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"I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do . . . People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole."
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By Robert Reich:

"Call it the "art of the con." Donald Trump’s business career is a long list of bankruptcies, defaults, deceptions and indifference to investors, according to regulatory, corporate and court records, as well as sworn testimony and government investigative reports. When he repeatedly got into financial trouble, either his father bailed him out or other people paid the price."

Here’s a dirty dozen of examples:

1. His first project was revitalizing the Swifton Village apartment complex in Cleveland, which his father had purchased for $5.7 million in 1962. After Trump finished his work, it was sold for a net loss.

2. In 1970, he invested in a Broadway comedy called "Paris Is Out!" Once again, Trump failed; the play bombed.

3. By the late 1970s Trump was losing big money in real estate partnerships.. In 1978, his tax returns showed personal losses of $1.5 million (in current dollars); in 1979, he lost $11.2 million (again, in current dollars).

4. His casino deals in the 1980s were even bigger disasters, financed with $675 million in junk bonds at 14 percent interest, and pushing Trump’s total debt to $1.2 billion. In 2004, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts filed for bankruptcy, and Trump was forced to relinquish his post as chief executive. The name of the company was then changed to Trump Entertainment Resorts; it filed for bankruptcy in 2009, four days after Trump resigned from the board.

5. In 1990, Trump persuaded banks to lend him $380 million to purchase the Eastern Airlines’ New York to Washington shuttle. It never turned a profit. In 1992, Trump defaulted on his debt for the shuttle and turned it over to his creditor banks.

6. In 2005, buyers put up millions of deposits in Trump Tower Tampa, believing the building was being constructed by him. Instead, they discovered it was all a sham. When they lost their money and sued Trump, he answered in court that he had “no liability” because it was only a name-licensing deal.

7. In 2006, Trump hosted a glitzy event touting Trump Mortgage, which collapsed 18 months later. Trump tried again, rechristening the failed entity as Trump Financial. It also failed.

8. Also in 2006, Trump unveiled Trump Vodka, predicting that it would become the most requested drink in America. Within a few years, the company closed because of poor sales.

9. In 2007, Trump launched Trump Steaks. After two months of being primarily available for sale at Sharper Image, the endeavor ended; the head of Sharper Image said barely any of the steaks sold.

10. In 2008, Trump defaulted on a $640 million construction loan for Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, and the primary lender, Deutsche Bank, sued him. (Trump countersued, howling that the bank had damaged his reputation.)

11. Then came Trump University, where students who paid hefty fees were supposed to learn how to make fortunes by being trained by experts handpicked by Trump. Many students have since sued, saying the enterprise was a scam. Particularly damning was the testimony of former employee Ronald Schnackenberg, who recalled being chastised by Trump University officials for failing to push a near-destitute couple into paying $35,000 for classes by using their disability income and a home equity loan.

12. In 2009, Trump unveiled plans for Trump Hollywood, a 40-story oceanfront Florida condominium. Sales were minuscule. In 2010, lenders foreclosed on the $355 million project. Meanwhile, scores of buyers who had ponied up $32 million of deposits in Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico, a proposed 525-unit luxury vacation home complex that Trump proclaimed was going to be “very, very special,” were notified their money had been spent, no bank financing could be obtained, and that Trump and his developers were walking away from the project.

"Trump is a conman. And now he's trying to con America."

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"I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do . . . People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole."
Donald Trump


Donald Trump the GOP nominee, firing up a large crowd of loyal supporters during a swing through Florida last summer said that Hillary Clinton "has to go to jail."

At a morning rally in Ocala, Trump said that he was "embarrassed" Congress had not done more to probe Clinton after the FBI decided not to seek charges against her over the private email server she used as secretary of state.

"Do they make deals like this?" Trump asked.

"This is the most heinous, the most serious thing that I've ever seen involving justice in the United States — in the history of the United States."
"We have a person that has committed crimes that is now running for the presidency."

Later on, after moving on to Lakeland, Florida, Trump again renewed his vow to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton if he is elected.
Clinton "has to go to jail," adding that the lawyers working for her over the email issue should also be incarcerated.

After being elected President:

"She did some bad things, I mean she did some bad things," Trump said, to which Stahl responded, "I know, but a special prosecutor?"

"I don't want to hurt them, I don't want to hurt them," Trump said. "They’re, they’re good people."

Trump's contempt for the American public and his huge ego have led him to believe all will be forgotten next election and he'll be able to con the voters with his bs all over again.

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telegraph.co.uk Revealed How Donald Trump's North Korea Armada was actually sailing in wrong direction ...The Sunda Strait is a helluva lonnnnng way from North Korea.
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On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 6:07:57 AM UTC-5, DhiaDuit wrote:
telegraph.co.uk Revealed How Donald Trump's North Korea Armada was actually sailing in wrong direction ...The Sunda Strait is a helluva lonnnnng way from North Korea.


obungler, Hiding out in French Tahiti?


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On 4/19/2017 7:09 AM, DhiaDuit wrote:
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 6:07:57 AM UTC-5, DhiaDuit wrote:
telegraph.co.uk Revealed How Donald Trump's North Korea Armada was actually sailing in wrong direction ...The Sunda Strait is a helluva lonnnnng way from North Korea.


obungler, Hiding out in French Tahiti?

AH, NO. I just saw him at a funeral yesterday-4-18-17, Tuesday.
He spent the day in Pittsburgh, PA. At a close friends funeral.
But, don't let the truth get in your way now. Shouldn't you be
out "some place", telling everyone what a wonderful job that
"insane-clown-president is doing???
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On 4/19/2017 7:09 AM, DhiaDuit wrote:
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 6:07:57 AM UTC-5, DhiaDuit wrote:
telegraph.co.uk Revealed How Donald Trump's North Korea Armada was
actually sailing in wrong direction ...The Sunda Strait is a
helluva lonnnnng way from North Korea.


obungler, Hiding out in French Tahiti?


On 4/19/2017 8:56 AM, Drifter wrote:

AH, NO. I just saw him at a funeral yesterday-4-18-17, Tuesday.
He spent the day in Pittsburgh, PA. At a close friends funeral.
But, don't let the truth get in your way now.


On Planet Larry they NEVER let the truth get in their way.

Shouldn't you be
out "some place", telling everyone what a wonderful job that
"insane-clown-president is doing???


Hey, you're right. It's been awhile since Larry posted any love notes
about trumpo-the-Clown.

trump...an embarrassment to the country, a danger* to the world.

* What was it that the North Korean rep to the UN said about trump? "We
are only moments away from nuclear war".

trumpo has a hell of a record, doesn't he?

- In days, he ruined the good relationship we had for decades with Mexico.
- ****ed off Australia
- ****ed off the UK
- ****ed off Germany
- moved the Nuclear Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds -- weeks before
the North Korean nuclear threat.

trumpo, master of the almost daily fuster cluck. (with apologies to
Reverend Spooner)


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On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 10:59:52 AM UTC-5, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 4/19/2017 7:09 AM, DhiaDuit wrote:
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 6:07:57 AM UTC-5, DhiaDuit wrote:
telegraph.co.uk Revealed How Donald Trump's North Korea Armada was
actually sailing in wrong direction ...The Sunda Strait is a
helluva lonnnnng way from North Korea.

obungler, Hiding out in French Tahiti?


On 4/19/2017 8:56 AM, Drifter wrote:

AH, NO. I just saw him at a funeral yesterday-4-18-17, Tuesday.
He spent the day in Pittsburgh, PA. At a close friends funeral.
But, don't let the truth get in your way now.


On Planet Larry they NEVER let the truth get in their way.

Shouldn't you be
out "some place", telling everyone what a wonderful job that
"insane-clown-president is doing???


Hey, you're right. It's been awhile since Larry posted any love notes
about trumpo-the-Clown.

trump...an embarrassment to the country, a danger* to the world.

* What was it that the North Korean rep to the UN said about trump? "We
are only moments away from nuclear war".

trumpo has a hell of a record, doesn't he?

- In days, he ruined the good relationship we had for decades with Mexico.
- ****ed off Australia
- ****ed off the UK
- ****ed off Germany
- moved the Nuclear Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds -- weeks before
the North Korean nuclear threat.

trumpo, master of the almost daily fuster cluck. (with apologies to
Reverend Spooner)


At Faux news, bill o'Liarly is FINI! //Vietnam woman say, Fini, Mope?// I say, Yeah mamasan toi fini,,,
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On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 11:06:23 AM UTC-5, DhiaDuit wrote:
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 10:59:52 AM UTC-5, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 4/19/2017 7:09 AM, DhiaDuit wrote:
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 6:07:57 AM UTC-5, DhiaDuit wrote:
telegraph.co.uk Revealed How Donald Trump's North Korea Armada was
actually sailing in wrong direction ...The Sunda Strait is a
helluva lonnnnng way from North Korea.

obungler, Hiding out in French Tahiti?


On 4/19/2017 8:56 AM, Drifter wrote:

AH, NO. I just saw him at a funeral yesterday-4-18-17, Tuesday.
He spent the day in Pittsburgh, PA. At a close friends funeral.
But, don't let the truth get in your way now.


On Planet Larry they NEVER let the truth get in their way.

Shouldn't you be
out "some place", telling everyone what a wonderful job that
"insane-clown-president is doing???


Hey, you're right. It's been awhile since Larry posted any love notes
about trumpo-the-Clown.

trump...an embarrassment to the country, a danger* to the world.

* What was it that the North Korean rep to the UN said about trump? "We
are only moments away from nuclear war".

trumpo has a hell of a record, doesn't he?

- In days, he ruined the good relationship we had for decades with Mexico.
- ****ed off Australia
- ****ed off the UK
- ****ed off Germany
- moved the Nuclear Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds -- weeks before
the North Korean nuclear threat.

trumpo, master of the almost daily fuster cluck. (with apologies to
Reverend Spooner)


At Faux news, bill o'Liarly is FINI! //Vietnam woman say, Fini, Mope?// I say, Yeah mamasan toi fini,,,


UK is Fini ...UK 'did it' to themselves, GOOD!,is what I say. I am Scots Irish```


Germany is Fini /./ Deutchsland is Kaput!

...They can thank chancellor whatshername/merkel for that!

Mexico Needs to be Fini too! The Sooner, the Better!
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