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LilElf70

(578 posts)
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 11:34 AM Sep 2024

Repost - Untold Story of Trump's ABUSE Goes VIRAL At Worst Moment Possible

For those that missed it yesterday.



This needs to go viral.

BTW, I do believe he still owes at least 10 cities for security fees from his rallies. 2016-2020.
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Repost - Untold Story of Trump's ABUSE Goes VIRAL At Worst Moment Possible (Original Post) LilElf70 Sep 2024 OP
He did similar to a friend of my dad's back in the day. Scrivener7 Sep 2024 #1
Stories that need to get out! rurallib Sep 2024 #2
Amen LilElf70 Sep 2024 #3
This is not the news they want to print. Biophilic Sep 2024 #12
The media has caught it. But as with all trump shitty deeds it's ignored by them. Autumn Sep 2024 #15
Doesn't Fit The Horse Race Narrative. GB_RN Sep 2024 #18
I remember seeing that video months ago and that story stayed with me kimbutgar Sep 2024 #4
I think we need a rethink. Prairie_Seagull Sep 2024 #5
cream rising to the top yobrault1 Sep 2024 #10
Completely agree, except for one thing. ShazzieB Sep 2024 #23
Yeah, he has used John Barron as an alias when he was performing one of his cons. Liberal In Texas Sep 2024 #27
Just one very short story from "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created ... Jim__ Sep 2024 #6
"Trump thinks that he has spent enough on this building, and he doesn't want to pay anymore," Retrograde Sep 2024 #26
Like a lot of people, I don't bother with clickbait videos that have little or no text attached Hekate Sep 2024 #7
I agree with everything you said..... LilElf70 Sep 2024 #8
They read it. They love stories like this. Demobrat Sep 2024 #9
These stories probably number in the tens of thousands. SupportSanity Sep 2024 #11
It's awful how DRump screws over everyone TommieMommy Sep 2024 #13
His DC hotel too Beck23 Sep 2024 #17
Exactly I heard that also. I also heard he didn't pay some of his lawyers TommieMommy Sep 2024 #25
So how do we counter this? calimary Sep 2024 #29
These stories need to be made into ads. With those who were screwed. oldsoftie Sep 2024 #14
Anyone know the link to just the guy in the blue shirt talking? KS Toronado Sep 2024 #16
There are many more of these stories. vanlassie Sep 2024 #19
Most people in NY and southern New England are only a few degrees of separation Warpy Sep 2024 #20
Trump is notorious for cheating his vendors. Squaredeal Sep 2024 #21
Trump is notorious for cheating his vendors. Squaredeal Sep 2024 #22
Wow! DownriverDem Sep 2024 #24
How this POS became the GOP's candidate AGAIN, LilElf70 Sep 2024 #28
Be sure to donate to Trump. keithbvadu2 Sep 2024 #30
Excellent idea LilElf70 Sep 2024 #31

Scrivener7

(53,326 posts)
1. He did similar to a friend of my dad's back in the day.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 11:44 AM
Sep 2024

The guy didn't kill himself. Only lost his business. Compared to so many others who did business with tsf, he got off easy.

LilElf70

(578 posts)
3. Amen
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 11:50 AM
Sep 2024

Thus the reason for re-posting. Why the media hasn't caught onto this, is beyond me. It's not like it was a lie.

Biophilic

(5,056 posts)
12. This is not the news they want to print.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:38 PM
Sep 2024

These days it seems the media prints what follows their narrative and ignores the rest. I’m sure it will show up in someone’s book next year.

GB_RN

(3,242 posts)
18. Doesn't Fit The Horse Race Narrative.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 02:00 PM
Sep 2024

If instead of minimizing the actual negatives about him, and Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent was beaten up on, as he should be, the Democrats could run a dead dog as their candidate and still win. But that’s not good for ratings, bottom lines and “shareholder value.” 🤬🤦?♂️

kimbutgar

(23,675 posts)
4. I remember seeing that video months ago and that story stayed with me
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 12:00 PM
Sep 2024

I wish it would be made into an ad. He has screwed over so many people during his lifetime and now he just gets a friggin pass from his magaloons.

yobrault1

(158 posts)
10. cream rising to the top
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:35 PM
Sep 2024

is really grease rises to the top for some. He’s a con man and the leader of a cult. con men and cult leaders are psychopaths. It all fits. he’s an extremely transactional person, and if he can make it sting, even better the only reason he adores his daughter Ivanka is because he is attracted to her. He doesn’t give a shit about any of his kids, except her and Barron and the only reason he likes Barron is because Barron carries the name he wished he had.

He is the very personification of what all of us were told not to become when we grow up. No one told him.

ShazzieB

(18,991 posts)
23. Completely agree, except for one thing.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 02:58 PM
Sep 2024

What you said about Ivanka has the ring of truth,, but I'm not convinced that he gives a crap about Barron. It's true that he seems to have a thing for that name, but Barron as a person? Not so much.

He is, after all, a malignant narcissist/sociopath, so he's really not capable of caring about anyone but himself.

Jim__

(14,520 posts)
6. Just one very short story from "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created ...
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 12:12 PM
Sep 2024

... the llusion of Success."

I just finished reading this part of the book. Tesoro is Andrew Tesoro, architect on the Westboro Golf Course.

...

Once the clubhouse was completed, Tesoro asked that the remaining $141,000 balance of his bill be paid. After several requests and phone calls, he was told someone from Trump’s office would meet with him in the new clubhouse. He entered the large lobby, with its grand sweeping staircase, and felt his heart sink. It looked like a surprise reunion of everyone who had worked on the project. “There was the landscape architect, the title company president,” he recalled later. “There must have been at least fifty people in the lobby waiting to negotiate their final bill.”

One by one, the contractors were called into the six-thousand-square-foot grand ballroom that Tesoro had designed. Tesoro was directed to one corner, where more than a dozen of Trump’s lawyers and managers waited for him at a round dining table stacked high with papers. There, under the huge crystal chandeliers, Tesoro was offered $50,000, just over a third of what Trump had agreed to pay. “I left,” he later recalled. “I was furious.”

He consulted a lawyer, who said winning a lawsuit would cost more than Trump was shorting him. Feeling defeated, he agreed to accept the $50,000. But when even that didn’t come through, Tesoro called Andrew Weiss, then Trump’s widely liked and respected construction manager, for an explanation. “Well, Mr. Trump thinks that he has spent enough on this building, and he doesn’t want to pay anymore,” Weiss told him. He called Bernie Diamond, with whom Tesoro was friendly. Diamond said his job was to make suing Trump long and expensive.

Exasperated, he called Trump’s assistant, Rhona Graff, and asked to see Trump. Tesoro raced to Trump Tower. He recounted the situation to Trump: You owe me $141,000 and I agreed to accept $50,000, which I now regret, but even that wasn’t paid. “What the hell is the trouble?” he asked Trump.

Trump put his arm on Tesoro’s shoulder. “You’re the most talented architect I’ve ever met,” Trump said, as Tesoro recalls. “And just because you’re such a nice guy, I’m going to tell them to give you a check for twenty-five thousand dollars.”

...


Donald Trump is a scumbag. No half-way intelligent person could ever vote for him for president.

Retrograde

(10,758 posts)
26. "Trump thinks that he has spent enough on this building, and he doesn't want to pay anymore,"
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 03:15 PM
Sep 2024

I wonder how that approach would work for us normal people - can I tell the local grocer that I've already spent too much at that store and don't want to pay anymore so I'll just take what I want? Will it work with the IRS when I tell them I've paid enough in taxes?

This, friends, is the epitome of entitlement.

Hekate

(95,460 posts)
7. Like a lot of people, I don't bother with clickbait videos that have little or no text attached
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 12:14 PM
Sep 2024

We here already know Trump has spent his entire life ruining people. It’s what he does. He hires people, then stiffs them. Anyone who takes him to court will go bankrupt while he uses every legal maneuver in the book to keep from paying some poor schlemiel what he owes them. He thinks everybody is a “sucker and loser, “ not just dead soldiers.

Have you been paying attention — at all — to how he’s dealing with his legal obligations in the here and now? Is he ever going to pay the settlement he owes to the woman he raped? Ever? What do you think? Is he ever going to spend even one day in prison for the felonies he’s been convicted of? Is anyone going to put an ankle bracelet on him, or come to collect him? Ya think?

So no, I’m sorry for this poor man’s troubles, but this is not blockbuster news, and it’s not even new. It’s just Trump and we all already tried to tell everybody who would listen — a decade ago.

LilElf70

(578 posts)
8. I agree with everything you said.....
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:03 PM
Sep 2024

But when I realized a guy actually took his life because of this prick, it really hit me hard. And I had to let others know what he has continued to do and how it has continued to affect ordinary people. Too bad, the MAGATS don't read stuff like this. Actually, I don't see it altering their minds, anyway. Stupid is as stupid does.

I sent this to some MAGATS I know. I'm curious if they even reply.

Is it November 6th yet? I can't friggin wait.

Demobrat

(9,966 posts)
9. They read it. They love stories like this.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:32 PM
Sep 2024

What you have to understand is that in their minds they are Trump in the story, never the person he screws over.

SupportSanity

(1,190 posts)
11. These stories probably number in the tens of thousands.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:38 PM
Sep 2024

Trmp's plan is to screw everybody who helps him.

Politically, we've been hearing about loyalty and Trump.

But money, everybody is the same in his eye.

It's amazing just how terribly awful somebody can be - and keep getting away with it.

Now with millions thinking what a great guy he is while they are orrdering sneakers, bit coins, watches or whatever the next grift is.

Thanks for sharing that story with us.

Beck23

(272 posts)
17. His DC hotel too
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 02:00 PM
Sep 2024

I live near DC, and I heard he never paid the contractors who converted the old post office into Trump Hotel.

calimary

(84,715 posts)
29. So how do we counter this?
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 03:45 PM
Sep 2024

Chumps (“oh, THAT won’t ever happen to ME. He’s not gonna do that to ME…”) are a dime a dozen. And as a con man, he knows exactly how to appeal to them.

I keep reminding myself - NOTHING lasts forever. Not even the donald. But that one sure is taking a damn LOOOOOONNNNNNNG time to come true.

 

oldsoftie

(13,538 posts)
14. These stories need to be made into ads. With those who were screwed.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:50 PM
Sep 2024

Easily provable stories.

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
20. Most people in NY and southern New England are only a few degrees of separation
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 02:47 PM
Sep 2024

from stories like these, although few contractors sold off their assets to pay their debts and then committed suicide. They sued until either they ran out of money for lawyers or had heart attacks and dropped dead from the stress. Bankruptcy was common because a contract with TFG meant dropping all other work to do the massive amount of work he wanted done and when they didn't get paid, that left them with nothing.

I hope that video is going viral. It's a bit sparse when it comes to details, but so many of us have heard these stories for YEARS that there has to be some truth to them, especially when the stories have come with the names of relatives who got stiffed by that asshole.

How did he keep sucking these hard working people in? "I heard about your business, that you do great work. I want to hire you for X big project." A rich big shot tells people that, they're halfway there. Dangle a bonus in front of them, they're there.

He is truly an evil man. He won't stop until he is stopped, and even galloping dementia is too slow. I would be thrilled to hear that each of his 34 felony convictions carries a 6 month sentence, to be served consecutively.

Squaredeal

(553 posts)
21. Trump is notorious for cheating his vendors.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 02:52 PM
Sep 2024

This was well-known in the 2016 election yet the racist and woman-hating white Americans praised him for his business acumen, saying that America needed such a business savvy man to straighten out our country.
My dad sold building entrances for many high-rise buildings in NY for many years but he would never quote Trump due to his longtime reputation of stiffing his contractors. As my dad put it to me, Trump was known for “wanting to make a deal” with the people who he owed money too.

LilElf70

(578 posts)
28. How this POS became the GOP's candidate AGAIN,
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 03:41 PM
Sep 2024

has to be the question of the century.

I really can't find one good thing about him.

And hopefully, sure as shit, he'll lose AGAIN.

What's the saying? Repeating and failing over and over again is a sure sign of insanity. How he got 71M insane ignorant stupid people to fall for his shit, still blows me away.

keithbvadu2

(40,622 posts)
30. Be sure to donate to Trump.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 04:34 PM
Sep 2024

Use a Visa/Mastercard gift card that has been completely spent.
Donate as often as you want.
When they call back, accuse the telemarketers of stealing the money instead of passing it on.
'I'm not giving anymore to your thieving organization.'

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