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nmgaucho

(527 posts) Fri Apr 20, 2018, 01:22 PM Apr 2018

Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes.

"In May 1984, an official from the Trump Organization called to tell me how rich Donald J. Trump was. I was reporting for the Forbes 400, the magazine’s annual ranking of America’s richest people, for the third year. In the previous edition, we’d valued Trump’s holdings at $200 million, only one-fifth of what he claimed to own in our interviews. This time, his aide urged me on the phone, I needed to understand just how loaded Trump really was.

The official was John Barron — a name we now know as an alter ego of Trump himself."

The tapes are fascinating, what a fraud

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-lied-to-me-about-his-wealth-to-get-onto-the-forbes-400-here-are-the-tapes/2018/04/20/ac762b08-4287-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f6725b553bb9

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Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes. (Original Post) nmgaucho Apr 2018 OP

Its unfortunate that WaPo article is subscription A HERETIC I AM Apr 2018 #1

Thats odd nmgaucho Apr 2018 #2

I may be past my limit of free looks A HERETIC I AM Apr 2018 #3

Delete your WaPo cookies Yavin4 Apr 2018 #11

Yup that works BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #13

See post #8 with a link to CNN's program that played the audio. nt BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #9

Nothing in this reassures me about journalists' ability to detect truth. BSdetect Apr 2018 #4

Why now? Borchkins Apr 2018 #5

There were multiple articles that questioned his wealth dalton99a Apr 2018 #6

I'm beginning to think that those cardboard cut-outs are the real Donald Trump. Orsino Apr 2018 #7

For those who don't have WaPo views left, here is the audio from CNN BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #8

+1. Good to see this gaining traction dalton99a Apr 2018 #10

Does FOrbes see people's income taxes to determine who is the richest. If debt is not patricia92243 Apr 2018 #12

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)

1. Its unfortunate that WaPo article is subscription

Reply to nmgaucho (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 01:28 PM

Apr 2018

I’d like to read it, and I probably should subscribe, but alas, I’m in the dark as to content at the moment

nmgaucho

(527 posts)

2. Thats odd

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 01:32 PM

Apr 2018

I don't have a subscription and it let me read the whole article

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)

3. I may be past my limit of free looks

Reply to nmgaucho (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 01:50 PM

Apr 2018

Yavin4

(35,441 posts)

11. Delete your WaPo cookies

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:58 PM

Apr 2018

That works for me and NYTimes articles.

BumRushDaShow

(129,076 posts)

13. Yup that works

Reply to Yavin4 (Reply #11)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 03:03 PM

Apr 2018

(and I have subscriptions to both but had discovered the trick for other sites like them)

BumRushDaShow

(129,076 posts)

9. See post #8 with a link to CNN's program that played the audio. nt

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:22 PM

Apr 2018

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)

4. Nothing in this reassures me about journalists' ability to detect truth.

Reply to nmgaucho (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 01:54 PM

Apr 2018

Simple detective work would have crushed drumphus early on.

They basically gave him a free pass more than once.

Disgraceful.

Borchkins

(724 posts)

5. Why now?

Reply to nmgaucho (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 01:54 PM

Apr 2018

Why didn't we know two years ago?

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

6. There were multiple articles that questioned his wealth

Reply to Borchkins (Reply #5)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:14 PM

Apr 2018

but they were drowned out by all the noise from his constant bullshit

Orsino

(37,428 posts)

7. I'm beginning to think that those cardboard cut-outs are the real Donald Trump.

Reply to nmgaucho (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:21 PM

Apr 2018

Nothing about him is genuine, beyond the sexual assaults.

BumRushDaShow

(129,076 posts)

8. For those who don't have WaPo views left, here is the audio from CNN

Reply to nmgaucho (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:22 PM

Apr 2018

Starting at 30 seconds in -

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

10. +1. Good to see this gaining traction

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #8)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 02:50 PM

Apr 2018

patricia92243

(12,597 posts)

12. Does FOrbes see people's income taxes to determine who is the richest. If debt is not

Reply to nmgaucho (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 03:00 PM

Apr 2018

included, deciding who is rich is not accurate. And we all know the Buffoon is heavily in debt from his old tax records,

Buffy(the Buffoon) is such a braggart that there is no way in hell he wouldn't be publishing his taxes every place he could if the tax records showed he is really rich.

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