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He'd knock his own grandmother into the street to pick up a dime.

big stories that were missed this year, that he NEVER really built an empire at all. He took millions and millions from his father. He bilked municipalities because he didn't pay taxes (through abatement or just out-lawyering). He fooled NBC into hiring him for the Apprentice. He didn't pay contractors and workers. He was never ever a business man - he was a business broker. Really, a lot like Romney, but to the nth degree

was created by Donnie's paternal grandmother. A woman.
A widow when she started out on it, her husband had been renting out a couple of houses, she grew a business in real estate, and made her son, Fred, work with her.

Trump was savvy enough to learn the bankruptcy game.
You'll notice
"bankruptcy" is portrayed as bad when we peons do it, and in fact Congress has added laws to make it even more difficult.
but business bankruptcy is wayyy different, you can actually make money on it.

Trump brags he never puts his own money into a deal. He is very good at getting people to give him money, then he stiffs them if he can.
One story: he borrowed few million from CitiBank, when the time to repay drew near, he got them to give him MORE loans.
when eventually the whole thing was due, he sued them, saying " you knew I couldn't pay it back, you should have never loaned it to me"

I knew a woman once who tried that line on a real estate company, no money, not much credit, and less sense. they charged her with fraud.

On Trump on Netflix? I bet you would love it although love it's not the right word.

I think it was his ghost writer that said he was the best self-promoter that ever existed. He created an image that everyone believed sounds like even the bankers. But what is appalling in the documentary is how easily he got tax abatements. Mayor beame was against it but somehow someway he talked NYC officials into it. His first foray into construction on his own was on a hotel and he got a 40 year abatement!! Surely he paid people off.

There used to be a trump family ancestry website and I think it's gone. Do you remember the lady who had no past but helped malaria with her plagiarized speech? The name they gave was the same last name as one of his ancestors. But I don't think it's Fred's mother, I think it was one generation back.

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The latest is Michael Lews's The Fifth Risk . Fascinating from the first paragraph.

What's the name of the Netflix doc??? I've got streaming now.

Now I am wondering what title I was confusing it with.

Thanks for the heads up of the error.

what?? he ain't funny, he ain't attractive, he ain't personable, he ain't inspirational... what is the attraction??

But that's a mighty expensive geek show.

yes... this film was hot when in college years ago... but we didn't pay... only for the weed we smoked before going

He was attractive and mild mannered at the beginning of his career. You can see the progression into megalomaniac. To the point he disgustingly said he didn't want to have sex with a women who had children. (Ivana) And, the reporter said, "but they are YOUR children!"

On Netflix

They deserve to be conned. On the other hand, it make me sick that the Trump family is making a profit off his presidency. Mueller and the other investigators can't bring down the hammer soon enough.

There was hardly any food, and the pics showed a paltry small bowl of caviar and a couple bottles of champagne on melted ice.
So far beyond tacky it was embarrassing to even look at the pics.

Is that the one?

It was so bad I felt sorry for the guests who got ripped off.

Interesting thought...wonder how many showed up this time.......

to "featured attraction"? I guess a thousand bucks buys a helluvalotta Sno-Caps and Twizzlers.

taxpayers paid for??????

$94,000 for tents; lighting and miscellaneous bill backs for rented Mar Lago equipment...

Regardless if you’d EVER consider attending a Trump-sponsored soirée; you’re still paying for it!

fuck him

if they ever need any favors from the Grifter-in-Chief, his little Grifties, or his pay-to-play administration

Mar-a-Lugie has been gigged by health inspectors several times.

then that, very suprising.

Yup!

To the members of Mar-A-Lago, $1,000 is chump change. These are very rich people who live in the 1% bubble. I'm familiar with many of this type and their political awareness is restricted to taxes and bigotry.

In the end, the money didn't really matter at all.

due to drumpf's tariff war!

What on earth could one party offer that would be worth that much money? I'm serious???
Probably bunch of old, creepy angry republicans.

He'll schedule another party, this time at $2000 per person, but this time he'll promise to show up - maybe.

rest have us have been getting fucked for some time now