Isn't it kinda funny that Trump owes over $400 million because of financial crimes, and manzi is defending him telling folks on here they have no financial common sense?
It's like they don't understand why Trump owes money in the first place. Like they were so far in the Fox bubble they don't realize that the reason he owes $454m is BECAUSE HE FRAUDULENTLY OVERVALUED HIS PROPERTIES. That's not an "opinion," it's a legal fact, and why you can't go by what Trump's team says their value is, and why Trump can't come up with the money: selling all his US properties won't cover it. Do the math:
In what has been described as a "corporate death penalty," a court could sell some of the former president's most prized addresses.
www.newsweek.com
These are the estimated values, plus his overvalued. Note MAL, but particularly Trump Tower - Overvalue $320m, Actual value, $117m.
Now, take a look at this article:
Trump refinanced his $100m Trump Tower mortgage in 2022. Trump Tower actual value - $117m. Trump's mortgage for it - $100m. See the problem when you are trying to raise $350m? His properties aren't worth what he paid for them.
And that is why Warren Buffet says Trump is a terrible businessman:
“The big problem with Donald Trump was he never went right,” Buffett said, adding that Trump’s strategy of heavily borrowing money to finance acquisitions was flawed from the start.
According to Buffett, Trump managed to secure loans for properties at prices well above their value, creating a significant disparity between his assets’ actual worth and the debt incurred to acquire them.
“He was terrific at borrowing money. If you look at his assets and what he paid for them and what he borrowed to get them, there was never any real equity there,” Buffett said, highlighting the precarious financial foundation on which Trump built his empire.
In the aftermath of a landmark ruling that mandated former President Donald Trump to pay $355 million for fraudulently augmenting the values of his properties — a judgment that prohibits him from assuming the role of director in any New York-based company for three years — the Warren Buffett's...
finance.yahoo.com