Reporting is finally catching up with Donald Trump.
It’s taken a while to do the digging into his long paper trail, but the results are most interesting.
The New York Times dropped a blockbuster today (“How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions“).
It details how Trump loaded up his Atlantic City casinos with mountains of debt that doomed them to financial collapse, while in the process shoveling millions to himself. Lots of those involved–Trump’s investors, bondholders, vendors, contractors, employees–they lost money, while Trumped brags about how well he did there.
Patch.com summarized with “10 Takeaways From NYT’s Blockbuster Report On Donald Trump’s Atlantic City Casinos.”
The Washington Post presented their own reporting on the same bit of wheeling and dealing (“As its stock collapsed, Trump’s firm gave him huge bonuses and paid for his jet“).
USA Today also weighed in with a slightly different set of facts (“Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills“).
Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will “protect your job.” But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans…who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.
The Atlantic chimed in with their own road map to a laundry list of past controversies (“The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet“).
As you can see, it’s a great week for reading!
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And yet so many fundamentalist Christians think he’s wonderful! Amazing, isn’t it? Certainly cable news show gave him way too much free coverage. Every time his plane landed somewhere, they were there with bated breath to film the nonsense he spouted. And they did minimal digging into his finances or sordid past with women.
under Trump’s logic, we need to ban Muslim immigration into the U.S.
if that’s the case, since several Roman Catholic priests were child rapists, no more Christians either. none. zero. zip. zilch.
feel the freedom.
“During a decade when other casinos here thrived, Mr. Trump’s lagged, posting huge losses year after year. Stock and bondholders lost more than $1.5 billion.
All the while, Mr. Trump received copious amounts for himself, with the help of a compliant board. In one instance, The Times found, Mr. Trump pulled more than $1 million from his failing public company, describing the transaction in securities filings in ways that may have been illegal, according to legal experts.”
for those into politics,
this is going to be one Hell of a year. “It’s going to get ugly” is a gross understatement.
Hill and Don both will be more Evil than Gaddafi and Francisco Franco. everything will be the Worst (fill in blank) Ever!!!
meanwhile, 50 innocent people were murdered in Orlando this weekend by yet another terrorist. many details are unknown but it’s clear this is just the beginning. want to kill someone? fly to Florida, visit your neighborly gun store and shoot to kill because you’re pissed about milk prices again.
think more guns can stop this? if your murderer is suicidal, the answer is an absolute never no matter how anyone tries to spin it. get used to it America. we are the greatest! 😛
I guess the question is whether or not the Trump supporters actually care that he’s a liar and a crook. The real astonishment is the support he’s getting from evangelical Christians, with Jerry Falwell Jr. leading the way. Can someone explain that to me?
Populist support for the worst in human behavior defies explanation.
Religious leaders can skillfully manipulate binary themes (good vs. evil) as this energizes the faithful.
And our political processes create expectations and venues for the us-verses-them messaging.
The media doesn’t need to tell truer, multi-faceted stories because voters don’t clamour for a better narrative.
We don’t ask for, and therefore don’t see as much investment in facts and critical dialogue.
I blame no one for tuning out or otherwise ignoring election rhetoric.
The public is dumb. All politicians know that. All advertisers know that. I have voted every year since I was 18. I am not voting this year. The only good news I have heard this political cycle is that Ernie Martin is not running for Mayor..