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New Breed Leader

(625 posts) Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:51 AM Mar 25

Trump doesn't fear prison; he fears being poor

Read the whole thing:
https://establishmentbar.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-bad-day-for-trump-great-day-for.html

A Bad Day for Trump, a Good Day for America by Trevor LaFauci

Seeing Trump unable to put up the $550 million to the bond company this past week has shown everyone, including his most die-hard supporters, that Donald Trump is not the multi-billionaire he has claimed to be. For decades, he overvalued his assets. His team of lawyers pulled out every trick in the book to do so. Like so many in his income bracket, he tweaked the numbers so that he wouldn't have to pay taxes. To him, that was "smart"; for the rest of us playing by the rules, that was cheating and manipulating the system. Trump's overarching business model has been to screw over his small contractors and tie them up in court so they would have to accept far less payment than initially agreed upon. When Trump himself got into trouble for his lewd and salacious behavior, he turned to threats, intimidation, and ultimately paying for the silence of those he had wronged such as Stormy Daniels. Money for Donald Trump was both an end goal and a tool that could be wielded to get what he wanted. He saw his perceived wealth as the key to living the type of life he always wanted to live.

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Trump doesn't fear prison; he fears being poor (Original Post) New Breed Leader Mar 25 OP

Poor and in prison works for me. sop Mar 25 #1

Right. Why not both? lol New Breed Leader Mar 25 #6

I think he is such a narcissist he doesn't mucifer Mar 25 #2

He'll never be poor Johnny2X2X Mar 25 #3

blah blah blah that MF is BROKE New Breed Leader Mar 25 #7

Even more than poor, being a loser has been politically & in business will really hurt. Other than Ivanka, the kids.... dutch777 Mar 25 #4

Trump doesn't fear prison because... Happy Hoosier Mar 25 #5

Trump fears being exposed and ridiculed by the ultra wealthy and powerful Freethinker65 Mar 25 #8

My favorite two paragraphs: Buns_of_Fire Mar 25 #9

He also fears being laughed at, being the butt of the joke Maeve Mar 25 #10

exactly New Breed Leader Mar 25 #11

"Seems to me..." The Unmitigated Gall Mar 25 #12

I think.. quickesst Mar 25 #13

and not being in control and being ignored and being a nobody. Wonder Why Mar 25 #14

sop

(10,293 posts)

1. Poor and in prison works for me.

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:55 AM

Mar 25

New Breed Leader

(625 posts)

6. Right. Why not both? lol

Reply to sop (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:01 AM

Mar 25

mucifer

(23,606 posts)

2. I think he is such a narcissist he doesn't

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:56 AM

Mar 25

think he could ever go to prison.

Johnny2X2X

(19,254 posts)

3. He'll never be poor

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:58 AM

Mar 25

He inerited over $12 Billion in today's dollars in real estate. He has dozens of shell companies circulating his money and he owns dozens of properties and trade marks.

Once you get to a certain level of wealth, becoming poor is no longer on the table. The truly rich never risk anything other than status and power, wealth is assured.

Even Truth Social is worth a ton to him even though it's still basicall a startup losing money.

New Breed Leader

(625 posts)

7. blah blah blah that MF is BROKE

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:02 AM

Mar 25

PERIOD.

dutch777

(3,055 posts)

4. Even more than poor, being a loser has been politically & in business will really hurt. Other than Ivanka, the kids....

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:58 AM

Mar 25

...will really have a new reality to reckon with. Jared seems to have figured it out and has a clear path. Those with the Trump name will have stink on them forever.

Happy Hoosier

(7,457 posts)

5. Trump doesn't fear prison because...

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:59 AM

Mar 25

... he knows he'll never serve a day in an actual prison.

IMO, the worst he'll be subjected to is "house arrest." They'll use the need to protect him with the USSS as an excuse. He wouldn't like that, but if he were still "rich," That could still be a pretty plreasant life. Not so much if he is presiding over a failing business empire.

Freethinker65

(10,105 posts)

8. Trump fears being exposed and ridiculed by the ultra wealthy and powerful

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:03 AM

Mar 25

Trump saw money, or the illusion of wealth, as means of entry to the elite demographic class he obsessively covets. When mere money/illusion of wealth and fame didn't work, Trump ran for President. The title of President gives him power and that power gives him access to those with extreme wealth and power. Ordinarily, with the Presidency also comes respect, but it's still Trump.

I honestly think Trump gets a kick out of how some individuals that despise him, and snubbed him in the past, now relent to kissing his ass.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,213 posts)

9. My favorite two paragraphs:

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:05 AM

Mar 25

Donald Trump will have a section in American history. But it will not be the section he envisioned. Instead of being seen as a visionary businessman, Trump will be seen as a traitor. As someone who lied and manipulated his way to perceived business success. As someone whose ego couldn't allow him to be publicly ridiculed by a Black man. As someone who sold out the country to the highest bidder. As a modern-day Benedict Arnold. As a womanizer and rapist. As someone who failed to protect the American people. As the worst president our country has ever had.

And yet, of all of those attributes, the one that will bother Trump the most is the fact that he will no longer have the aura of being rich and successful. That has always been his key motivating factor. Trump's ego needed this to be true. He needed to prove to his dad that he could do it on his own, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars Trump borrowed from him over the years. This obsession led Trump to conduct business the way that they did. To live his life the way that he did. He wanted the appearance of being rich while simultaneously having his people work behind the scenes to lie, cheat, and steal to keep up that appearance. But once he left office in 2020, that facade came crashing down. He was once again a private citizen. Tish James had him in her sights. For the first time in his life, Donald Trump was facing real accountability.

Hubris, meet Nemesis.

Maeve

(42,308 posts)

10. He also fears being laughed at, being the butt of the joke

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:05 AM

Mar 25

To which I respond..
Don Poorleone, LOSER!!

New Breed Leader

(625 posts)

11. exactly

Reply to Maeve (Reply #10)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:07 AM

Mar 25

The Unmitigated Gall

(3,837 posts)

12. "Seems to me..."

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:09 AM

Mar 25

“That the best way of getting back at rich people is by turning them into poor people…”

-Eddie Murphy, as Billy Ray Valentine in “Trading Places”

quickesst

(6,283 posts)

13. I think..

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:11 AM

Mar 25

.... his greatest fear is having to take a shit on a stainless steel toilet under the glare of his 6 ft 6, 290 lb cellmate.
I see several posts that proclaim he will never see a day in prison. Maybe not, but I on the other hand, remain hopeful.

Wonder Why

(3,326 posts)

14. and not being in control and being ignored and being a nobody.

Reply to New Breed Leader (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 09:35 AM

Mar 25

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