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What time is it? Why it’s Mueller time, of course. With the release of the report, we go full Mueller on this week’s show as we enlist Law Talk’s John Yoo to help us with the legal angle, and Byron York (he’s got a podcast too) to guide us through the political ramifications. Also, the fire at Notre Dame and a mediation (really!) on Good Friday.
Music from this week’s show: Somebody Lied by Ricky Van Shelton
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Sometimes Trump trades debt for equity when he goes through bankruptcy. It isn’t necessarily inequitable every single time. It’s just business.
As far as I know, there was only one journalist that had the skill to get into this stuff. I have no idea why his stuff isn’t more popular.
According to several sources on the internet, Fred Trump’s entire estate was valued at $300,000,000 — divided between four siblings and their mother. You can find higher estimates and lower ones. Since no one knows for sure, we can only speculate.
I agree figures are all over the place. After NYC’s bankruptcy and Fred Trump’s troubled relationship with the “Big MAC” receivers substantial assets were put in the Donald’s name while they were still known to be Fred’s. So anyone can guess.
I know several people who have declared bankruptcy and none of them had a problem.
I don’t think they deliberately embezzled banks and had the banks cover up for them because it would show bank regulators how incompetent they were to not demand accurate financial statements in the beginning. I doubt if any of your friends got a pre-packaged settlement that allowed them a $450,000 a month allowance for personal expenses and eventual control of the most important assets while hundreds of honest subcontractors and tradesmen were driven out of business.
Aren’t business people supposed to get some props under our system too, for employing others? Those hotels etc also employ a lot of people.
Well, I’ve got some stories to tell, but none that I’d share here …
William Barr is the only one who looks photoshopped.
Not if they disrupt the status quo and make “some” feel a little queasy in their presence:
By the way, I found the bit I was looking for, about the left claiming to be victims but actually they are the aggressors in the “culture war.” It’s the GLoP from June 13, 2017. (Wow, time flies!) It has a lot of good stuff, including some great silliness about English place names and elections and stuff, which is a reason why I re-listen to it occasionally. But I usually skip the earlier part so I forgot that it has the Culture War bit, starting at about 16:10.
George Conway makes Donald Trump look like a faithful husband.
It is very meaningful that DAG Rosenstein was on stage behind AG Barr. He adds his complete testimony to AG Barr’s assessment of the Weissman Report* … and portends future investigations which will reveal the real truths behind this sordid affair and coup attempt …
Second Scope Memo – Rosenstein authorizes Mueller to target Michael Flynn, Jr …
Then why aren’t you and everyone else on the planet a millionaire? Do we all just like not being rich?
You’d be some small portion of the federal budget.
What does your speculation about what bankruptcy courts might theoretically do, have to do with anything about what was discussed in the podcart? This has literally nothing to do with the Mueller report.
Here, I’ll take a stab: If the FDA treated Trump steaks like the 99% of us treat our steaks, we’d all be starting an 8:00AM tee time at a Trump golf resort tomorrow.
There. See how easy that is?
Some of us do not like being rich, apparently. But some of us really like being…Petty. Ha!Ha!
Just finished listening to the podcast and moved over to see what’s in my youtube subscriptions. Lo and behold, there’s a new Ten Minute Bible Hour by Matt Whitman. And, it’s all about Pontius Pilate.
I’m about 1/2 way through and so far, it’s really quite enjoyable. Mr Whitman is a historian, theologian and pastor.
The video is a very deep dive and warning, it’s one hour and 10 minutes in length.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8s8fMMEuiA
Why no mention of Zebit in the show notes?
I won’t be using it though. They might be useful for people with low/no credit, but they also don’t REPORT your credit history with THEM. So it’s not a way to IMPROVE your credit from the dismal state it may be in.
It makes more sense to deal with places that do report to the credit bureaus.
Will be added tomorrow AM.
You all are the boys who openly said they did not see the emperor’s new clothes. I’ve seen that pyramid in many pictures, although never in person. It’s terrible.
“Can you play the violin?”
“I don’t know. I’ve never tried.“
“He should have been worth north of $20 billion.” No question, Trump —or anybody — with perfect foresight— could have gotten very, very rich. But few people, and by “few people” I mean absolutely no people, were investing for the Reagan Boom in 1977.
According to Wikipedia (which leans to the left):
In 1982, Trump was listed on the initial Forbes List of wealthy individuals as having a share of his family’s estimated $200 million net worth. His financial losses in the 1980s caused him to be dropped from the list between 1990 and 1995, and reportedly obliged him to borrow from his siblings’ trusts in 1993. In its 2019 billionaires ranking, Forbes estimated Trump’s net worth at $3.1 billion …
Wikipedia points out that running for and becoming President has cost Trump 31% of his net worth, so it must have been about $4.5 billion before he announced. (This fits the pattern of Democrats going into politics to make money, and Republicans, to lose money.)
Of course, that we’re arguing about this at all only shows how anti-Trumpers are still re-fighting the 2016 primaries. It’s like somebody in 2012 arguing Barack Obama was too inexperienced to be President in 2008.
Its Trump Derangement Syndrome’s version of PTSD. They’re stuck in 2016. Frankly they set the bar so low on a Trump Administration, that having avoided a nuclear war – they’ll have to concede to him some success. (hope they didnt skip leg day!)
@blueyeti, love the end song selection! I am impressed! Ricky Van Shelton is not a household name even in country circles. I always liked his version better than Conway’s (not just because he was a “local boy”. He was born and raised not far from where I grew up.)
While I’m here, I have to also add, Byron York’s podcast is a great addition to our library. Thanks to whomever got that rolling.
Could not possibly agree more. He’s the best thing on Ricochet along with Dave Sussman.
What the number 444 always makes ME think of, is the office building where the central firm was located in the TV series “L.A. Law.” Whenever they showed the “establishing shots” of the building, you could see the “444” on the side.
The “next step up,” 555, is the game-changing/ground-breaking timer-on-a-chip integrated circuit (IC), first introduced in the early 1970s and still widely used today.
One more than that, 556, is the dual-timer version of the 555; written as 5-56 it’s the similar product to WD-40, Liquid Wrench, etc, produced and sold by CRC; written as 5.56 it’s the size in millimeters of the .223 caliber ammunition widely used including by AR-15 semi-automatic and M-16 fully-automatic rifles…
Pssst… it’s still not there.
Now it is…
Yep, some things never change. Washington, DC? Rome? Same difference.
Trump’s older brother drank himself to death. If you think Trump’s success is solely due to who his father was then I respectfully think you’re wrong.