Mary Trump mentioned last week that her uncle’s biographer, Tim O’Brien, was of the opinion that Donald Trump was worth $100 million to $250 million. And that’s an impressive net worth, by any yardstick. But it certainly is not the billions with a “B” that he claims to be worth. And it’s not even the $400 million which his father gave to him and which has been verified, by Mary Trump and other people.
Trump had close to half a billion dollars handed to him and he managed to squander it away on one cockamamie scheme or another. Now, in an interesting karmic switch, he’s got legal judgments against him in two cases (and other civil and criminal matters still pending) to the tune of $550 million, plus $83.3 million, for a total of $633.3 — and then there’s that pesky prejudgment interesting accruing at 9%. Ouch. So where does he go and what does he do? Oh yeah. Sneakers.
But he's got unlimited access to Russian mob money. He just needs a way to launder it. Like selling shoes.
— RT Dems (@suevisa) February 20, 2024
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The sublime irony of all this is that if Trump had simply taken the $400 million his father gave him and invested it in the most conservative of stocks and money markets, he would have become an actual billionaire.
Moreover, if he had decided to get into public life for real, and run for a congressional seat, let’s say and learn politics and be real about all this, he might have done alright. He surely would have done no worse than the school of fish he swam in with, the Cawthorn/Boebert/Greene crowd.
But that was never the plan. The plan was always get rich quick. And in 2016 the plan was set the stage for Trump TV with Steve Bannon — and then he won. Like the dog who caught the proverbial car, he won and didn’t know what to do with it.
Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, knew exactly what to do with it and he still does. The GOP is working for Vladimir Putin.
That used to be an insult. Apparently now it’s standard operating procedure. There was a time back in 2017, before John McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer, that he was going at it with Rand Paul, yet once again. Paul was opposed to Montenegro becoming a part of NATO. McCain took to the Senate floor and said, “The senator from Kentucky is working for Vladimir Putin.” Paul was livid. He took his mic off and stormed off the floor. Nowadays, that might not happen. Working for Russia is the norm, it would appear.
I think Putin may just bail Trump out financially. Or, better yet, Putin may find another useful idiot. Right now J.D. Vance and Elise Stefanik are showing great promise.
Meanwhile, Trump’s posting about how he’s the new Alexander Hamilton. Seriously.
I’m not clear how a civil judgment compares to dying in a duel. Maybe somebody can explain that. But Trump feels he’s a victim. That much is clear. Poor Donald. And we mean Poor.Donald. After all, wealth, like everything, health, beauty, success, is relative. You are poor when you don’t have enough money to pay for what you need, in his case, to pay these judgments. You’re rich whenever you can pay for what you need and have extra money in the bank.
Trump has been playing a shell game his entire life and lying about his wealth. That’s a whole different spin, that most people don’t go anywhere near.
I hope nobody is surprised by the a*s-hole from the fed soc being so dismayed by dingleberry’s just desserts. Those morons want to eliminate all laws that might just make an oligarch or craporation pay up when they fuck up, laws that don’t allow for workers to be treated (and paid) as serfs, laws that provide dignity for every American regardless of race, religion, creed, gender, etc. Essentially they want all laws to go away except for those that enrich the few. From a knowledge of the law standpoint these are some of the dumbest f*ckers on the planet. They are responsible for 6 of nine s.c. justices being on the bench and boo-coo federal/appellate judges. If that doesn’t scare you into shitting yourself it should.
Your “… Trump’s Finances ‘Hanging By A Thread’ How Soon Before It Breaks?…” In most instances with Don Don he’s usually and busily screaming as he projects prior to any snap. This maybe starting to reverse, so it’s quite possible we’ll hear an almighty face planting snap prior to any episode of last gasp screaming. Finkers krossed! Finkers krossed!
If 6,333,000 MAGAS send him 100 bucks apiece — he’s golden. Or put it another way, if 63,330,000 MAGAS send him 10 bucks apiece (surely they can afford one measly sawbuck for such a sacred cause) he/’s golden. Except or the jail sentence.