The Donald Trump Score Card

In Trump's mind, it's not so bad that Kim Jong-un has some hangups. All brutal dictators have them.


Donald Trump downplays abuses by Kim Jong Un's regime
Published Jun 14, 2018, 10:48 am SGT

Donald Trump downplays abuses by Kim Jong Un's regime

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"According to Trump's own State Department, Kim's regime holds between 80,000 and 120,000 political prisoners in forced labor camps, facing torture and forced starvation.

As well as abuses at home, Kim is also suspected of ordering the assassination of his half-brother at a Malaysian airport last year.

Trump also had kind words for Chinese President Xi Jinping in the interview, describing him as "an incredible guy" and noting that he is "essentially president for life. That's pretty good.""

 

Unfortunately, some consider those to be the virtues of Trump (i.e., He speaks from the heart; He tells it like it is; .He doesn't let anyone push him around.)

 

Trump is the kind of person who would label McCain's mother a 'loser' for using a wheelchair at age 106.

 

I know this isn't quite as exciting as Kavanaugh's sexual assault accusations, and it's not like Trump's inherent shittiness is news at this point, but still... this is probably the most glaring evidence of Trump being personally involved in criminal behavior:

• In deals to transfer wealth from Fred Trump to his children, transfers subject to a 55% gift tax, the Trumps drastically undervalued properties. When more than a thousand apartment units in eight buildings were transferred from Fred Trump to his children decades ago no taxes were paid on seven of the buildings and a token sum on the eighth building.

• Purchases and re-sales within the family were used to evade taxes and create tax losses. In one 1987 scheme, Fred Trump paid $15.5 million for a stake in Donald’s Trump Palace condos in Manhattan in 1987. Four years later Fred dumped his holdings, collecting just $10,000. That created, on paper, a big tax loss while transferring wealth from father Fred to favored son Donald. This disguised gift allowed the family to evade income and gift taxes totaling about $8 million. Similarly, the family told tax authorities they were worth only about 6% of their actual value. While discounts on transfers made by parents with more than one child are common, a 94% discount is, in a word, egregious. “The Trumps dodged hundreds of millions in gift taxes,” The Times reported, “by submitting tax returns that grossly undervalued the properties, claiming they were worth just $41.4 million. The same set of buildings would be sold off over the next decade for more than 16 times that amount.”
• Donald Trump has always claimed his fortune grew from a single $1 million loan from his father that was paid back with interest. The documents show Donald received loans and gifts worth in today’s money $413 million and failed to pay back many loans. Among the loans was one I reported on in 1990 – a scheme to evade New Jersey casino rules on capital invested in gambling halls. Fred Trump’s lawyer deposited $3.5 million cash to pay for gambling chips, but left without playing. The cash infusion saved Trump from missing a payment to Trump Castle bondholders. Casino regulators fined Donald $30,000, a slap on the wrist.
• In 1995, the elder Trump used a tax avoidance device known as a GRAT – grantor-retained annuity trust – to pass almost all of his wealth to the children while paying no gift taxes. For the tax dodge to work, Fred and his wife only had to live for two years, which they did. Over the years, the paper reported, Donald’s share of revenue from the family grew, which meant his three surviving siblings got less.
• The Trumps used invoicing schemes to reduce taxes and transfer wealth. On 78 refrigerator-stove combinations bought for rental apartments at a cost of $642 each, financial records inflated the cost by $300 through a company the family controlled, documents obtained by The Times showed. That allowed the Trumps to take 46% more in tax deductions than the law allows. This was not a one-off, either. The newspaper said it found 295 separate schemes that made money flow to the children using invoicing schemes. That many schemes suggest that, as I have said many times, the Trump family is a white-collar criminal enterprise with the added benefit one Donald’s siblings being a sitting federal judge.
• The Trumps cheated poor tenants in rent-controlled apartments by fooling housing authorities. Robert Trump, Donald’s younger brother, also testified under oath to inflating expenses on rent-controlled apartments, which means the Trumps cheated the poor to add to their fortunes. “The higher the markup would be, the higher the rent that might be charged,” Robert testified.
• Donald Trump manipulated the prices of stocks, including Time Inc., the magazine publisher, claiming he bought big stakes in the firm. In fact, his father bought shares, selling them two weeks later for a tidy profit after Trump planted his fake news with Don Dorfman, a financial columnist. There is no indication that Dorfman had any role in the scheme other than reporting what Donald said. Keep in mind that there is not a scintilla of verifiable evidence that Trump is or ever was worth a billion dollars.

It seems to me that there is more than enough here to send him away-- and this on top of the money laundering, collusion, obstruction of justice, inciting violence, etc.

 

Really? Speaking from experience?

 

I think what he really means is 'Donald Trump is allowed to do anything he wants because I personally support him'.

 

Just like the time they changed the speech when he met with Putin.

 

Insurance companies are starting to exclude people with pre existing conditions again. Farm Bureau has added the question to their application again, all thanks to Trump's pro-corporate agenda.

 

Maybe people shouldn’t bring their children along when they commit crimes.

 

Ordinarily, I would not respond to your pro-Trump comment; however, this time I will make it clear to you. International Law is applicable to ALL COUNTRIES, including America. International Law is very clear. All people have a right to seek refuge/asylum in another country. All countries are required to process requests from asylum seekers. All countries are required to process these requests for people seeking help, even if these illiterate villagers don't know what to ask for, other than the word "Help." The Trump administration has adopted the 1920 KKK platform of excluding immigrants, as envisioned by a fat scumbag from Marion Indiana known as Stephenson. Today's Republican Party is using Stephenson's KKK platform word for word, all for making white guys richer and stepping on poor colored people. So, these immigrants are not committing crimes under any set of laws, because the United States of America has signed treaties to uphold and comply with International Law. The poor Hondurans and Mexicans are just coming here to seek help and a chance at a better life, not to commit a crime at the Texas border just for fun.

 

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Brinkmanship: Brat and the Businessman

 

Why are so many migrants crossing the U.S. border? It often starts with an escape from violence in Central America

“If my country would be OK ... I would not try to cross," said a mother from Honduras hoping to cross the U.S. border with her 7-year-old son.

by Suzanne Gamboa, Mariana Atencio and Gabe Gutierrez
Jun.20.2018 / 2:03 PM EDT / Updated Jun.20.2018 / 8:13 PM EDT

Central America's violence, turmoil keeps driving families to U.S. border

 

They don't look like criminals at all. The Trump supporters are wrong, because Trump supporters are Klansmen!

 

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SNL - Kavanaugh Hearing

 

Republican = Nazi (((Nazi means nationalist as in Steve Bannon's White Nationalism)))

 

On US soil US law is supreme but either way I’m sure international law doesn’t state that sneaking across the border is permissible. It is a terrible shame for these people that they live in failed societies and if we need to allow more people from those countries to come here let’s have that debate and write the laws. But uncontrolled border crashing is unacceptable.

 

Trump had the opportunity to attend the Summit of the Americas and address issues such as unrest in Central and South America which precipitates movement of migrants to Mexico and the U.S. Trump canceled his visit because he was making plans that week for bombing Syria.


Rubio fills void at Americas summit left by absent Trump
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and JOSHUA GOODMAN
The Associated Press
Originally published April 12, 2018 at 8:57 am Updated April 12, 2018 at 11:50 am

Rubio fills void at Americas summit left by absent Trump