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Lie.
Why do they get to report this stuff, anyway? #Soviet
This might seem like a shocking loss but only if you’re super dishonest. Trump earned his billions (and lost and regained them) before his father passed away. When his father died, the inheritance was split between Donald and his siblings. So saying that Trump “squandered 85% of his daddy’s fortune” is, as I said, super dishonest. I guess you mean “the equivalent of 85%.” But you phrased it to sound like Trump wasted money that belonged to his father. Because you’re super dishonest. Or maybe you’d like to rephrase your unintentionally dishonest statement?
Trump obviously loves America. He says so constantly and his actions show that he’s sincere. His policies, the ones you dishonestly say don’t exist, have benefitted America greatly, to the detriment in some cases to other countries such as Russia.
Yeah, that’s got to be why.
Someone who repeats falsehoods that he believes to be true is not lying.
I distinguish between “upstream liberals” and “downstream liberals”. The former are knowledgeable, and know what they say is false. The latter get all their information from the former, and don’t know any better. Their crime is credulity, not intentional falsehood.
For example, Obama knew he was lying when many times he said “You can keep your doctor … You can keep your health plan”; downstream liberals knew he was obviously telling the truth, because, well, he was black and handsome and a liberal — and the liberal media framed him as telling the truth, while framing Republican critics as wrong or dishonest. (Polifact named it Lie of the Year only after Obamacare was safely passed.)
What Petty says is obviously untrue, but it’s precisely what you would think if you got all your news from CNN and MSNBC.
This will be my last response/comment on this thread.
This was an estate tax valuation – as we saw during the S&L crisis, real estate valuations can be very elastic. And while he had to cash out his sisters and family members, he was left title and control of the properties.
He made stopping illegal immigration his first, second and third priority during the campaign. If he had meant it to be more than boob bait he would not have eviscerated, and instead would have strengthened, the E-Verify system, the most efficient way to curb illegals coming or staying in this country.
I respect your passion but defending Trump is not a good use of your skills.
Almighty Cod be praised.
“President Trump’s budget proposes an 8 percent funding cut to the E-Verify program … A higher funding level is no longer needed thanks to technological modernization. A senior administration official added that the White House still favors legislation to make E-Verify mandatory nationwide.”—Politico.com 3/19/19. [Emphasis mine.]
If an 8% cut “eviscerated” the program, what would we have called a 9% cut: “annihilate”?
“while he had to cash out his sisters and family members, he was left title and control of the properties.” In other words, he had to pay them for their shares of the inheritance.
Again, since it seems like Petty just ignored this point: Fred Trump died in 1999. Donald Trump earned his billions (and lost and regained them) well before that. The fact that some of DJT’s ventures failed is not proof that he’s a bad business man. It’s proof that he was willing to take risks. The fact that on whole he has come out ahead of the game is proof that he’s a good businessman. Anyone who claims otherwise is just being… petty.
There are so many simple, provable things about Trump that are “bad”. Much of the business stuff almost sounds like word salad most of the time.
That long article in the New York Times about his taxes went absolutely nowhere. I heard two experts debunk it. Now nothing.
Remember they were going to get him on how the family managed their charities? It’s over now. Case closed.
He ends up trading loan forgiveness for equity in a lot of his bankruptcies, plus they get his brand. Big deal.
So many sex assault accusations that Clinton couldn’t do anything with, when it counted, but people keep bring it up.