Talk about the chickens coming home to roost. This is more like a flock of pterodactyls. When these babies roost, there goes the fence, yard, and any neighboring buildings. But when you’ve lived your life as a scam artist, believing in your own invincibility, that’s the way that things go down at the end. Do the dates September 18 and September 20 ring a bell? September 18 is when Donald Trump gets sentenced for his 34 felony convictions in New York City. This is another historical first. Never before has a candidate for president been sentenced after a criminal conviction, period, much less in the last six weeks of a presidential campaign. (Let alone when they’re running for president for the third time, having already been defeated.)
That’s not going to be a good luck for Trump, getting sentenced. Once again, in the courtroom he becomes Citizen Trump and he doesn’t get to call the shots on anything, not even the temperature of the air. This is one reason Trump has petitioned the court for a continuance of the sentencing date, so far unsuccessfully. But it’s the second date, September 20, that could really be a disaster both for Trump and his MAGA disciples. September 20 is the date that Trump could cash out on his stock in Truth Social. Trump’s wealth is mostly on paper. At one point Truth Social was said to have enriched the Trump coffers to the tune of $6 billion but that was well before it began tanking.
Trump’s net worth right now is estimated at $2.7 billion and bear in mind that a lot of that is real estate and Trump inflates the values of his holdings by claiming that units are much bigger than they are. Trump is also massively in debt and all the properties are leveraged. Taking that into consideration, about half of the $2.7 billion in assets is attributed to Truth Social. So when Truth Social tanks, it will be the financial equivalent of the final plunge downwards of the Titanic after it split in two. One of Trump’s biographers explains it best.
So here is Trump, once again skewered on the horns of a dilemma. So many dilemmas in this man’s life, have you noticed? If he taps into his Truth Social stock holdings, he can keep from losing more money and get cash to pay legal fees. But — if he does that and then he loses in November — then the remaining stockholders will be wiped out. Not that Trump cares, but it’s a bit difficult to go to the same people you’ve just wiped out financially and say, “The 2024 election was stolen just like 2020. Contribute to my legal defense fund.”
That scam worked well enough in 2021 and the years since, but it’s going to be very stale come November or January 6, 2025, if Trump tries to pull another coup like he did the last time.
A lot of people do expect Trump to try and do something to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. The rationale is that he keeps saying things like, “We have all the votes we need,” and his now-infamous line, “Vote this once and you’ll never have to vote again.” That leads people to believe that he’s got some kind of an election interference plan in the works.
Could be. Or, it could also be that he needs to live in a delusion of his own concoction, wherein he’s always leading by double digits. Just a few days ago he claimed to be leading Kamala Harris by 66 points.
We will certainly see. But mark those two dates on your calendar. Trump could literally limp into the election with the humiliation of a prison sentence and no money — recognizing that “no money” is a relative thing. He’ll always be worth a few hundred million. And when Trump loses the ability to grift MAGA, he’s really going to be hurting. Maybe it will be kool-aide time at Mar-a-Lago. Always bear in mind, Jim Jones went bonkers first. Then he ordered the kool-aide for everybody and then he blew his brains out. Maybe Trump will just walk into the ocean, ala Norman Maine in A Star Is Born, so a passing shark can eat him.
Perhaps he and his clown car crack lawyers think all they need is ONE State to hold up the ENTIRE election process.
Hmm…somebody might wanna tell them it doesn’t work like that.
Nah…let ’em find out the hard way.
That’s what GA is trying to do!
Just keep your eye on the pea as he moves the cups around. I wonder how many lawsuits are in his future?
Why is it von shitzinpants is said to have 2.7 b when most of that is in real estate and almost all of that is collateral, backing massive loans that he’ll never be able to pay back?
When does his bullshit end? When people start regularly calling him on it. You can’t fucking say you’re any kind of billionaire when the billions are collateralizing loans until you pay off what you borrowed. Until people get in his dumb ugly mug and say “hey dumb-ass” and explain what using real estate as collateral means, he is going to continue to get away with this lie. Why does it matter? Because many of his rubes support him because he is a “billionaire”. Because he is a “successful businessman”. Sure, they support him because his insides are as ugly as their insides but that “billionaire” and “businessman” bullshit is often the reason they give.
I suspect this bullshit social scam was supposed to provide him with funds to bail his ass out with the banks. I for one certainly hope he gets dick when he tries to sell his shares.
Trump got the go ahead for his 3 billion residential units at Doral.
“Maybe Trump will just walk into the ocean, ala Norman Maine in A Star Is Born, so a passing shark can eat him.”
Why do people keep wanting to inflict so much harm on a poor innocent shark?
You (and we all) better “believe that he’s got some kind of election interference plan in the works.” Yes he does. It’s not his plan, he’s too stupid to have a plan of any kind beyond eating and shitting his pants; it’s the MAGAt GOP’s plan, and it’s well advanced, nicely under most radars. They plan to steal our election via corruption of the voting system from within, and they have people in place to do it already in many states that we know of. Georgia’s their flagship. We cannot ignore or downplay this threat.