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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,739 posts)
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 02:31 PM Jan 2022

Trump's comeuppance is coming

One of the best presidents, Teddy Roosevelt, was the only native of New York City to become president until the worst, Donald Trump, won the high office. Now, the state of New York is helping to bring down this miserable, insipid, democracy-threatening horror of a man who we inflicted on the nation and the world. In devastating legal papers filed last week, New York Attorney General Leticia James reveals that the cheating con man we’ve known all these long decades cheated and conned in illegally misrepresenting the finances of his real estate firm. Whouda thunk?

At this, Trump was no apprentice, but a master manipulator of appraisals and valuations, faking the numbers up when needed and down when needed, bearing out what the former president’s former hatchet man Michael Cohen told Congress. The true worth of assets was of no consequence as he sought to maximize his gain and minimize whatever he needed to pay.

James presented these findings in Manhattan state Supreme Court to seek to compel Trump and children Don Jr. and Ivanka to submit to sworn testimony in the matter. Justice Arthur Engoron has plenty of evidence to support making the Trumps answer questions. Excellent going by James.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/editorial-trumps-comeuppance-is-coming/ar-AAT5aYh?li=BBnb7Kz

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SWBTATTReg

(22,065 posts)
1. Of course rump is the primary blame here, but if I were a bank or a lending institution, wouldn't...
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 02:42 PM
Jan 2022

I be interested in a fair valuation of a property if I was extending credit or loan to rump? Now of course rump deserves the lion's share of the blame, but there is blame on the side of the lending institutions too...I do seem to remember/recall one of these persons who worked at one of these institutions got fired for his role in extending credit to rump, I can't recall his name, but shouldn't there been more people involved in these jury-rigged numbers on these loan applications?

agingdem

(7,805 posts)
3. here's my thought regarding Justice Kennedy
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 03:04 PM
Jan 2022

and his son...his son Justin worked for Deutsche Bank...he was responsible for approving Trump's multi-million dollar loans when no bank would touch Trump..and out of nowhere Justice Kennedy retires...supposedly to make room for beer guzzling sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh...my question: what did Trump have on Justin Kennedy to "force" his father's retirement?... It beggars belief Kennedy would give up a dream lifetime appointment for the likes of Kavanaugh without some sort of threat...

Icanthinkformyself

(215 posts)
12. No doubt
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 05:27 PM
Jan 2022

tfg was given something from Kennedy's past or present to use as a lever. It could be anything from a live underage girl to a dead boy or several of them, in his bed. Maybe a 'lucrative' investment that paid too well. Who knows? One thing is certain. It would be irresponsible of us not to speculate.

Justice matters.

(6,918 posts)
11. Corruption is tempting for bureaucrats...
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 05:20 PM
Jan 2022

when million-dollar bribes show up in unexpected ways (that may look to be somehow "safe" but really aren't).

Orrex

(63,172 posts)
7. Bannon is still walking around free, and only a very few Round Boys have faced consequences
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 04:11 PM
Jan 2022

If we wait long enough, maybe Trump and his fellow criminals will die of old age. That'll show 'em!

Orrex

(63,172 posts)
15. Adorable, but irrelevant to my post
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 07:48 PM
Jan 2022

You offered Bannon and the Round Boys as proof that the system works, but apparently what you meant is that "the system might be working."

Care to pick an assertion and stay with it?

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
4. By now folks should have stopped complaining about what is taking sooo long?? And
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 03:06 PM
Jan 2022

plainly realize the unravelling of this hornets nest of vipers is gonna take a while for proper presentation to the public and the Republican lemonade drinkers still somehow convinced by some horrifyingly effective propaganda that President Biden lost the election…tho all the other elections happening on that same day are…ok?

Not sure if more frightened by the seditious conspiracy and attempted coup, or the effectiveness of the BigLie,… or how stupidity is the foundation of both.

Bird Lady

(1,815 posts)
16. I have spent years hoping this was so.
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 02:10 PM
Jan 2022

Now I have ceased to add any credence to the on going claim, Trump is toast.
It is my fervent hope his end is at hand, but I see nothing new that bears it out.

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