Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by terminalshort on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:46PM (#46483537)

If the bank is stupid enough to give a loan on Donald Trump's own valuations rather than insisting on seeing the third party valuations then they have some employees that need to be fired. The criminal justice system just doesn't get involved in these matters where there are no civil damages, whether you like it or not.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by lovich on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:09PM (#46483701)

It wasn’t above board.

It was fraud.

The bank was unaware he had changed the valuation.

Also wasn’t it just for the fraud, it was because this fraud was connected to his attempts to manipulate the election.

If we are going to go further in this conversation I need to know if you can point to an action he has taken that you think is bad, other than appointing someone he turned on later.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by terminalshort on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:49PM (#46485043)

You need to stop repeating things that are not true. His charges had nothing to do with the election. They were "falsifying business records". This law has nothing to do with elections and it is not a arguable point. Also, "manipulate the election" is a completely meaningless phrase.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by lovich on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:07AM (#46485685)

Nope, you can't argue out of both sides of your mouth on the electoral bit.

Yes people are rarely prosecuted for this crime, because its usually not worth finding out and dealing with. His was found because in this particular instance his crimes were found because he was committing them while trying to manipulate the election via hush money payments that were connected.

You're either one of the sanewashers for this guy or the ones who fell for his shtick, but just because he's constantly committing crime all the time, including while engaging in politics, doesn't mean he has an aura of protection because of it

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by terminalshort on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:59AM (#46485932)

That isn't manipulating the election. It has absolutely nothing to do with the election whatsoever. NDAs to cover up embarrassing personal matters have always been legal.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by lovich on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:23AM (#46486061)

I don’t have anything to say further to you. I cannot help you reason your way out of an emotional position and if you think the stormy Daniel’s shit wasn’t done to hide the story during a campaign then you are in an emotional position.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by terminalshort on Sunday January 04, 2026 @06:18AM (#46486965)

Of course it was done for the campaign. But that isn't illegal, which is why he was not charged with any campaign finance related charges. You really can't seem to get that through your head, can you?

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by lovich on Sunday January 04, 2026 @06:10PM (#46493369)

> It has absolutely nothing to do with the election whatsoever.

> Of course it was done for the campaign.

Did a 180 in two posts. Disrespectfully get fucked, I think you’re here in bad faith

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by terminalshort on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:37AM (#46495653)

You do know that "it" can refer to two different things at different times, right? In this case the action, which had everything to do with the election, and the charges, which had nothing to do with it.

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