As I said in this thread Are we at war with Russia?:
I finished reading this interesting, and terrifying, book earlier this evening. TL : DR - Alexander Litvinenko was murdered with a piece of polonium-210 that was smaller than a grain of sand (and left trails all over, among other cities, London) and Putin is more dangerous than any of us can comprehend.
The book was published in 2016 and doesn’t mention Trump or the then-upcoming election at all.
Yeah, that’s an old story…I remember the reporting on it.
Richard Engel (journalist for NBC and MSNBC) did a succinct run-down of suspicious deaths that have benefited Putin–this is about three minutes:
How are you claiming one the one hand that no one has access to Trump’s financials and then on the other stating relative amounts and sources of his income?
Still, it’s hard to forgive how he treated such an American icon as Gary Busey. The man is a poster child for…whatever the hell happened to him.
It’s clearly of value for him to bother appearing on daytime TV, otherwise he’d do something less like a day job and more like a rich man investing. The key difference between an average man’s finances and a business tycoon’s finances is that one is looking for a bigger paycheck, the other is looking for a way to grow money. A person who was successful at the latter would have no interest in a regular paycheck.
The year that he would have gotten his biggest payout from his TV work was the year he selected to leak a 20k foot view of his finances to the press.
Forbes estimated his capital holdings (indirect and otherwise) as possibly amounting to $1 billion, but given that he feels that it’s more valuable to spend his time filming and editing The Apprentice than to manage his business, it’s reasonable to say that whatever income he’s actually making from his real estate holdings is insufficient to be worth his full attention.
Where did you get the “possibly amounting to $1 billion” from Forbes?
As of Feb 2017:
New York City Real Estate $1.7 B valuation
Non-New York City Real Estate $630 M valuation
Golf Courses & Clubs $620 M valuation
Brand Businesses $230 M valuation
Cash & Personal Assets $270 M valuation
LOL, remember when Forbes banned Trump from their Rich Dude List (forget the actual name) because he was so blatantly lying about his fortune? (Forbes relied on the proposed listees to make the wealth calculations.)
It was an online article I read last summer that listed all Trump’s international projects (not construction of course, branding and management contracts) in India, Canada and the Middle East. It was a long list of failures. My favorite was the one in Azerbijan that Ivanka brag-blogged about. The worst location and still unfinished but TrumpCo did get to mingle funds with a corrupt government minister and a front for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Is the one in Azerbijan the one that has no access road leading to the hotel?
Its like “The Producers”, isn’t it, take all this dirty money and sink it into an absolutely sure to fail real estate thing, then the money is gone, but now its clean! OK, I see the problem with that…
And looks like a giant metal vagina?
I misremembered or saw an older article, I guess. Either way, the exact number doesn’t impact what I wrote terribly much.
that’s right. It was a pale imitation of the Burj Al Arab in Dubai and the taxi driver couldn’t figure out how to get to it. New Yorker has the scoop: Donald Trump’s Worst Deal.
Plenty of grabbing goodness.
Interesting read:
I heard Trump order that only Russian Salad dressing to be used in the White House from now on. The nerve of the guy !!
He’s been buddies with the Russians for a decade+. Just continuing old habits.
Could it be that the bias toward Russia is simply more visible than what passes for “policy” under this administration because it’s one of the few places where the Bannon (ideological) and Kushner (business) factions align?
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