dumptruck donnie
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:27 (one week ago) link
relentless. he has to know that Trump is watching. and why Trump would keep mentioning him is beyond me. if Biden wins, he at least owes Jimmy a state dinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjqJdsDWgc
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 05:03 (one week ago) link
meanwhile... https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-poised-clinch-13-billion-social-media-company-stock-award-2024-04-23/
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 05:22 (one week ago) link
1.3 not 13 (url is misleading)
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 05:23 (one week ago) link
lol trump is a solid Poster but anyone who fucks with a professional comedian needs to be far more locked-in than he is
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 06:13 (one week ago) link
"let one rip van winkle" is a good line, Kimmel
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 08:50 (one week ago) link
How tf does this kind of money just get magicked out of thin air for this asshole, I mean I know it’s not real at this point, but I have no doubt he’ll somehow amass all of this additional wealth
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 11:26 (one week ago) link
I'm guessing Melania has urgent business elsewhere that's keeping her from supporting her life partner in his literal time of trial
― prog ain't no religious cult (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 12:06 (one week ago) link
her devotion is moving. away. farther and farther away
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 12:56 (one week ago) link
I thought he still couldn't touch that money for 5 1/2 months, so the stock needs to maintain its value until then. Also I am pretty sure that if a company has a $1.3 billion dollar valuation it doesn't mean you can just cash out all the stock at once because doing so means the value tanks - like Bitcoin has some insane market cap like 1.5 trillion dollars but it's not like you could get anything close to that if all the Bitcoins were sold today
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 13:32 (one week ago) link
i'm not plugged into every single new story right now, but are we talking about this?
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246645808/truth-social-shares-windfall-trump-media-technology-group
Former President Trump is set to get $1.2 billion richer — at least on paper.The windfall comes thanks to being rewarded with an additional 36 million shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind his Truth Social app.The shares are a bonus provided to him after Trump Media traded above a certain level for a set number of days.Trump met that criteria at the close of trading on Tuesday. The new shares raise his stake in Trump Media to 115 million shares, boosting the entire net worth of his holdings in the company to $3.7 billion.The value of Trump's stake has fallen sharply since the company's trading debut in late March after share prices in Trump Media retreated.But it's still a significant potential return given that he's the majority shareholder in a company in which he has invested no money.And Trump could use the money: He's mired in legal cases — including the ongoing hush money trial in New York — and is running again for the White House.But he's prevented from selling his stake until September under his current agreement — although he could try to find ways to negotiate a new deal.
The windfall comes thanks to being rewarded with an additional 36 million shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind his Truth Social app.The shares are a bonus provided to him after Trump Media traded above a certain level for a set number of days.
Trump met that criteria at the close of trading on Tuesday. The new shares raise his stake in Trump Media to 115 million shares, boosting the entire net worth of his holdings in the company to $3.7 billion.
The value of Trump's stake has fallen sharply since the company's trading debut in late March after share prices in Trump Media retreated.
But it's still a significant potential return given that he's the majority shareholder in a company in which he has invested no money.
And Trump could use the money: He's mired in legal cases — including the ongoing hush money trial in New York — and is running again for the White House.
But he's prevented from selling his stake until September under his current agreement — although he could try to find ways to negotiate a new deal.
i don't know, i see how truth social is a complete embarrassment and it's amazing that it is worth more than $0.0000, but as an uninformed spectator to wealthy people i believe that the stock will be a laughingstock that will still somehow be worth billions to trump when he gets paid out in september, and that if trump has money problems in the meantime, he will find at least one insanely evil rich person to spot him a couple hundred million dollars until september, in exchange for what the insanely evil rich person (not trump - the other person here) believes will be very beneficial if he gets another chance to become a dictator in november
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:19 (one week ago) link
would be funny if he just dumped his entire holdings the first day he was allowed, wouldnt work of course the stick would go to zero, but it would be funny, i wonder how much he can sell without it tanking, its kind of a funny sitch where not only can it tank from the over supply of him selling but it can also tank from the public perception of him selling, which i guess isnt different than any founder and big holder of a company, except with trump its maybe more fraught cause the people holding the stock are fans of his rather than just investors
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:40 (one week ago) link
One wonders whether hostile investors are reading these same stories and contemplating timed activities
😉
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:44 (one week ago) link
heh
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:45 (one week ago) link
Front page of CNN.com:
How Pecker punched holes in Trump’s defense
Thanks, I will go vomit now
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:58 (one week ago) link
"How Pecker forced Trump's words down his throat."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:07 (one week ago) link
"Pecker stays firm on witness stand"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:39 (one week ago) link
Pecker a Huge Obstacle for Trump Team
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:44 (one week ago) link
Fears that Pecker will lead to a hung jury.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:48 (one week ago) link
Pecker Exposes Lengths Taken to Please Trumphttps://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-national-enquirer/
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:50 (one week ago) link
Trump Fears Pecker's Powerhttps://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-fears-david-pecker-witness-trial-1893744
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:51 (one week ago) link
Johnson Supports Pecker
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:23 (one week ago) link
Finally consequencesTrump to receive bonus worth $1.2bn for Trump Media stock performanceA price floor means ex-president gets bonus even though Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock value has plummeted
― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:06 (one week ago) link
so then who is that money coming from? is it $1.2b from his supporters dumb enough to buy stock in a worthless company?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:08 (one week ago) link
aiui the bonus is just more stock added to what he had.
supporters dumb enough to buy stock ... Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse
― visiting, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:16 (one week ago) link
Headline writers, this is your WEEK
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:43 (one week ago) link
Huh
“That nest egg has lost about half its value in the past two weeks as Trump Media & Technology Group’s share price dropped from $66 after its public debut last month to $32 on Friday. But McLain, 71, who owns a tree-removal service outside Oklahoma City, said he’s not worried. If anything, he wants to buy more.“I know good and well it’s in Trump’s hands, and he’s got plans,” he said. “I have no doubt it’s going to explode sometime.””
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:45 (one week ago) link
I would not hire that guy as my financial advisor
― tobo73, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:04 (one week ago) link
“I have no doubt it’s going to explode sometime.”
TFW when it's just a Fart...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:06 (one week ago) link
https://t4.ftcdn.net/jpg/06/10/98/95/360_F_610989536_IXnrxorojKSKj8YVfGcgA3bWlQ7rOpe0.jpg
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:06 (one week ago) link
“This isn’t just another stock to me. … I feel like it was God Almighty that put it in my lap,” he said. “I’ve just got to hold on and let them do their job. If you go on emotion, you’ll get out of this thing the first time it goes down.”
― senseless Icelandic salsa slander (cat), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:17 (one week ago) link
dont invest based on emotion ok yeah fair instead take stock tips from god wait
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:21 (one week ago) link
Trump to receive bonus worth $1.2bn
WORTH $1.2bn - not actually $1.2bn? It might be that they're just giving him more worthless shares
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:28 (one week ago) link
thats right
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:29 (one week ago) link
irl lols tyvm
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:31 (one week ago) link
but of course
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:35 (one week ago) link
divinendends
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:48 (one week ago) link
“An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump campaign operative Mike Roman.”
Party time!
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/24/arizona-election-indictments-giuliani-meadows-trump-00154241
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:09 (one week ago) link
Michigan is doing this too??
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:19 (one week ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HYv1Nz0.png
who could unindicted co-conspirator 1 be
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:20 (one week ago) link
Nixon’s alive?
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:22 (one week ago) link
If there is a debate, Biden should let Trump prattle on about whatever insane BS and then, when his rebuttal time comes, pause before asking, in the most sincere way, “Donald, who hurt you?”
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 25 April 2024 02:15 (one week ago) link
I love election fraud conspiracy theorists being charged with election fraud conspiracy.
Classic "are we the baddies" moment except probably not for these bozos.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 25 April 2024 03:00 (one week ago) link
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:2000/1*2NiGh7aNslIBYw-mHTlAHA.jpeg
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 April 2024 03:16 (one week ago) link
"unindicted conspirator 1" - don't make him number one, that's the only thing he'll notice
― StanM, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:01 (one week ago) link
He’s definitely more of a number two
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:35 (one week ago) link
wow! more fake elector indictments, it's like at school when you have so many detentions you have to do double detentions to get the backlog down.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 25 April 2024 12:52 (one week ago) link
Boy per the NYT, this is something:
Pecker has just given us a very detailed description of Jared Kushner walking him into Trump Tower, and then into Trump’s office, shortly before Trump's inauguration as president. In the office were four noteworthy people: James Comey, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus and Mike Pompeo. Into that tableau walks Pecker, to be asked about Karen McDougal by the president-elect....Pecker says that in front of Comey, the head of the F.B.I., Trump thanked him for purchasing the stories — and likely committing at least one crime in the process, as Pecker well knew. It's of course not clear what Comey heard. But this is a wild, wild scene we are hearing about.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:14 (one week ago) link
Plus this:
Seemingly important question here, as prosecutors ask David Pecker whether Trump was concerned about his wife or family finding out about his alleged affairs when he was campaigning for office. Pecker responds no. This suggests that Trump’s worries were electoral, not personal.
put Comey on the stand
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:21 (one week ago) link