symmetry… half the net worth coupled with half a brain…
drip…drip…drip…
The floodgates will soon be open - after the official nomination, I hope - and there will be no end to the news of all Donald’s financial woes.
This “you are not rich!” is Trump’s Achilles’ heel. He doesn’t care about being called a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, etc. but he simply won’t survive being outed as a complete and utter financial fraud.
Along with the insistent “I am self funding” schtick
@magical_panda Three debates are scheduled for September and October and one Veep debate in October. Let’s see Ivanka try to get him out of this fine mess.
If he hasn’t released his tax returns by the first debate, I expect Hillary Clinton to hit a grand slam in the first five minutes, if you know what I mean.
Droppin’ dimes, droppin’ dimes!
“Donald, where you get all those dimes from?”
Is investigating (heck, checking public records) something unique to British journalism, then?
Having already established that he’s a liar, 4 billion is just another worthless data point, because he was lying then, too. It’s a fool’s errand to try to “correct for” a liar in hopes of getting a right number.
Come on now, did anybody really expect him to NOT be exaggerating his net worth, or how much cash he had on hand? If all he can do is lie and boast, surely his Achilles heel is not exempt.
At least one recent event signals a big fat “no” on that one.
He’s been at the negotiating table with banks all his life that he’s got it down and thinks he can pull that stunt on the voters and public. Unfortunately for him, there are stories like the people he didn’t pay in the Taj Majal failure that stay with the little guy who pays his mortgage and taxes. Donald Trump can’t relate to that enough to understand he’s no longer cute, but a clown, a fool, a fraud and a failure.
Suddenly
I’m not half the man I used to be
There’s a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
And yet he and his surrogates are getting all the press.Ratings he supposedly bring are I think a figment in the MSM imagination.
Even that number seems too high of an estimate.
But it’s not even about how much money he has. It’s that he has to lie about it, I presume, out of insecurity. And that he’s screwed over many people through underpayment and nonpayment for services rendered. And the way he’s taken advantage of other investors via bankruptcies and other Byzantine financial maneuvers where he wins and everyone else loses.
He may not be of Wall Street. But he has their ethical code.
Is investigating (heck, checking public records) something unique to British journalism, then?
Yes.
There isn’t a single Republican who could withstand even 15 minutes of question time in Parliament without shitting his or her pants.
Their minds would not be able to process a Q&A session that wasn’t an elaborate exercise in fluffing.
Very strange he’s so dead-set against the administration presiding over the economy that has supposedly let him double his money since the last election.
Wake me up if Trump ever speaks a word of truth.
Until then, you might as well call me Rip Van ZZZZzzzz …
Maybe there’s something going on here being associated with the Teflon becoming velcro Donald and losing money:
" Florida Gov. Rick Scott waves before introducing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally, June 11, 2016, in Tampa. Chris O’Meara AP
By Mary Ellen Klas
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
TALLAHASSEE
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a multimillionaire former businessman, saw his net worth decline $27 million last year as his blind trust dropped in value.
Scott filed his annual financial disclosure form Thursday, showing that his net worth was more than $119 million at the end of 2015, a 19 percent drop from the previous year."
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article87040122.html#storylink=cpy
Garbage in, garbage out.
Maybe he benefitted from the healthy Obama economy and doubled his money. 