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Donald Trump's bottomless pit of legal problems.

Segnosaur said:
The issue of "How does Trump pay his lawyers" has come up in various threads here.

Well, we now know where at least some of the money comes from.

From: Reuters
Hotelier Robert Bigelow told Reuters on Tuesday he gave Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump $1 million for his legal fees and agreed to donate another $20 million to a pro-Trump outside group for campaign purposes.

Once again proving you can be rich and an idiot at the same time.
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It's not necessarily idiotic if he thinks he's going to get more than $21 million of value out of those donations.

Then again you're probably right if it requires President Trump to hold up his end of any deal.
 
Segnosaur said:
The issue of "How does Trump pay his lawyers" has come up in various threads here.

Well, we now know where at least some of the money comes from.

From: Reuters
Hotelier Robert Bigelow told Reuters on Tuesday he gave Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump $1 million for his legal fees and agreed to donate another $20 million to a pro-Trump outside group for campaign purposes.

Once again proving you can be rich and an idiot at the same time.
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Well, that might just put a crimp in the number of people staying in his establishments! ;)
 
The Don said:
From: Reuters
Hotelier Robert Bigelow told Reuters on Tuesday he gave Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump $1 million for his legal fees and agreed to donate another $20 million to a pro-Trump outside group for campaign purposes.

Once again proving you can be rich and an idiot at the same time.
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It's not necessarily idiotic if he thinks he's going to get more than $21 million of value out of those donations.
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True. but the question is HOW can he get more than $21 million out of those donations.

First of all, Trump's chances in the 2024 election are tenuous. Yes, there are some polls that show him leading, but Trump continues to be fairly unpopular. And should he be convicted in any of the criminal trials (likely, even if his defense team gets additional funding) it will drive away more independents.

Secondly, as another poster suggested, it might end up driving away potential customers.

Lastly... lets say Trump does get elected. Things weren't really all that great economically when he was president. Ok, he'll probably cut taxes to the wealthy again, but when Trump left the office unemployment was on the increase, the deficit was spiking, and the stock market was down. Not exactly a strategy for building wealth.
 
Hurray! Trump loses again!

From: CNN
A London judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against retired British spy Christopher Steele over his controversial 2016 dossier that contained unverified and salacious allegations about Trump’s ties to Russia....Trump filed the civil case last year because, in his view, Steele harmed his reputation by peddling “egregiously inaccurate” and “shocking and scandalous” claims about his Russian ties....

ETA: Sorry, overlooked a previous posting about that. My apologies.
 
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Gulliver Foyle said:
In the UK you can have Lord/Lady Justices. Hence why using Mr/Mrs.
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That's a great idiom. In the U.S. we generally just pick one title out of the many appropriate, and live with that. You'd just be General Cornwallis or Lord Cornwallis rather than General Lord Cornwallis or Captain Sir Edward Pellew or Mr Justice Kavanaugh. (Well, I guess you wouldn't be Lord or Sir anything in the U.S., but you get the point.) It's just Justice Kavanaugh, which applies to any judge at the appellate level or higher. Judge So-and-so at the trial level and Justice So-and-so at the appellate level.

It should be noted that in keeping with the U.K. convention of address for women in matronly positions of authority, Mrs Justice refers to a woman regardless of marital status.
 
It has recently been revealed that the govt. has been investigating the financing of Truth Social.

A federal investigation into the financing behind Donald Trump's foray into social media has grown to involve the FBI, the SEC, a division of the Department of Homeland Security and what is being described as "one of the government’s most elite anti-money-laundering teams" according to a new federal filing.

According to a deep dive by the Washington Post's Drew Harwell, there is no indication that the former president and his Trump Media have been accused of wrongdoing in the case involving the troubled Truth Social thus far, but there are questions over his involvement in "a business arrangement that federal agents now allege was undermined from its inception by financial fraud."
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...80eea3d3db4fa29e06f7cd18b88bff&ei=15#comments

In October 2021, former president Donald Trump announced that his media company, the owner of the platform Truth Social, had sealed an incredible deal: a merger with a “special purpose acquisition company” that would deliver to his firm $300 million toward his promise of giving “a voice to all.”

By then, however, the insider trading by investors in the SPAC, Digital World Acquisition, had already begun, according to documents filed recently in the criminal case against three Digital World investors who’ve been charged with securities fraud in New York federal court.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/03/trump-social-dwac-investigation/


I bet that no one saw this coming.
 
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Truth be told it didn't cross my mind the funding of Trump Media (Truth Social) was anything more than grift. This is an eye opener that Trump is so deeply involved in money laundering and RE fraud, why are we saying he's like a mob boss, he is one.
 
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Eventually everything trump, and everyone connected to him will be looked at really good. All that goes on now is the old business and the obvious stuff.
There is a lot more of his empire of grift to tear apart.
 
JayUtah said:
That's a great idiom. In the U.S. we generally just pick one title out of the many appropriate, and live with that. You'd just be General Cornwallis or Lord Cornwallis rather than General Lord Cornwallis or Captain Sir Edward Pellew or Mr Justice Kavanaugh. (Well, I guess you wouldn't be Lord or Sir anything in the U.S., but you get the point.) It's just Justice Kavanaugh, which applies to any judge at the appellate level or higher. Judge So-and-so at the trial level and Justice So-and-so at the appellate level.

It should be noted that in keeping with the U.K. convention of address for women in matronly positions of authority, Mrs Justice refers to a woman regardless of marital status.
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The UK has a huge amount of courtly protocol, a legacy of not making the republic stick, and as a result a person is addressed by the highest ranking title they hold (with one exception if a person holds two titles of differing ranks, e.g. Duke of X and Earl of Y, their child is normally addressed as if they held the second title). What title supercedes the others gets weird at times because the UK has four peerage tables (England, Ireland, Scotland and UK/Empire).
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
The UK has a huge amount of courtly protocol, a legacy of not making the republic stick, and as a result a person is addressed by the highest ranking title they hold (with one exception if a person holds two titles of differing ranks, e.g. Duke of X and Earl of Y, their child is normally addressed as if they held the second title). What title supercedes the others gets weird at times because the UK has four peerage tables (England, Ireland, Scotland and UK/Empire).
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Then military ranks are added.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
The UK has a huge amount of courtly protocol, a legacy of not making the republic stick, and as a result a person is addressed by the highest ranking title they hold (with one exception if a person holds two titles of differing ranks, e.g. Duke of X and Earl of Y, their child is normally addressed as if they held the second title). What title supercedes the others gets weird at times because the UK has four peerage tables (England, Ireland, Scotland and UK/Empire).
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I was taught to remember the ranks by use of an easy mnenomic: Kings Play Chess On Fine Glass Stools. So it goes king, puke, churl, oarl, faronet, gount, and sir. Ecclesiastical titles are even easier, they are Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally: pope, erchbishop, monsignor, deacon, archbishop, sriest. Almost everything can be recalled with ease if you employ a simple mnemonic! Learn these and other brain-enhancing tips from my popular pamphlet Maximize Your Mind Power for $11.99!
 
TragicMonkey said:
I was taught to remember the ranks by use of an easy mnenomic: Kings Play Chess On Fine Glass Stools. So it goes king, puke, churl, oarl, faronet, gount, and sir. Ecclesiastical titles are even easier, they are Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally: pope, erchbishop, monsignor, deacon, archbishop, sriest. Almost everything can be recalled with ease if you employ a simple mnemonic! Learn these and other brain-enhancing tips from my popular pamphlet Maximize Your Mind Power for $11.99!
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I buy all your paper year ago. Now I big brain smrt guy! Plus lots of paper for toilet.

$50,000 well spent.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
The UK has a huge amount of courtly protocol [...]
What title supercedes the others gets weird at times because the UK has four peerage tables (England, Ireland, Scotland and UK/Empire).
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Andy_Ross said:
Then military ranks are added.
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Right, I gave up reconciling the various orders of chivalry and titles of nobility, apparently rightly ascribing it to the interplay of Very Old traditions. I did have to look up the ones that applied to Downton Abbey because it started being important to the plot.

It's the admixture of military, ecclesiastical, and academic that's so very different here. We pick one that seems appropriate to the moment. None of this Professor-Lieutenant Sir Reginald Sticky-Beak. Naturally I love how Monty Python plays with this. The church police sketch "Dead Bishop" is one. As is also the sketch from "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body" where John Cleese's postnominals do a full lap around the office. (Yes, I realize the differences among titles, styles, and postnominals.)
 
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