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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOverheard at Mar A Lago this morning...
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Although in Latin America, some call it Mar-a-Vago.
Vago meaning layabout (usually given to vices as well).
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,607 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)God knows that if you or I owed $400 million to any bank, and we had an investment property like that - it would be seized in a New York minute.
It's a amazing how Cheeto managed to get so much leniency by all these creditors, over all these years (mafia connections?).
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,607 posts)Trump is probably legally insolvent (debts greater than liabilities).
sandensea
(21,604 posts)"You see that guy?" (points to a homeless man on 5th Avenue) "He's actually richer than me!"
Cheeto's been living on other people's money since he lost everything in '91.
Question is? Why would they have been bankrolling him - with millions - for so long?
Was making him a puppet president something that had been in the works for 30 years, as some have speculated?
(if so - talk about stupid plans!)
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,607 posts)of Bannon's connection to that Chinese sugar daddy - now that no halfway legit bank on earth will lend to him?
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Same goes for Bob Zangrillo, I bet.
"Private investment firm based in Miami" is, as you know, journalese for drug money laundry.
dutch777
(2,966 posts)Jared and 18 overpaid consultants can figure out how to hook it up, I am sure.