One of the biggest lessons of the Trump presidency for me is that you can do pretty much anything in business and not receive meaningful punishment.
Tax cheating has to be absolutely rampant. Why wouldn’t you cheat? If you get caught you just hire lawyers and eventually negotiate a payment of a fraction of what you stole.
Kill hundreds of thousands of people with a deadly drug you falsely marketed? Give back most of the money, keep a few billion for yourself.
Look at all the shit Manafort got caught doing ONLY because he was stupid enough to work for Trump! There have to be so many guys just like him.
I mean, it’s a show to most politicians, and regular citizens, for that matter. All politics is for us. The debates are, protests, resistance on social media.
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you. People who claim they have nothing to hide then sue over and over and refuse to turn them over probably have nothing to hide. This is just crazy.
I read it as he didn’t want to talk to President Z and was pressured into taking the call. He didn’t want the call until the deliverable was done, but they made him take it anyway so he then asked for a favor since his middlemen weren’t getting it done.
Trump’s company, which has sometimes struggled to obtain credit because of his history of bankruptcies and defaults, turned for relief to a financial institution where Donald Trump had a connection: Ladder Capital, which employs Jack Weisselberg, the son of the Trump Organization’s longtime CFO, Allen Weisselberg.
Allen Weisselberg had bought a condo from Trump in one of his buildings for a below-market price of $152,500 in 2000. He deeded it to Jack three years later for about $148,000. Jack sold the unit for more than three times as much in 2006.
JFC Trump is a moron. How can anyone believe this guy is capable of being president and doing anything about any issue that wasn’t covered by Fox and Friends that morning.