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trof

(54,256 posts)
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 11:26 AM Nov 2016

From transcript of Trump's NYT meeting:

Unbelievable.

"I have real estate all over the world, which now people are understanding. When I filed my forms with the federal election, people said, ‘Wow that’s really a big company, that’s a big company.’ It really is big, it’s diverse, it’s all over the world. It’s a great company with great assets. I think that, you know, selling real estate isn’t like selling stock. Selling real estate is much different, it’s in a much different world.

I’d say this, and I mean this and I said it on “60 Minutes” the other night: My company is so unimportant to me relative to what I’m doing, ’cause I don’t need money, I don’t need anything, and by the way, I’m very under-leveraged, I have a very small percentage of my money in debt, very very small percentage of my money in debt, in fact, banks have said ‘We’d like to loan you money, we’d like to give you any amount of money.’ I’ve been there before, I’ve had it both ways, I’ve been over-levered, I’ve been under-levered and, especially as you get older, under-levered is much better."

<snip>

"I mean, I’m somebody that really has gotten along with people over the years. It was interesting, my wife, I went to a big event about two years ago. Just after I started thinking about politics. And we’re walking in and some people were cheering and some people were booing, and she said, you know, ‘People have never booed for you.’

I’ve never had a person boo me, and all of a sudden people are booing me. She said, that’s never happened before. And, it’s politics. You know, all of a sudden they think I’m going to be running for office, and I’m a Republican, let’s say. So it’s something that I had never experienced before and I said, ‘Those people are booing,’ and she said, ‘Yup.’ They’d never booed before. But now they boo. You know, it was a group and another group was going the opposite."

This from a grown man who is about to become president.
jeez


More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html
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From transcript of Trump's NYT meeting: (Original Post) trof Nov 2016 OP
Does the man lie? Is his mouth open? dhol82 Nov 2016 #1
he has real estate mercuryblues Nov 2016 #2
Do you think he has a self Wellstone ruled Nov 2016 #3

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
2. he has real estate
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 12:36 PM
Nov 2016

all over the world. How long will it take for a country to say, do xyz or we confiscate you trump hotel? Will he take a personal loss when it is good for the country? I think not.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Do you think he has a self
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 12:48 PM
Nov 2016

importance issue? Oh boy! As far as US Banks loaning him money,for get about it. He has screwed them on five occasions. Only Foreign Banks would touch this Slug and then with a mega Asset to Liability Ratio. The Guy is such a Fake and Liar,he never mentions his Offshore Business Deals. And this will take him down within two years.

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