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This is a delusion. I have no idea why some on the left are so dedicated to maintaining it - it has a cultish quality of refusal to acknowledge facts that I expect from QAnon.

What do you think the family is living on today? Like, "he doesn't pay his bills" means that all his large staff, his phones, his plane, his multiple homes, heating oil, takeout from McDs - he doesn't pay any of those bills?

The last time he had to report fundraising revenue was in Jan-March 2021. For that three-month period he took in $250 million, or $2.75 million per day.

Even if that has dropped off to, say, $1 million a day, it's lunatic to imagine that he has used one cent of that money to "reduce debt to overseas legbreakers," whomever you think those people are, or whatever amounts you think he owes for what services.

You need to face the reality that Trump's ability to raise mountains of money with no strings attached is on a scale not matched since Louis XIV. He has a shit-ton of cash coming in daily from multiple sources - from idiots buying MAGA hats, from billionaires bankrolling phony business schemes and shady real-estate deals, from the many business enterprises he has been running for years, and probably also from bribes, kickbacks, and extortion. Remember how he refused to sequester or cease his private businesses while in office? Clearly illegal, and we couldn't prevent him? That was not chump change; that was $billions.

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Donald Trump’s speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Sunday (October 2016), was billed as a sober, policy-minded look at his first 100 days in office.

But the first thing he promised to do after being elected was to sue the women who have accused him of sexual assault.

“All of these liars will be sued after the election is over,” Trump promised. He continued to attack them: “Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign,” he said

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