This is all starting to get comical, not to mention surreal. One of the wealthiest families in the world, or so we have been led to believe, seems to be putting on the dog and playing some kind of a shell game. According to whom, you ask? Why according to a member of said family, who thinks that her family is as full of $hit as the rest of us do. Yes, we speak of the Trumps and cousin Mary is blowing the whistle.
Now you have read a lot of the details here before, in a recent piece we did here on how mortgaged to the hilt Ivanka, Eric and Junior are, with their Florida homes. Why is that, when they’re all so bloody rich? Could it be that they’re propping up Daddy and his fantasies? Read and learn:
Donald’s NIGHTMARE has come true:
His own daughter revealed under oath that Donald took money from his own kids to prop up the appearance of his net worth.
This shocking admission was buried so deeply within Ivanka’s testimony that the media largely missed it. It seriously threatens the house of cards Donald has built (with cards taken entirely from the deck my grandfather gave him) and propped up with exaggeration, decades of lies, and corporate media complicity.
Why could this be so crushing for Donald? Let’s dive in before I provide even more revealing news about Ivanka, and share a video about yet another humiliating chapter from Donald’s past.
Here’s the sordid detail Donald didn’t want exposed:
In order to qualify for some of his loans, Donald needed to satisfy Deutsche Bank’s demand that he prove he was wealthy enough. But Donald had a problem: reality.
His net worth was too low. His solution? To have his kids help prop up the facade.
On the stand during Donald’s New York City fraud trial, Ivanka testified that Donald’s adult children agreed to allow Donald to use their assets in order to help inflate his net worth thereby satisfying the bank’s requirements for a loan that was his alone.
Appearing outside the courthouse after the admission, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin said her “jaw almost dropped” when she heard Ivanka’s testimony. “He was borrowing money from his kids’ piggy banks,” Rubin continued. “I almost dropped my phone on the floor. I was just astonished by the proof that Donald Trump was robbing Peter to pay Paul, so to speak,” she concluded.
The article then goes on to quote from the Daily Mail the stats that you already know, how Ivanka, who is married to a guy who is worth over $2 billion, borrowed $15 million on a $24 million house. As we said here, “Why not just buy a $9 million house, if you’ve got $9 million in cash?” Or, better yet, since Jared’s got billions, why not pay $24 million in cash, how hard can that be?
Mary’s opinion is that Ivanka is just like Daddy, she exaggerates her wealth and it comes as easily to her as breathing. And Jared is the same way. He drove a Range Rover in college and reportedly he was committed to people knowing that he was incredibly rich. That was important to him. I don’t think you need to be Sigmund Freud to know that Jared and Ivanka’s identity is their bank account. And that makes sense. Take away the money and what do you have? People who have created a wonderful product, done some wonderful service to humanity — or even just showed up at a job every day and did it well? That commands plenty of respect in my book, no matter how humble the job is. Nope. They can’t claim any of that. They’re shallow, unaccomplished, uninteresting people. They just have a lot of money.
Mary linked to a video with reporter Johnathan Greenberg. In the course of that interview it was revealed that Donald was worried about dropping dead from stress — back in the 80’s when he was going under (and when, reportedly, his relationship with Russia began.) Can you image the stress he’s in now?
As he is seen not as a winner, but as a loser. When he said, “This property is worth this much money,” and then he gets paid 20% of that and it’s barely enough to pay off his debt, he’s no longer a success. It has an impact on how he feels and how other people perceive him. That’s the spiral that I believe we might be seeing next. That’s the spiral. If that happens, it’s going to impact his self-confidence. Most people don’t remember, but in 1989, when this was going through the bankruptcies, he was talking to people about killing himself.
MARY
I had a conversation with my Uncle Rob and Donald told him he thought there was a good chance, not that he was going to commit suicide, but that he was going to drop dead out of a heart attack or a stroke because the stress was so incredible. You’re right. He’s in unchartered territory, as are we. Donald’s facing an existential crisis that he’s never faced before. It’s going to be fascinating to see how this plays out, and we will definitely have to follow up.
Uncle Rob passed away a couple of years ago.
Trump’s got one card left to play and one card only. That card is to win the election, smash the government as it exists, and eliminate his legal trials and his enemies. That is a pretty wild card.
Let’s see what cards he actually has in his hand in November, 2024.
This confirms my impression, that Donald’s reality is what he says it is. Life’s a TV show, except when true reality comes crashing in.
Ok now that wasn’t even a small blip on any radar I might possess. That does explain why the trump kids might not be worth squat. Did Jar-jar also waste money propping up former guy? Back when he was trying to get loans from Deutsche Bank I don’t think Jar-jar was in any kind of financial shape to help. I don’t know when he made one of the worst real estate purchases likely in the history of r.e. purchases but that most likely tied up every penny he had I should think. Still, didn’t get at least $1 B from the saudis? Unless he put that into paying off that disastrous purchase, which I thought the saudis ALSO helped with, where is that money? I mean besides in some off-shore account.
Still, this does explain a lot much of which is those kids of trump’s are no more financially savvy than he is. They grew up seeing every one of former guy’s failures. Propping him up for more loans after seeing just how incompetent he was is stupidity pure and simple. Oh, and one more thing: if they propped him up they gave him loans (the value of what they likely used was way more than a gift)-did they get any interest on those loans? See, the IRS would be very interested to know just how fast and loose those kids and their father were playing tax-wise. My word everywhere you turn with these trumps there are tax evasion/reporting problems. tsk, tsk.
We’ve just said goodbye to an extraordinary woman who lived a beautiful life, and sadly will likely be doing the same with her husband soon. He also has been extraordinary and lived a beautiful life. They had a little money due to Jimmy Carter having saved the family peanut business after his father died but they were hardly rich. Just comfortable. They lived a simple life in a modest dwelling except for their four years in the WH. Yet because of their determination to use their voice to help others they traveled the world, visiting and helping the poorest of people yet also holding court with kings and heads of states. And most of the entire world responded with admiration and love for Rosalynn Carter, as they will soon for Jimmy. They could have made themselves rich in money and lived a fancy, lavish and comfortable life. They chose a different path.
Yet they were rich in ways most of us can’t even dream of.
Ivanka, her P.O.S. sperm donor (hardly a father) and her brothers will, like Ivana Trump get a couple days mention in the news and be forgotten when their time is up. And when they are mentioned at all it will be not for all the good they did as is the case with the Carters, but for all the bad that their lives were about.