He never cared about his creditors.

The way Trump handles money appears to be that of a gambler and not a businessman. What if his inheritance was taken by his creditors? He would have resolved a lot of financial stress. Why isn't that important? He wanted his inheritance rather than paying the significant debt facing him. Why would he not want that financial relief his inheritance would provide?

Rather than paying debtors, he wanted the money to gamble with whatever he thought was his right to do.

What I see with him is a man chronically in financial trouble. He sees none of his obligations as important enough to resolve them. He didn't pay his creditors, the IRS, and his own contractors. Four times bankrupt.

A gambler knows the money he has spent is gone to him. But, the money further along the trail is still available to gamble with to win monies back to make good on the money he has already spent. The only reason I bring this up is that it is a very dysfunctional person that actually loses everything only to live in denial of his own problems in living within reality.

His actions with a fragile and failing father are completely devoid of any recognition of his own limits and the reality of his failing father never was a priority.

September 27, 2020
By Michael Karnish

Donald Trump was facing financial disaster in 1990 when he came up with an audacious plan to exert control of his father’s estate.

His creditors threatened to force him into personal bankruptcy, and his first wife, Ivana, wanted “a billion dollars” in a divorce settlement, Donald Trump said in a deposition. So he sent an accountant and a lawyer to see his father, Fred Trump Sr., who was told he needed to immediately sign a document changing his will per his son’s wishes, according to depositions from family members....

It appears Trump has been conducting risky business while in office.

September 28, 2020

By Greg Miller and Yeganeh Torbati

Security teams at U.S. spy agencies (click here) are constantly scouring employee records for signs of potential compromise: daunting levels of debt, troubling overseas entanglements, hidden streams of income, and a penchant for secrecy or deceit to avoid exposure.

President Trump would check nearly every box of this risk profile based on revelations in the New York Times from his long-secret tax records that former intelligence officials and security experts said raise profound questions about whether he should be trusted to safeguard U.S. secrets and interests.

The records show that Trump has continued to make money off foreign investments and projects while in office; that foreign officials have spent lavishly at his Washington hotel and other properties; and that despite this revenue he is hundreds of millions of dollars in debt with massive payments coming due....

The American people have been seeking the truth about Trump's debt for a long time.

Americans understand debt and leverage. It is not a strange idea that Trump's debt will compromise the USA.

December 25, 2019
By Cal North

Full disclosure: I am an old, white man and a liberal Democrat. (click here)

The GOP has one argument right. There is a glaring flaw in the impeachment investigation and hearings. The interference in our elections is about more than massaging Donald J. Trump's thirst for power.

What they have wrong is the lack of attention to the fact, well demonstrated by the president, that all of his actions are in service to Vladimir Putin's drive to revive imperial Russia and to subjugate all of Eastern Europe to it.

That Russian program explains most of what Trump has been doing ever since he met with Putin as a private businessman. His meetings with Putin and his highest aides have been held out of hearing of anyone who might record what was said as they planned their next steps.

Trump is trying to pay off his hundreds of millions of dollar debt to the ruling clique of Russia, and control of our government is the payment required of him. That payment is the auction price for the USA.

Cal North, Kearns

The New York Times provided a service to the American people in answering questions that have lingered for years.

October 16, 2016

By Former Reps. Jim Slattery, Chris Shays, Tom Coleman, Richard Sweet and Michael Andrews

Americans (click here) do not know the extent of Donald Trump’s business relations with Russia or China, but we need to know.

In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. — the GOP nominee’s son and the VP for Development for The Trump Organization — told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Americans need to know how much money has poured into The Trump Organization from Russia and from whom. Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions....

The Russian government owns the banks and every wealthy oligarch in the country. It is impossible to deal with Russia in any way without dealing with the Russian government.

July 4, 2020

By Franklin Foer

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting with a supervisory board of Russian state-owned investment bank Vnesheconombank in Moscow, July 11, 2012.

Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West (click here) —and that plan looks a lot like Donald Trump. Over the past decade, Russia has boosted right-wing populists across Europe. It loaned money to Marine Le Pen in France, well-documented transfusions of cash to keep her presidential campaign alive. Such largesse also wended its way to the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who profited “personally and handsomely” from Russian energy deals, as an American ambassador to Rome once put it. (Berlusconi also shared a 240-year-old bottle of Crimean wine with Putin and apparently makes ample use of a bed gifted to him by the Russian president.)...

Go, Dr. Redfield, Go!

Dr. Redfield should be encouraging everyone to get their flu shot now.

Dr. Redfield don't' worry about the apprentice show with the White House, the people belong to those that want them well and protected.

We are with you, Dr. Redfield. Mr. Atlas has no peer-reviewed research to back him up. I think he is a dangerous practioner.

September 25, 2020

By Monica Alba

Washington - The director (click here) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force, is sharing incorrect information about the pandemic with the public.

Dr. Robert Redfield, who leads the CDC, suggested in a conversation with a colleague Friday that Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with misleading data about a range of issues, including questioning the efficacy of masks, whether young people are susceptible to the virus and the potential benefits of herd immunity.

"Everything he says is false," Redfield said during a phone call made in public on a commercial airline and overheard by NBC News.

Redfield acknowledged after the flight from Atlanta to Washington that he was speaking about Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases or public health. Atlas was brought on to the White House task force in August....