Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Maybe Trump got tax advise from Bono

 

The ugly part of the billion dollar loss isn't the accounting tricks or the tax dodge. It is how he made it happen. He by any practical definition stole massive amounts of money from his investors, sacking the company for every scrap of value he could divert to himself personally and leaving them with the empty shell.

 

Except his investors lost their asses. And it seems no reputable big banks do business with him any longer.

 

It was a great scam.

Control a publicly-traded company, overpay for properties in your personal portfolio, give yourself a huge bonus, bankrupt the company but make out like a bandit.

 

Yeah, I'm not doubting his number of business fuck-ups. I was just pointing out how he could have given a reasonable answer instead of just being an ass.

 

Only topped by a government bailout

 

Much like investors in the former GM and future Obama Motors

 

Well, seeing as how the entirety of his debate prep was devoted to "don't be an ass" and he couldn't pull that off ...

 

A fuck-up is a mistake. This was malevolent fraud and theft on the principle of "I'm too big for you to sue, what are you gonna do about it?"

 

There's a benevolent kind? Oh, wait ... nah, that pitch is too juicy. I'll let that one pass by in the interest of sportsmanship.

 

"If a guy's close to you, you can't slight 'im. You an't slight that guy. A real grievance can be resolved; differences can be resolved. But an imaginary hurt, a slight -- that motherfucker gonna hate you 'til the day he dies."

 

When you sack a company you own, and divert every scrap to yourself personally, leaving only an empty shell behind, shouldn't you show a profit on your personal taxes and not a $916 million loss?