Billionaire Trump Donor, Personal Friend Dies Of COVID

[babylonsister]

Billionaire Trump Donor, Personal Friend Dies Of COVID
April 12, 2020 Coronavirus, Donald Trump


Politico reports:

A friend and donor to President Donald Trump who the president had said was in a coma and seriously ill after becoming infected with the coronavirus has died. Stanley I. Chera’s death Saturday was reported by The Real Deal, which covers the New York real estate industry. The publication cited unidentified sources who have worked with Crown Acquisitions, the firm Chera founded and ran. Chera was in his late 70s.

Trump had spoken at recent White House briefings about a friend who had fallen ill with the virus, which has killed more than 20,600 Americans as of midday Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University. “I had a friend who went to a hospital the other day. He’s a little older, and he’s heavy, but he’s tough person,” Trump said. “And he went to the hospital, and a day later, he’s in a coma, he’s not doing well.”

Chera had a reported net worth of $4 billion.

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/04/billionaire-trump-donor-personal-friend-dies-of-covid/?fbclid=IwAR0kyhZ10MRh16h3CV8eyunt4-T3ejDgIb_K3PtM08kBCp1it66fduty9_I&__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=1b204a4e7786c543020d7bd6beb08ce13198235f-1586728390-0-AabEusv-ftwyR-qe-ZLqHqCMjqT74ZeGV4LimQxHe21pGiEyU56EBaeHkRkaqKmdmHE10h0x9SCDtOFfILZEg9SZTX_3VeTbqsuNWWl-oEdvgoURhJGZOLqxGhgaKlQPH4x81UKyGsZhi5qM_48oQ_hSmRFESFipJe3ScQmKupmiywm7suOL0JkfOpyjuEFXBjlovIA08NEijnxD7q717UkprKAVw3gbkCYwwU95my7h8JVRLLQkTQdwHofadEmJO7egYFJqW3SgWASg15iirH21sQSWJusKSlAdPPbQY4w5JXH7VOrYk53grBqpaZTN-MIvHHFneibkyVN6g30Nlj_BqZ-jO9jW_IVCO9hCtZNw-qhwsA3oNhwnVBmvv6GdWMpvoZ67vLOILvcCBmUzMNXNpyFB9McEsAJS28eJ-6Z9VbSPd23QiU5I4ltWIfPdwg

[milestogo]

1. I doubt Trump has any "friendships" that don't involve money.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Does he even have any friends?

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Nope.

I've been reading (OK, "listening", because audio books are easier when I spend most of my time driving) a lot of the books to come out on his Trumpness, and one theme seems to ring out through all of them;

He doesn't have any "real friends" at all.

Not one.

Certainly not in any traditional sense of the word that you and I or any sane person would recognize. All of the long time hangers on have only done so because they are just as large pieces of shit as he is. Witness Stone, Cohen, Epstein et al.

His entire perspective on life is transactional. Everything for him is a competition, and most sane people don't look at personal interaction that way. If you don't give him something, he won't like you. At all. Unless you impress him on a scale or in a sleeve that he envies and could never attain, like Putin or Duterte or Erdoğan, for example.

[CanonRay]

3. One less Trump donor

[Funtatlaguy]

10. Hopefully his heirs are Democrats.

[tanyev]

4. Did they try Donny's miracle drug on him?

[duforsure]

34. Maybe they did

And he's one of the ones that the side effects killed him. We'll never know.

[qwlauren35]

5. Where is my heart?

He could have been a good person. He could have been a good corporate citizen. He could have been a major philanthropist.

He could have suffered. He could have been in unbearable pain. He could have died alone, and lonely.

All I feel is negativity. A sick kind of happiness.

So, now we see - this disease can kill the rich and the poor.

I hope Chera had many parties and shook many hands.

I have no heart.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. I'm betting you have a heart....

it's just very likely you just have more empathy than the deceased, and most certainly more than Trumpy.

[Hekate]

8. I feel it has all but burned out of me...

[TeamPooka]

6. I doubt Donny cares that much.

[sop]

12. Only about the donations.

[LaMouffette]

9. "I was your only friend. You had one friend." --Eduardo in "The Social Network"

This reminds me of watching Mark Zuckerberg losing his only friend Eduardo by screwing him over in The Social Network, except I felt a little bit of sympathy for Zuckerberg and I feel no sympathy for Trump. Way to go, Trump. You killed John Prine. You have killed over 25,000 other Americans and counting. And now you have killed your friend. That is, if he was ever really your friend, as someone else pointed out.

[Roland99]

13. Anyone ask the WH how one dies of a political hoax?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. Medical science will be in turmoil for decades trying to figure that out.

[Takket]

24. yeah i'm wondering how the deepstate got one of drumpf's friends to fake is death to perpetuate the

hoax.

that must have taken some doing! What do you offer a billionaire that already can buy anything?

maybe the deep state just killed him

<--- hope that is obvious

[Captain Zero]

27. Seems like ONE reporter could be assigned to ask that question at the next presser.

Maybe bring in a blonde weather girl type from a democratic state. Tell Trump to take the question from the hottie in the red dress.

[pecosbob]

14. Another billionaire economic predator passes

I didn't know him so this does not make me sad in any way...thousands of people die every day on the planet. He did not make the world a better place by by his presence so I will not miss him.

[llmart]

15. What jumped out at me from this post...

and the idiot's reaction was why on earth would he even utter the words "He's a little older and he's heavy"? Who the f*** says something like that if a so-called "friend" dies?

[Initech]

17. Trump has no friends. He either has donors or cronies.

Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Kid Rock are cronies. Chera and other billionaires are donors. And to Trump, both groups are expendable.

[Marie Marie]

19. Because this one hit a little closer to home and Trump had to rationalize why

this would not happen to him. This wasn't a friend, this was a peer and this isn't supposed to happen to rich guys. Trump had a moment of looking in the mirror.

[llmart]

22. I was thinking the same reason.

He has to be able to tell himself that it won't happen to him because he's not that old and he's not that fat.

He's such a narcissist that when he looks in the mirror he probably sees George Clooney looking back at him.

[smirkymonkey]

38. But he IS old and he IS fat.

Even younger and middle aged people are dying from this. And all this guy's money couldn't save him from dying. Trump can't buy his way out of this one.

[llmart]

39. You know that and I know that but...

a malignant narcissist thinks they will live forever because they think the world can't live without all their "greatness".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Trump is old and fat, too, so he's potentially in the same boat.

I'm not sure how he distinguishes his old, fat, late friend from himself, except that I don't think he thinks he's old and fat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. "My friend died but he was old and fat, so...."

And who else is old and fat, btw?

[Wellstone ruled]

31. Normal comment from

a Narcissist. He also has zero empathy for others,only himself. You are seeing just what a Psychopathic Personality looks and sounds like in real time.

[muntrv]

33. So is Twitler, older and heavy.

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. Someone who has to assuage his fear of dying, of not "being"

"he died because he was older and heavier than me" = so I'm pretty safe.

If you erased all of his tweets that were fear based, there would be only a few left.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

18. Coronavirus reminds me of Bannon's honey badger mantra.....

Coronavirus, honey badgers and Republicans just do not give a shit.

Coronavirus therefore has the same degree of compassion as Republicans.


KY.........

[I_UndergroundPanther]

20. One less republican

I know he's gone, and all the respect the dead stuff but I choose to not respect
republican billionaires at all. Living or dead.
All out of fucks to give.

[Demovictory9]

21. "it's a hoax"

said Trump

[PlanetBev]

23. Guess he found out what we all knew.

The Brinks Truck doesn’t follow the hearse.

[mahina]

43. Well said.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

25. I'll bet this guy was cheering Trump saying it was a hoax

Now he's dead.

Not much of a hoax, is it?

[Blue Owl]

28. And Trump magically turned those donations to shit!

Sad...

[ALBliberal]

30. Trump incapable of friendship. NT

[lunasun]

32. They knew each other a long time . Part of that Kushner 666 deal

Chera's Crown Acquisitions inked a deal in 2008 with now-Trump son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's firm The Kushner Companies and private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Crown Acquisitions and Carlyle Group took a stake in the retail portion of the building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City, which was owned by Kushner Companies. The Fifth Avenue skyscraper ended up being a troubled property that weighed down The Kushner Companies' portfolio for years until the building sold to Brookfield Properties in 2018.
Chera introduced Trump at the New York City Veteran's Day Parade last November, calling the president "my dear friend."
Trump called out Chera at a 2019 rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, describing him as "one of the biggest builders and real estate people in the world."
"And he's a great guy and he's been with me from the beginning," Trump said of Chera.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/12/business/stanley-chera-coronavirus-trump/index.html
Trump asked how did that happen? Moron supreme

[onethatcares]

37. the Carlyle Group....wtf have I heard that name before

Bush I was a board member if I'm not mistaken.

these moneyed dudes are like zombies.

[Crunchy Frog]

35. It has no respect for wealth or class.

I'm not sad. The world is better off without him.

[IcyPeas]

40. trump must be heartbroken

nah, just kidding

[Captain Stern]

41. No offense intended, but I find this very hard to believe.

The trump donor part, the Billionaire part, the COVID part......those are easy parts to believe.

But, that trump has a 'Personal Friend'?.....LOL....c'mon man.

[mahina]

42. He had a friend?

That is breaking news.

[Coventina]

44. Tots & Pears....n/t