Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:17:50 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Dispatches from Clown World: Actual NY Times Headline Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 68 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:17:51 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3653 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c1f60d80a7b7dc$139430$3265$48d50260@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 4032 On 3/31/2024 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. Yes. In context of the alternative that emerged, abso-fucking-lutely.