(04-09-2019 10:36 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(04-09-2019 10:05 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-09-2019 09:44 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  You saw where I wrote this, correct? "More likely you believe that the money potentially directed to Trump is too small to interest him"

OK, so you got that. Then why lead with the, "You seem to be implying," comment? What purpose did that serve?

Quote:Again... if there was no money making its way to Trump I'm note sure why the courts haven't thrown out those DC hotel lawsuits by now. It would seem to be a pretty straightforward defense.

Maybe because the AGs of Maryland and DC are hard left partisan who forum-shopped to get equally hard-left partisan judges?

Quote:Agree... if the money doesn't flow to him it would not be an issue. I don't believe this to be the case.

The money doesn't flow to him. You seem to have the notion that Trump's properties are set up like Dave's Hardware, where Dave is a sole proprietor and at the end of the day he takes home what's in the cash register and he and Mrs. Dave go out to a nice dinner. Assuming he had competent tax and legal advice, as I said Michael Cohen notwithstanding, then that's not how these deals work. And his wealth is based on the value of the enterprise, which if it took in $40MM last year, is little affected by the prime minister of Slobbovia's room bill. Or remember that the left was suggesting about a year ago that Trump had been forced out of an operating interest in his deals by the banks, and now all he got was a fee for naming rights? If that's the case, then actually zero flows to him.

There's a lot of confusion about the difference between how people who work for a paycheck measure wealth--how much is in the bank and in their investment accounts--and how entrepreneurs measure wealth--the value of their enterprises. To affect Donald Trump's wealth, you have to affect the value of his enterprises. And staying at a Trump hotel simply doesn't move that needle very far, if at all.

To the bolded - as I showed, Trump is either the sole or primary proprietor of all entities controlled by the Trump Organization.

I don't think you know what "sole proprietor" means. If Trump is indeed a sole proprietor, he is incredibly stupid, and I don't think even your guys have hurled that at him yet.

I think you mean sole stockholder or majority stockholder. But it is hard for me to know what you mean if you don't know what you mean.