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Author: very stable genius   😊 😞
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Subject: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/02/2023 3:20 PM
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Trump will keep grifting off his gullible worshipers till the cows came home...

Trump's PAC has been under fire lately for using the donations from his supporters to fund his now-three indictments,
as well as for paying stylists and hairdressers for his wife Melania Trump.

"Most of the money that middle-class Americans have given to him, he spent on his own legal fees." Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said
Referring to the recent findings from FEC, Trump has spent over $40 million on legal costs this year alone from his PAC, along with nearly $20 million he spent throughout 2022.

Christie added that he believes Trump should use other means to fund his legal troubles, saying,
"I mean, this guy's a billionaire right? How about go down the street ' maybe just sell Trump Tower and pay for his legal fees that way.
Or maybe sell the plane, he could do that, or one of the golf courses."

"I want voters to listen to this. It is most likely that by the time we get on the debate stage on August 23,
the front-runner will be out on bail in four different jurisdictions: Florida, Washington, Georgia, and New York." Christie said

Grifters gonna grift. Keep sending in that money suckers!

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/major-donald-t...
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Author: LurkerMom   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/02/2023 5:34 PM
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Christie Is desperate. He is polling near the bottom of the R candidates running for president. Christie thinks if he could knock off Trump he might have a chance.

Nope, no one wants him anymore than they want Biden.
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Author: onepoorguy 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/02/2023 6:56 PM
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This is not an endorsement of Christie, but, IMHO, so far he's the most competent one in the R field. If I had to choose anyone in the R polls I have seen, it would be Christie.
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Author: Lapsody 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/03/2023 1:36 AM
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This is not an endorsement of Christie, but, IMHO, so far he's the most competent one in the R field. If I had to choose anyone in the R polls I have seen, it would be Christie.

I like Christie too. The weird coalition of Evangelicals, right wing militants, and elite loathing Midwesterners and Westerners doesn't seem to like him though.
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Author: Lapsody 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/03/2023 1:41 AM
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Trump will keep grifting off his gullible worshipers till the cows came home...
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I think Trump made a profit off running for President.
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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/03/2023 8:52 AM
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I think Trump made a profit off running for President.
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Not nearly enough. No big wars and mass deaths.

He could have done that as your Ruling Class has always done.

If he didn't do that, he could've sold all the classified stuff to Russia or China or Saudi, pocketed the money and had luxurious exile in a city that isn't a rat's nest sh*tty hole like New York.

But he didn't.

That's why I appreciate some of the things he said and did and tried to do........but had he really sold out you people in a critical way, then he'd be a hero to me.

But the idiot didn't do it and he's paying the freight now - for nothing while other Ruling Class has for generations sold out to the Saudis, Chinese, Defense industry, etc.



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Subject: Re: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/03/2023 9:19 AM
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WiltonKnight: He could have done that as your Ruling Class has always done.

If he didn't do that, he could've sold all the classified stuff to Russia or China or Saudi, pocketed the money and had luxurious exile in a city that isn't a rat's nest sh*tty hole like New York.

But he didn't.



First, how do you know Trump didn't share those classified documents with foreign interests? I mean, he gave the Russians classified information right there in the White House. Do you actually believe the Saudis gave Jared Kushner, who never managed an investment fund in his life and made dreadful investments in real life, gave him $2 billion for his investment skills?


Forbes estimates that Trump made $2.4 billion as president.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics estimates that Trump made $160 million from foreign countries as president.

Ivanka and Jared made between between $172 million and $640 million while working in the White House.

As noted, Jared got $2 billion from the Saudis.

Trump will make millions more from the Saudi's LIV Golf.

Trump took in a few hundred million dollars in fundraising and his PAC paid $40 million of it for Trump-related legal bills.

For a guy whose income tax returns showed he lost nearly one billion dollars in business in a single year, that sure sounds like Trump and the Trump family profited off the presidency.

B-u-u-u-u-t Hunter made $10 million!!!!



https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/07/...

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investig...

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-ivanka-tru...
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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/03/2023 11:28 AM
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Jared got you people for lots. And I'm glad for it.

And from the Saudis, no less. I feel America and especially Europe needs more "Saudi" in their lives. But I don't think Jarden sold off anything truly damaging. If he did, hat tip but I think Jared was just another user who milked the Trump presidency all he could.

So honorable mention for Jared - but that's just small potatoes.


Trump got you people for a few bucks - hotel stays, foreign dignitaries, mar a lago memberships, etc.

Small potatoes.

If Trump had done it right, really juicy stuff would've been sold long ago, and he'd be residing in surroundings better than he had in his life.

Instead, this.

What a putz. Perfectly good chance to really betray and sell out the lemmings (who are born to have that done to him) and he missed it.

Funny part is -Tribalization - will continue and worsen as someone used to warn against for years.

I'm too impatient.

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Author: LurkerMom   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump grifting gullible worshipers
Date: 08/03/2023 12:59 PM
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commonon: First, how do you know Trump didn't share those classified documents with foreign interests? I mean, he gave the Russians classified information right there in the White House. Do you actually believe the Saudis gave Jared Kushner, who never managed an investment fund in his life and made dreadful investments in real life, gave him $2 billion for his investment skills?

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'The story that came out tonight as reported is false,' H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, told reporters at the White House, adding that the leaders reviewed a range of common threats including to civil aviation.'

'At no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed. The president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known...I was in the room. It didn't happen,' he said.'

'Russia's foreign ministry said reports that Trump had revealed highly classified information were 'fake', according to the Interfax news agency.

'The White House also released a statement from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who said the Oval Office meeting focused on counterterrorism, and from Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell, who called the Washington Post story false.'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russi...

commonone: Do you actually believe the Saudis gave Jared Kushner, who never managed an investment fund in his life and made dreadful investments in real life, gave him $2 billion for his investment skills?.

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'But days later the full board of the $620 billion Public Investment Fund ' led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler and a beneficiary of Mr. Kushner's support when he worked as a White House adviser ' overruled the panel.'

The Saudi documents obtained by The Times say that in return for its investment, the Saudi fund would receive a stake of at least 28 percent in Mr. Kushner's main investment vehicle.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushne...

commonone: Forbes estimates that Trump made $2.4 billion as president.

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'Speaking at Mr Trump's first news conference since he was elected in November, Ms Dillon explained that all of the Trump Organization's businesses would be transferred to a trust controlled by his sons and the chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, before Mr Trump takes power on 20 January.
"Together, Don, Eric, and Allen will have the authority to manage the Trump Organization and will make decisions for the duration of the presidency without any involvement whatsoever by President-elect Trump," said Ms Dillon, whose firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockius has been instructed by Mr Trump to draw up a structure to keep his business interests separate.
Ms Dillon added that an ethics adviser would be appointed to the management board of the trust to oversee any potential conflicts of interest.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38587628

'Donald Trump's Net Worth Fell by a Third During His Presidency, Forbes Says'
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'Former President Donald Trump lost almost one-third of his wealth over the course of his time in office, leaving him more than $1 billion worse off after four years in the White House.

Trump's fortune fell from $3.5 billion to $2.4 billion between entering office in January 2017 and departing the White House less than three months ago, according to Forbes.

Several of Trump's major properties suffered declines in value, as did his hotel management and licensing business. However, his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, saw a considerable improvement in net value.'

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-net-worth-f...

commonone: B-u-u-u-u-t Hunter made $10 million!!!!

'My dog is smarter than Hunter' ' key quotes from secret FBI file

https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/my-dog-is-smarter-th...

Joe's son, dumb
Trump's sons and son in law, smart







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