He already tried a golf course there, It failed like everything else he touches.
In 2008 Trump International entered into an arrangement with the owners of Coco Beach Golf & Country Club, a foundering resort and golf course that had opened in 2004 on the northeast coast of Puerto Rico about 30 miles from San Juan. Under the agreement, the future president’s company licensed the Trump name to the owners and took on a share of the resort’s day-to-day management in exchange for a fee.
The owners of the resort, which was renamed Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico after 2008, had already received significant financial assistance from the Puerto Rican government before Trump’s intervention. In 2000 and 2004, Puerto Rico’s Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority (AFICA) issued the owners of the club a total of $25,497,854 in bonds to help build and launch the resort. In 2009, the Puerto Rican government also invested $50 million in the Hotel Gran Melia, which was part of the resort and provided a crucial stream of customers for the golf club, according to BuzzFeed.
By October 2011, Coco Beach had defaulted on $26 million in bonds and had to seek another round of financing. In 2015, the company filed for bankruptcy under its original name, Coco Beach Golf and Country Club, citing debts of more than $78 million but only $9 million in assets. Bankruptcy court records show that Puerto Rico’s Tourism Development Fund made a claim of $32,606,821, essentially leaving Puerto Rican taxpayers on the hook for the better part of $33 million.
Did I miss it or have there not been any tweets in response to the Manafort plea deal? I expected a pretty major melt down overnight. Is it possible someone has taken his phone?
I don’t follow you; to the extent that you’re pointing it out to a single-issue voter, what’s the best-case scenario? “Oh, gosh, I hadn’t realized he’s flip-flopped ever so many times on the issue! Why, clearly I should instead vote for — the candidate who reliably doesn’t flip-flop away from the wrong side? Huh. That math looks off.”
He spent the hours away from his phone trying to remember where the Reichstag is. He vaguely knows that burning it down would be a good idea, about now.
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“Christian” Trumpists - Screw them. We have friends (outside of politics) who voted for Trumpski solely because he was against abortion. If they had told me before the election - I could have pointed out in five seconds (google) that he has flip-flopped multiple times on the issue and was only pandering to get their vote.
I wasn’t clear. They despised Trump, thought Clinton was the better choice to govern, but their single-minded religious belief in “no abortion” was the sole reason they voted for Trumpski instead. And there are millions of otherwise sane, middle ground persons just like them - They’d vote for Satan if he suddenly said he was anti-abortion.
The math looks off - indeed!
(Don’t make me go into the mind of religious zealots or MAGAbots please).
And to be clear, these people aren’t pro-child, they’re pro-fetus. Once the child is born, they don’t give a rat’s ass about its well-being–screw health care, child care, vaccinations, schools.
To be fair to people with this mindset, from a pragmatic point of view it doesn’t really matter how sincere or how long-standing the president’s anti-abortion stance is; what does matter is whether he continues to hold this position in the future and to appoint judges and Supreme Court justices who share it. And Trump has, in fact, done both of these things.
At this point, I would be happy if nothing were exactly what Trump were doing instead of tweeting about “fake numbers” from the Puerto Rico dusaster while people are dying in Florida.
