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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 26

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Ladewig said:
I think I read that while the backers lost money, Trump walked away with more money than he started with. Between siphoning money into his businesses (“hey, all the other casinos have NYC offices - I can hook you up in Trump Plaza”), having his father bail him out with a three-million dollar illegal transaction,
and allegedly laundering some money, there is no telling how much money his grubby tiny hands got ahold of.
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He ended up with no control over his assets, many of which were sold and he had to live on a monthly hand out decided by his creditors.
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
As I have said before, the kraken voter fraud conspiracy theory has grown so huge that it must include more than 81 million people all going against Donald Trump.
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Biggest conspiracy ever! IT'S ALL OFFICIAL! 81 million conspirators DUMP votes nation wide! NEW acting AG will file charges soon! Fight On!! :D
 
Darat said:
He ended up with no control over his assets, many of which were sold and he had to live on a monthly hand out decided by his creditors.
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And people voted for him because they think he was a great businessman and knew how to run the economy - a grown man who had to be put on an allowance.
 
Monza said:
...a grown man who had to be put on an allowance.
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Does anyone recall the size of that “allowance”. I recall it being absurdly large.

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Found it:

From Mother Jones...

“But those banks offered Trump a lifeline. They agreed to loan him more money so he could keep making payments on his various debts—under a few conditions. “The banks will name two executives to run the Trump empire, bar him from moving money among his companies without the banks’ permission, and limit him to a $450,000 allowance for ‘personal and household spending,'” the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The Associated Press and other news outlets called the allowance “stringent.” But Wayne Barrett, the longtime Village Voice reporter, showed how ridiculous the sum actually was in his book, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth. “The absurdity of his personal allotment—more than the salary of the chairman of the principal bank backing the deal, Citibank, and tallying $14,516 a day—baffled even real billionaires. ‘I have no idea how to spend $450,000 a month,’ said an anonymous one to the [New York Times].'”

Bolded mine. I like they used the word “absurdity”.
 
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BazBear said:
Biggest conspiracy ever! IT'S ALL OFFICIAL! 81 million conspirators DUMP votes nation wide! NEW acting AG will file charges soon! Fight On!! :D
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Posting things like that out on fake accounts would be nice trolling against Trump. Especially if they were slightly less far out, so he might re-tweet them. :a2:

Hans :whistling
 
I wonder if Mitch is the "break the seal" moment for the rest of the GOP Congressional Members.

If I were Biden the fact that denied my rightful election would not be forgiven or forgotten.
 
WAPO is saying this is a open challenge for the leadership of the GOP; Mitch is betting that most of the GOP base will drift away from Trump once he is out of office'how many of the GOP base are "Mickey Mouse" Republicans(people who will support anybody who has a R after his name) as opposed to the hard core Trump cult members. Going to be interesting.
 
"Since his defeat, Trump’s supporters have retreated into a world of denial and conspiracy theories. But if we on the left are going to mock them for their delusions, we should take a look at how we think — and obsess — about the president ourselves.

Trump is exactly as weak as he appears. He has no surprise tactics up his sleeve. He does all his scheming in public. During the Russia investigation, many of us assumed there must be some secret dealings beneath the surface of what he clumsily said and did on television. There were none. The same goes for his incoherent, hapless court cases. This really is all he’s got.

Until the transition began, I myself worried that Trump would somehow get the Supreme Court to reverse the election for him. I never dreamed he’d bring a case so half-baked, and bungle it so badly, that the Supreme Court wouldn’t even hear it. He’d been bluffing all along — he was never a powerful fascist who had bent the judiciary to his will. Even on the left, he had us all conned.

As we try to make sense of what happened these past four years, maybe it’s more comforting to think of Trump as an evil wizard than as a pathetic faker with debatable mental health problems. Maybe it makes it less embarrassing that our country ever succumbed to him in the first place if that is so. But in the end, he appears to be exactly the same person who rode down that tacky golden escalator five years ago — shrill, ignorant, unprepared, ridiculous. The fact that we elected this person president even once is a national humiliation."

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/electoral-college-votes-cast-over-230041706.html

Sums Trump up nicely I think.
 
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Anyone notice Melania is getting blonder? Does she have some plans for when the all get evicted Jan 20? I know Trump prefers blondes but it's hard to imagine her getting all gussied up for that whiner anymore.
 
Still waiting for Trump's reaction to Mcconell's declaring BIden will be the next POTUS. Going to be interesting...
 
Firestone said:
So, has Biden won, and is the Trump presidency coming to an end?

Normal people: "Yes"

ND Senator Kevin Cramer:
"Well, it seems to me that being elected by the Electoral College is a threshold where a title like that is probably most appropriate and it's, I suppose you can say, official President-elect, or anything else-elect.
And there's an inauguration that will swear somebody in, and that person will be the president of the United States, but whether you call it that or not, you know, there are legal challenges that are ongoing — not very many — probably not a remedy that would change the outcome but, so, I don't — again, I don't know how politician refers to another politician but it does look to me like the big race is really between the inaugural committee and the Justice Department at this point, so we'll see how the emails turn out."

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop...tatement-2020-12?international=true&r=US&IR=T
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That alone deserves losing his bid for re-election. :boggled:
 
We're approaching yet another "If not this, then what exactly?" question.

If openly defying the results of the election to this level don't count as treason, what exactly would?
 
Resume said:
Anyone notice Melania is getting blonder? Does she have some plans for when the all get evicted Jan 20? I know Trump prefers blondes but it's hard to imagine her getting all gussied up for that whiner anymore.
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Their kid turns 18 in four years, I think she's waiting until then to divorce him. That would remove the possibility of him using custody arrangements as a weapon in a divorce.
 
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