'His legacy is just beyond trash': New Yorkers pile on Trump after crushing conviction

[Tom of Temecula]

New York City denizens are reveling in Donald Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, expressing sentiments from good riddance to glee at his downfall in interviews with the New York Times. Trump, once a titan in New York City real estate circles, could be headed to prison with Judge Juan Merchan setting a sentencing date for July 11, and one New Yorker claiming he and many others "would like to push him out of the headlines”

According to the Times report from Maggie Haberman and Jesse McKinley, "... the city that helped make him rich and famous has become his battleground. And Mr. Trump keeps losing. His conviction this week was the third and heaviest blow the former president has been dealt in his erstwhile hometown this year — a series of challenges to his ego, his bottom line, and now, perhaps, his freedom."

Case in point, Robert Clark, 63, of Williamsburg, stated, "I woke up with a smile on my face,” the morning after the jury delivered their verdict. Retiree Mark Samuels, 70, added, "His legacy is just beyond trash. We’re in one of the most important cities on earth and he came and he fell. It’s his rise and fall.”

The report adds, "Lennox Hannan, 63, a writer who lives in Williamsburg, said he was 'overjoyed' and compared Mr. Trump to a mafia boss, Richard Nixon and even more unsavory characters. He also said the verdict also swelled his pride as a New Yorker, saying 'the beginning of his downfall' had happened in the city." “It’s fitting the first justice he’s faced has been in New York City,” Hannan added. “It all comes back to New York City.”



https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-mental-decline-2667879186/

[yardwork]

1. New Yorkers have always known Trump was trash.

Voters should listen to candidates' neighbors. They know.

[ananda]

7. Rich white trash.. I've had that view since the 80's.

First I tried to watch an episode or two of The Apprentice.

Couldn't stand Trump or the show.

Then I saw Peter Sellars' great production of The Marriage
of Figaro, set in Trump Tower.

And that was it.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. didnt care for that show when it first came out. tried to get into it but just couldnt .

"reality shows are unreal tv"

[TSExile]

16. Never watched it at all...

...and am eternally grateful.

[Walleye]

2. New Yorkers to Trump, "we brought you into this world, we can take you out"

[lindysalsagal]

3. If nothing else, the quick verdict invites weeks of tscf shaming

And that's a good thing. Brand him and all magats s losers. Good.

[PCIntern]

4. You should hear people down here in Atlantic City...

He fucked over so many people that he would require real security to walk the streets

[Funtatlaguy]

5. Why don't those people go public with their stories

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Yeah, probably not the safest thing to do

If you are an average person, coming out with the truth about the Stinking Nazi can lead to a lot of death threats and attacks. The Trump humpers are always willing to dox anyone.

But here's a general outline of how he destroyed people's lives in Atlantic City:

"Mom-and-pop investors who had the misfortune to put their confidence in Trump lost nearly everything. But as a performance of low cunning, his stewardship of THCR really did verge on genius. The company itself was a dumpster fire, losing money every year Trump served as chair. But he managed to personally pocket $44 million in salary and bonuses. Even more egregiously, he offloaded personal debts onto the corporate balance sheet and had the public company purchase services ranging from bottled water to plane flights from Trump’s privately held enterprises....

If you want to be less generous, you see that the one time Trump’s leadership skills were put to the test as an agent of middle-class people’s economic well-being, he ripped those people off ruthlessly and unapologetically."

More good info at link. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13163220/trump-hotels-and-casino-resorts

[PCIntern]

9. They did when his casinos were built

And again when they failed

[twodogsbarking]

6. 7/11 coming soon to a location near you.

[TSExile]

10. I have an acquaintance...

...who is in his 50s. He's a born and bred New Yorker, and as a child actor worked on a NYC-based soap opera and various Broadway shows. When he left the acting world and began the transition into music, he held down a variety of odd jobs to earn his living. In the late 1980s, my friend got a job as a bellman in T**** Tower. At the end of one shift, he was getting ready to get on the elevator to exit the building and head home.

He looked around and guess who was standing next to him, waiting for the elevator? My friend said at that moment, he was gripped by the sense of something he couldn't truly define until years later. It was being in the presence of pure evil. He said that feeling was so overwhelming that he could not follow T**** onto that elevator and waited for the next one. Thank God, this friend said, that was the only time that he worked there that he encountered the RAPIST.

[frogmarch]

11. F Elon works too. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

12. When it comes to Trump's fortunes and downfall:

New York giveth, and New York taketh away.

[The Roux Comes First]

14. "If You Can Lose It Here You Can Lose It Anywhere"!

[oasis]

15. His NY congressional reps

must condemn their felonious leader our get tossed in November.