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On 3/31/2024 4:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <uubp2c$1qi2c$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
> 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 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mar 26, 2024 at 4:04:09 AM PDT, "FPP" <fredp1571@gmail.com> 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.