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This implies he was ever actually rich in the first place. For people like this it was a con from the start, built of lies and debt.
I dunno, I think he sold a heck of a lot of lumpy jesus pillows. If he didn't decide to start lying about the election he probably would have lived a very comfortable life.
Had Trump never gotten the stupid idea to run—which was what put him under the microscope—in the first place, everyone, from the top down, would have been fine and could have kept their respective grifts going well into the lich-esque ages they’d have inevitably reached because these scumbags live for-fucking-ever.
Part of me is glad they’re being brought into the light like the cockroaches they are so they can [potentially] face justice, but another part of me thinks that whatever victory the American citizens gain in this will be a pyrrhic one (metaphorically), and we’d have been better off had we never heard of any of them from the outset.
This is what's so hilarious to me, he's his own worst enemy. It's like with covid, if he had sat back and sold overpriced masks to the rubes while taking advice from those smarter than him he would have fucking SAILED into re-election. Same with the women he defamed (her name is eluding me at the moment). Almost immediately after the trial ended he did it again and she sued again. He just can't shut the fuck up and keep his enormously inflated ego out of the mix.
He’s basically Yogurt from Spaceballs in his craven self-promotion, so it’s utterly wild to me that he didn’t go for such an obvious ~grift~ merchandising opportunity; but I guess if any such opportunity could indirectly help anyone on his shit list—which comprises 99% of the American people—he’d rather miss out.
Not if he was using one of his pillows
A recovering addict hopefully knows better than to go lie on his own supply.
There is a difference between selling pillows and selling pillows profitably.
Some people (morons) suck at business and can't turn a profit with any amount of revenue.
That and his seeming drug addiction