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Anybody convinced that the tRUMP is a bad call for President, yet? Trump is a fraudā¦
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āHeās a predatory businessman,ā said Monstavicius.
Guessing that bit of hindsight wasnāt in any of the marketing collateral.
jw1
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Grifters gonna grift and you knew what he was when you picked him up.
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āThe buildingās residents and condo owners had invested in the namesake, a 70-story waterfront tower along Panama Bay, on the strength of Trumpās reputation.ā
Unbelievable. Trump has a well-established and well-deserved reputation as a litigious fraud. What reputation were these foolish, foolish people thinking of? Itās incredible that anyone could have amassed enough money to buy a fancy condo and still be dumb enough to buy into Trumpās phony baloney āreputation.ā They all are getting exactly what they deserve. I wouldnāt buy so much as a shot glass with the name Trump on it, and not because heās a raving asshole, but because I know that Iād be getting rooked somehow.
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So, even though the town folks never actually saw any clothes, they happily agreed to pay the dry cleaning bill for the emporerās new attire.
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And the Trump faithfuls wonāt believe it. I was getting a mani/pedi yesterday which is when I catch up on all the celebrity news in People Magazine. Trump and family are on the cover with a huge spread story about he and his family and what a great guy he is. I almost choked from gagging.
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Yeah - feel how I sorry I am for them!!!
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"The buildingās residents and condo owners had invested in the namesake, a 70-story waterfront tower along Panama Bay, on the strength of Trumpās reputation. But during the four years that Trump Panama Condominium Management LLC had managed the property, Central Americaās largest building, a team installed by the Trump family was accused of running up more than $2 MILLION in unauthorized debts, paying its executives undisclosed bonuses and withholding basic financial information from owners.
The Trumps had done all of this through fine-print chicanery, the board said. A clause in many residentsā purchase agreements prevented them from voting against the Trump companyās wishes. That allowed the Trumps to install their top employee as chairman and the residentsā representative on the board ā even though the Trumpsā actual stake in the buildingās residential area was merely a storage closet on the 15th floor.
āHeās a predatory businessman,ā said Monstavicius. But the Trump name stills holds allure.
āIt attracted me,ā he said, āand attracted a lot of other people.ā"
The tale of the 70-story waterfront tower along Panama Bay that was managed by the Trump empire offers insight into the Republican presidential candidateās business traits, and about the management style that may be expected from a Trump White House.
Caveat emptor.
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ā¦and T-Rump will disavow any knowledge of the fine-printā¦
This message will self-destruct in when Iām ready for it to self-destructā¦
Somebody needs to start printing bumper stickers:
Dump the Trump.
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The scam.
Capitalism isnāt just about dollars and cents.
Regulation is good.
Shhhhhh! Not yet!
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Condo President needs to be an owner. So, Trump has him buy a storage closet on the 15th floor?
I assume this storage closet was on the open market and he paid fair market value for it?
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trump has always operated this wayā¦ but the appeal of the trickle down of the trump name is irresistible to the wannabes. read some of the comments from his supporters ā and all of them think heās a self-made man; and that is how they all envision themselvesā¦ they too can be billionaires ā if only the evil federal gubmint would git their hands offā¦
thereās a documentary of trumpās treatment of people who stood in the way of his āspectacular/awesome/best in the worldā golf club he wanted to build in scotland. retaliation included building land berms around those properties that essentially cut-off their views; the removal of power lines and access to water ā leaving those remaining residents without both.
heās a ruthless, amoral, greedy asshole. and heās beloved by the uninformed and easily dupedā¦
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Trump plays that particular game extremely well, because he plays both sides of it. Its long been said that the game to convince people to vote against their best interests and support the wealthy is to get them to buy into the illusion that they too will some day be party of the elite club. But studies have shown that the real success of that approach is in pointing out to the downtrodden, that there are people worse off than them, and by voting GOP, they promise to keep it that way.
In Trumps case, its Mexicans. āYou may never be as rich as I am, because I am so damn great. But at least you arenāt Mexican. And I will ensure that those people are always worse off than you!ā
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Failure to pay attention to the product of due diligence. Or maybe just failure to perform due diligence.
Sure, why not? Whatās fair market value for a closet?
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DT is all about bluster and bullying. If anyone disagrees, he bullies them and his āplansā are nothing more that bluster and bs. GOP idiots donāt care - worse is that it is not just them that will pay for their idiocy.
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Yeah, somehow I donāt think Putin or Xi or going to be impressed by some BS fine print in a contract. They would roll right over The Donald while he whines about how heās going to sue them. This stuff works in terms of fleecing the minions, but itās not going to fly in foreign policy.
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