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'N.Y. state padlock on Trump Tower': Expert says Trump is at 'next-to-last step' from ruin
Great. Good start. Next put him in jail for leading a coup attempt.
And killing a million Americans with his inept covid response.
You mean horse dewormer, injecting bleach, and shoving a UV light up your ass didn't cure it????
And then for revealing our spies' names to Daddy Putin and getting them executed.
As someone who graduated from High School in the 1980s, Trump's collaboration with & sucking up to the Russians is absolutely baffling! I'm disgusted by the Republican Party for playing dumb about that...
I graduated in 76, and I am so perplexed. It boggles my mind completely. I don't know how we got here so fast.
I graduated in 1969, the love affair that TFG and his traitorous followers have with Putin, Kim Jung-Un, Hitler, Orban, and other live and unalive tyrants, is astounding, mystifying, and utterly repugnant, not to mention terrifying.
It’s gross. From an ex NYer I will never understand how Don the Con went from building his empire for free by stiffing small businesses and independent contractors and ruining lives, to President. And then as president found new ways to ruin people and is still today doing it. And people think God sent him? That vile narcissist is going to get a visit from karma eventually, she never forgets an address.
It just is crazy to me. Especially the nazi shit. Growing up watching "World at War" with my dad and him explaining wwii, it is mind boggling.
Thank you for the 'World at War' refference. I was watching a Netflix series called 'Turning Point - The Bomb and The Cold War'. During it, they played that iconic video clip of April 22, 1945, a victorious U.S. Army destroyed one of the greatest symbols of Germany’s Nazi regime: a giant marble swastika that overlooked the Zeppelintribüne, Adolf Hitler’s most powerful pulpit, at the heart of the Nazi party rally grounds.
Brought me right back to sitting in my parent's living room in the 70's or 80's watching that show.
True that. And then there is the off chance I dream of daily, that his karma runs flat over his dogma.
Given today's revelation of his inability to raise that half billion, I like to think the universe is finally calling in his karmatic iou chits, hopefully in both financial and criminal matters, sooner rather than later.
And I love losing his mind for him too. I don’t often wish someone to die screaming, having seen it once before, but in certain cases, such as this one, I think driven to madness isn’t disproportionate. Not for too long, just a little comeuppance dose. 6 months maybe. Or a year. Or a couple short years. No more than 8 years.
It's called the Electoral College. This problem should have been fixed after the 2000 election, but we live in a period where nothing gets fixed anymore. W was bad, but Cheeto was catastrophic.
He will indeed meet his karma, but I hope he doesn’t destroy the rest of us before he does.
DJT is a Ruzzzian asset since 1987ish. Daddy Pootin thought it was a great idea for his useful idiot to be President. So, after a lot of propaganda & oligarch money, here we are.
He also liked that piece of garbage duterte from the Philippines.
Because it wasn’t fast. We are the frog in the pot. It started with the emergence of The Moral Majority and getting Reagan elected. They’ve been slowly turning up the heat since then so that most of us haven’t felt the water boiling around us now.
‘85 grad here.. I totally hear ya, then again, it actually makes sense. The guy’s a complete, total sellout. He’ll do anything that he thinks will serve him well. Not an ounce of integrity.
But daddy was gonna withhold his allowance!
Revealing where Khashoggi was to MSB and getting the ‘bonesaw payment’, selling nuclear secrets… Jesus, there’s probably a shorter list of what he hasn’t done.
I want a “I shoved so many things into my ass and all I got was Covid” tshirt
The Magats could have made so much money by selling vibrating studded UV lights...
Was shoving a UV light up the ass a real suggestion he made? The man is so ridiculous that I can't even tell where reality ends and satire begins anymore.
He said something about needing to get UV light inside your body. He didn’t specify an orifice, if I recall correctly.
Well over a century ago, scientists discovered that germs cause disease. They also quickly discovered that it’s easy to kill germs when they’re outside of the body, but it’s hard to kill them inside the body without killing the person as well. From a medical perspective, this concept is about as new and original as the concept of water being wet… Yet Trump, in front of the cameras, with the whole world watching, actually acted as if he was enlightening everyone, doctors included, with this “bleach injection” / “some sort of cleansing” nonsense. That asshole is so narcissistic and simultaneously stupid, it boggles the mind.
EDIT: After going back and rewatching the infamously stupid clip, I realized I was giving the orange fuckwad too much credit. He didn’t even get the fact that it’s hard to kill internal germs without harming the patient. He was actually suggesting that since bleach kills Covid within 60 seconds, there shouldn’t be a problem here. Like he was really on to something… And then, when he was eventually called out on it, he said he was being sarcastic… Bullshit, he was dead serious..
Um... I still sun my ass and scroat. Not often, I mean.. When the sun is out anyway.
I'm waiting for Tucker Carlson to catch his man bush on fire trying to tan his balls
His balls would tan wonderfully, if found true
Wait, was the order? I did it wrong... First step for me was a toss up between injecting bleach or boofing a UV light. I'm a gentleman before anything else- so I boofed the light... Guess who had COVID last labor day with their kids and wife...
I wasn't man enough for the 24" dual density fluorescent light with the optional squirting bulb so I stuck with a tiny light strip. I'll leave those expensive purchases to the true magats
I'm a gentleman before anything else- so I boofed the light...
I just laughed so hard I almost spit out my dinner!
If you inject enough bleach, I can virtually guarantee Covid won’t be what kills you.
also cut the CDC back in '20.
The budget request would trim funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by almost 16 percent. HHS officials said they want the CDC to focus on its core mission of preventing and controlling infectious diseases and on other emerging public health issues, such as opioid abuse.
He also pretty much eliminated the Pandemic Task force that Obama started.
What running the government like a business looks like. If it's not immediately deemed as useful gut it then have a shocked pikachu face when you DO need it.
Far worse than inept. Far worse than callus. Donald Trump’s disregard and demonization of the the very scientists and doctors charged with protecting the nation’s health while minimizing the risk to the people he swore to protect and serve was a form of mass manslaughter. He will never be held accountable for it. In fact, many of his cult who lost acquaintances, friends and family as a direct result want him to “lead” our country again.
It’s interesting to watch him wanting to take credit for the vaccination while simultaneously denouncing it. When narcissism and anti-science collide
He just blames Fauci for anything and his idiot followers believe him.
Or trying to become a dictator of a republic and transform the country into a shell of itself because of his greed and dementia and debts to other people and countries.
He is personally responsible for the death of my BIL and another million or so of my fellow Americans .
Yup. Great uncle a Trumper, Covid denier/Covid vax refuser. Dead because of that.
It’s like a cleaning from the inside. Might work but then you’re dead.
He did Darwin GQP voters, less on the repub rolls....they do dumb 💩 to themselves. They continue 'curing' their own ailments w/ cult medicine
Well the covid deniers/ anti vaxxers deserved to die
I am shocked at how none of the media is bringing this up!
Let's hope he does not auction the national security files in his possession.
Not to mention HES A RAPIST
So many trials
Biden should say this loudly and publicly every day. Let’s make E Jean Carrol a billionaire (on paper only because Trump is not a billionaire).
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2mo
I saw a video by Meidis and apparently Trump doesn't have the cash and is BEGGING the court for mercy.
I think I watched the same video. He should have thought about that before he acted like he did in court
I'm still kinda surprised CNN hasn't created a countdown clock yet. We are only a week away from Stinky gets destroyed nirvana.
And his corrupt sons and son-in-law
I'm hopeful that all these fines will start the house of cards to fall, and it snowballs into him unable to secure any decent lawyer and future cases get worse and worse for him.
It's exactly what his fraud ass deserves!
Never happening.
Not with a complicit, doddering, terrified AG and feckless judges who won't even enforce gag orders.
Yes but those “feckless judges” likely guaranteed that tRump has no maneuvering available to him on appeal. Give the man enough rope and let him hang himself.
Well, at least his jail cell will keep him from being homeless.
New York Attorney General Letitia James could put a "padlock" on Trump Tower, legal analyst Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC, effectively locking the former president out of his iconic Fifth Avenue building and making it the property of New York.
Turn it into something he hates.
The Central Park Five Center for Minority Poverty Assistance?
Or maybe a social club that only admits actual billionaires?
Pay-per-View implosion special. Proceeds go towards erecting in its place Letitia James Center, with offices for a reorganization of ICE (Immigrant Citizenship & Education); Vocational School for the Poor & Disabled; Free Urgent Care for Children; Free Legal Services for those in need of an Attorney; Shelter for the Homeless & Victims of Sexual Assault; and a Comprehensive Women’s Clinic.
Or perhaps temporary housing for the migrants Texas keeps shipping to NYC. They could turn the Trump restaurant housed in the building into a cafeteria for those migrants or even the homeless & give the migrants temporary jobs working there.
I also like the idea of them renting units out to minorities. The type of people that Fred Sr. & Donald discriminated against years before. Maybe call it the James Tower or the NY People's Tower. That'd be some sweet karmic justice.
All good ideas. I am all for turning it into something useful for the community AND giving the Trump legacy a GIANT middle finger🖕
After all the harm he's brought to the world, his impending epic flame-out deserves to be live-streamed sans censorship. A global cathartic moment that can bring most of us together.
The negative mental health impact he had on the vast majority of Americans is underestimated. Having this guy on TV and Twitter as President was hell. Impending doom with every insane comment or action. He owes us - a lot.
He certainly does. Restitution is a good start.
I want to see that fat shit shoveling ditches.
It really would unite a large segment of America!
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2mo
I don't think he owns Trump Tower does he? He leases parts, he owns parts and leases them, and then he had his business offices and apartment he owns right?
I really wish there was a list of what exactly he "owns" because his business model seems to be 'lets be sloppy with it all' and doesn't own a lot of the stuff people think he owns.
He’s probably got loans covering loans covering other loans. He’s so deep in debt that’s why he’s screaming that everything he owns is worth a lot. That’s the only way he could get more loans. He’s like a one-man pyramid scheme. I think once it finally unravels, people will be shocked.
Dear God make this happen
I'm praying for this!!!....and I'm an atheist!
Trumps been 1 step away from ruin for years and years, story after story. I've given up on it. He'll snake his way out of everything until he dies
Cool with the snaking away so long as the grim reaper is just a hop, skip or jump away from his fat orange ass.
But donnie you said under oath you had $400m in the bank cash? You were lying again were you not? Then you also kept saying Mar-Where-Liars-Go was worth over a billion. Surely all the financial world will give you a loan on that....surely ...unless you were LYING YOU FAT TOSSER
DONNIE - EVERYONE IS LAUGHING AT YOU - JUST LIKE THE OSCARS
BIGLY DONNIE - YOU ARE FUCKED BIGLY BADLY
He most definitely is! Every property he owns is leveraged out the ass and everything she seizes from him and sells he will have to actually pay taxes on! For once in his life he is facing consequences and having to pay taxes!
Now he’s an even bigger security liability, I hope they got all the top secret docs back from him.
Is it me or does this comment read a lot like Stephen King??
Mar-a-lago will be There-ya-All go once he has to foreclose on it.
The *James Tower!
Carroll Tower
This is correct
Yes but OBAMA Tower would probably induce a stroke or two.
If strokes are the objective, Soros Tower.
rofl I appreciate your ability to reassess and pivot on a dime. You must work in operations 🤭
Ha ha so true. Obama sets something off in the guy. He thinks Biden is Obama half the time anyways.lol I like the sound of The Caroll James Immigration Center. Have to have something about immigrants to really poke him.
Wouldn't that be poetic?
Tish Tower
Looks like the Russian money dried up. They’re sanctioned up the ass and they already got everything they wanted from him.
They need to finish him off, then.
Maybe if we tell Boeing he is going to testify against them?
Well, almost everything. Well begun is half done.
I don't think they really care if he becomes president again. They just want to sow division. And they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
I think Letitia James is about to find out that all of Trumps properties are leveraged to the hilt and Trump has little to no actual equity in any of the properties that have his name on them.
They'll still seize them and sell them and put whatever pennies are left towards his civil judgement. And then he'll still owe the balance once the properties are gone 😊
Well he says that his assets were way undervalued because they didn't account for his "brand". So sell a billion dollars worth of "brand". Something is worth exactly what someone else is willing to pay for it. His "brand" is only worth whatever Chinese hats and flags he can sell and nothing more.
So by that logic anything with “Trump” on the sign is inherently more valuable.
She should sell those off first, signs included.
He Shoukd do some Steaks, maybe a University. Open a Casino. I'm sure he'd do an amazing job with any of them! Rake that cash in in no time! Close call!!!
holy cow could you imagine if they actually where able to sell his brand. Take possession of his trademarks and copyrights and sell them. There would actually be a huge bidding war just from people wanting to make it so he couldn't use them any more.
Lawl.
Watching testimony from his CFO Allen Weisselberg, who admitted under oath that he’s not a CPA.
This blows my mind. No wonder the guy did time for ‘creative accounting’ and just pleaded guilty again for lying under oath. Clown car of attorneys and finance executives.
The greatest irony would be for Ms James to take over Trump Tower, kick out the tenants, and start using it as a migrant shelter for all the people Greg Abbott is busing into NYC.
Subsidized housing. Imagine all the people you could shelter there. Vets, migrants, low income. Even throw a rehab in for good measure…ole Donnie would stroke out
Best line in the article: Kirschner went on to say that if Trump's assets are valued at the level he says they are, "I would think insurance companies and sureties would be beating down his door to do business with him." Isn’t this what started this whole thing off?
MMW, laundered rubles to the rescue.
Hell, even they may be thinking “Sorry pal, without those documents you’re useless to us now.”
прощай, неудачник
They have certainly lost enough money on him already, and that war in Ukraine has them in a less-than-magnanimous mood
Shoe sales not going well…
I prefer presidents who weren't indicted.
The Biden campaign should use this as one of their slogans. Make a bumper sticker!
I doubt it will happen, but it would be awesome to see NY seize Trump's property and auction it off on the courthouse steps.
They could rename it the Barrak Obama Center for Human Kindness
Barack
Gotta make sure to put Obama’s middle name in there for ol orange boy.
I don’t want to see an auction. What if he makes a deal for daddy Putin or the Saudi’s to buy it.
I will believe it when it happens. This slimy treasonous hateful man has never paid for the crimes he's committed. And I'm not holding hope that he ever will
I think he'll die peacefully in his sleep before he pays for any of his crimes....
Trump never has money when he owes someone. He’s probably got it hidden because a trump never pays his bills. ( or taxes)
I think he has the money. However, I think he’d rather force the Court’s hand so that he can play the victim, using this as the spark that lights the proverbial powder keg so that his disciples can start shooting. We live in dangerous times, people.
If he inflated property values for loans, you can be certain he inflated his net worth for his ego.
Didn't he sue someone for calling him a millionaire?
He's hidden the docs money away somewhere. Better check that coffin.
Trump absolutely does not have $464 million in liquid cash.
We all knew this the moment it became public that in a sworn deposition he claimed to have over $400 million. He exaggerates everything. The man is leveraged seventeen ways from Sunday, and the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. There are only a few ways this can possibly go over the next week (reporting is that NYAG is going to start enforcing judgement on the 25th), from least to most likely:
- He somehow cobbles the actual cash together himself by raiding RNC, campaign donations, Prince Bonesaw, Putin, etc.
- he pulls together enough cash and/or stock that some company will underwrite the bond
- he refuses to pay, and NYAG promptly seizes all properties in NY state, issues liens against others as needed (which he will promptly litigate in court and in the media)
- he refuses to pay, and somehow gets given more time
Do you think that somehow he funnels overseas MO ey in though? Obviously, I hope not. But, in his desperation, even with a monitor. He'll probably try if he can.
Doubtful. He’s never playing 4D chess and I don’t know why anyone would ever believe he is.
He has the value, but it’s not liquid…probably mostly in real estate. Trying to sell any of his properties in a short time frame without settling for pennies is difficult. That’s my guess.
Doesn’t matter, he broke the law. Lock it up.
Once he’s down and out, can we hit him a few more times for all the conflict of interests? I’m still salty about forcing the Secret Service to rent rooms at his own resort at an inflated rate. It was a simple cash grab and that alone should have been enough to land a conviction.
This would be a great one. How about charges related to fraudulent statement of taxes?
Spirit of Halloween has entered the chat.
If I could distill this I would make a batch to put in my martinis. I would savor every drop.
Just hurry it up, the World’s future depends on two things, putting this scumbag in jail and swinging his pal in Ruzzia from a rope.
Gentle reminder that we have yet to sufficiently explore Trump's taxes for the last 7 years.
Considering the last 5,at least, I'd be very interested to see what that all looks like, when also considering what has come out of this fraud trial alone.
If Trump was massively overvaluing his assets, then that metric feeds into every other aspect of his financial life and causes all of it to be wrong in various ways.
I would guess they'd continue to run the property for now and collect rents (albeit Trump and his family would be evicted), and then they'd try to find a buyer.
But finding a buyer might prove difficult for a bunch of reasons, so it might just remain in the State's hands.
Good, fuck Trump!
Since every underwriter this side of a pawn shop has turned him down for the bond he needs to appeal the fraud judgment without him putting up cash or stock, it appears his only option left is to sell some property if he wants to get the New York judgment stayed on appeal.
However, what happens if he goes to sell a property and he can't get close to what he valued it at? Then that even further validates the New York court's decision. Further complicating things, since every buyer on the planet will know he really needs the money if he tries to sell property, it's unlikely he'll get what the actual value is for anything.
"What a tangled comb-over we weave......"
I'm wondering if he can go to a Saudi insurer and effectively use them as a corrupt funnel for Saudi funds???
I dunno. I think a dose of reality is setting in for Dumpy Don. Unlike his adoring cult morons now he has to deal with professional underwriters and financiers who deal in actual hard cold facts to get this bond. And nobody seems willing to gamble half a billion dollars on Trump's "word" given his lifelong record.
Quit getting my hopes up with these ‘almost ruined’ headlines. Fuckin Teflon Don. Come at me when he’s done.
Yes, finally there are some consequences for his deplorable behavior. NY State should turn Trump tower into low income housing for immigrants.
Ououououou! Experts say he at the next step from ruin! It must be so!!
Take his shit. Put him on trial for any one of the 91 fucking felony counts. Enough is enough.
Fuck this guy with pineapples and razor wire. Next to ruin? That’s where he got the whole country. Fucking ruin him.
Or again, take him to trial. How bout that? At least? Before the election? Under these extraordinary circumstance? How bout that?
Could we just lock him IN the building, cut the phones and internet, then call it good?
I heard this am that Jared's trying to get a 500 million foreign deal.
How many national security documents will be sold?
It’s always “could” or “might” but never actually doing anything. Same old story.
I would love for this to become housing for nyc homeless population.
With a women's shelter on the premises. Any additional services to assist women would be added bonuses because of his long-standing mistreatment of women.
And a Planned Parenthood
I'd buy a tee-shirt of the door locked.
AG James is going to go savage on his Orange ass and Judges will just laugh.
All this Trump "winning."
"...gonna be so much winning, you're gonna get tired of winning..." 😆
Take his phone, kill the internet to the building n lock his dementia riddle ass inside
I'm really hoping he can bleed the RNC dry of all of it's cash and reserves before he completely goes down in flames.
Fuck trump
When the fat around his heart finally makes America great again.
Can we just get to last step already?
Wait and see if anyone has the backbone to actually do it. 🥱
I will believe it when it happens. Damn I would love to see it but consequences seemed to be easily thwarted
Melania is thinking to herself 'there will be nothing left in the divorce settlement!!!!'
And for those not paying attention for the last 10yrs+... this is what you call a confidence game.
Please wake TF up.
Lock him up. Seize his stuff.
Couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole. Thoughts and prayers Diaper Don. I thought you were a Billionaire ?! No ? Really ?!
Just needs to sell a few more pairs of sneakers.
I’m almost begging for a very public meltdown that just goes on forever. Oh please let him rant and rave until he literally shits himself on live TV!
Padlock all his golf courses that should make him go fucking insane.
He doesn't own the building. His $52M condo is his only NYC property free of a mortgage but it would only pay for 10% of his fine
Turn Trump Tower into the New York City immigrant processing station lol
All night Adderall fueled truth social crybaby session incoming.
As long as he's still traveling by limousine and private jet with a full security detail, he's nowhere close to "ruin."
Since Trump is sooo worried about the car industry, and his recent rant on 100% tariffs, among other things the judge should take his large car collection away as collateral (at least all the foreign cars like his Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls, etc)
🤣 x 1000
Joy to the World, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy
I would guess they'd continue to run the property for now and collect rents (albeit Trump and his family would be evicted), and then they'd try to find a buyer.
But finding a buyer might prove difficult for a bunch of reasons, so it might just remain in the State's hands.
Stop. I can only get so hard.
I’m shedding a tear…
OF JOY! WOOHOO! Come on, Ms. James, make this a reality. I’ll buy you the padlock!
Finish him!
I have the champagne chilling in anticipation
Thoughts and prayers my dear leader
So much winning that I’m almost tired of winning.
The article asks: ‘How does she extract the value from it, does she put it on the market? Does the state actually take possession of it and convert it to a state owned property?
Here is my idea. State takes ownership and makes it a welcome and refuge center for immigrants and homeless people. Free meals and stay for free as long as you need. Courtesy of trump. Welcome to America with a side of fraudenshaude.
I don’t know about anybody else, but it still feels like this slippery fucker is going to somehow squirm his way out of this. He’s the devil.
Please tell me this will happen and he will face ruination. Please?
I try never to lie so I won't tell you that if I myself don't believe it.
Has he considered OnlyFans? 🤭
"New York Attorney General Letitia James could put a "padlock" on Trump Tower"
Seize it and convert it into low income housing…
It's kinda funny how so many are in denial on his behalf.
What is the date that she can start taking assets if he does not come up with the bond or the courts bail him out?
Well c’est la fucking vie! I guess if we can’t have him in jail we can have him living with his in-laws. People like him deserve to fade away into destitution. I wonder if his 73 million voters will pony up their life savings to make him a billionaire once more? Actually though, I think with Jared’s two billion dollar deal with the Pretty Prince of Saudi he could bail out his loving father-in-law because we all know how MAGA love Jewish folk. All so nefarious and sinister.
Turning his place into public housing would be awesome.
It's lucky that Marlardo is worth $1.5bn squillion. He'll have so much spare cash from the sale!!!! Phew!!!
Yes... more.
I get so sick of this shit. The article is about how they could put a padlock on Trump Tower, not that they did. The title is so effing misleading they might as well have just made up a lie.
Start with his orange make-up first. Take it away. That’ll really get him where it counts.
Trump Tower or Mar a Lago? Which goes first?
His karma is way past overdue. Never should have gone down that escalator.
Really? I doubt it. Although I would love for that to be true I think his offshore accounts and his oligarchs accounts should be checked. He might have the most valuable oligarchs around since many seem to be dying all of a sudden. All he would have to do is increase his extortion racket and the cash would appear.
While I would gleefully watch the tangerine turd lose everything, I refuse to get my hopes up. He slithers away from all his messes and he just moves in to the next thing.
Aha, so he lied about his wealth! Wow that’s a big surprise and he can’t raise his bond, an even bigger surprise 😳 Not to worry in just a few more days the courts can press for seizure of assets to cover this and Trumps downward spiral begins in earnest! Wow that’s a surprise 😜🤭
😂😂😂 great start to the day
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