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On McClatchey Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king
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The Gosmans managed to hold on to it for a couple of years, but by 2004 it had been seized by the bankruptcy court and put on the auction block. There were several bidders, hoping to scoop up a plutocratic property at a dollar-store price, but Trump — a real-estate mogul still more than a decade distant from political ambitions — pounced, grabbing the house for $41.35 million.

“He bought it strictly as an investment to flip,” said Carol Digges, the Palm Beach real-estate agent who would eventually re-sell the house for Trump. “He never intended to live there.”

And he didn’t. After doing some renovation on the house, Trump put it back on the market in 2006 at price that made even jaded Palm Beach eyeballs pop: $125 million. Gossip Extra publisher and columnist Jose Lambiet, one of a few reporters Trump invited to tour the house in an attempt to drum up buyers, was even more astonished by the price after he looked around.

“I’d been in the house before, at one of Gosman’s charity parties, and Trump had hardly changed anything, just put on a couple of coats of paint,” Lambiet said. “Even that — well, he told us the fixtures in one of the bathrooms were gold, but as he walked away, I scratched a faucet with my fingernails and it was just gold-covered paint.”

Lambiet has visited many homes of wealthy owners with more money than taste, but he considered the Maison de l’Amitie in a class by itself. “It was just terrible-looking, really gaudy,” he said. “Nothing fit together — it was sort of haphazard inside.

“There was a room with a floor made of cobblestones, and in the corner was a real wood oven for pizzas. It looked like an old Italian pizza place. Who does that in their house? ... I thought, he’s never gonna sell this. And he didn’t, the house stayed on the market for a couple of years.

“And then the Russian came along.”
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Lifestyles of the rich and famous eh.
 
Nearly one in four American adults under the age of 65 has medical debt, according to the results of a new study by the Urban Institute, and southerners are hit hardest by past-due doctors’ bills.

The study authors, Michael Karpman and Kyle J. Caswell, found that eight of the ten states with the highest rates of past-due medical debt were in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Georgia. The rate was lowest in Hawaii, at 6 percent of adults, and the highest was Mississippi, at 37 percent. Nationwide, African-Americans and people aged 25 to 34 were most likely to have past-due doctors’ bills.
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The States Where People Have the Most Medical Debt
 
Buckaroo said:
Off with his thumbs!
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Cloo said:
All this 'he sounded presidential' stuff...

... You kind of want a president for whom being presidential is, y'know, a consistent feature, not an occasional show that he can sometimes be coached into putting on.
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His true nature came blindingly through with the "record applause" bit, most of his speech was just nauseating hypocrisy,
The applause bit was totally vomit inducing.
 
CrabbedOne said:
It's more smoke but Flynn was fired for lying to Pence. Talking to the Russians or any important foreign power isn't in itself that big a deal. It's normal for a President elect's team to do this even if there's a very old, unused, law against it. Sessions may have less than frank with the Senate but says he wasn't talking to Russia as part of the Trump campaign but as part of Senate committee work.
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"I did not have sex with that senate committee "
 
Honestly, just what line does this Twat have to cross before the US body politic cries 'enough?
He has trampled across every line of decency, honesty (even for politicians) financial probity, nepotism, insider dealing, hes obviously as thick as pigs shit, his personal failings on every level have been thoroughly dissected.
FMSs is the US that bliddy socially racist, misogynistic, and greedy?
Aye whey, back to mandarin for dummies.
 
DotCommunist said:
it has the air of desperate relief doesn't it. Some hope to cling to that he might not be the worst president ever.
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Besides their obviously cowardly, deferential and stupid nature I wonder whether centrist journos aren't also thinking along the lines that since something has happened that never should have happened, it must naturally come to an end. Initially that manifested itself in constant stories about how THIS NEXT THING was the end of Trump, now that is obviously not going to happen they have decided to invent themselves a change to this disruption of the natural order.

In the months following the election, we had all these articles about the idea that the world is just a computer simulation anyway. These are people who are in the process of losing their minds. They believed that US institutions were so strong that nothing like Trump could happen, because the US Republic was the best system ever devised and the Founding Fathers could predict someone like Trump in 2016. They thought that, for example, the electoral college was a mechanism that would protect them from the idiot masses.
 
Johnny Canuck3 said:
Bush looks foolish; but he doesn't look like Il Duce.
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Christ! You are one of those people who thought Trudeau was taking Trump to task because a photographer took a photo of him looking slightly awkward before the duo shook hands and agreed to destroy the environment together.
 
Well then. . .

Jeff Sessions Used Political Funds for Republican Convention Expenses

Records show attorney general used campaign account for travel expenses to Cleveland, where he met Russian envoy

The Trump administration says Attorney General Jeff Sessions was acting as a then-U.S. senator when he talked to Russia’s ambassador at an event during last year’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, but Mr. Sessions paid for convention travel expenses out of his own political funds and he spoke about Donald Trump’s campaign at the event, according to a person at the event and campaign-finance records.

Mr. Sessions made comments related to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign at a Heritage Foundation event during the Republican convention in July, when he met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, according to a person at the event in Cleveland.
 
Mm, yes, his hair, mm, yes, his jacket, mm, yes, he's Mussolini. MMm, yes, what are y'all like.

Tim Pool is in Sweden, digging behind the scenes and has an interesting take on how the statistics are skewed.

 
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