re: #271 Targetpractice

I rather suspect that is the root of Orange Julius’ fears, that once the curtain is drawn back the people will learn that he really “owns” nothing. That all of his “success” evaporates over night and we all learn that he’s mortgaged up to his eyeballs and couldn’t actually liquidate any part of his “empire” without a bank or loan shark going “Now hold on there…”

This is likely true, but also old news: that the “Trump Empire” (outside of the golf properties) is basically a huge pile of debts with a flimsy, if gaudy, facade has been reported on for a long time. Oh, Donald has plenty of money: he’s always been adept at raking off the max, but yeah, his “net” -I.e. unencumbered - worth has always (even ignoring his megalomaniac overvaluations) been less than popular imagination (and Trumpian PR) has made it. There’s a reason why his business rep was in eclipse even before
The Apprentice, and it’s likely that even had he not ran for (and, disgracefully, been elected) President, he might have ended up in front of Judge Engoron for his frauds anyway.

Not that the red-hat crowds slavering at his rallies are going to know or care, they’ll likely buy into Trump’s “victim” narrative the same way they’ve unquestioningly bought every other line of bullshit he’s peddled them.