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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Why do you think he's dying to be president? 😂 He wants to pay that shit off. Dude ran in the first place because he was broke and had a ton of debt.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He doesn't want to pay shit.

Trump wants to leverage the presidency to gain influence among other authoritarians. Anyone who has lent him money and thinks he's going to pay them back likely already has a deed to the Brooklyn Bridge.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 12 points 3 months ago

Back when Trump was running for 2016, my brother (really into finance) said "he wants to keep his interest rates low" because he (everyone who cared) knew Trump was heavily leveraged. This was before all the other crazy tendencies came to light, of course.

[–] barnaclebutt 19 points 3 months ago

Or not pay it, and be protected from further litigation.

[–] SarcasticMan 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They took his retirement plan when they scooped up all those classified docs lol.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 3 points 3 months ago

His retirement plan is that $2 billion the Saudis gave his son-in-law.

[–] disguy_ovahea 10 points 3 months ago

He also wants to pardon himself from his federal charges before they become convictions.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 5 points 3 months ago

I seriously wonder if Trump originally ran because they told him they were filming a mockumentary about him running for President and he went with it. Maybe they still haven't told him.

[–] Nuke_the_whales 38 points 3 months ago

If I owed more than $1000, creditors would demolish my credit and life. These fuckers get away with owing $100,0000,000+ and face no consequences

[–] negativenull 22 points 3 months ago

If you owe someone $1000, that's your problem.
If you owe someone $100,000,000, that's their problem

[–] Lemming421 22 points 3 months ago

Donald Trump owes more than $100m from lawsuits

No shit, he hasn’t paid the half a billion dollars from that single lawsuit yet, never mind any of the others…

[–] Got_Bent 13 points 3 months ago

Get fuckt Donnie

[–] danc4498 9 points 3 months ago

Grifter needs money, runs for president and spends all his money on lawsuits.

[–] Bonesince1997 8 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Wait he's actually doing financial disclosure this time?

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker -5 points 3 months ago

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