Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!69.80.99.23.MISMATCH!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:20:30 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Dispatches from Clown World: Actual NY Times Headline References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:28:10 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 63 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-WtLUcON3ac7+hWtbJa1/J0L8TUmqTxbBnGjuQPQabgXapTPRQcgLN432MmNfAPtOz6GLciBMtsILZnV!AUOk7QwWNUYDuaENFqR00mbcfABFRyIpReQQGiwnshnziVczt9nOKH5hyYzfZb2hvbhbPs+3QWcP!phwyZ8tG++8bIvjtn6PSz/v6 X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4146 In article , FPP wrote: > On 3/30/24 4:13 PM, trotsky wrote: > > On 3/30/24 11:28 AM, FPP wrote: > >> On 3/29/24 1:48 PM, trotsky wrote: > >>> On 3/29/24 9:07 AM, FPP wrote: > >>>> On 3/28/24 3:44 PM, shawn wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:41:20 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> On Mar 26, 2024 at 4:04:09 AM PDT, "FPP" wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> On 3/25/24 8:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Wait a minute. Trump's civil fraud verdict was based on the > >>>>>>>> notion he systematically gave an incorrect valuation to his > >>>>>>>> properties in order to deceive lenders (even though all lenders > >>>>>>>> were repaid and none of them ever made complaints against him and > >>>>>>>> all said they'd do business with him again). Now, the New York > >>>>>>>> Times admits that reaching a proper valuation for Trump's > >>>>>>>> buildings is a "guessing game". > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Bullshit. He lied. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> For loans, he inflated his valuations. For taxes, he lowered his > >>>>>>> valuations. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> So when Trump takes out a loan and pays it back with interest, > >>>>>> that's a crime. > >>>>> > >>>>> As Jon Stewart pointed out in his video Trump did pay the loan back > >>>>> with interest but much less than he would have if he had given the > >>>>> properties the proper valuation. Which amounted to a lot due to the > >>>>> sums involved. > >>>>> > >>>> And he made the people of New York pick up the tab to make up for > >>>> what he shorted the state. > >>>> > >>>> Shorted on taxes, cheated banks out of their profits... profits that > >>>> COULD have been lent out to other New Yorkers, who didn't lie and > >>>> cheat. > >>>> > >>>> Trump cheated and made those that didn't cheat pick up the slack. > >>> > >>> Is there a reason it took this long to bring him to justice? > >>> > >> Yeah.  Not a good reason... but the reason is Merrick the Mild doesn't > >> want to ruffle any feathers. > >> > >> He's part of the plan... > > > > I don't think Garland was ever cut out for this, he belonged on SCOTUS > > but McConnell screwed him by committing an act of sedition. > > > Do you know Garland's background? If you did, you wouldn't even ask... > > In October 2021, Donald Trump praised Garland as "a good man" and said he > > was glad Garland was Attorney General. > > Garland is a stooge. And yet back in the 2010s you wanted this stooge on the nation's highest court.