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| DATE | 2016-10-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] over ruled on OBL targeting.....
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On 10/23/2016 04:36 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 10/23/2016 04:18 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
>> Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
>>
>>> No, that is the Trump who made 4 billion dollars.
>>
>> Which we know because he adds a few billion dollars to his
>> self-estimated personal worth based on whatever he believes his personal
>> 'brand' to be worth? I'm not making this up. He really did say that
>> during a deposition where he was challenged about his claim to be a
>> billionaire.
>>
>> When I read the transcript of that deposition, I really would have
>> fallen out of my chair if, as an accounting and finance professional, I
>> hadn't already long ago known that the man is a cheap con artist and
>> huckster. Which really has never been in dispute.
>>
>> (When I last checked, he asserted that the value of his _name_ was worth
>> about $3B, which is a novel reinterpretation of Generally Accepted
>> Accounting Principles.)
>>
>> He's always been an absolutely abysmal businessman. Thousands of times
>> over. If he hadn't been, he'd have staunched the bleeding long before
>> he lost even a tiny fraction of that $916 million in that one single
>> calendar year,
>
> That is really not for me or you to figure out. He walked away from the
> Casino business with billions of dollars in his pocket before that, so
> who knows what motivated him. He certainly didn't like losing money
> when he had profitable venutures elsewhere. He seemed to know what his
> exposure was and figured he could take the billion dollar hit. I'd like
> to see Hilary take a billion dollar write off.
>
> Maybe he didn't want to abandon all his workers, or was working with NJ
> officials in the hope of a turn around.
>
> Remember this?
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/31/nyregion/trump-offers-to-rebuild-skating-rink.html
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>
>
>
Remember this?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/09/new.york.trump.community.center/index.html
The site is two blocks from where the World Trade Center stood before the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not), but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse," Trump wrote.
that was about right...
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