From Trump's hush money trial, Mon May 6, a written document record of how Trump would deceptively repay the hush money to Michael Cohen.
Jurors who will determine Donald Trump’s fate got their first look at the damning paperwork tying the former president to his porn star hush-money coverup, with testimony from the buffoon accountant who took notes of a meeting that set it in motion.
“I made a boo-boo,” Jeffrey S. McConney admitted when describing the erroneous math he scribbled on “TRUMP” corporate letterhead.
The former Trump Organization controller testified about the notes he took during a January 2017 meeting that laid out how the family real estate company was going to surreptitiously reimburse attorney Michael Cohen for fronting the $130,000 that silenced the porn star Stormy Daniels. That payment kept her from going public about her decade-old, one-night stand with Trump in the days before the 2016 presidential election.
The farce was laid out in black and white, with handwritten notes explaining the fuzzy math at play.
Cohen would be paid $180,000, which was doubled on paper so that it would make up for the roughly 50 percent taxes the Midtown Manhattan resident would have to pay in federal, state, and city taxes. McConney wrote “180,000 x 2 for taxes” in black pen on the bright white paper. On the witness stand, he admitted the company was fine having it “grossed up” to ensure Cohen got his proper share.
The sham continued when tallying up Cohen’s bonus. Initially $50,000 was marked as “paid to Red Finch for tech services” but that seemed to morph instead to mean $60,000 for Cohen himself.
“Michael was complaining that his bonus wasn’t large enough. This was to make up for whatever he thought he was owed,” McConney testified.
The total $420,000 was then divided by 12 so that Cohen would get $35,000 each month for a year. McConney’s notes of that meeting included a mention that stated “Mike to invoice us,” the genesis of what prosecutors say would later be Cohen invoices for fake legal work that Trump gladly paid to keep the hush money deal under wraps.
Monday’s testimony also connected Trump directly to the process, a major step forward in the case. Prosecutors showed jurors a copy of a March 28, 2017 email in which McConney wrote, “I’ll check status tomorrow. DJT needs to sign check.”
On the stand, McConney explained that authorizing the money transfers would require having someone actually go to the White House have the then-president of the United States approve the payment himself—while he was president.
You're forgetting the sworn testimony of the man who wrote those 'scribbles': Mr Jeffrey S. “I made a boo-boo” McConney, former Trump Org controller. It's all in the excerpt I posted. You can, of course, accuse Mr McConney of perjury, but you'd need some pretty strong evidence!
The Republican majority at the House Oversight Committee have spent the last 9 months searching for evidence against Biden, and they, unlike you, Martha Ann, are empty handed! You need to run to the nearest phone and tell them you have the goods that they and all their professional investigators have been unable to find!!
You (allegedly) have the PROOF that will sink Biden!!! Why are you just SITTING ON IT????
... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ...
Any person dude, that means every human being in the US gets due process including criminals, "illegal aliens" etc etc. In fact, if you remove the scare words from sunstroke's post, that's exactly what the judge is saying.
Need to see what SCOTUS has ruled??
Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei, 345 U.S. 206, 212 (1953); see also Mathews v. Diaz, 426 U.S. 67, 77 (1976) ("There are literally millions of aliens within the jurisdiction of the United States. The Fifth Amendment, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, protects every one of these persons from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."); Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 215 (1982) (holding that unlawfully present aliens were entitled to both due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment).
Here's a bit more from Mathews v. Diaz 1976 including citations of prior rulings.
There are literally millions of aliens within the jurisdiction of the United States. The Fifth Amendment, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, protects every one of these persons from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath, 339 U. S. 33, 339 U. S. 48-51; Wong Wing v. United States, 163 U. S. 228, 163 U. S. 238; see Russian Fleet v. United States, 282 U. S. 481, 282 U. S. 489. Even one whose presence in this country is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory is entitled to that constitutional protection. Wong Yang Sung, supra; Wong Wing, supra.
Even one whose presence in this country is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory is entitled to that constitutional protection.
Thank you, SCOTUS for being clear, unambiguous, and leaving zero wiggle room.
Ooops! Tяump just reneged on one of his foundational campaign promises!! On Monday, Fox News reported: “Pointing to high grocery prices, Trump says, ‘I won an election based on that'!”
NOW
It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up, you know, it’s very hard
THEN
We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we’re going to get the prices down, we have to get them down. It’s too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down.
Don-old J Tяump at Erie PA rally, Sept 29,2024
“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one,” Trump continued. “We will drill, baby, drill,” he said, referring to increasing domestic oil production. “That’s going to bring down prices of everything.”
Don-old J Tяump at Tяump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, NJ, Thurs, Aug 15 2024
@ElwoodBlues idk really. He has been unpredictable. I have been thinking what if everything that has been going on with Zelensky is a strategy in the minerals deal? Cause after the Oval Office spat the US put it out there that it would be a win win situation. US said everyone knows that the US defend it’s people and US interests which the minerals deal would be US interest so to protect their interests they would protect Ukraine…
Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers
❖ Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
❖ In 2022, U.S. citizens were 89 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—12 times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
❖ In 2023, 93 percent of fentanyl seizures occurred at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
❖ The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are at least 96 percent less likely to be stopped than people crossing illegally between them.
❖ At most, just 0.009 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.
❖ The government exacerbated the problem by banning most legal cross-border traffic in 2020 and 2021, accelerating a switch to fentanyl (the easiest-to-conceal drug).
❖ During the travel restrictions, fentanyl seizures at ports quadrupled from fiscal year 2019 to 2021. Fentanyl went from a third of combined heroin and fentanyl seizures to over 90 percent.
❖ Annual deaths from fentanyl nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 after the government banned most travel (and asylum).
Again, all the above, as well as the paragraphs below, are from the conservative Cato Institute. https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers https://www.cato.org/blog/us-citizens-were-89-convicted-fentanyl-traffickers-2022 It is monstrous that tens of thousands of people are dying unnecessarily every year from fentanyl. But banning asylum and limiting travel backfired. Reducing deaths requires figuring out the cause, not jumping to blame a group that is not responsible. Instead of attacking immigrants, policymakers should focus on effective solutions that help people at risk of a fentanyl overdose.
U.S. Citizens Bring Fentanyl Through Legal Crossing Points
That U.S. citizens account for most fentanyl trafficking convictions is not surprising given the location of fentanyl border seizures. In 2023, 93 percent of fentanyl border seizures occurred at legal border crossings and interior vehicle checkpoints (and 91 percent of drug seizures at checkpoints are from U.S. citizens—only 4 percent by “potentially removable” immigrants). In 2022, so far, Border Patrol agents who were not at vehicle checkpoints accounted for just 7 percent of the fentanyl seizures near the border (Figure 2). Of that 7 percent, CBP has testified the majority was seized from vehicle stops, again usually from U.S. citizens. Since it is easier for U.S. citizens to cross legally than noncitizens, it makes sense for fentanyl producers to hire U.S. citizen smugglers.
The DEA reports that criminal organizations “exploit major highway routes for transportation, and the most common method employed involves smuggling illicit drugs through U.S. [ports of entry] in passenger vehicles with concealed compartments or commingled with legitimate goods on tractor-trailers.” Several agencies including CBP, ICE, and DHS intelligence told Congress in May 2022 the same thing: hard drugs come through ports of entry.
Raisin10 I see, you're going down the route of the genetic fallacy, rejecting the data because you disagree with a political position of the source. OK, let's get you some more sources.
The FACTS I presented are also available at many other places. Here are a few examples:
More than 90% of interdicted fentanyl is stopped at Ports of Entry (POEs), where cartels attempt to smuggle it primarily in vehicles driven by U.S. citizens. CBP and HSI throughout the past two years have run operations that mobilized hundreds of personnel – CBP officers, special agents, import specialists, and intelligence analysts – through surges and deployments at Southwest Border POEs, airports, express consignment facilities, international mail facilities, container stations, and warehouses across the country.
In short, Raisin10, you are still DEAD WRONG!!! It's still true that the vast majority of fentanyl is smuggled by US citizens for US citizens thru official checkpoints.
Lemme repeat that: the vast majority of fentanyl is smuggled by US citizens for US citizens thru official Ports of Entry.
@ElwoodBlues It's literally against the law for the US government to maintain a national electronic gun purchase database. We can't find out about people stockpiling hundreds of weapons until they have killed with them. SAD!
Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA), 1986
Under 18 U.S.C. §926, the Attorney General is authorized to prescribe the rules and regulations necessary to carry out the GCA. Section 6 of FOPA amended Section 926 to prohibit a registry of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions. The pertinent language of Section 926 reads:
No such rule or regulation prescribed after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners' Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or dispositions be established.
You can't successfully launch a rocket if your calculations are full of errors; thus we know Musk's people can work to a high standard.
So why is DOGE so inaccurate and sloppy??? Why doesn't Musk wait until he has all the facts instead of publishing tons of errors?? DOGE's error rate makes it a completely unreliable source. Here's just a handful of examples.
Musk's DOGE touted slashing an $8 billion contract. It actually cut $8 million.
The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.
David Reid, an environmental scientist in Michigan, was surprised to learn his contract studying invasive species in the St. Lawrence Seaway was included on the list. “That contract wasn’t canceled by DOGE or anyone else,” he said. The contract expired on Dec. 31 and he decided to retire and not renew it, he said. “If they took credit for canceling the contract, they’re lying.”
A report by CBS News this week found another type of error involving this kind of contract: The group had triple-counted the $655 million maximum value of one contract for U.S.A.I.D. with numerous sub-contracts.
In another case, DOGE claimed $232 million in savings on a contract providing information technology support to the Social Security Administration. But The Intercept reported that only a sliver of the contract was canceled — a program to let users mark their gender as “X” — bringing the actual savings closer to $560,000.
The “wall of receipts” also lists hundreds of cases in which — even by the website’s own accounting — the changes saved taxpayers nothing. In one contract, the Securities and Exchange Commission had agreed to spend $10 million for a five-year subscription to the legal-research site Westlaw. But the savings are listed as $0. The S.E.C.’s contract expired in March 2024.
The group also claims unrealistic estimates from several special kinds of umbrella contracts. When the government expects many different offices may want ongoing orders of the same general product or service — say, I.T. — it creates an overall contracting mechanism with a set ceiling under which several pre-vetted vendors can compete for individual orders. Each of those individual orders represents money the government has committed to spend. But the ceiling on the whole umbrella doesn’t.
“It’s not real money,” said Kelly Saldana, who spent nearly two decades working at U.S.A.I.D., including as the director of its office of health systems. If one of these larger contracts has a ceiling of $100 million and there’s only one $10 million order under it, the remaining $90 million isn’t savings or money that could be spent elsewhere.
UPDATE
DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
Also
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows.
The Department of Government Efficiency, run by Trump adviser Elon Musk, published an updated list Monday of nearly 2,300 contracts that agencies terminated in recent weeks across the federal government. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.
@ElwoodBlues I'm not opposed to having government departments audited. I just need solid evidence from the auditor without errors.
Congress allocates every penny; often in block grants. The Constitution gives the power of the purse to Congress and only to Congress. it does not give the president any power to arbitrarily halt spending.
@ElwoodBlues And here's the reason why 卐LON keeps posting larger and more outlandish numbers, still without supporting evidence.
Tяump & 卐LON are preparing the cult for a truly outrageous tax cut, based on projected future savings that will never materialize. It's cover for a giant raid on the treasury. You read it here first.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) halts payments past a certain age (110 or 114; I've seen both reported); beyond the cutoff age you have to provide proof of life to keep getting checks.
AND, the SSA publishes tables including the number of recipients in each age bracket.
Thus, we know exactly how many Social Security checks went out in December to people aged 99+ -- 89,106. https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1891656442920276222
According to the US Census, in 2020 we had 80,139 people aged 100+. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/census-briefs/c2020br-06.pdf
The fact that the 99+ bracket is more inclusive than the 100+ bracket accounts for the discrepancy.
There's a reason why 卐LON remains deafeningly silent on the dollar amounts going to those outlandish age brackets - it's because the dollar amount is zero.
During his last term there wer ZERO shooting wars throughout the world, and PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (for the first time in history.)
DUUUDE!!! You live in a FANTASY WORLD!!!
The Somali civil war was a shooting war. https://www.npr.org/2017/04/07/522908416/sisters-find-home-in-utah-after-somali-civil-war-made-them-refugees https://www.brookings.edu/articles/developments-in-somalia/ https://theglobalobservatory.org/2019/11/state-level-military-forces-potentially-turn-tide-war-al-shabaab/
The war in Donbas was a shooting war. https://ggis.illinois.edu/news/2018-04-09t152503/war-ukraine-more-devastating-you-know
The Iraqi–Kurdish conflict was a shooting war. https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/16/16481952/iraq-krg-kirkuk-seize
The Yemen civil war was a shooting war. https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/a-timeline-of-the-yemen-crisis-from-the-1990s-to-the-present/
And there were plenty more shooting wars and conficts, mostly in Africa and the middle east. I'll just give you one more; the one where Tяump pulled out US troops that were protecting our Kurdish allies from Turkey. But Tяump was worried about his personal investment in Tяump Towers Istanbul, so he pulled the US troops and sacrificed our allies.
The Syrian civil war was a shooting war.
Chaos in Northern Syria
The civil war entered a new stage in October 2019 after U.S. President Donald J. Trump removed the roughly one thousand U.S. troops supporting Kurdish fighters on the Syria-Turkey border. The surprise move cleared the way for Turkey’s Erdogan to launch a military operation there. Aiming to push Kurdish forces back to establish a twenty-mile-deep buffer zone for returned refugees, Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies seized towns and villages, causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee. The SDF turned to the Syrian government for help, allowing regime soldiers to reenter areas that had been held by the Kurds for years. Russian troops also entered the region to support the Syrian government.
Raisin10 says, of Tяump
During his last term there wer ZERO shooting wars throughout the world, and PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (for the first time in history.)
The fundamental prediction of the Laffer Curve was that cutting tax rates would increase tax revenues. In 40 years of supply side economics, that has NEVER EVER happened.
Look at the bottom curve. The ONLY time net income tax revenues increased was during the Clinton admin. Because Clinton RAISED taxes in 1993; top rates went from 31% to 39.6%; corporate rates from 34% to 36%.
The other big prediction that goes along with the Laffer Curve is that tax increases will damage the economy. Again, the Clinton admin proves that claim is also false. Clinton alone produced a booming economy, low unemployment, and BALANCED BUDGETS. Clinton succeeded, voodoo economics FAILED.
tRump, May 2023: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
tRump, Sept 2024: “That is a war that’s dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I even become president,” Trump said during his September debate with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. “If I win, when I’m president-elect, and what I’ll do is I’ll speak to one, I’ll speak to the other. I’ll get them together.”
tRump, Mar 15, 2025: "Pretty good vibes coming out of Russia" ... "I feel that Russia is going to make a deal with us."
Here is a section of the Signal group chat. You be the judge of whether classified information was disclosed.
Hegseth says no classified information was shared in Signal group chat: 'Nobody's texting war plans'March 26, 2025 "I noticed this morning out came something that doesn't look like war plans. And as a matter of fact, they even changed the title to attack plans because they know it's not war plans."
Director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: "The conversation was candid and sensitive, but as the president and national security adviser stated, no classified information was shared. There were no sources, methods, locations, or war plans disclosed," Gabbard reiterated.
"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy."
Mon Oct 23 2023: During his speech, Trump said he would have “plenty of votes”—enough that instead of voting, his fans should “get out there and watch those voters,” presumably referring to supporters of his eventual opponent. “You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. The voting, we got plenty of votes.”
Mr. Christie, who as a U.S. attorney prosecuted Mr. Kushner’s father, singled out the business dealings of the former president’s son-in-law.
“Jared Kushner, six months after he leaves the White House, gets $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund,” he said. “What was Jared Kushner doing in the Middle East? We had Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo as secretaries of state. We didn’t need Jared Kushner. He was put there to make those relationships, and then he cashed in on those relationships when he left the office.”
While in the White House, Mr. Kushner bolstered ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia, convincing his father-in-law to make the kingdom his first foreign destination as president, helping broker billions of dollars in arms sales and forging a close relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Mr. Kushner defended Prince Mohammed after Saudi operatives murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Post and United States resident. The C.I.A. concluded that Prince Mohammed ordered the 2018 killing. In 2021, Prince Mohammed’s sovereign wealth fund approved the $2 billion investment in Mr. Kushner’s new firm despite objections from the fund’s own advisers.
Letter from the SouthGeorgia’s Broad Racketeering Law May Now Ensnare Donald Trump Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, often relies on Georgia’s capacious rico statute—though critics say that she has stretched it past the law’s intentJuly 31, 2023
In 2013, Fani Willis served as the lead prosecutor in what is still the longest criminal trial ever held in Georgia. Teachers and administrators in Atlanta public schools had been accused, a few years before, of cheating on standardized tests. A special report commissioned by Georgia’s governor concluded that a hundred and seventy-eight educators—including more than three dozen principals and a superintendent—had participated in “organized and systemic misconduct” since at least 2001. Teachers were giving children answers and altering incorrect responses, investigators reported; administrators were offering financial incentives to those who abetted the cheating and punishing those who did not. One teacher, who admitted to changing test answers, told investigators, “APS is run like the Mob.” The Fulton County district attorney’s office agreed: the county indicted thirty-five educators and administrators for conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or rico—a statute that, historically, is associated with the prosecution of Mafia figures. Willis, in her opening statement, explained how such charges could be applied in the case. “You don’t, under RICO, have to have a formal, sit-down dinner meeting where you eat spaghetti,” she said, seemingly invoking a scene from “Goodfellas.” “But what you do have to do is all be doing the same thing for the same purpose. You all have to be working towards that same goal. In this case, the goal—inflate test scores illegally.” . . . Georgia created its rico statute in 1980, less to target the Mafia than to go after Black street gangs and “nontraditional conspiracies,” as Norman Eisen, a former trial lawyer and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, put it to me. (The Georgia Assembly cited the need to address “the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements.”) But the Georgia law didn’t require prosecutors to demonstrate an underlying criminal enterprise, only the commission of a range of illegal acts that furthered a single criminal goal. “Because of its breadth,” Eisen said, “Georgia prosecutors are more prone to utilize their criminal rico provision as a vehicle for major cases.” It’s one of the best places in the country for deploying such a provision, he added. Volkan Topalli, a professor of criminology at Georgia State, told me that the state’s generous statute helps create a “whirlpool effect” in the prosecution of criminal conspiracies: “If you capture one person in the whirlpool, everyone else gets sucked in along with them.”
“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly said, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.
“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,” Kelly continued. “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
“There is nothing more that can be said,” Kelly concluded. “God help us.”
In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
... in which Trump, after a separate trip to France in 2017, tells Kelly he wants no wounded veterans in a military parade he’s trying to have planned in his honor. Inspired by the Bastille Day parade, except for the section of the parade featuring wounded French veterans in wheelchairs, Trump tells Kelly, “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade.”
“Those are the heroes,” Kelly said. “In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are – and they are buried over in Arlington.”
“I don’t want them,” Trump said. “It doesn’t look good for me.”
@ElwoodBlues well, we will see how you feel when they take your property. That will happen. Before now, people had the freedom to value their own property as they chose. If they were idiots, nobody did business with them. Now, we don’t have the freedom to do that. So now, some government person tells us that they will value our property. If we get on their bad side they take what we have away. What we have is no longer inviolate. I now have the freedom to think what you want me to think. If I don’t you call me names and ruin me. So, you have all the power. Right and wrong don’t matter. All that stuff you put up there shows me you don’t respect the time other people have to read it all. And, like the liberal judge, it’s all their opinion. They don’t think my property is mine.
Sept 9 National Faith Advisory phone call "Every day she is flooding our country with billions and billions of illegal aliens. She wants to make them citizens, she wants to have them vote. Which will destroy the voting powers of Christian conservatives forever.”
Sept 5, Economic Club of NY Q: If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable and if so, what specific piece of legislation would you advance? A: Well, I would do that, and we're sitting down, you know I was, uh... somebody we had, uh... Senator Marco... Rubio and my daughter Ivanka was so, uh... impactful on that issue; it's a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about, that, because, look, child care is child care. Couldn't, you know, there's something you have to have it, in this country, you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I'm talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they're not used to, but they'll get used to it very quickly and it's not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they'll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country.
Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we're talking about including child care that it's going to take care-- we're going to have, I-- I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time. Coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care, I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I'm talking about, including growth. But growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just, uh... that I just told you about.
We're going to be taking in trillions of dollars and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive it's, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we'll be taking in. We're going to make this into... an... incredible country that can afford to take care of its people and then we'll worry about the rest of the world. Let's help other people, but we're going to take care of our country first. This is about America First. It's about... make America great again. We have to do it, because right now we're a failing nation. So, we'll take care of it. Thank you - very good question - thank you.
Aug 31, La Crosse, Wisc Asked by an attendee for his plan “to make life more affordable and bring down inflation,” Trump said ... you take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don't eat bacon anymore and uh we are going to get the energy prices down when we get energy down you know this was caused by their horrible energy wind they want wind all over the place but when it doesn't blow we have a little problem.
Sept 1, Moms for Liberty Summit Wash DC But, eh, the transgender thing is incredible. Think of it, your kid goes to school and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. And you know many of these childs fifteen years later say, “What the hell happened? Who did this to me?”
Aug 29, Potterville, Michigan "I was just telling this reporter the real problem and the real radicals on that issue are the Democrats where you can have an abortion in the ninth month. And in six states you’re allowed to kill the baby after the baby is born. And you know, one of those states is Minnesota where this Tampon Tim comes from ... You’re allowed to execute the baby."
Aug 29, Potterville, Michigan: "She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?"
Aug 17, Wilkes-Barre, PA You know, she was a district attorney, and she was the attorney general of the state. I heard the other day -- and this isn't anything -- I'm just saying. They'll say, "He was rambling." I don't ramble. I'm really smart guy, you know, really smart. I don't ramble. But the other day, anytime I hit too hard, they say, "He was rambling, rambling." You know, I get up and I make a speech.
I go for sometimes two hours, two and a half hours because, you know, people are waiting outside for three days, four days. You guys were waiting out there for a long time. Front-Row Joes are waiting out. I don't know how you guys do it. And I feel I have an obligation to speak and speak in a certain way and speak a little bit longer. You know, how would you like it? A guy's waiting with his family for three and a half, four days? They have a tent and the tent is set up, they have hundreds of them, and they wait. And then I walk in, speak for 15 minutes and leave. I don't know. Would that be OK, North Carolina, I don't think so, right?
They want me to speak all day. You know, when I leave, I did one two hours and 15 minutes, and I'm leaving and they're screaming. "No, sir. More. We want to hear more." I said, "I can't." I said, "I can't speak more. What the hell else am I going to say?" Our country is going to hell. That's all I can say. We're a nation in decline. You know, we were talking about that before. My phrases are copied so much, right? I use the term oftentimes in closing. We are a nation in decline. We are a failed nation. And I think it's a beautiful phrase, although I don't like the topic very much. I don't like what it represents, but there's a certain beauty.
Feb 20 Fox News Town Hall "They come out with faucets where no water comes out. You know, if you go and buy a home, and they know what I mean, the showers, you stand under a shower and there's no water coming, and you end up standing there five times longer ... so in Ohio, you have this great company that came to me, a dishwasher company, one of the biggest and finest companies, but they were going out of business. They said, we're not allowed to use water."
March 9, Rome Georgia “Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”
In New York State, it's against the law to falsify business records. Has been since the 1960s.
"The law under which Ms. James sued, known by its shorthand 63(12), requires the plaintiff to show a defendant’s conduct was deceptive. If that standard is met, a judge can impose severe punishment, including forfeiting the money obtained through fraud. Ms. James has also used this law against the oil company ExxonMobil, the tobacco brand Juul and the pharma executive Martin Shkreli."
Among the documents Trump falsified were SFCs (Statements of Financial Condition). He did that partly by feeding false info to and concealing liabilities from his accounting firm, Mazars. That's why Mazars dumped Trump back in Feb 2022.
The statute Trump violated is New York Executive Law EXC § 63(12). The purpose is to take away the incentive for cheating by forcing disgorgement of profits made from cheating. If a scam artist makes $350 mil from cheating and you only fine him $50 mil, that makes cheating VERY profitable - you can't deny it.
Trump falsified business records involving: Trump Tower triplex apartment 40 Wall St Vornado Realty Trust Trump Park Ave Seven Springs Briarcliffe Mar-a-Lago Trump National Golf Club LA Aberdeen Golf Course
Trump is thus required by law to disgorge profits made from these falsifications.
For complete details, see https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/02/Judge-Engoron-ruling-in-Trump-New-York-civil-fraud-case.pdf
Valuing occupied residences as if vacant, valuing restricted land as if unrestricted, valuing an apartment as if it were triple its actual size, valuing property many times the amount of concealed appraisals, valuing planned buildings as if completed and ready to rent, valuing golf courses with brand premium while claiming not to, and valuing restricted funds as cash, are not subjective differences of opinion, they are misstatements at best and fraud at worst," the judge wrote.
(1) Witnesses testified that the banks did rely on Trump's fraudulent claims. (2) Witnesses testified that if they had had an accurate picture of Trump's financial state, he would not have gotten the highly favorable interest rates that he got. If Trump had filed accurate statements he would have had to pay much, much more interest (if they would have given the loans at all). (3) The penalty was calculated based on that, and the details are all spelled out in the ruling. He defrauded the banks out of the higher interest he would have had to pay in order to get the loans. "No harm was done" is plainly false. (4) The "no harm was done" defense is so insanely dumb that Trump's lawyers didn't even attempt it in court. (But see the update below for a related "nobody complained" defense.) Think about how little sense it makes. If you embezzle a million dollars Friday just before the banks close, fly to vegas and bet it all on red at the roulette wheel, and win, and return the million dollars plus interest on Monday as soon as the banks open, would you expect a "no one got hurt" defense to get you acquitted when you go to trial? Edited to add quotes from the ruling: (1) For example, p. 9: In deciding to approve the credit facility, Haigh relied on Donald Trump’s 2011 SFC and assumed that the representations of value of the assets and liabilities were “broadly accurate.” TT 1009-1010; PX 330. The Deutsche Bank Credit Report’s “Financial Analysis” is based on numbers provided by the “family office” (here, the Trump Organization) and contains the same numbers represented in the SFC. PX 293; TT 1010-1013. And p. 68: The evidence adduced at trial makes clear that Deutsche Bank relied on the SFCs for the information to underwrite, approve, and maintain the credit facilities on Doral, Trump Chicago, and the Old Post Office. PX 293, PX 3041 at ¶¶ 452-54, 456-466, 476. And more. And on p. 75 it discusses how absurd this defense was: Defendants have argued vociferously throughout the trial that there can be no fraud as, they assert, that none of the banks or insurance companies relied on any of the alleged misrepresentations. The proponents of this theory posit that lenders demand complex statements of financial condition but then ignore them. And (next paragraph) it wouldn't make any difference as a matter of law: Defendants’ argument is to no avail, as none of plaintiff’s causes of action requires that it demonstrate reliance. Instead, plaintiff must merely show that defendants intended to commit the fraud. Reliance is not a requisite element of either Executive Law § 63(12) or of any of the alleged Penal Law violations. And (next paragraph) even though it wasn't a requisite element, the claim made by the defense is clearly false: However, the Court notes that, although not required, there is ample documentary and testimonial evidence that the banks, insurance companies, and the City of New York did, in fact, rely on defendants to be truthful and accurate in their financial submissions. The testimony in this case makes abundantly clear that most, if not all, loans began life based on numbers on an SFC, which the lenders interpreted in their own unique way. The testimony confirmed, rather than refuted, the overriding importance of SFCs in lending decisions. (2) p. 68: The record is also clear that Donald Trump would not have received the credit facilities from the Private Wealth Management Division, and the favorable interest rates that came with that, had he not executed an unconditional, “ironclad,” personal guarantee. Moreover, the Private Wealth Management Division was willing to accept the personal guarantees based upon false SFCs. (3) Here's part of the "disgorgement of ill-gotten gains" calculation, from p. 86: McCarty calculated the differences between interest rates and determined the following ill-gotten interest savings, which this Court hereby adopts as the most reasonable approximation of the ill- gotten interest rate savings upon which evidence was presented at trial: (1) $72,908,308 from 2014-2022 on the Doral loan; (2) $53,423,209 from 2015-2022 on the Old Post Office loan; (3) $17,443,359 from 2014-2022 on the Chicago loan; and (4) $24,265,291 from 2015-2022 on the 40 Wall Street loan. In total, defendants’ fraud saved them approximately $168,040,168 in interest, which shall be imposed, jointly and severally, among Donald Trump and the defendant entities that he owns and controls, as the misconduct at issue was committed by the Trump Organization’s top management.
In Arizona, a six-month review of ballots in the state’s largest county, Maricopa, that was commissioned by Republican state legislators not only affirmed Biden’s victory but determined that he should have won by 306 more votes than the officially certified statewide margin of 10,457.
In Georgia, where Trump was recently indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 result there, state officials led by both a Republican governor and secretary of state recertified Biden’s win after conducting three statewide counts. The final official recount narrowed Biden’s victory in the state from just shy of 13,000 votes to just shy of 12,000 votes.
In Michigan, a committee led by Republican state senators concluded there was no widespread or systematic fraud in the state in 2020 after conducting a monthslong investigation. Michigan, where Biden defeated Trump by almost 155,000 votes, or 2.8 percentage points, was less competitive compared with other battleground states, although the result in Wayne County, home of Detroit, was targeted by Trump and his supporters with unfounded voter fraud claims, as were key urban jurisdictions across the country.
In Nevada, the then-secretary of state, Republican Barbara Cegavske, and her office reviewed tens of thousands of allegations of possible voter fraud identified by the Nevada Republican Party but found that almost all were based on incomplete information and a lack of understanding of the state’s voting and registration procedures. For example, Cegavske’s investigation found that of 1,506 alleged instances of ballots being cast in the name of deceased individuals, only 10 warranted further investigation by law enforcement. Similarly, 10 out of 1,778 allegations of double-voting called for further investigation. Biden won Nevada by 33,596 votes, or 2.4 percentage points.
In Pennsylvania, the final certified results had Biden with an 80,555-vote margin over Trump, or 1.2 percentage points. Efforts to overturn Pennsylvania’s election failed in state and federal courts, while no prosecutor, judge or election official in Pennsylvania has raised a concern about widespread fraud. State Republicans continue to attempt their own review of the 2020 results, but that effort has been tied up in the courts and Democrats have called it a “partisan fishing expedition.”
In Wisconsin, a recount slightly improved Biden’s victory over Trump by 87 votes, increasing Biden’s statewide lead to 20,682, or 0.6 percentage points. A nonpartisan audit that concluded a year after the election made recommendations on how to improve future elections in Wisconsin but did not uncover evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state, leading the Republican co-chair of the audit committee to declare that “the election was largely safe and secure.” The state’s Assembly speaker, a Republican, ordered a separate review, which a state judge said found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud.”
The FEMA money which should have been used for the hurricane/storm victims was diverted to illegal aliens.
!!! FALSE !!!
But you're working really hard to keep spreading that LIE, aren't you??
The President can only spend money the way Congress allocates it. All the money to Ukraine? Passed both houses of Congress. Israel & Taiwan? Likewise. Remember when Trump had to take money from military bases to build his defective "wall"? That's because Congress wouldn't allocate wall money, and the President has very very little discretionary money.
Congress allocates a large pool of emergency response money, $20 billion per year and more for FEMA to administer.
FEMA also has some other smaller pools of money it administers, including Shelter and Services Program AKA SSP. According to the spending laws passed by Congreess, this money can be given to local governments for humanitarian services to legal migrants such as asylum seekers.
Here's how people are being misled. They are being told that the FEMA disaster relief fund was depleted by some SSP spending. That's a flat out lie.
BTW, here is where our emergency response money gets spent:
Here is US law on asylum: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1158
IT creates a giant loophole for asylum seekers. It's a holdover from the '60s & '70s US immigration law and policy was designed to spit in the eye of Fidel Castro by treating everyone who set foot on Florida as an asylum seeker. This helped earn votes from a swing demographic in a swing state. I agree, we need immigration reform.
And the Senate Bipartisan border bill would have closed that loophole and others. It was the first immigration overhaul since Reagan gave amnesty in 1986.
And of course you know what happened to he Senate Bipartisan border bill. Trump leaned on his flunkies to kill it. Trump wanted a mess on the border to run against. Trump DAMAGED America for campaign purposes. SICK!!
@MarthannBann888 If so, they could have highlighted that during debate. But they didn't want debate.
You suggest I am wrong to blame tRump. Yet tRump ASKED FOR the blame!!
“I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I say, that’s okay. Please blame it on me. Please.”
Your point is well taken. People make mistakes, all except democrats who are above the law and perfect people. If you have any self respect, though you will admit the truth. DT has been subjected to the worst psychological treatment of anyone that I have ever known of. He was designated a traitor to the country daily for 21/2 years. He was psychologically diagnosed in public by quacks calling themselves psychologists. Every time he picked up a pencil he was condemned. His wife was ridiculed, his children were ridiculed, and no one ever mentioned that behavior had earlier been deemed unacceptable to attack children. Nothing he has done has ever been reported on even neutrally. Bottom line, democrats have behaved hideously. All the while, democrats continue to kill 100,000 of their own countrymen a year because of their border policy. How many millions of innocent babies have they murdered in order to please their boyfriends on Saturday night. They don’t mind a bit that their first family is on the payroll of the CCP. They don’t mind a bit the money wasted through graft and corruption. They don’t mind a bit keeping us in foreign wars that could be settled to please the military industrial complex. They mind what happens to those innocent people who are cancelled and their lives destroyed because they don’t sing the party line. Climate change has become a cesspool of corruption generating every unworkable idea in the universe. With that in mind, why would I think that is not a doctored tape. After all, didn’t you kkkdems say DT didn’t get shot? Bidumb was sharp as a tack? The election was fair? All the migrants are honest hardworking people?
@MarthannBann888 I see you were unable to link to a source for the "100,000 dead per year" due to their border policy. Because that is a right-wing fantasy. Put it with your fantasies of the KKK being part of the current Democratic Party, the Big Lie of the stolen election, and Trump telling the truth.
The reason you can answer fewer and fewer questions here isn't Google's fault. It is because your "facts" are fabricated and live on only in your mind and the hive mind of the Trump Cult.
Google has made finding numbers on migration difficult, as they have been removed during even the the duration of time I looked at sources.
Bvlllsh!ttt, Martha my dear.
Google isn't hiding anything, it's just that your facebook sources are wrong wrong wrong!!! You've been swallowing facebook lies for years and suddenly discovered they can't be confirmed!!
As a special favor to you, Martha my dear, I an inserting the graph you were unable to link, the estimates of total illegal population present in the US January 2016 to February 2022
Notice that the vertical scale is expanded, only showing the range of about 9 to 12 million?
Notice how as of feb 2022, the total estimate was still BELOW the peak under Trump?
Notice how all the variation in the graph depends on only ONE ESTIMATE, for Jan 2021?
That graph doesn't indict Biden in any way shape or form.
In fact, my personal experience ...
... is a persecution fantasy, nothing more. Get help, Martha my dear.
Some legal nuts and bolts that helped me understand the structure of Bragg's hush-money case.
If you’re looking for the clearest statement of Bragg’s legal theory, you can find it in a November 2023 court filing opposing Trump’s motion to dismiss the case, along with Merchan’s ruling on that motion. Notably, in that ruling, Merchan clarified that § 175.10 “does not require that the ‘other crime’ actually be committed”—“all that is required is that defendant … acted with a conscious aim and objective to commit another crime.”
In his filing, Bragg sets out four potential object offenses: violations of federal campaign finance law under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA); violations of New York Election Law § 17-152; violations of federal, local, and state tax law; and additional falsifications of business records outside the Trump Organization. Merchan allowed Bragg to move forward with the first three theories but tossed out the last one.
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The potential tax fraud arises from the particular method by which the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen for his payments to Daniels. Bragg alleges that “defendant reimbursed Cohen twice the amount he was owed for the payoff so Cohen could characterize the payments as income on his tax returns and still be left whole after paying approximately 50% in income taxes.” Here, Bragg points to federal, state, and local prohibitions on providing knowingly incorrect tax information.
I understand it is embarrassing when we misuse words. It is embarrassing, too, when we are at odds within ourselves. Manufacturing guilt in Trump or his team leaves your internal state, that knows nothing but truth, at war with your conscience mind, that will lie or not depending on circumstances. Read some of the books on the Clinton murders. Those books link the crimes of the Clintons much more closely and logically than you have done with your several analyses. For example, while the individuals may have links with Trump, the nature of the links cannot be determined to occasion murder to any strong extent given the amount of power and money Trump has to solve problems. Although the opposition to Trump is characterized by unrestrained hatred combined with unrestrained need to damage him, it is only loosely tied to careful and deliberate research proving its assertions. Hence the inability to make anything stick. Then, then the party is left with hysterical assertions about failed to be proved accusations. It makes you look really bad.
Trump was sworn in as President on Jan 20, 2017. Three days later, Jan 23, he released a statement saying he had resigned from the Trump Organization, and left Don Jr and Eric Trump in charge. Resigned.
And yet, later that year, Trump was sending Trump Org checks; particularly checks to Michael Cohen for the Stormy Daniels hush money. Resigned from Trump Org, or an officer of the company sending checks?? Can't be both!!
@ElwoodBlues You would do anything to take up for your masters. That you would say this is an admission that you know your party is waging illegal law fare against this man. So far as industry goes, you don’t know what arrangements were made during the planning stage for the company, you don’t know in what manner the checks were made out, and don’t know what exceptions are made in these cases. What we do know because the Congress checks is your president is a traitor to the very lives of the people of America. And you snivel around with this Stormy Daniel’s BS.
If you had any respect for your country and its people, your would not back the village idiot.
Feb 4, 2024 — Donald Trump's former aide Mike Gill died on Saturday (Feb 3), days after being shot by an alleged carjacker in Washington D.C, ...
Jan 10, 2023 — Lynette Hardaway, known as "Diamond," who was dropped by Fox News for spreading falsehoods about Covid, died at the age of 51. Hardaway’s cause of death has not been released.
July 15, 2022 — Ivana Trump, first wife of former president Donald Trump, dies from alleged fall on the stairs inside her apartment... Ivana Trump is survived by her mother, her three children and 10 grandchildren...
Apr 28, 2022, Whistleblower Valentin Broeksmit was found dead in LA; had revealed secret documents about Deutsche Bank where Donald Trump was a major client... According to The Times, Broeksmit supplied the documents to journalists and others, including Fusion GPS, the research firm linked to an unverified dossier about Trump, and investigators with the FBI's New York office.
Feb 7, 2021 — Ronald Wright, Trump supporter and US Congressman in Texas' 6th district, died, allegedly of Covid complications.
Dec 29, 2020 — Luke Letlow, a Rubio delegate from 2016 and Congressman-elect for Louisiana's 5th District, died, allegedly of Covid complications. He was 41 years old, and left behind a wife and two young children.
Jul 30, 2020 — Herman Cain, a former pizza chain CEO and onetime presidential hopeful, who was once considered by Trump for the Federal Reserve, died, allegedly from Covid, not long after attending a Trump rally in Tulsa OK.
Mar 6, 2017 — A Ukranian-born millionaire businessman, Alex Oronov, with links to Donald Trump has reportedly died in unexplained circumstances.
Trump explaining why candidates under felony investigation shouldn't be running:
“We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial,” Trump said at the rally. “It would grind government to a halt.” “If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government,” he said. “She is likely to be under investigation for many years, and also it will probably end up – in my opinion – in a criminal trial. I mean, you take a look. Who knows? But it certainly looks that way.” “She has no right to be running, you know that,” -- Donald Trump, Nov 3 2016, North Carolina rally
@MarthannBann888 Wow, Martha, so many posts!! You were obviously DESPERATE for my attention last night😂🤣
Sorry, my wife & I were at a family gathering and couldn't respond. Going forward, you'll need to fine someone else to fill those lonely gaps in your life; I'm not your guy.
It may not be a crime to pay a sexworker for sex. It may not be a crime to pay a sexworker for silence.
But is sure as heck IS a crime to list any of those payments as "legal expenses" (which are tax deductible) on your official paperwork.
In Trump's New York hush money trial he is being charged with 34 counts of falsifying business documents. That's the actual crime he is charged with.
One more wrinkle: that crime can be a misdemeanor or a felony depending on whether it was done with the aim or objective of committing another crime (extra wrinkle: the other crime doesn't have to have been proven in a separate court). In such cases, the other crime is called an object offense.
In his filing, Bragg sets out four potential object offenses: violations of federal campaign finance law under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA); violations of New York Election Law § 17-152; violations of federal, local, and state tax law; and additional falsifications of business records outside the Trump Organization. Merchan allowed Bragg to move forward with the first three theories but tossed out the last one.
Looks like both Trump and Cohen filed false tax documents based on the payments, so the "violations of federal, local, and state tax law" (3rd object offense) looks like it will hold up. There are additional witnesses to say the hush money was paid for campaign purposes. That'll enable the 1st & 2nd object offenses.
This is mostly a documents case. There are written notes about paying Cohen back and tax impacts. There are 12 checks from Trump to Cohen. The witnesses are there mostly to tell the story to the jury and explain the meanings of the documents.
That looks more like Joe’s garage, and those photos are not the ones shown last year when Mar-a- Lago was raided. You may have gotten the wrong photos.
I’m still voting for Trump he is the best candidate to pick from. If the Democrats stay in charge this country will no longer be inhabited by Americans only illegals. Not to mention all the Palestinians whose number one goal is to destroy America that we are going to end up bringing over here from the new port they are building over there.
The six bankruptcies were the result of over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in Atlantic City and New York: Trump Taj Mahal (1991), Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (1992), Plaza Hotel (1992), Trump Castle Hotel and Casino (1992), Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts (2004), and Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009).
“The Trump Organization recently paid $750,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the District of Columbia accusing the organization of misusing nonprofit funds from the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee.”
Failed Trump steak business Failed Trump vodka business Failed Trump "university" Failed Trump Mortgage LLC Failed Trump Shuttle etc etc
Not to mention convicted of 34 felonies tied to financial fraud.
p. 9: In deciding to approve the credit facility, Haigh relied on Donald Trump’s 2011 SFC and assumed that the representations of value of the assets and liabilities were “broadly accurate.” TT 1009-1010; PX 330. The Deutsche Bank Credit Report’s “Financial Analysis” is based on numbers provided by the “family office” (here, the Trump Organization) and contains the same numbers represented in the SFC. PX 293; TT 1010-1013.
And p. 68: The evidence adduced at trial makes clear that Deutsche Bank relied on the SFCs for the information to underwrite, approve, and maintain the credit facilities on Doral, Trump Chicago, and the Old Post Office. PX 293, PX 3041 at ¶¶ 452-54, 456-466, 476.
p. 75: Defendants have argued vociferously throughout the trial that there can be no fraud as, they assert, that none of the banks or insurance companies relied on any of the alleged misrepresentations. The proponents of this theory posit that lenders demand complex statements of financial condition but then ignore them.
Lemme repeat that last item: The proponents of this theory posit that lenders demand complex statements of financial condition but then ignore them.
Valuations of property are subjective. They vary widely. The judge is using valuations based on his hatred of Trump. The judge has made it quite clear he hates Trump and so have you.
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