Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by Izkata on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:38PM
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Trump didn't make money off of the presidency, if anything he spent (2016-2017) or lost (2020) wealth: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/forbes-400-donald-tr...
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by macg333 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:48PM
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Just because he didn't make money because he's a failure at business and his particular ventures were negatively affected by the coronavirus (the explanation given in your article) completely ignores that he funneled a substantial amount of tax payer dollars into his private ventures by spending so much time there with his security detail.
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by bernulli on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:49PM
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That’s not what the article says at all. It says that his hotel businesses went south due to COVID. That’s orthogonal to the myriad ways he extracted money from being a president.
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by Izkata on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:13PM
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...incorrect, that's the second dip only. The virus wasn't around for the first.
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by bernulli on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:08AM
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The article you linked makes no statement about the origin of that first dip. Regardless, whatever dips there are, this is completely unrelated to him using his position for personal gain, which is the original discussion here.
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by lostlogin on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:10PM
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His tax returns show he didn’t make any to start with - or possibly more accurately, he just avoided saying he made any money and thereby didn’t pay any tax.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-tru...
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:30AM
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I’m betting he did his taxes right and really is just insolvent.
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by chillwaves on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:29PM
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Does this comment account for his $500M+ "loan"?
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by pfisch on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:15AM
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I honestly think you'd have a hard time finding any politician that made more than trump from his office. Mar a lago was literally a place to go pay 200k so you could lobby trump.
His re-election campaign ran out of money! How could that even be possible without massive embezzlement!?
His fake stop the steal con pulled in over 200 mil! Most of that is going to end up in his pocket.
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
by triceratops on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:39AM
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You mean other than charging the Secret Service for his weekly stays at his resort? Or how lobbyists in DC made sure to book at a Trump property?