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In reply to the discussion: I hate to spoil everyone's fun, but people are misinterpreting the NY Trump ruling... [View all]ProfessorGAC
(68,541 posts)103. Which We Know Is Nonsense
First the LIV money is for sanitizing their public image. Overspending for assets related to criminal activity seems counter to that plan.
Secondly, they aren't going to pay 4, 5, 10x and wait 25 years for value to come to parity.
That's just a fabulist's rationalization for hyperinflating asset value.
Third, what's in it for them to overpay? TFG is not a lock to be POTUS again. There's zero assurance they would benefit from this.
Finally, if the Saudis really were willing to pay multiples of assessed value, he would have taken them up on it already. It would be bad business to hold assets worth less than someone is willing to pay.
The Saudis are nobody to root for, but they're not idiots. He made this up.
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I hate to spoil everyone's fun, but people are misinterpreting the NY Trump ruling... [View all]
brooklynite
Sep 2023
OP
Except he is not allowed to transfer assets, and has been stopped from doing so already
obamanut2012
Sep 2023
#87
I don't understand why you think people here who think this is 'fun' need scolding
bigtree
Sep 2023
#5
Agree, I am listening to a TikTok live, with a lawyer reading the entire judgement --so interesting
ismnotwasm
Sep 2023
#19
I have done really well...46 days in the hospital almost didn't make it...had a bad aortic valve.
Demsrule86
Sep 2023
#23
He isn't allowed to -- he and his family and minions have zero control over his assets
obamanut2012
Sep 2023
#96
Touching a gun is not "possession" when the gun is, at the time, owned by the store.
brooklynite
Sep 2023
#43
+1. "Trump is an authoritarian or fascist"? Hmmm. "Traitor"? Heavens, NO! Define "treason"!
dalton99a
Sep 2023
#68