The Donald Trump Score Card

It seems to be a major part of Republican thinking. Judy Reyher of the Colorado Legislature also has had to backtrack on her racist statements about Blacks and Muslims. She has also posted on Face Book that she thinks Barak Obama was not born in America. When you add it all up, you can see why David Duke supports these Republicans. You can see why Richard Spencer supports them. You can see why James O'Keefe supports them. The Republican Party is now the political arm of the Klan.

 

The Kochs are trying to buy Time Magazine for $500 million...to prevent criticism of the Republican Party and Trump. Maybe that is why Trump is so sure he will be man of the year on their year end issue.

 

The news is out. Trump wants to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, after a campaign promise not to touch them. I've always said the Republicans will put old people on the sidewalks to starve and freeze.

 

Once considered an asset, the Trump name has become a liability.


Owners of Panama hotel push to strip Trump branding
By Olivia Beavers
11/27/17 02:26 PM EST

Owners of Panama hotel push to strip Trump branding


Trump's Name to Be Removed From His Own Hotel in New York City
By Jose Martinez
Nov 22, 2017

Trump's Name to Be Removed From His Own Hotel in New York City

 

An article about one of Trump's 'Art of the Deal' approaches that led to the failing of his casinos. Trump has said numerous times that he loves playing with debt. As President he has shown no concern for the national debt.


How Trump's Debt Addiction Crushed the Biggest Company He Ever Ran
By Shawn Tully
March 31, 2016

How Trump's Debt Addiction Crushed the Biggest Company He Ever Ran

"Trump Hotels’ gigantic interest burden almost certainly doomed the company from the start. It never generated sufficient cash flow to pay down any of the principal on its debt—thus violating the first principle of a leveraged buyout, or LBO.

The LBO, in which a company is acquired with a huge pile of borrowed money, was en vogue in the 1980s when Trump first rose to prominence. After a series of disastrous transactions, the strategy went out of style on Wall Street for a time. But Trump apparently didn’t get the memo. Though he didn’t employ a classic LBO strategy at Trump Hotels, Trump managed his company throughout the 1990s and beyond with the same debt-fueled approach that doomed some of the LBO targets of the ’80s. He even financed Trump Hotels—and its acquisitions—almost entirely with a key component of the typical LBO: junk bonds.

The flamboyant promoter also worked right from the LBO playbook in explaining to Wall Street why his strategy would succeed. Collecting the casinos under one umbrella would bring critical mass, he argued, lowering overhead and raising prices. Strong growth would enable Trump Hotels to lift its credit rating and refinance its expensive debt at far lower rates."

 

Trump has used another approach to 'refinance' his expensive debts: sue the bank that gave him the money.

And yet another approach that is more recent: get an old buddy of his from the big bank to pay off the rest of his casino debt in return for getting a position within his administration.

 

I dont know if this has been mentioned

But the Trump administration has requested funding for 5 new immigration detainment centers to be operated as private prisons

Big Money As Private Immigrant Jails Boom | Houston Public Media

This is disgusting. Private prisons and particularly using vulnerable immigrants for private prisons will be a huge stain on our country's history. It will be one of those things future generations look back on and wonder how everyone could just turn a blind eye to it.

 

OK I’d just like to point out that while you got Trump in the US the UK got Brexit and for similar reasons.

I'm generalizing but basically - years of neo-liberal policies have hurt a lot of people and British industry and right wing politicians have for years blamed the ‘EU bureaucrats’ and immigration (forced on the UK by EU bureaucrats) just as the right in the US have blamed ‘Washington elites’ and immigration (forced on the US by Washington elites) and then when the referendum election came the leavers lied through their teeth, just as Trump did.

 

An article about Trump and the banks he has used.

A comment left by someone named onomasticator.

Donald Trump’s debt to Deutsche Bank
As others shied away, the German bank lent money for several projects. But the president and lender face increased scrutiny over their ties
August 30, 2017
Ben McLannahan, Kara Scannell and Gary Silverman in New York

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onomasticator
Aug 31, 2017

"Frankly, Kushner's intrigues in this context have become more interesting than Trump's.

One of the many oddities – perhaps fascinating side stories – to Trump is how the rise of his son-in-law Jared Kushner was almost designed in the lab for the most epic kinds of corruption. It has become a commonplace over the last year that Donald Trump’s second act as TV star and brand licensor since the early part of this century was heavily financed by Russian money. It’s a commonplace because it’s true. And in itself there’s nothing illegal about that or even wrong. But despite Trump’s need for foreign investment capital, because he had been and remains blackballed by all the big US banks, there’s never been any clear evidence that Trump was in acute and specific need for a big amount of capital around the time he ran for President.

That is not the case with his son-in-law.

As has been widely reported, back in 2007, under Jared Kushner’s leadership, the family company vastly overpaid for a flagship real estate property at the perhaps appropriately numbered 666 5th Avenue. It’s a 41 one story tower. It’s design apparently makes it one that few potential tenants want to rent in. It was a crazy investment at the peak of the boom. It became crazier after the bottom fell out in the 2008 crash. And the entire loan comes due in 18 months.

Basically the Kushner family owes hundreds of millions of dollars on this property that it really cannot hope to recoup by any business means. As this new article in Bloomberg explains, the plan – if you can call it that – seems to be to go even further into debt by demolishing the building, building a newer and better one and recouping the losses over the very long-term. As the Bloomberg piece understatedly and elegantly puts it, that means the money has to come from someone who isn’t interested in making a profit or maybe even holding on to their investment.

Short of outright corruption that might mean foreign money looking for a showpiece property in New York City or foreign money looking to get out of its unstable country of origin. Before the Trump campaign, Kushner was having a very hard time finding anyone who was interested – not surprisingly! That changed dramatically when he became top deputy to the President of the United States. Then everyone wanted to talk – including the head of the Russian state bank which makes ‘strategic’ investments for Vladimir Putin.

I had had a hard time figuring out why this hadn’t already been settled. For any number of foreign billionaires – or the states they work in concert with – taking a loss of a few hundred million dollars would be a great deal to be in that tight with the President’s family. The irony was that with Kushner’s new and totally unrivaled power came new and totally unrivaled scrutiny. Dirty or no-profit-seeking money doesn’t like scrutiny. One Chinese and another Gulf state concern were going to end Kushner’s troubles earlier in the year. But they got spooked when reporters started asking questions. It was almost unquestionably this money hunt that led Kushner to meet with that chief of a Russian owned state bank during the transition – a source of many of his current troubles.

What all of this amounts to is that while Kushner has been given oversight of numerous key foreign policy issues and problems his ‘family’ is simultaneously in a desperate hunt for money which basically has to come from abroad – from a lot of the people he meets with in his White House job. It’s like having a Secretary of State desperate for help getting money from every foreign potentate he meets with. In fact, it’s not ‘like’ that. It sort of is that."

 

Flynn charged.

Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI

 

For someone who prides himself for his supposed superior immigrant vetting ability, Trump has done a hapless job of vetting members of his own staff and has engaged in a shadowy behavior of retroactively trying to obstruct investigations related to the poor vetting.



If Flynn Is Small Fry, Who’s the Bigger Fish in Mueller’s Net?
David A. Graham
December 1, 2017 10:31 AM ET

If Flynn Is Small Fry, Who’s the Bigger Fish in Mueller’s Net?

"The plea once again raises questions about the president’s judgment, both in hiring Flynn and afterwards. Flynn’s firing from the DIA by President Obama for mismanagement ought to have been a red flag. The campaign did not effectively vet Flynn, failing to turn up the missing security-clearance disclosures. The New York Times reports that Flynn told the Trump transition team in January that he was under investigation for undisclosed lobbying on behalf of Turkey. Top White House officials deny they were informed.

Nor did Trump act swiftly to deal with Flynn’s duplicity. Even after McGahn was apparently informed that Flynn had lied to the FBI, Trump did not force Flynn out until February 13—and then only after The Washington Post reported that Flynn had lied about his conversations with Kislyak. At the time, the White House said Flynn was forced out for lying to Mike Pence, and it also defended his character, even as it knew he’d lied to the FBI.

Once Flynn had been fired, the president pressured then-FBI Director James Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn, one of several incidents in which the president attempted to interfere in FBI probes. On May 9, Trump fired Comey, a decision he attributed to the Russia probe. Here, too, Trump’s aggressive steps to defend Flynn seem to defy simple explanation. Flynn’s plea could tie into a reported investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey."

 

Everyone one on here needs to go and read what Trump said about having sex with troubled under age girls like Lindsay Lohan. He had a conversation with Howard Stern and it is posted on a CNN site.

 

Flynn was the one who led the 'lock her up' chant at the Republican National Convention.


Trump Lawyer’s Response to Flynn News: You Mean That Former Obama Official Got in Trouble?
By Jeremy Stahl
Dec. 1 2017 12:51 PM

Trump Lawyer’s Response to Flynn News: You Mean That Former Obama Official Got in Trouble?

"And it also might be worth noting that Flynn was not some minor figure in Trump’s campaign. In fact, he was one of Trump’s fiercest defenders, most notably leading a chant of “lock her up” during prime time of the Republican National Convention. In fact, he was so high up in the Trump campaign that candidate Trump himself floated his name to the New York Times as a possibility for vice president."

 

A little premature , but one TV person said Flynn has told Muellers committee that Trump told him to contact the Russians. Time will tell, but one can only hope.

 

It's on TV, he is saying Trump told him to talk with the Russians. The collusion picture is coming around nicely. Trump and the rest of them will be convicted of obstruction of justice and other crimes related to the 2016 election. There were people outside the courthouse shouting "Lock Him Up" when he walked out to get into the car.

 

Flynn needs to stock up on petroleum jelly. He's gonna need it in the pokie!

 

I wonder if the Donald thinks the song..."Oh, come let us adore him"...was written for him. I bet he does.

 

Thing is--Trump may flip out and do something dangerous if the proverbial shit hits the fan! And then of course, we'd be dealing with a religious nut if he DOES have to pay for for being really, really stupid. Guess I'm rushing it a little---but damn---if he gets whats coming to him---it will be a holiday! This is not about republicans or democrats--it's about all Americans and our country.