Yes? Were you thinking that for some reason you were still guilty of a crime if, for example, you were set up?
The actor who shot Brandon Lee, for example, was not guilty of a homicide. He wasn’t aware that the bullets in the stunt weapon were real, improperly deactivated bullets.
The person who deactivated the bullets, on the other hand, could potentially have been charged with negligent homicide (or something to that effect).
This is pretty common in law. We don’t lock you away simply because you were some part of the overall mechanism that resulted in someone’s death. There needs to be some actual thing deserving of guilt involved.
Trump isn’t a good businessman. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that he has a very limited business skill set. He makes deals, he brings in investors, he makes promises, he builds his brand, he generates hype, he sells his name. And those things have a role in business. But when it comes to managing a business, coordinating a workforce to produce some product or service, I can’t think of any real successes. His airline went bankrupt. His football team folded.[sup]*[/sup]. His casinos lost money; casinos, for fuck’s sake! And you’re right, he ran his campaign like he’s run his businesses. The problem is, the people who’ve been saying that America needs to be run like a business were thinking of the second type of businessman, but they voted for the first.
The USFL got off to a promising start with a plan to keep salaries low and to play in the spring so they wouldn’t compete with the NFL. After three seasons, Trump pushed the other owners to agree to a fall schedule. The league folded shortly thereafter.
Agreed. From a ‘way we run our business’ point of view, they are convinced they are innocent but the dawning realization that government is different is starting to worry them.
It is a race to see if they can convert the process of governing to their way of managing before democratic institutions overcome kleptocracy. It is a tight race that they may well win…
I would argue that he sells his dad’s name. His dad is the one that founded the Trump Organization. That’s Fred Trump’s name on those buildings. Donald just shares the same name by virtue of dynastic inheritance.
Huh??? Let’s go back 10 years, just to clear the table a bit. Say “Trump” to 100 average Americans. How many see a picture of Fred Trump and how many see Donald?
Well, at least all the worrisome election vulnerabilities people are spending millions of dollars on trying to pin on Trump are still overshadowed by the man himself. :smack:
And if anybody thinks election law is going to save them from this boogeyman, they should consider reevaluating their knowldege-base in terms of what they think they know vs. what they actually know.
And not just any businessman, but a notoriously sleazy one. But you’re right, he’s been getting away with the stuff for years. If he got caught lying on a filing or permit application, he would get to correct it without penalty. When he was accused of fraud ( Trump Soho ), the case was dropped in exchange for him giving everyone their money back. When he tried to illegally alter amenities in the public spaces of his buildings, he was allowed to just correct the violations. It’s kind of his business model.
The person who is pretty much universally associate with the brand has nothing to do with the brand? OK…
It’s often the case that the founder isn’t the person who makes the company what it is later on, so just saying dad was the founder isn’t much of an argument.
Yes. The Trumpites don’t have the confidence of people that believe they did nothing wrong. What they have is the confidence of people who believe they control the government and thus are above the law. But they’re not quite sure they control the government enough; hence the lying.
That’s not at all what I said. His dad started a real estate company, which put it’s name up on buildings. That Donald didn’t run the company into the ground does not make him a successful businessman and that the brand is now associated with the son of the successful founder doesn’t alter history. If Eric avoids jail, and is running the company in fifty years, he might become associated with the buildings, but it doesn’t mean he had anything to do with their success.
My mom calls all photocopiers “Xerox” but it doesn’t change the fact that the one in my office was made by Brother.
I think he’s smart enough to do what he does to orchestrate everything, including all of his supposed business successes, rely on the intelligence of others.
