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Anyone else listened to the ‘Trumped’ podcast on iPlayer re the Scottish golf course fiasco? I’m 4 episodes in and it’s fascinating, as well as maddening! He was just the same complete arse back then…
Once an arse and a lying, grifting bully...always an arse and a lying, grifting bully.
Absolutely!!
I watched the two films on YouTube last week, you’ve been trumped and you’ve been trumped too. Nothing really new about the guy, it just reinforces what we already know about him being a complete ****
the local people in the film who lived around the course area came across well, the government and police force in Scotland did not come across well at all.
DJT stock down 24% today. Company saying it may not be able to meet its liabilities.
Pump and dump
the local people in the film who lived around the course area came across well, the government and police force in Scotland did not come across well at all.
Was it the Last Leg that followed Trump on one of his visits to Scotland with a tuba?
Pump and dump
Dont google this.
Was it the Last Leg that followed Trump on one of his visits to Scotland with a tuba?
Juan Direction was the Mexican band who followed him around Scotland, making use of our access law to ensure he heard the same tune all day...
Jane Godley also welcomed him...
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As did half of Glasgow - just look up Trump protest signs Scotland
shinton
Free MemberDJT stock down 24% today. Company saying it may not be able to meet its liabilities.
And not just that but it's completely, permanently, mathematically ****ed. They made $4.1m in revenue last year and had $39m in interest repayments, and almost nothing of value to show for all that borrowing. Nobody really seems to be sure exactly how they managed to claim a profit previously, their reporting is inevitably shonky and it's totally possible that this year's "reduction" is actually just having to be more honest about the actual numbers with the listing, and not just reporting borrowing as earnings or inventing assets or some other financial shenanigans/outright fraud.
But of course the market cap has no connection at all to whether or not it's a viable company. I mean, that's true of so many social media companies even without the added insanity of Trump, the modern stock market is a dream within a dream.
Jane Godley also welcomed him…
I have visions of her spending hours writing different witty or pithy slogans before settling on that. Sums him up perfectly.
Wasn't expecting him to pay up early
And not just that but it’s completely, permanently, mathematically ****ed. They made $4.1m in revenue last year and had $39m in interest repayments, and almost nothing of value to show for all that borrowing.
reddit has similar percentages at higher values,
but in the case of DJT, it doesn’t matter - it’s a meme stock.
the local people in the film who lived around the course area came across well, the government and police force in Scotland did not come across well at all
Yeah, I was disgusted at how the police had been reduced to upholding fascism instead of protecting the public.
I don't use Twitter but why is Biden's tick blue and Trump's red? What does the tick signify?
Biden's is Twitter/X, Trump is on Truth Social. Trump doesn't use Twitter any more*.
* Which was so obviously why Musk bought it in the first place, and Musk would have what he thought would be a direct link to the next Pres. That Trump refused makes Musk's daft purchase of it even funnier.
Ah, hahaha, hadn't spotted they weren't both Twitter...
But of course the market cap has no connection at all to whether or not it’s a viable company. I mean, that’s true of so many social media companies even without the added insanity of Trump, the modern stock market is a dream within a dream.
I've never understood how it is legal to give that kind of valuation to a business with basically no revenue or possibility of future profitability. It's just either a fraud perpetrated on gullible supporter-investors, or a means to launder vast sums directly to Trump from foreign entities.
I’ve never understood how it is legal to give that kind of valuation to a business with basically no revenue or possibility of future profitability.
The stock price is whatever people are willing to pay. It's a meme stock so the stock value isn't based on fundamentals, it's just propped up by Trump supporters with more money than sense.
Trial starts in 2 weeks 🥳
gagged yet again...... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68709900
Not a new gag; it's an extension of the existing.
Still, good news; the sooner the bollocks about gag orders restricting his first amendment rights is nailed to the floor, the better.
Any other defendant behaving as trump has/does would be heading to Riker's Island for a few days - mr trump, next time you come to court please bring a toothbrush with you...
How can he not use sentences FFS.
He is living, breathing, straw topped proof that the law applies differently depending on who you are and what your bank balance (perceived or otherwise) is. There is no chance of him ever spending time in prison. Let alone a proper one. Worst case scenario, he’s the next President. Very best case, he ends up at one of those resort prisons for white collar criminals.
Wasn’t expecting him to pay up early
Interesting source for the funds
Hankey is best known as the “king of subprime auto loans” through his Westlake Financial Services that specializes in high-interest car loans for consumers with weaker credit scores, typically below 600, or have bankruptcies or repossessions on their histories.
Some financial analysts have warned that subprime auto loans is an area primed for trouble as consumers find it harder to make repayments. Westlake has previously faced fines from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for deceptive collection tactics.
Very much on-brand for Trump 🙂
Hankey has financed trump previously.
He's described as a '...numbers man' so am sure that he has minimised his risk and doubt this deal will be on preferential terms for trump.
He was just the same complete arse back then…
He was, so I’ve read, a horrid, snivelling little bully as a small child, who used to throw stones at the little toddler next door. And have no fear of retribution because of who his family is.
I’m not entirely sure if this is the right place for this, but it’s directly related to the insanity that is American Republicanism these days, and a clear indication where a point of total collapse might lie. This is almost impossible to believe, but read the following article and despair… 🤡 🤯🤬
https://jalopnik.com/chemtrail-bans-introduced-in-7-states-now-that-republic-1851381331
As Trump Social shares continue to tank, the Orange Shitgibbon is now suing the two other people involved for their shares claiming they were responsible for it not performing as expected.
You’d have thunk by now that there’d be nobody left in America who’d be prepared to do business with him! You couldn’t trust him to empty chamber pots in case he put scorpions in them!
Something about dTrumph reminds me of the footage of the sloth climbing out of a jungle septic tank… 🤢
LoL
Allegedly the shares were up 6% this morning, but that's of the back of a 25% fall, so a huge net loss.
Why would anyone in clear and present mind do business with him? I mean, even if you are a ruthless profit focused investor who shorts markets etc, it's a toxic investment.. I just don't get it?
It's like a snake eating its own tail...
In other news..
Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan declared the request untimely, ruling that Trump’s lawyers had “myriad opportunities” to raise the immunity issue before they finally did so last month, well after a deadline for pretrial motions had already passed.
The timing of the defense’s March 7 filing “raises real questions about the sincerity and actual purpose of the motion,” Merchan wrote in a six-page decision.
I mean, how does trump sleep at night with all this going on? has he employed Micheal Jacksons former 'doctor' to prescribe him benzos?
DWAC - or whatever it's called - finished 5.4% down.
I don't think Jack Smith will wait much longer before taking a case to the 11th circuit to get judge cannon booted off the mar-a-lago documents case as her bias is so clear - and his recent statement shows he's really pissed off with her. If he does, my prediction is the court will replace her.
Of the various judges in his multiple court cases she is the only one he has not singled out for aggressive and repeated criticism; in fact, he's praised her - I wonder why?
I mean, how does trump sleep at night with all this going on?
It's probably the only impressive thing about him. He seems completely immune to the incredible amount of pressure on him from all directions.
I had also assumed the shares were being allowed to tank so that other interests could buy them at a super low rate, everyone gets excited and dumps money in again and he sells at an appropriate point. Then repeat
I mean, how does trump sleep at night with all this going on?
He's hugely insulated from financial reality.
The political "career" has been a license to print money for cashflow. He's obviously a shit Midas, but a Midas none the less (go on, set up a social media company with a market cap of $6.6billion, it's only on paper but even the amount he could liquidate is still more money than any of us could ever actually spend in a lifetime of coke and Russian* escorts) .
Even if he loses every court case financially, at worst that's less than the value of trump tower (obviously depends how much of that is already leveraged).
He could probably settle the civil cases, find a few hundred million down the back of a sofa in Mar a Lago and retire to the quiet life if he really wanted to. And I'll bet you a bottle of the most orange fake tan that none of the criminal cases end in jail time.
*reference to that kompromat rumour, not his wife.
His next move will be to try and fire his legal team, however the judge can deny this.
11 days Donnie
Paperwork for Trumps $175 bond has been rejected. It’s been returned marked “returned for correction” apparently there may be questions about the Bond Insurance being able to cover that amount
nickc - if that's correct, I want to give your post 20 ticks but am limited to just one!
Does this mean the 'error' must be corrected by today's close else the AG can start to collect OR will the court say it's an 'unintentional' error and allow time to correct OR will it be seen as a deliberate play for more time by deliberately submitting documentation with an error which could and should have been picked up?
"Paperwork for Trumps $175 bond has been rejected. It’s been returned marked “returned for correction” apparently there may be questions about the Bond Insurance being able to cover that amount"
There are also questions whether Hankey's "Knight Speciality Insurance" is licensed for this type of bond in NY.
Why does none of the above surprise me?!?
"Thank you and have a great day."
In Georgia subversion case, judge has rejected trump's free speech/1st amendment argument to have the case tossed.
I wonder what good news tomorrow will bring?
Oh hang on, time difference means it's only early afternoon over there so still plenty of time for more to happen today!
DJT down again today to $42 from a high a few days ago of $79. Came across this gem of a comment on the reddit discussion:
Yes - basically everyone knows this is a grifty dogshit “social media” company with single-location carwash revenues- so everyone is really just betting the margins on how dogshit a company it is, or more precisely, when will we recognize that fact and how low will it go? I’d say it’s going to $0, but it could easily take 5+ years to get there. This is like trying to value TSLA on its fundamentals vs the aura of Elon- except it’s to the next degree of magnitude. There are more than zero people out there putting their life savings into DJT purely because they love Trump that much. I feel bad for them, to a point. I feel worse for their kids.
Seems normal (for Trumpland)
Police Report: Trump County Chair Threatened To Rape Boss's Wife, Then Kill Him
One of Donald Trump’s county campaign chairs in New Hampshire lost his job as a police officer after threatening to kill his colleagues in a shooting spree, murder the department chief and rape the chief’s wife in retaliation for his suspension over his relationship with a high school girl, according to a newly released report from an internal affairs investigation.
Jonathan Stone, who is currently a second-term state representative, was announced as Trump’s Sullivan County chair by his campaign on June 27, 2023. The coup-attempting former president first came to know Stone during Trump’s 2016 run, when Stone gave him an inscribed AR-15 assault rifle at a campaign stop.At that point, it had been a decade since Stone had lost his job with the Claremont Police Department, which agreed to a settlement negotiated by the local police union that kept the investigative records secret. The documents were ordered to be released last week by the New Hampshire Supreme Court in a lawsuit by a local newspaper over Stone’s objections.
Stone, who opened a gun shop after losing his job as a police officer, did not reply to HuffPost queries.Stephen Stepanek, Trump’s New Hampshire campaign chair, said he knew nothing about Stone’s background until seeing news accounts.
“I just found out about it this morning,” Stepanek said Wednesday. “He’s been a Trump supporter for a long time, and he’s been a state representative, and he had, as far as we were concerned, what looked like a great background.”Stepanek said Stone’s future with the campaign has not been determined.
“We haven’t made any decisions at this point,” he said, adding that he expected the campaign’s top aides at Trump’s South Florida country club would be taking the lead. “I think it will be handled by Mar-a-Lago, in consultation with me.”
Campaign co-managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles did not respond to HuffPost queries.
According to the files released last week, the original 2006 investigation was launched to look into allegations that Stone was involved in a relationship with a 16-year-old high school girl. Department officials decided to suspend Stone for five days and ordered him not to contact her anymore.
Stone, who, according to the files, had already displayed a temper, began telling co-workers about his plans for violence.
One police co-worker told investigators she had heard Stone make threats to a colleague.
“That conversation included discussion about backing a truck up to the back door, kicking the door open and going on a shooting spree,” the co-worker said. “While Jon was under investigation for something, he said he was going to tie up the chief, make the chief watch him as he pillages the chief’s wife and children.”
A department detective told investigators: “I recall Jon saying he was going to go to the chief’s house and rape the chief’s wife, and kids, and shoot the chief.”The investigators concluded that Stone should not keep his job.
“The seriousness of threatening to kill command staff officers, raping the chief’s wife, tying people up and going ‘postal’ are violations at the most serious level. Stone’s conduct goes so far beyond what is expected of a professional police officer that [the] only appropriate resolution is his removal from office,” investigators wrote.
In 2016, Stone, who by then had opened Black Ops Arms in Claremont, New Hampshire, presented Trump with an AR-15 rifle inscribed with the numbers “1-4-5,” signifying that Trump was his first choice to become the 45th president.
Stone has remained in Trump’s camp since. Trump named him one of his 14 New Hampshire county and city chairs last June and praised him from the stage during a rally in Claremont five months later.
It is unclear what came of the assault rifle Stone gave Trump in 2016.
Trump, who lost New Hampshire in both 2016 and during his 2020 reelection bid, won the state’s primary again three months ago, clearing the way to his third straight Republican presidential nomination despite facing four separate criminal prosecutions.
Two of those are based on his actions leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his followers attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to reinstall him as president.A federal indictment could go to trial as early as late August, depending on the timing of a Supreme Court ruling on his claim that he is immune from prosecution. A Georgia state prosecution based on his attempt to overturn his election loss in that state could also start later this year.
A New York state prosecution on charges that he falsified business records to hide hush money payments in the days before the 2016 election is to begin jury selection on Monday, while a second federal prosecution based on his refusal to turn over secret documents he took with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago has not yet been set for trial.
In 2023, a New York jury found that Trump had sexually penetrated writer E. Jean Carroll against her will in an incident in the 1990s, finding him civilly liable for sexual abuse. The federal judge in the case later clarified that Trump’s actions were rape in the “common modern parlance.”
So annoying that eToro won't let you short DJT (for now at least)
Trial starts on Monday
And I’ll bet you a bottle of the most orange fake tan that none of the criminal cases end in jail time.
There was another recent story of Joe Lewis, the billionaire owner of Spurs committing insider trading that netted those involved millions of Dollars.
Sentence - 3 years probation and $5m fine. Zero jail time.
Net worth 6billion, so $5m is chickenfeed,
Trump's lawyers on their 3rd desperate attempt to get the trail delayed. so far they've tried to get it moved, the judge recused and saying that he can't turn up as he's campaigning...Imagine what the phone call from the Don must be like every hour or so giving you a shit-tonne of hassle demanding to know why the trail is still going ahead and you've not got him out of jeopardy yet.
They must know they're never going to get paid, right? I mean, the last person Trump ever pays is his lawyers.
Make that the 10 effort to delay the trial !!
You cannot short DJT as even the puts are sold out it's bigly being held (loaned) by people just waiting to short it but I think it will be such a fast drop it might get suspended then dumped to 0. I can only hope anyway.
Explains it better than me 🦆
the last person Trump ever pays is his lawyers
Apparently Alina Habba's been paid $3-5m already so a certain type of lawyer can still get paid...
DWAC share price now $32.75; down 4.4% on the day - and the US market has only been open for less than 2 hours today.
Donny's paper profit is bigly falling every day; what's not to like?
What has happened to his bond after the court nocked it back on its legitimacy? Has that been sorted out or is there another deadline still looming?
There’s a hearing on the 25th I think 🤔
DWAC share price now $26.63, down 18% on the day to date; still 90 minutes until Wall St closes.
They've announced a few million more shares, so presumably it'll get much worse when they are issued and dilute the existing ones further. You'd have to be mad to buy into a new issue but...
Also changed their rules to let the existing shareholders sell them at will and not wait 6 months according to the radio news. Didn't see that one coming. 🙄
If that change in the rules is correct, trump will cash out immediately - and in doing so will be saying...see ya, suckers.
Anyone know if I can do salary sacrifice to get shares in DJT for my pension? 🤣
If I understand correctly it's permission to issue new shares but they've not been issued as yet? But obviously the stock price would tank accordingly with the dilution. Bizzarely Trump gets up to 36 million more shares as a "success bonus" if they keep the shares above $17.50, quite something saying that success is only losing 80% of their value.
I've not seen anything confirming the 6 month lockup's been relaxed though, or if it has, what the terms are, though? It all gets really fun at 0.000001 seconds after they're allowed to sell, as the algorithms fight to dump before the dumping kills the value, but why would there even be buyers?
(Genuine ones in volume, I mean- there's bound to be the few idiots buying the Trump brand from their trailer parks but they can't afford enough to matter. But nongenuine is where it gets so funky, it's a terrible investment but a good way to throw money to a bankrupt and cheaply bought presidential candidate...)
The mad thing is that people can still make money from a company that has all the real world value of a christmas tree seller squatting in an abandoned petrol station. And yes of course that'll be spun as "business genius" if he gets away with it.
Techincal detail aside, what we are seeing here is a real test of the robustnes of the American legal system, at the highest level.
Trump, like him or loath him, is shaking down the 'american dream' to the core.
So it's right it should be played out in the highest courts.
What the outcome of that is, is pretty ****ing bothersome...but the USA needs to decide if it's a dicatorship or not.
Was talking about this last night with the GF. I genuinely believe it is impossible to hold a fair trial for him if that trial involves a jury. He is _sooooo_ divisive that even a random jury would be split for and against (maybe even despite lying to say they would be impartial), or his lawyers would object to people that either _are_ impartial or seem to be.
I could see the only people they would agree to would be 12 blue-faced shamen redneck Proud Boys.
I'd say even a non-jury trial could go against reason/evidence if the judges were as bad as the Republican senators in his impeachment trial.
a real test of the robustnes of the American legal system
Federal Judges are political appointments in the US system, there's an argument that their system has bias built in. However I don't think anyone ever envisioned the system having to sit in judgement of a president (ex or otherwise)
or his lawyers would object to people that either _are_ impartial or seem to be.
His lawyers in the trail of his ropey business practices opted for a bench trail partly for this reason. Trump (and the alt-right media) now spin a lie to say that the trail was somehow a rigged non-jury trail, that it wasn't somehow his own lawyer's choice, and that the 'system' is rigged against Trump.
If he's found not guilty - US justice at its finest, if he's found guilty - rigged jury, biased judge, deep state persecution of a political opponent. You know how it works.
If he’s found not guilty – US justice at its finest, if he’s found guilty – rigged jury, biased judge, deep state persecution of a political opponent. You know how it works.
100% This
I genuinely believe it is impossible to hold a fair trial for him if that trial involves a jury.
I disagree. The requirement for a fair trial is just that that jury rule based on the evidence. I don't see that as impossible.
Federal Judges are political appointments in the US system,
Yes, but they are appointed for life, as far as I know. Until Trump, I think presidents did take the appointments seriously and tried to appoint serious jurists. That doesn't mean that Democrats didn't appoint liberal justices and Republicans didn't appoint conservatives, but they wanted to appoint smart people who took the job seriously - many of Trump's legal setbacks have come from conservative justices who don't buy into his claims of presidential immunity, etc.. On top of that, federal judges have to be confirmed by the senate so they have traditionally been fairly thoroughly vetted. Trump and Mitch McConnell tried to end that tradition, but the vast majority of federal judges are serious people who take their responsibilities seriously and feel no loyalty to any president.
I wonder how much DT and his allies shorted their own stock price by?
Down almost 11% already today.
Apparently, yesterday, he kept falling asleep in court. Not a good look!
Fake snooze!
If Trump did snooze, it would of course be the best snooze ever. And caused because he works 25 hours a day. Because he is the hardest worker there is.
he glitched rather badly at his latest rally completely "blithering" his words.
I wonder how much DT and his allies shorted their own stock price by?
Doesn't shorting require a counter party that looses money? Would anyone be stupid enough to take that punt? Possibly Donald due to his unshakable confidence in his own business acumen.
The "counter party that looses money" is the maga crowd that bought the stock on release because they were clueless about the business fundamentals.
Frankly the price at release to take advantage of "unsophisticated" investors is fraud, unfortunately it looks like it is another caser of immorality by the mega wealthy not being kept in check by the law. However the stock dilution stinks of insider trading, market manipulation and a conspiracy by the "shorters" and DJT to disadvantage those investors. And it wouldn't surprise me if this action to accelerate stock fall the is what might bring another criminal proceeding.
That video that klunk posted.
If you don't watch it all (I did) at least go to 5.00 and listen to his take on the Battle of Gettysburg.
DWAC now $22.88, down 14% day to date - after 18% fall yesterday.
Going well...