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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.