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What the actual fuck is going on?
he doesnt know how to run a business or the american economy, plain and simple. he's bullied so many into giving him money for decades he thinks it will work if he tries the same with sovereign nations.
It's got to be this. He's running the US economy like it's a business. Not even like a legitimate business but a shitty business that uses mafia tactics and eventually goes bankrupt.
I just hope all those feckless EU leaders aren't stupid enough to be shaken down
This is how he's always been, he's always been a failson who got ahead on Mafia tactics. He inherited a ton of contacts and networks from his father along with a ton of money, and pissed it away on gaudy gold toilets and bankrupting casinos. He never actually ran a proper business in his life.
I've never actually verified this but I have always been entertained by the talking point that he woukd be richer if he just put his inheritance in an index fund.
It's true. Google hint Robert Reich index fund Trump. Reich has mentioned it at least a few times.
Haha nice
And used the casinos to launder money from the Russians
???
This is one of the least logical Russiagate accusations I've ever heard.
The casino was open until like 2014 but wasn't all that popular through the 2010s. Let's call tbe peak the 90s to the early 00s.
You're suggesting that some nebulous "Russians" (who? Politicians? Oligarchs? Gangsters? Typically only gangsters need to launder money) took their ill-gotten roubles, converted them to USD (already a form of money laundering, doing this alone would suffice), flew to Atlantic City, gambled it away in Trump's casino, converted their winnings back to roubles (losing heavily during the exchange rate process), and flew back to Russia, because Trump was friendly or something? All at a time when Russia was politically neutral to the US during the Fukuyama End of History era? At a time when the rouble wasn't banned from global markets? What fucking purpose would laundering their money in a different nation's currency altogether actually serve?
Do you actually think before you post or do you just fire off some fucking Tom Clancy fanfic with Trump and Spooky Russians :tm: attached to it and expect it to be taken at face value?
The "seized" (stolen) money from the 2022 heist?