That's Who We're Dealing With Here.

[ItsjustMe]

Link to tweet

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-baja-snap-story.html

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/meet-the-many-small-business-owners-stiffed-by-donald-trump.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Emile]

2. I said back in the 80's this guy is a con man.

[Aristus]

38. It was well-known enough by 1990 that SNL did a cold open about Don the Con.

Making Ivana play three-card monty over her divorce settlement sounds less like satire, and more like something he might actually have done.

[Lovie777]

3. shithole doesn't even play cities he rallies in ........

and yet, the rallies continue.

[brewens]

4. I bet there are guys calling in markers on Trump all over the place that we may never know

about. I can just imagine who may be leaning on him and the kids about their keeping their mouth shut or not.

[MyOwnPeace]

35. Oh, can we 'hope' that there's just maybe ONE person......

that has 'called in his marker' and Donnie & Company 'tries' to ignore him...............

And maybe this 'ONE guy' doesn't just 'accept' Donnie's ignoring his marker request.........

And all of a sudden - NO MORE DONNIE!

(I know, I've maybe watched too many 'mob' movies - but hey, sometimes, just sometimes............ )

[brewens]

40. I wouldn't be taking any boat trips if I were him. Remember what Tony and the boys did to

"Big Pussy"! LOL

[emulatorloo]

5. Kick and Rec. We all knew this well ahead of the 2016 election but nobody listened.

Great reminder as we see Trump currently trying to escape justice and accountability.

[alphafemale]

6. Roy Cohn who had a couple executed for far less than dumpety has done

One of the most vile men of the last century.

And there was LOTS of competition!

[Skittles]

7. and yet Comey talked about Hillary's emails right before the election

where was all the vetting for the fucking piece of shit fraudster Trump?????

[keithbvadu2]

8. And still scamming his supporters for tens of million$ in donations but much of it going for his leg

And still scamming his supporters for tens of million$ in donations but much of it going for his legal fees.

[Pepsidog]

15. I owned a restaurant in the 90's and often would buy equipment at auction. I see an add for an

old 50’s style juke box with neon and such so I went to see it. Turns out that Trump had huge warehouses full of brand new restaurant equipment. I mean for as far as the eyes can see there was brand new equipment, wrapped in a plastic enough to outfit 50 restaurants. Well Trump’s warehouse guys were having fire sales out the back door of his brand new equipment so I got a nice deal on a jukebox. He had no clue what was going on. Also, while I was there, I saw a gigantic Taj Mahal sign that had apparently had a cracked, and Trump made a $300,000 insurance claim the guys told me with a wink.

[global1]

9. You Should Start A Website Where One Could Post Their Stories....

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as to how the were stiffed by Tr**p. You could start with these that you posted here.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

13. Grifted by the gop

Why not have people post crimes they got done to them by republicans. Catagorize it by whom and have a section for each.

[live love laugh]

25. "Fake Newz" -- his cultists have an aversion to truth.

[Hekate]

10. We knew. KnR

[CBHagman]

11. For all that the media covered Trump's ugly legal history...

...and Trump's connection to Roy Cohn, those accounts, things that should have annihilated any ambitions, did not take Trump out of the running. Instead he was treated as a celebrity, as a tough guy, as a champion.

[Tadpole Raisin]

12. +1000. You are so right.

All media had access to these stories and ignored them in favor of reporting the presidential horse ease for clicks and profit.

[KS Toronado]

34. Believe that was on account of the oligarchs who own most of MSM

They wanted a R in the White House who would do their bidding for a slight of hand under the table.

[Pepsidog]

14. When Trump had the Taj Mahal my brother-in-law ran a day care center that was right off the casino

floor. So one day Trump walks by and sees that the day care center has my brother-in -law’s name on it instead of Trump Day Care. My BIL had 4 or 5 day care centers in the area and had a good reputation. Long story short, he gets a letter that they gotta move the day care center in some remote location. A friend who was an executive with the casino said Trump was pissed off that my BIL name was prominently displayed so close to the casino floor. Perry asshole.

[yardwork]

16. Where the hell were these stories in 2016?!

This makes me so angry.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. The people were only worried about their own tiny little microcosms.

BOOK TITLE: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT CIRCA 1979 THRU 2022

[Mariana]

19. Lots of stories like this were being told in 2016.

Some Trump voters refused to believe the stories. Some believed the stories, and admired him for doing these things. Some believed the stories, and still voted for him because Preacher said he's a Godly man now. Some believed the stories, and just didn't give a damn. Let's not pretend his supporters didn't know about these things. They knew, and they voted for him anyway.

[yardwork]

21. I disagree. The NYT didn't run these stories. WaPo didn't run these stories.

People who'd been tracking Trump for decades knew this. We knew this on DU - the ones who plaid attention. But the MSM was fixated on Hillary's emails and the Clinton Foundation "scandals" while they ignored decades of evidence about Trump's wrongdoing.

We were so betrayed by the so-called journalists. So betrayed.

[ancianita]

23. True. SO true. And media, as it keeps happening, will only survey the wreckage in real time.

As media itself becomes a lapdog of McCarthy style fascist government, or if any media lift their head to report real mob economics and monopoly, they will be put out of business.

We need the badass Biden bully pulpit to fight for what's at stake every damn day.

[Mariana]

24. Sure they did.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/tony-fabrizio-trump-vendor.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/business/trump-chicago-taxes.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/28/i-sold-trump-100000-worth-of-pianos-then-he-stiffed-me/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-biggest-threat-to-trumps-business-trump/2016/10/03/72f7440a-89a3-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/25/how-social-media-helped-crack-the-case-of-donald-trumps-1-million-donation-to-veterans/

[yardwork]

28. Look at the framing. Small one-off articles.

In contrast, front page headlines "Hillary to be indicted!!"

The media themselves did an analysis and found their coverage was heavily weighted against Clinton. Trump got a pass, essentially.

[patphil]

17. I remember reading about one contractor who dealt with Trump.

His advice was inflate the price to 2X normal, and require 50% up front.
That was the only way you could be sure you'd get paid.

[ancianita]

20. This is what trumper officials and Koch/Mercer/Uhlein/Thiel oligarchs are doing with America.

This is what the whole country is dealing with. Let them keep capturing government and statehouses with dark money and the whole country's commerce will be killed through mob economics and monopoly.

They will siphon the lifeblood out of the 99%, establish their slave wage corporate plantation campus and call it all great again, that their inferiors don't deserve freedom and democracy.

[Beartracks]

22. He was washed up when The Apprentice came calling, and cast him in the role...

... of a successful businessman.

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[UpInArms]

26. I worked in commercial real estate in the 80s

With major players… trump was a joke … his crap was well known… his properties were junk - poorly designed, built, occupied … no one would touch them … he never paid the contractors, so things were left undone and stuff would come apart … they were broken before they even opened

[SouthernDem4ever]

27. Gives credibility to the term "Slobfather"

Thanks Malaise!

[czarjak]

29. NEVER elected. Installed by Vlad.

[Diraven]

30. He basically lives off of defaulted bank loans

That he somehow keeps conning banks to give him for his construction projects that go bankrupt. That and Russian oligarchs buying overpriced apartments they never live in.

[lindysalsagal]

32. It's the script of the musical "The Producers." Get the backing for a show that's guaranteed to fail

He can't fight this because it would mean releasing even more evidence into the public view.

[lindysalsagal]

31. I know a NYC contractor he stiffed. Common knowledge in NYC. Should have been sued decades ago.

It took a ballsey black female AG to finally do it.

[LaMouffette]

33. Thank you for posting this, ItsjustMe. If only these people's stories had been plastered across all

media platforms, all TV channels, broadcast from all radio stations, flown across the sky on banners, and shouted from the mountaintops, during the 2016 campaign. Even his dull-eyed, rabid cult members can understand the injustice of a little business getting ripped off by a rich asshole. These stories might have changed everything.

Here's hoping that "Don the Con" becomes "Don the Convict" very, very soon.

[IbogaProject]

36. He did it to everyone renovating the TAJ mahal

One of his biggest scams was when he rennovated the Taj Mahal Casino Hotel in Atlantic City NJ. He stiffed hundreds of contractors and never paid anything by having a senior debt at against the hotel that got paid off and all the contractors got zero. I am from South Jersey and was an avid Philadelphia newspaper reader.

[rhiannon55]

37. I have a friend who worked for him

as an investment broker. He told me that tfg was so verbally abusive to him--and even threatened his family-- that he has had to go through years of therapy to deal with the ptsd.

I posted about this when tfg was running for office, but mostly got jumped on by people telling me that I should delete the post because I might be endangering my friend with my post. I had written the post carefully because I didn't want to give away who my friend was, but anyway. I deleted the post. That's one of the reasons I mostly lurk these days. I guess I'm more thin-skinned than I want to be.

[Stuart G]

39. K and R...Thanks for posting...Everyone in the U.S.A. should read this thread. All of it.