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Nevilledog

(50,687 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 08:48 PM Jul 2020

Trump's No Billionaire. He's a Bullshit Artist. And Soon, We'll Have the Taxes to Prove It.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-no-billionaire-hes-a-bullshit-artist-and-soon-well-have-the-taxes-to-prove-it?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning


The most telling revelation I ever received about Donald Trump was from a New York hedge-fund bro for whom I did some occasional speechwriting. In late summer 2015, I went to him and said, “We have to stop this guy. He’s a billionaire. He could fund his own campaign.” The hedge bro looked at me and laughed: “Trump’s not a billionaire. I’m a billionaire. Trump is a clown, living on credit.”

I was reminded of that by Trump’s Twitter meltdown—a hissy-fit, foot-stomping ragefest against the Supreme Court—after winning a major portion of one case over his mysterious tax returns.

He understands that when his taxes are unraveled before a New York grand jury and the inner workings of his multifarious business schemes are brought into the light of day, the picture won’t be of a successful multibillionaire mogul turned president, but one of that clown, living on credit, a third-rate real-estate developer with a first-rate talent for fleecing banks and vendors.

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Trump's No Billionaire. He's a Bullshit Artist. And Soon, We'll Have the Taxes to Prove It. (Original Post) Nevilledog Jul 2020 OP
Agree. But worse will be the revelations of how deeply he owes Russia soothsayer Jul 2020 #1
We're on a trump tax roll tonight! Nevilledog Jul 2020 #2
that's what I'm thinking why he's Cha Jul 2020 #6
He wasn't a billionaire in January of 2017, but I'm sure he is now. HotTeaBag Jul 2020 #3
"...a first-rate talent for fleecing banks and vendors..." Jeebo Jul 2020 #4
He will either be out of office and it won't matter Chainfire Jul 2020 #5

Cha

(295,929 posts)
6. that's what I'm thinking why he's
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 10:04 PM
Jul 2020

fighting like HELL to keep his tax returns a BIG SECRET! And, Doing Everything Putin Tells him to DO.




 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
3. He wasn't a billionaire in January of 2017, but I'm sure he is now.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 08:53 PM
Jul 2020

Tons of our money went his way over the past three years and we'll probably never learn just how much.

Jeebo

(2,005 posts)
4. "...a first-rate talent for fleecing banks and vendors..."
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 08:58 PM
Jul 2020

...and I would add to that list, VOTERS. That orange con man pulled off an absolutely stunning, breathtaking con job on the American electorate in November 2016. I feel confident he won't be able to pull that off again, but there's still almost four months left, that's a lot of time.

As for getting to examine the orange con man's financial records, I'll believe that when I see it happen, because another thing he's really good at is tying things up in the courts FOREVER, and now the Supreme Court just kicked part of that back down to the lower court ... and the legal wrangling continues. Did I say FOREVER?

I hope you're right, that we'll get to examine his financial records soon, but as I said, I'll believe it when it actually happens.

-- Ron

Chainfire

(17,308 posts)
5. He will either be out of office and it won't matter
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 09:58 PM
Jul 2020

Or as President, he will be able to keep them under wraps for at least four more years.

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