re: #307 sagehen

The up charging costs wasn’t ONLY about money laundering and tax fraud; it was also about creating documentation to convince the rent control board to let him raise rates on fixed-income seniors who were supposed to have special protection even beyond what’s due ordinary rent-controlled tenants. So he wasn’t just stealing from “the gov’t” or “the taxpayers”, he was stealing from people’s grandmas.

Not surprising at all. I haven’t read the story and have only got bits and pieces from various sources that I wasn’t necessarily completely focused on listening/watching.

What really gets me about Trump is that he had to know all this less than legal shit had to have happened. And that if he ran for (and on the off chance became) president, it would all come out. How dumb/full of hubris must one be to figure “fuck it, let’s do it anyway”?