I'm not American I don't live in America I just dislike Trump for what he and Alex Salmond, former SNP leader, did to Aberdeen
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/You%27ve_Been_Trumped
I started looking into Trump's background way before he announced his intentions to run for the white house years before
I was ultimately baffled at how he had got away with so much I watched many interviews with him in them I read many articles about him
when he announced he was running for white house I thought no way he'd win
but he did
Russian interference wasn't to get Trump the win
Putin just didn't want Clinton to win
Trump winning was just a bonus for Putin
Trump said in one interview "say it often enough, even if it's not true, keep saying it over and over, control the narrative people will start believing"
let's hope Trump will finally face the music
@ecksmc I, too, never thought he'd get the nomination. As an NYC native I knew what a criminal he was. I truly thought it was just another grift, a way to pocket campaign funds from bigots. Which it was... but it didn't stop there.
I know so many people he ripped off who worked on his buildings. Lives ruined. And yet he won, & the scale of his grift went global.
We will never undo the damage. May he rot in prison & beyond.
@Sheree the only real reason he ran at that time was his debt
his massive debts were about to he called in mainly from Deutsche Bank he thought running would ease that pressure while grifting on the side to help him ease that pressure even more
yup that was my main findings how he bullied small businesses who had done work for him and never paid they would sue he would counter sue ending their business or them dropping the claim
@Sheree oh and then we have this
an estimated $45 million of outstanding Deutsche Bank debt, which comes due in 2024
i bet there are a lot people with squeaky bums in banks around the world
the bank could theoretically go after trumps properties—as well as other Trump assets—to get its money back
@ecksmc It's horrifying. He'll manage to screw people who never knowingly did business with him.
Note too that this brilliant businessman inherited a fortune from his equally sketchy father & squandered it. He'd still be ridiculously wealthy if he had just invested it & lived off the proceeds.