines and will no doubt finance several future legal adventures.”
You would have to be one of the ʙʀɪᴛɪꜱʜ Army's eleven officially recognised types of fucking idiot to put your money where TЯump's mouthpiece is but as 2016 graphically demonstrated, there is no global shortage of such people.
Trump will still get in because he is a failed businessman and this is public knowledge anyway.
New York is great.
I'm just a bit amused that the resident tankie is so consumed by their hatred of the intelligence community and military-industrial complex that they end up almost defending the orange shitgibbon. Reminds me of a fellow student from my uni days who held that because the internet evolved from the US military ARPANet, to use it was to be complicit in the My Lai massacre, or something.
Also, in their file of pastable phrases, what's the problem with people being "bought-and-paid-for"? If I pay someone to do something, I'd jolly well expect them to do it. Would he prefer they do their corruption for free?
"The intelligence community".
It's a safe bet the people of Gaza, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Yemen, Pakistan, South Africa and various South American and African nations will have a quite different description to that of your average suburban Quisling.
No, BBBC, you don't understand.
Bertie is not saying that Trump might get in *because* he is a failed businessman,is he? He's adumbrating that the oaf will get in *despite* being that.
Habitual communication on a Planet of the Apes level means that one is likely to become increasigly insensitive to such nuance.
Who knows?
Has the old tankie vouchsafed his preferred pronouns to just you, Andy, or was there a public announcement? Very modern of him if he has.
I will never add anything worthwhile to Zelo Street, even though I could.
I already have BBB condenser, B t @ 13.44. S/he does it with a degree of wit and aplomb so there is no vacancy.
Now off you go and try to find something original to do with your time.
Bertie, given his standard misogyny, it's a safe(ish) bet that Anon (who used to post as Alan Clifford way back when) is of the XY variety.
Fly. You fools.
My hobby is twitching curtains.
Andy McDonald - oh yes, I remember "Mr. Clifford". Sadly.
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