howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think we are nearing the end game for Trump with his former lawyer turning supergrass in order to avoid a 65 year prison sentence. I wonder how much more he and others have locked into safe deposit boxes to help themselves out in difficult times.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Trump will not be gotten rid of, youed see civil war in America.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Courtesy of the Sunday Times.
“Are you a hero?” a television reporter shouted at Michael Cohen as he left his New York apartment last week. “I’ll leave that up to you,” Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer replied, before posing for a selfie. In his own eyes, the decision to spill his master’s secrets has assumed a noble tinge.
Friends claim it was Cohen’s father, a surgeon, who persuaded his son to flip, arguing that he had not survived the Holocaust to have his name besmirched by Trump. As ever in this tale, however, it is worth following the money.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the pitbull fixer who had promised to “take a bullet” for the president felt that the Trump family had not shown the same loyalty when they stopped paying his mounting legal bills. A rumoured job in the White House had also failed to materialise. Now Trump can only watch from the sidelines, tweeting furiously about treachery, as federal and state prosecutors close in on all the president’s men with links to Cohen after he admitted arranging “hush money” for Stormy Daniels, a porn star, and Karen McDougal, a Playboy model. It had been Cohen’s dream when he was in high school to work for the flash property tycoon. His legal skills impressed his future employer when he outmanoeuvred an awkward squad of residents in one of Trump’s apartment blocks.
Another hardboiled lawyer, Roy Cohn, notorious for pursuing communists in the McCarthy era, had already helped Trump to develop his empire. “All I can tell you is he has been vicious in his protection of me,” Trump told critics. He expected no less from Cohen, who went on to serve him zealously for a decade. Cohen, however, had money worries brought on by his investment in New York yellow taxi “medallions” whose value crashed after competition from Uber and Lyft. The actor Ben Stiller portrayed him on the satirical television show Saturday Night Live as an amateur mafioso. All the while FBI agents were turning the screw, rifling through his files in his home, office and hotel room. Cohen, seemingly with plenty to lose, went on television in July to say “my wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will”. He added: “I put family and country first.” Trump loyalists denounced him as a serial liar.
Last Monday he treated himself to a glass of Glenlivet 12 on the rocks before confessing to his crimes the next day. His lawyer, the equally pugnacious Lanny Davis, announced grandly: “Mr Cohen would never accept a pardon from a man he considers to be both corrupt and a dangerous person in the Oval Office.” Cohen was, Davis declared, “more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows”. He may not be able to avoid jail, but his winding road to rehabilitation has begun.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Last Monday he treated himself to a glass of Glenlivet 12 on the rocks.
Typical Yanks, spoiling a good single malt. But at least the guy's got the beginnings of good taste. Prefer a Glenfiddich 15 myself. No ice.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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TRUMP on trade
and he just got the world cup for America 2026.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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I was out with an old friend from Liberal California, San-Francisco to be exact,, we got talking about Trump, he says all his friends and associate, mostly the Google lot, condemn Trump at the posh dinner parties but secretly are clapping there hands as the country’s stocks and GDP race head under the business man’s golden touch,,,, them old champagne socialists,,lol,,
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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It's all built over a whopping sinkhole called debt. One day it'll all fall into that hole. Again.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:It's all built over a whopping sinkhole called debt. One day it'll all fall into that hole. Again.
a bit like Venezuela I suppose ?
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Keith Bibby wrote:a bit like Venezuela I suppose ?
Actually, a bit like Greece. Or Italy. USA national debt: $21.3 trillion and counting. Second only to Japan per capita.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Or the UK? General government gross debt was £1,763.8 billion at the end of the financial year ending March 2018, equivalent to 85.8% of gross domestic product (GDP),
25.8 percentage points above the reference value of 60% set out in the Protocol on the Excessive Deficit Procedure.
But it's all right because a change of government will spend more on our (sic) NHS, increase the number of police officers, spend more on schools, build hundreds of thousands of homes for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants still flooding into the country, renationalise the railway etc etc and all by taxing Amazon and Google.
Meanwhile personal debt is still rising but it's all OK because 82% of new car drivers are quite happy to pay to drive around in a vehicle they will never actually own, and the last time I walked past Brighthouse in Dover it was full of land-whales queuing up to pay £286 for a Henry Vacuum Cleaner they could get from Amazon for £109.
Most of us in the UK are living well above our means, consuming stuff we can't afford and buying so much stuff that we don't need that motorways are bordered by storage warehouses since we've already filled our loft and garage with crap we got bored with.
There will be a day of reckoning. I don't owe anyone a penny. I shall laugh.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:I don't owe anyone a penny. I shall laugh.
Well, bully for you. Meanwhile, the neoliberal socio-economic experiment continues, with conspicuous consumption now deep set in its subjects' individual psychologies, millions of sorry 'aspirational' clones feeding their 'lifestyle choices' with credit, hundreds of thousands of students educated in the delights of living in hock, and right Charlies seeking to enforce the property-owning ideology by hoisting 'young people' onto the 'housing ladder', i.e. helping them take on a monstrous debt.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
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Put that way, WGS, 'from each according to his capacity' has a certain appeal!
(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Indeed, Button. But if the past and present are anything to go by the future's likely to be more Groucho than Karl.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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