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Showing Original Post only (View all)Pulitzer Prize Reporter Exposes Trump’s Lack of Wealth, Mob Ties, Failure to Support Charity, [View all]
Most progressives and liberals have long suspected Donald Trump is a fraud. Thanks to an investigative reporter who has been dogging the Trumpster for over a quarter of a century, there is documentation of his numerous fraudulent acts and behaviors. In addition, there are a number of questions that the media should be asking that would doubtless prove that Donald Trump without a question is a total fraud....
For example, how many of our readers knew that Trump was successfully sued by the Attorney General of New York for running an illegal educational institution? Students at Trump University paid a whopping $35,000 for Elite mentorships but never even saw their mentor. And heres a juicy little fact that fans of The Godfather and The Sopranos should appreciate: the contracting firm that constructed Trump Tower was owned by a pair of gentlemen who went by the monikers of Fat Tony Salerno and Big Paul Castellano....
It only gets better: Trump was found guilty in federal court of cheating immigrant workers hired to demolish a multi-story building. He paid them less than $5 per hour under the table. He didnt even furnish them with hard hats. Oh, and all that talk from Trump about how hes a self-made billionaire? It turns out that he had a bit of help from the taxpayers of New York. The mayor of NYC at the time, Abe Beame, happened to be good buddies with Donny-boys Daddy, Fred Trump. That little connection got Donald a tax abatement on a mid-town Manhattan property (right next door to Grand Central Station) in 1976. That was the old Commodore Hotel, which today is the Grand Hyatt New York. As of 2016, that little deal that his daddy made for him will have cost taxpayers $400 million....
Incidentally, Donald how do you explain the fact that you paid zero income tax in 1978 and 1979, when you were busy remodeling that fancy Manhattan hotel? In fact, how do you explain not being able to pay your bills back in 1990, despite being a billionaire? And maybe youd like to clarify to voters how you managed to run not one, but four companies into the ground? You want to run the country like you run business?
For example, how many of our readers knew that Trump was successfully sued by the Attorney General of New York for running an illegal educational institution? Students at Trump University paid a whopping $35,000 for Elite mentorships but never even saw their mentor. And heres a juicy little fact that fans of The Godfather and The Sopranos should appreciate: the contracting firm that constructed Trump Tower was owned by a pair of gentlemen who went by the monikers of Fat Tony Salerno and Big Paul Castellano....
It only gets better: Trump was found guilty in federal court of cheating immigrant workers hired to demolish a multi-story building. He paid them less than $5 per hour under the table. He didnt even furnish them with hard hats. Oh, and all that talk from Trump about how hes a self-made billionaire? It turns out that he had a bit of help from the taxpayers of New York. The mayor of NYC at the time, Abe Beame, happened to be good buddies with Donny-boys Daddy, Fred Trump. That little connection got Donald a tax abatement on a mid-town Manhattan property (right next door to Grand Central Station) in 1976. That was the old Commodore Hotel, which today is the Grand Hyatt New York. As of 2016, that little deal that his daddy made for him will have cost taxpayers $400 million....
Incidentally, Donald how do you explain the fact that you paid zero income tax in 1978 and 1979, when you were busy remodeling that fancy Manhattan hotel? In fact, how do you explain not being able to pay your bills back in 1990, despite being a billionaire? And maybe youd like to clarify to voters how you managed to run not one, but four companies into the ground? You want to run the country like you run business?
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Pulitzer Prize Reporter Exposes Trump’s Lack of Wealth, Mob Ties, Failure to Support Charity, [View all]
KamaAina
Sep 2015
OP
Trump is being used as a diversion so noone will look too closely at Jeb, the "not quite as stupid
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#3
Hard for me to tell if Trump carries water for Jeb or Walker. Trump goes very easy on them both.
Sunlei
Sep 2015
#7