If Trump was merely a corrupt businessman with the morals of a mob boss he would still deserve prosecution along with any others.

He isn’t though just a corrupt businessman. He is an ex President who tried to usurp the democratic process and retain power illegally.

That’s enough, for me, to lock him away for life, bar him from ever running for office again, stripping him of all his assets and gagging him until the process is completed.

As to some of the other suggestions recently made in this thread, Biden is indeed a multi millionaire. Like many politicians on leaving office he had lucrative speaking engagements and a book deal, reportedly worth $8 million. Don’t let that though stop some suggesting equivalence with the most corrupt President of all time, Donald Trump.

Fauci must have the patience of a Saint given the way he is portrayed in the right wing alternative media of the USA. Something that seems to be gleefully scanned and regurgitated here far too regularly. Yes he, and his wife, are millionaires. He was the highest paid federal employee during the pandemic. Given the nonsense he was subjected to I think he deserved that. He previously held highly paid posts and his wife is also in the industry. He has also received grants for “speaking truth to power”.

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PJW making the reduction of males entering the US military in better terms that I could.....because white male recruitment is down nearly half in five years.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

PJW, or to give him his full name Paul Joseph Watkins, is a very odd person, with a thoroughly dubious history of conspiracy theories and associations with people most of us would be ashamed to admit we knew:-

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Those who enthusiastically follow him, and express admiration for his views are associating themselves with one of the nastiest commentators active today.

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Trump urging republican SC judges to 'do their thing'.

It's like the UK government here telling the UK supreme court to find in their favour as they were appointed by them.

A total crap system, together with their bonkers electoral college.

I don't envy Americans their tarnished version of democracy, I don't rate ours either, but tbh we don't really matter.

Or their solutions to most of the world's problems foreign problems, mainly to bomb the crap out of everything that moves.

They make the Houthis look sensible.

His perception of the value was based on what he was advised. He’s not an estate agent so must have sought advice.
Was someone lending the money winging it then.
If he has used another persons advice why is he complicit. How many valuations should he have got.
Basically the lender lent what was acceptable against the values they thought was correct. How else would he have got the loan.

Untrue. Trump doesn’t take advice on this, or almost anything else. He has an overinflated value of himself and everything he touches. It was unmistakable that he was behind this. Why he needed to overstate the value and size of everything is a good question. It seems he has always done it, creating a fantasy of a hugely successful business that really wasn’t. Why Deutsche Bank went along with it only they can answer but I bet there are questions being asked and people investigated.

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