That’s a Whole Slab of Money, Honey.
The AP has a very cool story trying to explain what happened to all the money Trump raised to run for president this time.
We’re talking about a billion dollars. It’s hard to spend a billion dollars, even if you do have kinky perversion about gold plated crap.
Trump bought a $10 million Super Bowl ad when he didn’t yet have a challenger. He tapped his political organization to cover exorbitant legal fees related to his impeachment. Aides made flashy displays of their newfound wealth — including a fleet of luxury vehicles purchased by Brad Parscale, his former campaign manager.
Meanwhile, a web of limited liability companies hid more than $310 million in spending from disclosure, records show.
That’s the bottom line – he doesn’t know how to spend money. That’s why his businesses go under and his creditors are left holding an empty bag.
And that’s what we will be holding when he leaves office.
One other thing. Thelma pointed out to me that we’re either gonna see a massive upheaval in December or a whine that just won’t quit. So, we’re ordering shirts that say, “Shuddup, Man” printed on them as election celebration gifts.
I’m telling you the truth, it’ll be a bridge I’ll gladly cross. He can throw as much broken glass on there as he wants, I’ll still cross it.
I haven’t seen anyone blow through that kind of cash since attending one of Jay’s parties. Of course, he actually had the money to spend.
1Call me suspicious, but what if big chunk of that money went to Trump-owned LLCs?
2RepubAnon@2–Ding! Ding! I think you hit upon the winning answer!
3I gotta hand it to NBC. They ran the the story with this headline:
‘Monkeys with flamethrowers’: How Trump plowed through his $1 billion war chest
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/monkeys-flamethrowers-how-trump-plowed-through-his-1-billion-war-n1244033
4RepubAnon @2 Any donor who wrote a check to Trump’s reelection fund, and didn’t know that it was going to go into his pocket instead of his campaign, deserves to be soon parted from his money. The man owes $1 billion, his annual payments just on the interest probably run in the high eight figures. And if it’s owed to Putin, as we all suspect, Trump is about to lose the only in-kind substitute for cash payments Pooty would accept–saboutaging American interests. Trump will be lucky if Putin just keeps him on a chain in his throne room like Princess Leia.
5Trump’s one genuine talent is blowing through sums of money so vast you or I would be hard pressed to lose it all. He did it with about $400 million from his father, and another $400 plus from his substitute father Mark Burnett. Now this one, although here he had help.
6I just assumed that all the various ratholes that money got poured into had numbered accounts at the bottom. There are loans due, and I assume some of the lenders are the sort that have their own collection systems…
As for Parscale and the $40M, I thought that was just SOP Трумп trying to get out of paying a contractor his due.
7“That’s the bottom line – he doesn’t know how to spend money.”
Really? That seems exactly backwards: he knows every way there is to spend money, except, perhaps, paying off his debts.
8Talk about stoooopid! Real politicians hang on to their campaign money in order to do a slam bang finish in ads. But as you can see, I said REAL.
Brad Pascale? Isn’t he the one who went off his rocker in Florida so bad that his wife had to call the cops? Hell, if I had to work with tRump in any way for any amount of time I would probably lose my feeble mind as well!
9Slightly off topic:
Tuesday the First Floozy abruptly canceled a rally. Her spokesperson said she had a ‘lingering cough.’
That was a lie. You don’t discover a lingering cough on Tuesday afternoon. So, what was the real reason?
What happened Tuesday morning? The government revealed to a judge that it has been unable to reunite 545 small children that it kidnapped from their parents in 2017.
Unlike Trump, Sessions, Kelly, Nielsen, Azar, Miller, Waldman, Lloyd etc., FF is known to have objected to the kidnappings.
In ‘Separated,’ Jason Soboroff reports that after public opinion forced the First Fascist to suspend (at least for public consumption) the kidnappings, Trump wanted to resume them.
First Floozy objected and he backed down, with his signature ill grace.
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