Trump Says Forbes is Working With Letitia 'Peekaboo' James
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2023 8:36 pm
Trump Rails Against Forbes for Calling Him Slightly Less Rich
by Margaret Hartmann@_NYMarg
Intelligencer Mag
Oct. 10, 2023
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Donald Trump has been indicted four times in recent months, and now he’s on trial for financial fraud. The judge in the civil case, brought by New York attorney general Letitia James, has already ruled that Trump and other defendants fraudulently exaggerated the value of Trump’s real-estate assets for years. The trial could cost Trump hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and lead to portions of his business empire being stripped from his control.
But more importantly, a magazine made a list of the wealthiest Americans, and Trump wasn’t on it.
It was announced on October 3 that Trump did not make the annual Forbes 400 list, falling $300 million short of the cutoff. Apparently, Trump only caught wind of this grievous insult a week later, lashing out at the magazine in a Monday morning Truth Social tirade. Among his allegations: Forbes is colluding with James, it knows less about him than his throwback nemeses Stormy Daniels and Rosie O’Donnell, and he should be much higher on the irrelevant publication’s “discredited” list:
Trump’s “So much for Forbes!” kiss-off was undercut by the fact that he was still stewing about the list 13 hours later, when he posted this follow-up “truth”:
In Trump’s defense, the Forbes piece explaining why he didn’t make the cut had a pretty sassy tone:
The story went on to explain that this is the second time in three years that Trump has dropped off the list:
It’s ironic that Trump chose Truth Social as the venue for his attack on Forbes, as the story cites the social platform’s plummeting value as the biggest reason for his drop from the list. At least now we have an answer to that age-old question: If the guy who failed to make the Forbes 400 attacks a “very badly failing” magazine from his own failing social-media site, does it make a sound?
by Margaret Hartmann@_NYMarg
Intelligencer Mag
Oct. 10, 2023
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I would not call Donald Trump a successful real estate developer. You know who can call him a successful real estate developer? People that don't know him well, like Chris Kise and Alina Habba, and don't know what he's all about, and are being paid to say whatever they're saying. He is at best, in his family, a moderately successful real estate management firm and licensing firm about his name. He really doesn't build buildings, and never has, from the ground up, right? From a a giant hole -- you know, of a foundation, you know, below the surface of the earth, all the way to a Topper on the top of a building. That's not really Donald Trump. His father built a lot of apartment buildings in Queens, which is another section of New York, but not a New York developer, or even a worldwide developer. When you see Donald Trump's name emblazoned on buildings in brass or gold, it's likely a licensing deal, where he had very little role in the look and feel of the building. But they paid him a dollar amount in order to put his name on the building. That's called a licensing fee. Maybe he manages the building. Maybe he just looked at some of the furniture, fabric, and electrics, and said yeah, I like those, I don't like those. Use this furniture, not that furniture. That's it. But building a building? That means going to a bank, and getting a construction loan, a series of loans at different phases of the building, as it comes out of the ground. Or multiple houses across a plot of land. That he's not known for. Underneath the fraud that created this multi-billionaire is a reasonably commonplace 100 millionaire that has that business underneath....
He had grandiose theories about himself, and mythology about himself, and big spending habits for him and his family, but a billionaire? A multi-billionaire? A Forbes 400 billionaire? No way. So that's the fraud, right? The avarice and greed of Donald Trump? Underneath it he's a 100 millionaire.
-- Trump Mar-a-Lago LIE Comes Back to HAUNT HIM, by Michael Popok, MeidasTouch
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes Magazine, and their third rate psycho writer, Dan Alexander, for the many false and libelous articles they have written about me, and for the cooperation that have given to the Racist and Incompetent A.G. of New York State, Peekaboo James. You see, Forbes is owned by the Communist Chinese Government, and China will do anything to stop MAGA. Forbes, a Globalist "Rag," is a propaganda play against TRUMP. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Oct 10, 2023, 9:32 PM
Donald Trump has been indicted four times in recent months, and now he’s on trial for financial fraud. The judge in the civil case, brought by New York attorney general Letitia James, has already ruled that Trump and other defendants fraudulently exaggerated the value of Trump’s real-estate assets for years. The trial could cost Trump hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and lead to portions of his business empire being stripped from his control.
But more importantly, a magazine made a list of the wealthiest Americans, and Trump wasn’t on it.
It was announced on October 3 that Trump did not make the annual Forbes 400 list, falling $300 million short of the cutoff. Apparently, Trump only caught wind of this grievous insult a week later, lashing out at the magazine in a Monday morning Truth Social tirade. Among his allegations: Forbes is colluding with James, it knows less about him than his throwback nemeses Stormy Daniels and Rosie O’Donnell, and he should be much higher on the irrelevant publication’s “discredited” list:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
China owned (China Investment Corp, the Country's Sovereign wealth Fund!), and very badly failing, Forbes "Magazine," which lost most of its relevance long ago, and which knows less about me than Stormy Daniels (who doesn't know me at all!) or Rosie O'Donnell, took me off their Fake Forbes 400 list, just by a "whisker," even though they know that I should be high up on that now very dated and discredited "antique." They are working with the Racist and highly incompetent, job killing Attorney General of New York, Letitia "Peekaboo" James, who has allowed Murder and Violent Crime in the State to hit epidemic levels. China owned Forbes is a participant in the Election Interference Scam, and after what I have done to China, with hundreds of billions of dollars being paid to the USA, who can blame them? For years Forbes has attacked me with really dumb writers assigned to hit me hard, and I am now up 60 Points on the Republicans, and beating Crooked Joe by a lot. So much for Forbes!
Oct 09, 2023, 10:37 AM
Trump’s “So much for Forbes!” kiss-off was undercut by the fact that he was still stewing about the list 13 hours later, when he posted this follow-up “truth”:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Wow! So Failing Forbes Magazine is controlled by Communist China. No wonder they go out of their way to write badly about me, and work with the CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT RACIST ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW YORK, PEEKABOO JAMES. Could never figure it out until n ow. It is a China Propaganda machine, EXPOSED - and whose been smarter and tougher on China than me. They've paid us $BILLIONS. Despite it all, I don't think that President Xi will be very happy with them, they're bad news, and they've been working against American - and got caught. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! MAGA!!!
Oct 09, 2023, 11:57 PM
In Trump’s defense, the Forbes piece explaining why he didn’t make the cut had a pretty sassy tone:
Donald Trump is no longer rich enough for the country’s most exclusive club. With an estimated $2.6 billion fortune, he is $300 million shy of the cutoff for The Forbes 400 ranking of America’s richest people, the annual measurement that Trump has obsessed over for decades, relentlessly lying to reporters to try to vault himself higher on the list.
The story went on to explain that this is the second time in three years that Trump has dropped off the list:
Trump has weathered storms in the past, and this is not the first time he has gotten kicked out of The Forbes 400. He conned his way into sharing a spot on the inaugural list in 1982 with his father, Fred Trump, by convincing a reporter that he held a larger percentage of Fred’s fortune than he actually did. Trump secured massive loans that led to massive bankruptcies, and he fell off the list in 1990, when Forbes exposed deep problems with his debt-fueled empire, ultimately putting his net worth “within hailing distance of zero.” But Trump emerged from those troubles and regained a legitimate spot on the 400. He remained on the list from 1996 until 2021, when six years of polarization and one year of Covid finally caught up to him, dropping him from the ranks once again.
It’s ironic that Trump chose Truth Social as the venue for his attack on Forbes, as the story cites the social platform’s plummeting value as the biggest reason for his drop from the list. At least now we have an answer to that age-old question: If the guy who failed to make the Forbes 400 attacks a “very badly failing” magazine from his own failing social-media site, does it make a sound?