Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Dispatches from Clown World: Actual NY Times Headline Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 10:27:47 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 77 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:27:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="98cd034461176e5686dabd639f5c05ee"; logging-data="2673586"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/LVOQnmheNbSB6BUqU23py" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zksp5kX35gJUnWbvEvtSmABdISY= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4586 On 3/31/24 4:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > 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. > Obama wanted him because he knew he had the Republican votes for him. Until Mitch decided stealing the seat was even better. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0