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Johonny

(20,829 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 10:55 PM Nov 2020

We're seeing now what was planned in 2016. The endless "I was robbed world tour and money grab"

Trump the candidate makes money. Sans his terrible TV show, it's probably the only scheme of his that made money. Well, sort of made money. They're in debt, of course, because they always spend more than they make. Trump the president was never planned for. While it's borderline a disaster to be doing what Trump is doing now, the game plan was always there. Trump is going to keep fund raising off the suckers and marks and there appears to be an endless pile of cash coming in. There is no hope these people are going to wake up. They were born to be taken to the cleaners by people like Trump. Better yet, Trump the Campaign is simply a new way for the family to leverage endless debt, his campaign is, of course, in debt. There seems to be no end of venues willing to book Trump even though he's notorious for not paying his bills. I assume the the Trump campaign never plans to get into the black but to keep running up the debt until declaring bankruptcy sometime in 2026 or beyond. By then the family will have funneled off most of the funds, squandered them, and be looking for a new con.

The fact is, barring the the Dems doing the GOP a favor and prosecuting Trump, he's going to be around sucking up huge funds from other GOP candidates until 2024. The best we can do come late January is ignore him and his idiot crew.

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We're seeing now what was planned in 2016. The endless "I was robbed world tour and money grab" (Original Post) Johonny Nov 2020 OP
Trump figured out campaign finance laws were even more poorly enforced than those RockRaven Nov 2020 #1
Yup! Newest Reality Nov 2020 #2

RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
1. Trump figured out campaign finance laws were even more poorly enforced than those
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 11:01 PM
Nov 2020

relating to international money laundering via real estate, which was his previous grift.

Those stories a few days ago about Trump filing the paperwork for 2024 as soon as Biden is certified as winner, along with doing likewise in 2016, line up exactly with the notion that the cash flow from campaigning is the goal.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. Yup!
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 11:18 PM
Nov 2020

He's a confidence man and a corrupt schemer.

That's only the surface of a far more pathological core though that eclipses the financial aspects of it. The money is a motivator, but the toxic, dark aspects of his personality are his shadow. That's what I am still wary of.

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