(09-30-2020, 05:26 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(09-30-2020, 05:02 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: I don't think "obsessed" is the right word for it.  "Interested" is what I am.  I have spent a lifetime in business and finance, and this stuff interests me.  

By the way, I am not a leftist.  

And how do his personal finances affect me?  Well for one thing, if the President owes someone $300 million, which is going to come due during his second term, and he won't tell us who it is, how do we know his decisions are not affected by that?  

The other interesting thing is, is he who he says he is?  Is he really this hugely successful billionaire, or is it all an illusion?  

And there are a lot of other interesting questions.

Meh... I couldn't care less about his personal finances.  Is he "really" a billionaire?  millionaire?  I really don't care.

As far as personal finances or anything like that affecting the decisions that he makes as President, I'll just look back at his record over the last 3 1/2 years.  Being tough with China getting out of the NAFTA disaster by signing the USMCA, getting out of the Paris Agreement and so forth are more important to me when it comes to economics.  Those things are good for us as a whole.

The economy was on fire, unemployment was sinking and things were going well before the China virus hit.

But let me ask you this: after Trump sold out the Kurds in Syria, pulled out US forces and left them on their own and let the Turks attack them, just turned his back on the whole situation, if you found out that Trump owed $300 million to a Turkish bank controlled by relatives of Erdogan, how would that make you feel?  

Do you really not care who Trump owes that money to?  Do you understand why it's important for us to know who the President of the United States owes a large amount of money to?  

Even if it's Bank of America that he owes the money to, if he signed an executive order that Bank of America had been pushing for, and didn't disclose that he owed Bank of America $300 million, and he was negotiating a deal to refinance it, would you care about that?  

He needs to disclose it.  That's all.  Real easy.  Just tell us who he owes the money to, and that's the end of it.

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