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jmowreader

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5. IIRC licensing of the "magic" TRUMP name is responsible for 40 percent of his income

Mon Aug 17, 2015, 03:39 AM

Aug 2015

Most of the rest is tied up in assets, mostly real estate. He's like Mark Zuckerberg in that he is theoretically worth a lot of money but almost everything is paper wealth.

My feeling is, if you told Donald Trump he had an hour to pay a $5 million ransom and he couldn't sell anything or lean on a debtor to raise the money, he couldn't do it.

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Mark Cuban says Trump doesn't have much money. [View all] Are_grits_groceries Aug 2015 OP

I think Trump isn't all that "liquid". n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2015 #1

doesn't he get paid for use of his name on buildings and things ? JI7 Aug 2015 #2

His Trump Tower penthouse alone is worth much more than five million, BUT I don't know how much merrily Aug 2015 #4

IIRC licensing of the "magic" TRUMP name is responsible for 40 percent of his income jmowreader Aug 2015 #5

Yeah... TreasonousBastard Aug 2015 #6

Priceless! Suich Aug 2015 #3

Trump's FEC filing is a joke Gothmog Aug 2015 #7

Wasn't there a story last week about Skidmore Aug 2015 #8

Literal "money"? Probably not. Recursion Aug 2015 #9

Bloomberg just estimated his worth at about 3 billion cali Aug 2015 #10

Unlike Trump, Mark Cuban made his fortune from scratch. DinahMoeHum Aug 2015 #11

I wonder how much Trump is leveraged and how Ilsa Aug 2015 #12