Nicole Wallace on MSNBC

[TNNurse]

referred to the Trump Organization as a "Mom and Pop business, run by the children".

[Gothmog]

1. She is correct

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. It is not a public company for very good reason

Mom and Pop makes it sound harmless, it isnt.

He went public once I think, bankrupt days later.

NO person would buy stock in his company without removing him from being in charge therefore his companies are privately owned.

[eleny]

3. Yup, makes it sound almost warm and fuzzy

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. But it is correct, sort of. What people still dont believe, even some here I think,

is that Donald J. Trump, or as I call him Rumpus DelaTraitorous, knows absolutely nothing at all about business.


Nothing.

[eleny]

5. I think more of mom & pop businesses

[EffieBlack]

6. Yep

Contrary to the what he's tried to portray, the Trump organization is a raggedy-ass small business that didn't have any shareholders, no board, no real rules and a bunch of incompetent con-artists and bullies in charge. The only reason they haven't been dragged through the courts before now is that law enforcement never thought they were important enough to waste time on.

That's why idiots like Michael Cohen have gotten away with so much in the past. It's not that they're so good at what they do. It's that they didn't matter enough for anyone to bother going after them.

That's all changing. Eventually Trump and his gang are going to wish he had never run for president.

[Caliman73]

11. Very true.

Trump has been able to get away with all of his foolishness because he was never really a big fish, though he has certainly promoted himself as such. Now that he is truly on the big stage, we are all seeing how out of his league he is. It is easy as a private citizen or celebrity, to fling crap. Any press is typically good press. However, now his words actually have weight and he is just slinging them around his neck like anchors.

My wife and I often say that before he ran for President, we were aware of and somewhat annoyed by Trump, but gave him very little thought. Now that he has the ability to disrupt the social and political fabric of the US, we despise him and will work to ruin him in any way we can. I assume that there are many more people and some with real power, who feel the same way and will work to make Trump regret every coming onto the national stage.

[EffieBlack]

12. Exactly

[magicarpet]

7. Mom & Pop...

International
Money
Laundering
Crime
Family
Syndicate.

Oh dear God.... Please RICO them.

____________

Not your standard wovie dovie family operation.

[TNNurse]

8. I think she was referring to lack of sophistication and knowledge.

[Adrahil]

10. Yup. And....

The complere lack if any actual organization.

[TeamPooka]

9. Walk into any real estate office in your town. That's basically TrumpCo. Give or take an agent or 2

[flotsam]

13. Just like that olive oil company

run by mom and pop Corleone...