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I mean, yeah, he “admitted” it… but knowing how much of a pathological liar he is, it’s also possible that he just wanted to look “successful” to his captive rubes.
Either way, he is absolutely creating real and serious problems for himself by saying that. And I love that for him.
If his sheep believe it maybe they'll stop giving him money though. Bonus.
The best scenario is conservatives keep giving him their money, and he loses
He's already going to bankrupt the rnc. This is a bonus
That unfortunately could go wrong in several ways I assume.
I mean, he said on day 1, after descending his golden escalator, he was funding everything himself, and they've been paying him every day since. I'm not sure why they'd stop now.
Call me crazy but I think there's a chance he's lying.
Worse, the guy may be demented and delusional; he may actually believe his has the money in cash.
The more I see him talk the more I think he has dementia; worse than biden by far. I'm amazed he gets a free pass on it.
I know, his mental state hasn't been very good at any point in his campaigning. I remember seeing a speech of his that interrupted some TV programming shortly after he became president and it was just mindless rambling. I have ADHD and I couldn't even follow it, it was so bad.
Yeah.
Dementia combined with a complete lack of inhibition results in a presence that is much more compelling to idiots compared to someone who periodically stumbles as they attempt to compensate for their cognitive decline.
If he said it out loud, it's most likely a lie.
Honestly I don't believe for a second that he actually has the money. I just don't think he can handle people (HIS people) knowing that he's flat fucking broke and at the end of his rope.
Monday we'll find out if Schrodinger's cash was in the box or not.
One story I heard was that his lawyers have to come into the room in pairs, because he'll tell one lawyer Story A and the other one Story B.
He doesn't lie like an adult; he lies like a child.
This was actual testimony by Michael Cohen in one of the cases he testified in. Either the Trump or case org the stormy Daniels case
I don't think it was Cohen who said it. This article fro 2016 suggests it was Pat McGahn in a 1993 deposition during the Trump Plaza bankruptcy case.
In a deposition under oath taken in 1993, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers said they always tried to meet with him in pairs “because Donald says certain things and then has a lack of memory.”
Ooo, good work!
So he just says whatever he needs to say at the moment to rationalize whatever result he wants.
That helps explain why Republicans love him so much I guess.
He’s like if immersive, self-indulgent self-delusion were a drug you could do just by turning on the tv. A modern religion around solipsism.
I've read he legit does have a bit over $500M liquid, but if he touches more than $450M of what remains, loans will automatically start getting called in.
Loans he can't pay if he only has $50M liquid left.
Schrodinger's cash
That is chef's kiss perfect 🤌
Quote from Trump on truth social shown in the article:
THE OFTEN OVERTURNED POLITICAL HACK JUDGE ON THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT A.G. CASE
Can they not sue him for libel on this?
Apart from that it's hilarious that he still tries to claim he is paying for his presidential campaign himself.
Courts generally consider broad statements like "rigged" and "corrupt" to be opinions, which by themselves are not grounds for libel. Libel requires stating specific false facts.
For example, "The election was rigged" is an opinion. But "Two Georgia election workers threw away GOP ballots" is libel.
Ah OK, that's why he can keep doing it.
That opens an attack avenue for appeal. Do nothing until he can't appeal it, then you blindside him with libel and take another 100 mill.
Read it again. There is no slanderous or libelous statement, as dumb as it is. Somebody was handling the wording very carefully.
"OFTEN OVERTURNED" - Haven't looked into it, but possible fact or subjective to the speaker's point of view at the very least.
"POLITICAL HACK JUDGE" - Derogatory at best, and not mentioning the specific names or false allegation.
"CORRUPT AG CASE" - Again, subjective, and referring the case, not the AG or Judge.
What a fucking idiot to invite more consternation, but unless you specifically say something like "Judge Tom Smith took bribe money to fuck over my case", there isn't a solid argument for Libel or Slander.
Normal people would have been jailed for contempt of court for far less.
It seems like bad precedent for a judge to sue a participant in the trial for what they're saying about the trial.
He could hold Trump in contempt, but I think he doesn't see the reason to bother with it, since he's already engaged in fucking Trump's world up pretty significantly.
Plus, if he did sue for libel, how would he ever get paid? It's like a never ending cycle.
Trump also admitted he has nearly half a billion dollars in cash.
Well, I have one bazillion dollars on hand. Why don't I quit my job? Because I don't want to. /S
I have millions of dollars but they go to another school you don't know them.
I have one morbillion dollars but Sony screwed up the release of Morbius so they're not yet realizable
How long until they just admit that he's senile, but still tell people to vote for him to be the president?
How could this man bring the republic so close to ruin? Our democracy must be in a perilous state indeed.
I think we have many citizens that need to recognize that the founding fathers were humans and not divine utopia engineers.
We should change some stuff to make the country better. Many of the big things were designed to be very hard to change though. That makes me worry that things will have to get that much worse before the people & politicians are ready to actually do something.
If he ends up getting enough money from other people, do we really want a President who is so beholden (aka 'owes them') to others in the office?
Well they elected him when he was a Putin owned stooge. And his family is owned by the Saudis.
So what the hell are a bunch of rubes fleeced for a few hundred million gonna do?
Clearly one of those old school business wankers who see "must pay within 90 days" and pays at the last minute on the 90th day on principle.
'Rap snitches, tellin' all their business
Sit in the court and be their own star witness
"Do you see the perpetrator?"
Yeah, I'm right here
Fuck around, get the whole label sent up for years' -MF Doom, Mr. Fantastik
Heard recently that the Trump run is like a paper bag full of water. One of these days the bag will burst and everything will run out.
I'm glad the writer with The New Republic doesn't mince words.
Still this is the classic Trump strategy of doubling-down when backed in a corner. If it's worked for him all his life why would he do any different now?