Trump media deal suffers blow as SPAC fails to win extension
Source: Reuters
Sept 6 (Reuters) - The blank-check acquisition firm that agreed to merge with former U.S. President Donald Trump's social media company failed on Tuesday to secure enough shareholder support for a one-year extension to complete the deal.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/trump-media-deal-suffers-blow-spac-fails-win-extension-2022-09-06/
Looks like it might be over for Truth Social
PortTack
(35,815 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)"You danced and dreamed through the night
It seemed to be right just being with him
Now you must wake up, all dreams must end
Take off your makeup, the party's over
It's all over, my friend..."
Blue Owl
(58,217 posts)
kimbutgar
(26,895 posts)Love the candle
zuul
(14,704 posts)erronis
(22,747 posts)There's a penniless beggar just trying to stay alive. Can't you throw something at yet another trump money-pit? Maybe if he threw in a 10 minute session with Ivanka (or a 100 minute with
quakerboy
(14,731 posts)Thats Putins prerogative, and Trump wouldn't dare cross him.
sakabatou
(45,798 posts)iluvtennis
(21,470 posts)Ford_Prefect
(8,517 posts)Warpy
(114,413 posts)and he's never done that for any of his other business ventuees, he's just let them go under with investors holding the (empty) bag.
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)he doesn't have any money. At least none that isn't spoken for.
Warpy
(114,413 posts)is still largely intact, although it won't be if the Feds insist on a few big bills getting paid.
The main talent that big slob has always had was to talk men who should have known a lot better into funding his harebrained business plans.
littlemissmartypants
(31,742 posts)oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)ancianita
(42,973 posts)OMGWTF
(5,018 posts)Why does he need other peoples' money then? Because it's all a fking LIE and his house of cards is starting to crumble.
BradAllison
(1,879 posts)That's shitbag's answer to everything. Just find one of his corrupt judges to give him the handjob.
StrkSrviver
(85 posts)The Party's over"
Don Meredith.
Calista241
(5,633 posts)for the investor. SPAC's have also been his crazy hard by the stock market downturn.
SergeStorms
(20,022 posts)that he'll take the company public by himself.
Yeah, sure.
I can't remember where I read that this morning. My brain and eyes don't start working in unison until somewhere between the second and third cup of coffee.
Since he's never put his money on the line for any of his other losing ventures I doubt he will this time, either.
Bankruptcy #7 coming right up. How will he communicate with his cult after this? Silly me, the mainstream media will carry his water for him, as always.
oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)CaptainTruth
(8,056 posts)pandr32
(13,821 posts)What makes me so frustrated is that as a business man TFG was and still is a complete failure. He doesn't know how to do anything aside from ruin things. Yet, many said because he was a businessman he would be a good POTUS...sure thing!
LudwigPastorius
(14,240 posts)That's got to be a first!
https://labor411.org/411-blog/here-are-all-of-trump-s-bankruptcies-and-failed-businesses/