Hicksville?
So, here’s the deal. It’s kinda like a bushel basket of wire coat hangers after a trip through the spin cycle on an industrial washing machine, but somehow all the money ends up in Trump’s back pocket.
President Donald Trump has charged his own campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars in rent for offices in Trump Tower for more than five years. But the campaign doesn’t always send its rent to Trump Tower. In fact, most of the checks have gone to a post office box in Hicksville, New York, a suburban community on Long Island. It’s not clear why, or who is receiving those checks.
Campaign money ends up there and it’s been shown to pay Trump’s own personal bodyguard, maybe the half a million he pays himself rent for an office he has in Trump Tower, and Lord only knows what else.
Interviews with state income tax and commercial property tax experts familiar with the workings of New York city and state yielded bafflement: Comments included, “Totally bizarre,” “No idea,” “I’ve never seen something like that” and “Holy s***, that’s absolutely weird.”
Which are the usual words to describe Trump.
People who love numbers games will enjoy the full read at Salon. The bottom line is that you cannot trust Trump with money and the probable reason that his campaign is flat broke is that he spent it all on himself.
The nauseating part of this is that won’t change a thing in the minds of the Trumpistas.
1Totally right BarbinDC – plus they’ll send him money!
2One wonders who is cashing those checks – are they reporting that as income? Was a 1099 filed? If it’s a gift – were gift taxes paid?
So many questions…
3Emoluments, what emoluments?
4You’d think with all the money he stole he could’ve bought some better suits
5Personal bodyguard? I don’t remember reading about the abolition of the Secret Service. Another of Mnuchin’s cost-cutting moves, like looting millions from the 9/11 FDNY health program?
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-fdny-911-health-program-treasury-20200910-s7yam67j6vhmhbdzg6ordanfdm-story.html
6Trump was probably watching an episode of Green Acres while he concocted yet another money pirating scheme, got on the phone and quickly discovered all the PO Boxes in Hooterville were spoken for, so Hicksville was Plan B.
7Curious…Does ex-presidenta tRump still receive Secret Service
8protection when he goes to prison?
“a post office box in Hicksville, New York”
9Hmmm,
Isn’t that the same post office Putin sends Trump his campaign contributions?
Maybe, just maybe, that would be a good question for the Biden campaign (or the media Hahaha) to ask? cuz …Benghazi!!!
I think it’s fair to admit that Boss Tweet truly is (one of?) the best Conman in History…
10The turd always rises to the top of the punch bowl.
11Last train to Hicksville?
12https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLONIWOe0vs
That puke can’t see a pot of money without wanting all of it. No wonder the sight of the US Treasury made his little pickle get all hard and stuff.
13JJ, your last sentence has the ring of Truth.
I hope that the good folks in the applicable New York DA’s office can figure it all out, and indict the orange con man for yet another financial crime.
14You could have stopped at “you can’t trust Trump.” Just sayin’.
15It’s the inevitable result of the billionaires’ club that the GOP has become–a King-of-the-Hill game of grift, with the winner riding off into the sunset with all the moeyy on the table.
16Political campaigns are a sort of Texas Hold’em for conmen like Trump, and they get to make up the rules as they go along.
And, of course, win lose or draw, they keep all the money.
17“Most of the checks have gone to a post office box in Hicksville, New York.”
If it were anyone else, I’d say that was a deliberate joke — gold-electroplated, Manhattan skyscraper, nouveaux rich trash having people mail his money to a place called Hicksville.
Alas, he’s just not that clever, and has zero sense of humor.
18This is the kind of guy who thinks bushel baskets of money are the perfect confetti, hence he throws it around. He is mentally and otherwise incapable of actually handling the stuff like an honest adult.
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