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Cont: The Trump Presidency VI

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newyorkguy said:
Just to be clear, when they say "last May," they mean May 2017. This was president Trump doing this:


This is bothers me greatly.


How would Trump know? He has no experience in governing, international politics or disarmament agreements. None whatsoever. This is when his bullcrap becomes dangerous. He can blather on all he wants about whatever he wants, but when it's a subject with real consequences it would be better if he shut up.
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He isn't even what I would call an expert on deals, based on his track record.
 
LSSBB said:
He isn't even what I would call an expert on deals, based on his track record.
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He turned an eye opening corner roughly a decade ago.

In the nine years before he ran for president, Donald Trump’s company spent more than $400 million in cash on new properties — including 14 transactions paid for in full, without borrowing from banks — during a buying binge that defied real estate industry practices and Trump’s own history as the self-described “King of Debt.”

Trump’s vast outlay of cash, tracked through public records and totaled publicly here for the first time, provides a new window into the president’s private company, which discloses few details about its finances.

It shows that Trump had access to far more cash than previously known, despite his string of commercial bankruptcies and the Great Recession’s hammering of the real estate industry.

Why did the “King of Debt,” as he has called himself in interviews, turn away from that strategy, defying the real estate wisdom that it’s unwise to risk so much of one’s own money in a few projects?

And how did Trump — who had money tied up in golf courses and buildings — raise enough liquid assets to go on this cash buying spree?
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Trump also managed to insult the French during his NRA speech. About the Bataclan attacks:
"They were brutally killed by a small group of terrorists that had guns. They took their time and gunned them down one by one," Trump added.

He then mimicked the assailants shooting their weapons, saying: "Boom. Come over here. Boom, come over here. Boom."
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Former president Hollande and PM Vallis were not amused:
Hollande called Trump's remarks "shameful" and said they "said a lot about what he (Trump) thinks of France and its values".

Valls wrote on Twitter "indecent and incompetent. What more can I say?"
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(source: Yahoo news)
 
Stacko said:
He turned an eye opening corner roughly a decade ago.
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Thanks that is quite an eye opener. I immediately think of a former investigative journalist with the Wall Street Journal who says he has always been tantalized by the fact, over the past 10-15 years Trump went to Russia a number of times in search of business deals. But he always came home empty-handed.

Or did he?
Trump’s vast outlay of cash, tracked through public records and totaled publicly here for the first time, provides a new window into the president’s private company, which discloses few details about its finances. It shows that Trump had access to far more cash than previously known, despite his string of commercial bankruptcies and the Great Recession’s hammering of the real estate industry.
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ddt said:
Trump also managed to insult the French during his NRA speech. About the Bataclan attacks:
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Here he is saying something similar:

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Stacko said:
He turned an eye opening corner roughly a decade ago.
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I read that article earlier today. It appears to me to indicate Dump started to launder money for somebody (some Russian somebody) in 2006. Then, about when he got serious about running for prez, he went back to his old ways. I'm no financial fraud guru but looking from the outside, his behavior alone would justify a money laundering investigation. No wonder Dump is ******** bricks.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
OK that's CT bizarre. Is there any corroboration or should we investigate Russian trolls or bot farms?

Serious question. I swear.
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Politico is a pretty serious publication. Did you read the story? Sources cited. The point is that the Russians were apparently dropping hooks in a lot of ponds at the time. They weren't after Trump as a future president, just as a potentially useful rich American.
 
Bob001 said:
Politico is a pretty serious publication.
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Iget that.

Bob001 said:
Did you read the story? Sources cited. The point is that the Russians were apparently dropping hooks in a lot of ponds at the time. They weren't after Trump as a future president, just as a potentially useful rich American.
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Yes, and I get that too.

But in the current atmosphere, even trusted sources have been duped.

It's probably irrelevant. I think the evidence is mounting that Trump's into money laundering. I'm just not sure I buy the relevance of the headline.
 
Looks like Trump is in even more trouble:

Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, the Observer can reveal.

People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama’s top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal.

The extraordinary revelations come days before Trump’s 12 May deadline to either scrap or continue to abide by the international deal limiting Iran’s nuclear programme.

Jack Straw, who as foreign secretary was involved in earlier efforts to restrict Iranian weapons, said: “These are extraordinary and appalling allegations but which also illustrate a high level of desperation by Trump and [the Israeli prime minister] Benjamin Netanyahu, not so much to discredit the deal but to undermine those around it.”
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ddt said:
Trump also managed to insult the French during his NRA speech. About the Bataclan attacks:

Former president Hollande and PM Vallis were not amused:


(source: Yahoo news)
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You're Moron-in-Chief has also been opining on the recent spate of stabbings in London. It has been a terrible month and yes, more people murdered in one month than in New York but NO hospital in the capital was turned into a hospital operating in a war zone and certainly we didn't have a mass killing like that which was caused by an American with a gun in a high school or from a hotel window on a street in Las Vegas. Any decent human being knows that and wouldn't play whataboutery with the terrible death figures on both sides. But then that is one of Trump's many problems. He isn't a decent human being.
 
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Parsman said:
You're Moron-in-Chief has also been opining on the recent spate of stabbings in London. It has been a terrible month and yes, more people murdered in one month than in New York but NO hospital in the capital was turned into a hospital operating in a war zone and certainly we didn't have a mass killing like that which was caused by an American with a gun in a high school or from a hotel window on a street in Las Vegas. Any decent human being knows that and wouldn't play whataboutery with the terrible death figures on both sides. But then that is one of Trump's many problems. He isn't a decent human being.
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He will get a rousing welcome to London.
 
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