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Trump's Finances Were Shaky -- Then He Began to Capitalize on His Comeback

Nothing new here - he's made most of his money (-- money) through politics and money-laundering, including and starting with his first Manhattan "real estate deal" with Pritzkers' Hyatt... which, of course. ended in acrimony:
www.thedailybeast.com - Trump's Bitter Personal Feud With Rival Billionaires Is Behind His Harvard Hate Campaign

He was never in Top 10 Developers List in New York City or New Jersey, or success--l in many other enterprises he branched into (airlines, casinos, food. etc.). Most of his golf courses are losing money and financed with Russian mob money.

Just one example of Trump property at a very prestigious location that is worthless, and losing money due to low occupancy:

www.curbed.com - The Weird Worth of 40 Wall Street | Donald Trump's most troubled real estate could soon become a slick machine to curry favor with the president. - Oct. 31, 2024 (a week before election - loan supposedly has just been paid off at the end of June 2025; with all the money thrown at Trump since election**, especially through crypto and obscure public and pre-IPO/reverse merger/SPAC companies where Don Jr and Eric are invited to be on Board) it would be embarrassing to default on very visible "Trump property" in NYC.)

As far as real business is concerned he's been a huge failure all his life, and is well known for breaking agreements / "deals" he negotiated. Most of people who have previously done business with him have turned against him, some ended up in bankruptcies or even in prison... which doesn't bother him a bit as long as he can move on to the new scam and grift - and phony "populism" allows to do this bigly. As well as propensity to offload his personal debts onto other "investors," particularly via worthless public companies (like DJT - 1st and 2nd).

His branding income is only supported because of the office he holds, when "investors" think they can capitalize on it, directly or indirectly; most of it pretty much disappeared after he lost to Biden.

As I've said before - his goals are to stay out of jail, get Nobel Peace Prize or attach his name to something considered positive and consequential in history ("Abraham Accords"! "Trump Accord"!) to wash off his impeachments and dismal record and polling, and grab as much cash and embed his dumb and dumber sons in sustainable "Trump" branded businesses.
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www.forbes.com - Don Jr. And Eric Trump Landed $3 Million In Stock For Joining Firm's Advisory Board That Had Little Public Presence Before Their Appointment (DOMH) - 2025-04-17

smokinggun.org - Trump Jr. Becomes GrabAGun Director Ahead of IPO - 2025-04-14

nypost.com - Donald Trump Jr. joining board of BlinkRx - 2025-02-06

www.reuters.com - Eric Trump-backed American Bitcoin to go public through all-stock merger - 2025-05-12

www.coingabbar.com - $620M in 6 Months | Who is Building Trumps Crypto Empire - 2025-07-03

etc., etc.
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#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-30 07:54 AM
See. It can be done. Just pretend it was the UK that mediated this.

Or you can pretend that Trump mediated this... just like he claims to have "mediated" the end of Operation Sindoor (India-Pakistan skirmish) which PM Modi absolutely, positively rejects - there was no 'perfect call' and ceasefire was negotiated by MoD's of both countries.

He also complains that he'll never get Nobel even as he deserves it for "solving / mediating" Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt and Ethiopia...
www.newsweek.com - 2025-06-21

Claiming credit for any seemingly positive event that he had nothing to do with is a sign of fragile and overinflated ego of never being respected as a "successful businessman" and "great dealmaker" (because he never was) and in constant need of stroking, flattery and parades, and his sick, demented mind - check his family history and past and recent statements by his psychologist niece Mary Trump and nephew Fred Trump III on issue of dementia.

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#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-30 02:18 PM
Of course we know what happened. It's been widely reported.

It has been, but you only chose the part you want to see.

Here's what happened well before the fake "peace agreement" which Trump wanted to call "Trump Accord" and claimed it deserves Nobel Peace Prize, which he is after, like a dog chasing car, no matter how much damage it might cause - see Neville Chamberlain's "Peace for our Time" a year before WWII... not that this "agreement" is in any way as consequential.

This is NOT about "peace":

1. DRC produces 80 percent of the world's cobalt. 80 percent of DRC's total cobalt output is controlled/owned by Chinese state-owned companies.

2. DRC ranks 183 out of 190 on the World Bank's Doing Business indicators.

3. 2023-2024 : HR 8310 - Bipartisan "BRIDGE to DRC Act" - "To require a national strategy to secure US supply chains involving critical minerals sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo"

"As the US seeks to gain greater access to critical minerals and diversify its supply chains away from Chinese influence, Biden administration officials hope that... it would increase US or Western firms' willingness to invest in the country."

www.npr.org - DRC's mining is at the heart of Biden's bid to counter China in Africa - Dec 4, 2024

4. Doha, March - May 2025: DRC - Rwanda peace talks didn't lead to agreement because main belligerent - March23 (M23) - rejected the proposals. Sidestepping M23 as a participant in Trump's "peace deal" makes it 'provisional,' at best. And none of many conditions to make it "real" include M23, which is why no such charade was attempted before... but that didn't stop the publicity hound Trump.

5. KoBold, funded by Bezos and Bill Gates (I mentioned here in February that they abandoned search for REEs in Greenland and moved on to "sure thing" in Congo) signed a $1B conditional purchase agreement with a DRC miner AZV in May - www.mining.com

6. Only respective FMs showed up for signing. "Rwanda FM told Trump that past deals had not been implemented and urged Trump to stay engaged. Congo FM said deal must be followed by disengagement." M23 is not party to "peace deal" - so whose "boots on the ground" are going to enforce it? Or are US taxpayers dollars going to PMCs (like Constellis?) to police it... or the mine(s)?

"And now you know... the rest of the story."
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"We take the solar power that we collect from the sun with solar panels, and we take that energy and put it into a set of diodes that turn it back into light," Bhatt said. "That light goes into a fiber where there's a laser, which then lets us point that down to the ground."

Not a new concept - ask 'Willard Whyte'.

www.youtube.com - James Bond - Diamonds are Forever - Baja? I haven't got anything at Baja!

Or more recently:
www.nbcnews.com - Solar Lasers Not Just for James Bond - NBC, 2011-09-19

en.wikipedia.org - Space-based solar power

"Various SBSP proposals have been researched since the early 1970s, but as of 2014 none is economically viable with the space launch costs. Some technologists propose lowering launch costs with space manufacturing or with radical new space launch technologies other than rocketry.

Besides cost, SBSP also introduces several technological hurdles, including the problem of transmitting energy from orbit."
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#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-06-19 09:53 AM
This is just an after affect of Biden seizing Russian assets and giving them to Ukraine.
No nation can be the reserve currency and just take other Nations money because you don't like them.

1. It's not "Biden seizing", it's G7 freezing Russian assets / funds, most of which have been in European banks at the time (in whatever acceptable "designated" international currency) more than 3 years ago - USD actually went up 20% in March-August 2022, after G7 "froze" the assets. Euroclear alone is holding vast majority of funds, in euros, EUR195B.

2. ~$300B is a tiny amount of even USD daily trade / transaction volume, and it's earning interest until G7 decides what to do with it. So far Ukraine only received about EUR1B from accrued interest on these funds. Recent Euroclear disbursement of ~$3.4B to Russian investors was controversial, to say the least.
"If it is returned to Russia, it will be converted into tanks, missiles, drones, training of new troops. The world... must demonstrate that unlawful war brings irreversible financial consequences."

3. Until Trump started openly stating that he wants lower USD (to help US exports and make imports more expensive - "lower trade deficit"!) and lower interest rates (which would also lower USD value) - and to "make the US crypto capital of the world" (of course, nothing to do with his own crypto grifts) - USD was in range of 100-108 for ; it dropped sharply since 110 in January 2025 to 98 this week.

IOW, this nonsense has absolutely nothing to do with USD being a "reserve currency" and its exchange rate.

I understand you want to tie anything that happens here economically to "Russia / Putin have been 'treated badly' by the big bad US / West / NATO" and this is all "Biden's fault" but this one is craziest one I've heard.

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#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-06-19 03:13 PM
Expect more wars because all America has left to sell is weaponry - and its the absolute best but it's really all we produce anymore.

How so? In absolute $$ terms we are only behind China in manufacturing:

Manufacturing by country (2023/2024, in ~$$B, % of global manufacturing output):
China ---- 4658 (31.6%)
USA ------ 2497 (15.9%)
Germany -- 845 (10.5%)
Japan ---- 818 (5.5%)
India ---- 461 (3.1%)
S Korea -- 416 (2.8%)
Mexico --- 361 (2.4%)
Italy ---- 355 (2.4%)
UK ------- 354 (2.4%)
France --- 334 (2.3%)

Brazil --- 290 (2.0%)
Indonesia . 256 (1.7%)
Russia --- 252 (1.7%)
Turkey --- 215 (1.5%)
Ireland -- 207 (1.4%)

But wait, there is more! USA has much smaller population than China... and much smaller labor force... and US manufacturing sector now employs only 8.5% (12.8M) of US total labor force, while China's manufacturing employs more than 120M / 29% of total labor force! Yet US produces more than half of China's manufacturing output. Companies is other countries (including China) are buying what we manufacture, and companies here are buying what they (we) need for resale or for integrating into value-add products.

By normalized metrics, US manufacturing output is second to none!

For comparison, Vietnam manufacturing sector is 21% of their total labor force, Turkey is at 20%, Germany - 19%, Iran - 18%, Japan and SKorea - 16%, Russia and Indonesia - 14%, Ukraine - 13%, India, Brazil and Argentina - 12%, Canada, UK, Singapore, Netherlands and Israel - 9%...
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#21 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-06-19 02:28 PM
Netanyahu refuses to allow Americans to leave Israel.
He needs Americans as human shields.
Unfortunately Israel puts them in the middle of civilians.

"Zionist monsters" closed Israeli airspace for no other reason than to keep Americans in as "human shields"... because Iran cares?

Do we really need to keep lying to ourselves and make s**t up or repost every laughably stupid, easily disproved disinfo from eX-Twitter, Instagram, YT, Iranian and Russian propaganda websites** about Netanyahu / Israel / "Zionism" / Jews, only to feed confirmation bias and "keep the hate alive"?

www.travelagewest.com - This Is How Tourists to Israel Can Get Out of the Country - June 17, 2025
|------- As the Israel-Iran conflict continues to escalate, Israel's airspace remains closed, and flights to and from Israel have been suspended. Ben Gurion Airport... is closed until further notice. On Monday, the U.S. State Department raised its travel advisory for Israel to Level 4, or "Do Not Travel." According to the Israel Ministry of Tourism, there are currently 38,000 tourists in Israel... On Tuesday, the organization announced that it has created a pathway for tourists to leave the country. ... -------|

www.cbsnews.com - U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem says State Department "planning for contingencies" to help Americans leave Israel - CBS, 2025-06-18

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From Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) reports (https://networkcontagion.us):

|------- 6/18/25 False Flags and Fake MAGA:

Amid the escalating war with Iran, pro-Kremlin and Iranian state-linked propaganda nodes flooded American social media while masquerading as MAGA loyalists.

... These coordinated efforts exploited what NCRI identifies as a false flag reflex - a conditioned response that turns... into a trigger for trending conspiracy claims.

... Russia and Iran are actively working to destabilize MAGA movement from within. These foreign actors are deploying tens of thousands of social media bots... to amplify disinformation and sow discord among conservatives... The strategy mirrors tactics previously used to disrupt the Democratic Party, suggesting a deliberate effort to undermine political stability within the United States.

The bots work by amplifying the voices of real-life influencers who propagate false flag narratives... By creating an illusion of widespread support for extreme viewpoints, the bots aim to manipulate public perception.

... The report details specific examples of how these tactics are employed. Noctis Draven, a U.S. veteran who frequently contributes to Russian state media, is identified as a key player in spreading false flag narratives. Draven uses social media platforms to reach a potential audience of millions, pushing conspiracy theories and anti-Western propaganda.

... The report also exposes the use of seemingly innocuous online personas to spread disinformation.

One example cited is "Red Pill Media," an account claiming to be based in the U.S. but operated from Pakistan. This account, which purports to expose "Zionist terrorism," has a significant following and actively spreads anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda. These seemingly grassroots accounts are often part of larger, coordinated disinformation networks, amplifying each other's messages and creating a false sense of organic support. ...
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They don't care if you're "woke" or "MAGA" - just different messages for different tribes.
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Iran Years Away from Nukes, Not Seeking Them

'Now, after days of Israeli airstrikes, US intelligence officials believe that so far, Israel may have set back Iran's nuclear program by only a matter of months, according to one of those people, a US official.

The article contradicts itself on so many levels - we're to understand that:
1. Iran is not "seeking nuclear weapons"...
2. But if they do... they are "years away from them"...
3. But if they are not "years away from them" then the Israelis have only done enough damage (as of June 17th) to "set back Iran's program by only a matter of months"...

And article's different unnamed "experts" say completely different things, some of them are "US intelligence officials" (are these "old" or "new / MAGA" officials, like "Russian asset" DNI Tulsi Gabbard ?) whose views are likely more colored by their attitude toward Israel rather than Iran's program etc. etc.

Real life:

isis-online.org - ISIS - 2025-06-09
"Iran can convert its current stock of 60 percent enriched uranium into 233 kg of WGU in three weeks at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), enough for 9 nuclear weapons
... Iran could produce its first quantity of 25 kg of WGU in Fordow in as little as two to three days. ...

From IAEA:
www.iaea.org

www.iaea.org - 2025-03-03
"I am seriously concerned that the outstanding safeguards issues remain unresolved. They stem from Iran's obligations under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and need to be resolved for the Agency to be in a position to provide assurance that Iran's nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful."

www.iaea.org - 2025-06-09
"Arising from this, the Agency also concludes that Iran did not declare nuclear material and nuclear-related activities at these three undeclared locations in Iran.

Iran's unilateral decision to stop implementation of modified Code 3.1 has led to a significant reduction in the Agency's ability to verify... The rapid accumulation of highly enriched uranium... is of serious concern ... Agency cannot ignore the stockpiling of over 400 kg of highly enriched uranium."

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#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-19 01:33 PM
Stewart revealed that the clip was from ... 2012.

Maybe should not get serious news from comedians?

Let's think:

If there were no Iranian nuclear program in 2012, why did Obama negotiate with Iran and had them sign multinational NPT agreement about monitoring it?

Remember Stuxnet (Israeli / US) "worm" that fried Iran's nuclear centrifuges at several plants - that was in 2010, and set Iran's program back by several years.

Was Netanyahu / Israel wrong about Syria building secret nuclear bomb program with the help of North Korea, which was bombed in 2007 in Operation Orchard / Operation Outside the Box?
en.wikipedia.org - Operation Orchard / Operation Outside the Box - September 6, 2007 - Strategic bombing run to destroy the Syrian nuclear site

www.youtube.com - Operation Orchard: The Explosive Raid on Syria's Nuclear Facility - YT video doc (48 min) details of operation and the role of North Korea in development of Syria nuclear program
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#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-17 05:12 PM
So "we" are at war with Iran now?

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-17 05:55 PM
not even 5 months in and war

I am not sure I'd call it a "war" as much as it is [attempt at] potential "regime change" ... should TPTB "choose to accept it" and not TACO.

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#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-17 05:58 PM
A war he started when he pulled the Sanctions off of Iran... prolly as yet another favor to Vlad.

Vlad did congratulate Trump on his birthday, and used that call to talk about "dangers of nuclear war" in Middle East. Vlad asked him to stop Israel from attacking his buddy Ayatollah - which Trump failed to do - and just a day ago Trump was thinking aloud about Vlad being a mediator of "Cease Fire" between Israel and Iran...

Now that this plan went up in smoke and IAF and Mossad "control the vertical and horizontal" in the air and on the ground in Tehran after decapitating IRGC and Iran's High Command and Ayatollah in "hiding" (if he wants to know where his military leaders are, and vice versa, they can call Tehran's temporary local Mossad HQ branch for info), Trump changed the course and the tone from "We are not involved at all" and is running fast to get in front of the parade and take the credit for possible "regime change" that will finish rearranging ME in the right direction, without Iranian Islamists and Russia causing trouble.

This was offered to Biden more than once but he and his team kept blinders on and insisted on Israel / Netanyahu to "take the win" and continued to pressure Israel to make more and concessions to Hamas, who saw the weakness and kept stalling and changing demands... while Israel kept almost singlehandedly dismantling Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansar al-Shari'a in Yemen, and al-Assad's Iranian and Russian support in Syria, eventually chasing Syrian Hezbollah, Bashar and Vlad out of Syria.

Biden could've been a hero and take credit, if his team had a little nerve, courage, sense and imagination. Just like he could if he'd ignored Vlad's phony "WWIII red lines" in Ukraine. Putin-Trump channel messenger boy Tucker Carlson is attempting to do that "one weird trick" now.

Had Biden gone with the plan A, we might not have had the TACO disaster "to kick around anymore" now.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the only thing Trump really has ever done well is choosing his enemies. "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Happy International Panic Day
Happy International Day for Countering Hate Speech
Happy International Sushi Day
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#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-17 05:12 PM
So "we" are at war with Iran now?

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-17 05:55 PM
not even 5 months in and war

I am not sure I'd call it a "war" as much as it is [attempt at] potential "regime change" ... should TPTB "choose to accept it" and not TACO.

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#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-17 05:58 PM
A war he started when he pulled the Sanctions off of Iran... prolly as yet another favor to Vlad.

Vlad did congratulate Trump on his birthday, and used that call to talk about "dangers of nuclear war" in Middle East. Vlad asked him to stop Israel from attacking his buddy Ayatollah - which Trump failed to do - and just a day ago Trump was thinking aloud about Vlad being a mediator of "Cease Fire" between Israel and Iran...

Now that this plan went up in smoke and IAF and Mossad "control the vertical and horizontal" in the air and on the ground in Tehran after decapitating IRGC and Iran's High Command and Ayatollah in "hiding" (if he wants to know where his military leaders are, and vice versa, they can call Tehran's temporary local Mossad HQ branch for info), Trump changed the course and the tone from "We are not involved at all" and is running fast to get ahead of parade and take the credit for possible "regime change" that will finish rearranging ME in the right direction, without Iranian Islamists

This was offered to Biden more than once but he and his team kept blinders on and insisted on Israel / Netanyahu to "take the win" and continued to pressure Israel to make more and concessions to Hamas, who saw the weakness and kept stalling and changing demands... while Israel kept almost singlehandedly dismantling Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansar al-Shari'a in Yemen, and al-Assad's Iranian and Russian support in Syria, eventually chasing Syrian Hezbollah, Bashar and Vlad out of Syria.

Biden could've been a hero and take credit, if his team had a little nerve, courage, sense and imagination. Just like he could if he'd ignored Vlad's phony "WWIII red lines" in Ukraine. Putin-Trump channel messenger boy Tucker Carlson is attempting to do that "one weird trick" now.

Had Biden gone with the plan A, we might not have had the TACO disaster "to kick around anymore" now.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the only thing Trump really has ever done well is choosing his enemies. "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Happy International Panic Day
Happy International Day for Countering Hate Speech
Happy International Sushi Day
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