Newsweek drops the hammer on Trump .... link to daily kos

[Botany]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/2/1555822/-OUCH-Newsweek-exposes-Trump-as-the-business-fraud-he-is

My favorite stuff from the article:

Trump lied to Congress.
Trump was publicly insulting Native Americans while other real business people were making deals to help manage their casinos.
Trump signed a deal with one Native American casino, and they paid him $6 million to go away.
Trump punched his second grade teacher
Trump lied in his books, then blamed the same woman he blamed for Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech.
Trump lied in a filing with a bank where he was trying to get a loan about how much he was worth.
Trump lied about how much money he got from his dad.
Trump’s dad gave him illegal loans by taking cash to his casino, turning it over at a craps table, loading up a suitcase with $5,000 chips, and leaving.
Trump’s earliest deals all lost money and he only did well when his dad guaranteed loans.
Trump spent $1 million per plane to turn a shuttle into a luxury trip that no one wanted to take. The planes were only worth $4 million each.

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Trump tells everyone he is a gazillionaire. How does he decide his net worth?

Trump is quick to boast that his purported billions prove his business acumen, his net worth is almost unknowable given the loose standards and numerous outright misrepresentations he has made over the years. In that 2007 deposition, Trump said he based estimates of his net worth at times on “psychology” and “my own feelings.” But those feelings are often wrong—in 2004, he presented unaudited financials to Deutsche Bank while seeking a loan, claiming he was worth $3.5 billion. The bank concluded Trump was, to say the least, puffing; it put his net worth at $788 million, records show. (Trump personally guaranteed $40 million of the loan to his company, so Deutsche coughed up the money. He later defaulted on that commitment.)

[misterhighwasted]

1. Now he's being vetted???

[Botany]

5. And now they are finding out he is nuttier then a squirrel turd?

He was just in Columbus, OH and it was a train wreck into a dumpster fire.

The venue for his speech told Trump's campaign along the Columbus Fire Dept.
that the room was limited to 1,000 people because of construction around the
building blocked the exits. After his speech Trump held a weird presser and
blamed the limited crowd at his speech because the Fire Marshall was working
for the Columbus' Mayor who is a Democrat.

The building management and the fire department both said that they were just
followingf the law and the mayor's office issued a short statement that the fire
department is automous.

[Stonepounder]

11. How many people actually showed up?

Gets back to my complaint that they don't teach actual journalism any more.
1. How many people were actually in the room for the rally?
2. How many people were actually turned away because the room was full?
3. Why didn't the Fire Marshall and the Mayor go on TV waving the contract that Trump's people had signed acknowledging the limitations of the building?

[Botany]

15. answers

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/08/01/some-trump-supporters-unhappy-after-being-turned-away-because-of-space-capacity.html

[Stonepounder]

16. Thanks for the link.

Interesting, the article says 'hundreds' while Trump says '2-5 thousand'.

[woodsprite]

23. Apparently he counts his people the way he counts his money. n/t

[grubbs]

26. Ha!

[SeattleVet]

22. I wish that they would report the venue capacity ...

and the number of tickets that the tRump campaign distributed.

He has a habit of booking relatively small venues and giving away a massive number of tickets.

[Botany]

24. The capacity is > 5,000 but with construction blocking the exits it is 1,000 max

Trump's team was told of this # last week by both the venue's management and
the fire dept. and yet team Trump gave out > 1,0000 ticlets.

[SeattleVet]

30. Same crap he's been pulling all over.

Did the same thing in Colorado last week; gave out way more tickets than the venue (and overflow hall) could possibly hold, then blasted the Fire Marshal for not allowing in more than the venue could hold.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. $788 Million

If that's true then he's a terrible businessman, his dad left him property that should be worth 4 or 5 times by now.

[Hortensis]

17. If left alone. Trump operated during the largest runup

of wealth in the world's history. During that period the Spanx woman turned $5000 earned by working hard into a $1 billion dollar business before she was old enough to need her own product.

Self-made Michael Bloomberg has about $40 B now courtesy of enterprise during that period.

Most Trump supporters admire him for his business acumen -- his whole image of competence is built on that. This isn't new news, of course, but hopefully it means it's being talked about more, along with mental disability and being snug with the Kremlin . What we really need, though, is the Trump voters to just stay home and not vote downticket, and wouldn't it be great if they were too disillusioned and turned off with the party to care?

[DonViejo]

3. The image accompanying the Kos article...

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[trusty elf]

18. Ouch!

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[Bill USA]

33. a pictures worth a thousand words. Right "on target"

[Historic NY]

28. Oh look I found the crying baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oswaldactedalone]

4. Pour it on media

You finally woke up after a year of knob slobbering. Why did it take you so long? The Dems and the Clinton campaign need to spend every available dollar to build this avalanche against the Thug Party and annihilate them throughout the country. It's time to throw the kitchen sink at these lowlifes. Take 'em to the mattresses, Dems!

[misterhighwasted]

7. There will never be a better time to end the RW dominance in this country.

Make them claw & beg their way back up. Leave NO rung on their ladder.

[Cracklin Charlie]

14. Maybe they waited for this reason.

Take down Trump and the Republican Party in one fell swoop.

[Sunlei]

6. seems he can't get any domestic loans. How many foreign loaners is he beholden to,for how much?

When will Congress subject THEIR Republican candidate to 11 hours of LIVE questions and 100s of days of investigations?

[misterhighwasted]

8. This^ . Perfectly stated Sunlei

Thank you.

[Brainstormy]

9. Anyone who votes for Trump after

reading the entire Newsweek article is certifiable. It is completely damning.

[Stonepounder]

12. Most of the people voting for Trump don't read.

They get everything they know from FOX News.

[baldguy]

13. Trump fans get their hateful propaganda spoon-fed to them by Faux Snooze.

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Reading is what them liberal atheist Mooslim socialist Democrats do.

[lindysalsagal]

34. You forgot baby-killer-union-druggies

Geez.

[yankeepants]

19. The only place they might read

Newsweek is in the doctor or dentist office. Thanks Obamacare!

[lame54]

10. And?

[amuse bouche]

20. He's a filthy fraud and won't shut up

[Koinos]

21. K & R

Will get back after digesting the original article thoroughly.

[NoMoreRepugs]

25. why is all of this coming out now after the GOP convention and the home stretch starting?

Billions are going to be spent with media companies from this point on and the piling on of what a true dufus T-Rump starts now? I find that very odd, certainly it did not take until this point to determine what he is and has been all his life? This far in advance of the election gives the Repukes a slim opportunity to get someone else at the top of the ticket - or is my tinfoil hat just way too tight??? Is big MSM working with the GOP to save the corporate conservative stranglehold on the US?

[lapucelle]

27. Look at what Donald Trump's sister did with the advantages she was born with.

She got a superb education. She worked hard. She's known in her profession as a woman of integrity.

I wonder how this poor woman is dealing with the blowback from her little brother's antics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry

[Tatiana]

31. I suppose every family has that *one* family member...

She does seem like a person who used her advantages in a positive manner.

[TeamPooka]

29. K & R nt

[Bill USA]

32. trump is a clown....