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Correction: An earlier version of this post said there aren’t major institutional investors in Truth Social. In the SPAC there are a few, most notably Susquehanna International Group LLP, which was co-founded by GOP megadonor Jeffrey Yass.

Yass is a major investor in China’s ByteDance, which owns TikTok. Trump’s about face on banning the app may have resulted from pressure from Yass, underscoring my main point that Trump will be for sale via DJT stock.

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Mar 22Liked by Jay Kuo

Nothing is more important than VOTING in November. No court case is more important, no judgment, nothing! It is and always has been up to us to beat him.

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The site's only purposes were to:

1. Make him money

2. Provide him with somewhere to rant publicly

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It was bad enough that people could make money simply by having money. Now you can make money simply by convincing people you have money, when (as in Trump’s case) you clearly don’t.

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Mar 22Liked by Jay Kuo

You gotta hand it to him - he is the grifter of all grifters and sucks in the suckers with ease. 😡

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This makes me sick to my stomach and very anxious. It also makes me so angry. How in the world can a man like him keep landing on his feet?!?!? I so want karma to bite him in the butt.

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They just said it would be 6 months before he could access the money and there are no guarantees it will still be worth the same by then. Lots can happen between now and then. Now he has the problem he may have caused himself some problems this morning. His attorneys filed court papers that said he couldn't come up with the money and wanted a stay. Now suddenly this morning on truth social he posted he had the money. Unless someone gave him the money then he's lying. Time will tell but the judge is certainly asking questions.

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MSM is all hype with headlines of “Leticia prepares to seize properties . . .” But, (and I did post some of this) the business news outlets were making note of this impending offer. It’s no longer enough to demonize the MSM—they are owned and operated by conglomerates whose billionaire CEOs support the RNC. Voters have to do their own homework. Period.

This country is chained down by fascist billionaires who control almost everything. All that’s left is the veneer of “free elections,” which tRump has proven to be vulnerable. . . And we can’t even seem to get justice for THAT, down in Georgia . . . Where a Libertarian Judge has turned his courtroom into a circus over consenting adults having an affair.

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22

Jay, isn't it true that the moment Trump becomes the owner of those shares, the DANY can file a lien on them pursuant to the judgment?

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So, how do we convince the media to focus on this story?

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I am almost 70 years old, and have spent the better part of my life believing (naively, I guess) in the inherent goodness in people. Since 2015, this belief system has been sorely tested. I have always believed that goodness and honesty would/should be “rewarded” and that bad behavior/intentions would be “punished”.

This news that TFFG, a person so devoid of ANY redeeming qualities is going to be rewarded with billions of dollars is such an assault on my belief system that it makes me feel a deep, visceral anger and physically ill.

Is there to be no justice, ever, for this horrible excuse for a human being?? 😡😩🤮

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Trouble is, Congress has been trading away on the stock market merrily, despite considerable criticism and reporting by the Press on those conflicts of interests, and refuses to rein itself in. If Congress is up for sale, why not the Presidency?

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"The media needs to do a much better job warning..." They need to start reporting on all the crap he does, so why don't they? Are they also afraid of him? Do they think that his base will stop watching? This is how fascism carries on....

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Um, don't we have the SEC?? Wouldn't they get ahead of this, along with the DOJ, and put it on hold until after the election, at least? I mean, c'mon, even a novice like ME can see this!

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22

I think you are looking at this too much as a stock, when it is simply a donations basket to pass around to the Russians and Chinese to allow them to freely help Trump get into office and to make him a puppet when he is there. Those buyers won't care whether it is a good investment in the phony stock, they'll just be using it as a way to skirt the law and buy a president. Knowing Trump, he would never honor such a debt, but it could easily make him see these guys even more as his best buddies and wonderful people that he loves more than his country.

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Thanks for the helpful information.

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