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tecelote

(5,122 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 03:49 PM Apr 2020

REVEALED: Trump owes tens of millions of dollars to a state-owned Chinese bank

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/revealed-trump-owes-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-to-a-state-owned-chinese-bank/

President Donald Trump has been trying to portray former Vice President Joe Biden as a pawn of the Chinese government — but a new report from Politico claims that the president is literally tens of millions of dollars in debt to a Chinese state-owned bank.

According to the report, a Trump real estate partner in 2012 initiated a $1 billion refinance scheme for a skyscraper at 1290 Avenue of the Americas in New York in which Trump owns a 30 percent stake.

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“The debt includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term, financial records show,” the publication writes. “Trump’s ownership of the building received a smattering of attention before and after his 2016 campaign. But the arrangement with the Bank of China — and its impending due date in 2022 — has gone largely unnoticed.”

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REVEALED: Trump owes tens of millions of dollars to a state-owned Chinese bank (Original Post) tecelote Apr 2020 OP
One of many millions of reasons we will never see those tax returns SoonerPride Apr 2020 #1
+1, ..and he's stupid enough to think he doesn't have to pay them em back uponit7771 Apr 2020 #8
The biggest hurt for him would be for all to see just how "poor" he really is oldsoftie Apr 2020 #17
Trump is going after Biden in an attempt to inoculate himself...not gonna work Dream Girl Apr 2020 #2
Projection ... it's what Repukes do best (nt) mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #3
He's a projectionist... kentuck Apr 2020 #4
And that is astonishingly consistent. BSdetect Apr 2020 #9
I've said that from the start! GetRidOfThem Apr 2020 #19
And Deutsche Bank, and (reportedly) Saudi Arabia and possibly Russian oligarchs. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #5
If he was forced to hand over his tax returns it would be all over. tecelote Apr 2020 #6
He was being sarcastic when he promised to turn them over, writes this poster sarcasticly. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #7
Yeah. I'm getting tired of his sarcasm. tecelote Apr 2020 #10
I don't know about anyone else, Mr.Bill Apr 2020 #13
Trump is owned by the Chinese *and* the Russians. :) nt Sloumeau Apr 2020 #11
And the commie-hating Republican base can't get enough of him. klook Apr 2020 #18
and the Saudis. wnylib Apr 2020 #20
Isn't it odd that the IRS hasn't audited him? LiberalLovinLug Apr 2020 #12
Or some true civil servant wouldn't release these documents. erronis Apr 2020 #15
Yes! LiberalLovinLug Apr 2020 #16
Did you forget his first lie? noneof_theabove Apr 2020 #24
What proprietary information and secrets will he trade to get off the hook? dlk Apr 2020 #14
Of course. volstork Apr 2020 #21
he will just declare bankrupcy and move on and he wont even spend time in jail. AllaN01Bear Apr 2020 #22
He's in his 70s and not in the best of health. wnylib Apr 2020 #23
Senator Duckwork is calling for investigation Gothmog Apr 2020 #25
Loser Donald didn't have toilet paper on his shoe; that was a price tag. Hermit-The-Prog Apr 2020 #26
Is this network, yet? lindysalsagal Apr 2020 #27

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
1. One of many millions of reasons we will never see those tax returns
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 03:53 PM
Apr 2020

He is in debt a mile deep.

He is a poor person.

He has entanglements and ties to all kinds of foreign governments and thugs who hold sway over him.

He has committed numerous financial crimes and would spend the rest of his days in prison.

oldsoftie

(12,533 posts)
17. The biggest hurt for him would be for all to see just how "poor" he really is
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 06:01 PM
Apr 2020

He could never take it

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
2. Trump is going after Biden in an attempt to inoculate himself...not gonna work
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 03:56 PM
Apr 2020

Kind of like the George v. Kerry swift boating.

tecelote

(5,122 posts)
6. If he was forced to hand over his tax returns it would be all over.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 04:25 PM
Apr 2020

He's so compromised.

A lot of people are saying that no one has ever been this compromised. Everybody’s talking about it.

People say he's more compromised than anyone in history. Really. Ask anybody.

Believe me.

Mr.Bill

(24,282 posts)
13. I don't know about anyone else,
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 05:22 PM
Apr 2020

but whenever 50,000 people die, that's what I look for from the president...sarcasm.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
12. Isn't it odd that the IRS hasn't audited him?
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 05:06 PM
Apr 2020

I mean I understand how. He's the President. And also Trump handpicked the IRS boss, Charles Rettig to make sure it all gets buried.

But you'd think that at some point enough flags would be raised that an audit would be almost automatic on him. That any administrator would have to incriminate themselves by stopping it.

erronis

(15,241 posts)
15. Or some true civil servant wouldn't release these documents.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 05:34 PM
Apr 2020

Some of the banking documents have had to cross many desks and many official and non-official copies would have been made.

Time for a new Deep Throat, Pentagon Papers, Iron Mountain.

dlk

(11,560 posts)
14. What proprietary information and secrets will he trade to get off the hook?
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 05:27 PM
Apr 2020

It’s frightening to contemplate.

wnylib

(21,433 posts)
23. He's in his 70s and not in the best of health.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 06:44 PM
Apr 2020

In a few years, when he's dead, everything about him will come to light. People will leak info like a sieve. His spawn will try to stop it, but without the orange one as buffer, they won't be able to keep the truth from spilling out. His wealthy supporters, like the Mercers, will try to shut down the truth, especially where they might be involved, but it will come out.

So why would it matter when he's dead and gone? If nothing else, as a lesson on populism and con artists getting into government. An illustration of how badly people were conned. Some will never believe that, but others will get it.

Trump is just the front man for wealthy puppet masters who back and enable him. So, exposing the extent of Trump's damage to the nation, and the people who enabled him should turn a large majority of people solidly against the party that embraces and backs him now, for decades to come.

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