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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dispatches from Clown World: Actual NY Times Headline
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On 4/1/24 4:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <uueg93$2hiti$4@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/31/24 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.
>>>
>> Obama wanted him
> 
> And so did you. We have many, many Usenet posts attesting to it.
> 

I wanted the normal process.  You know... the one where all the other 
justices were nominated, given a hearing and voted on in committee.

Mitch and the Republicans decided the first black president was too 
uppity to get what every other president got.

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