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He's been a desperate loser all his life who has tried to work hard to cover that up by means of the superficial trappings of wealth. He's chock-full of crippling complexes that prevent him from functioning properly, and now that his previously 'successful' shtick of talking utterly incoherent, stream-of-thought bollocks has stopped working, he's just losing it.
For a desperate loser with a loser complex, he still has a lot of money. Amazing how unfair the world is.
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I've seen some analysis that says he would be richer if he had just taken his inheritance and left it in the bank...
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As Stonehedge says, there are questions to ask about his business acumen. There's also a lot of so far undiscovered country (well, except for those who've been there) about his links to organised crime.
I wasn't talking about his business life so much, though, more about his personal life, of which we now know more following all the revelations of recent years, including his niece's book.
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For a desperate loser with a loser complex, he still has a lot of money. Amazing how unfair the world is.
It's public knowledge that he lied about his net worth decades ago to procure massive loans which he used to start his ventures. His businesses have declared bankruptcy six times so far - his "wealth" is made up almost entirely of credit and loans he's using to pay other loans. The theory that the donations he's been gathering to fight the election results are in fact going towards paying his campaign expenses tracks with he's business practices so far.
As for rehabilitating his image in American history - it's going to happen. It happened with Bush in our lifetimes and it will happen with Trump. I wish I could say with confidence that Biden wont pardon him, but it's hard to feel secure in that statement as the idea that it may be presented, and in turn lapped up by centrist Liberals, as a gesture of unity and healing is uncomfortably real.
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He's been a desperate, emotionally-abused loser all his life who has tried to work hard to cover that up by means of the superficial trappings of wealth. He's chock-full of crippling complexes that prevent him from functioning/thinking properly, and now that his previously 'successful' shtick of talking utterly incoherent, stream-of-thought bollocks has stopped working, he's just losing it completely. It would be sad if you could still have any compassion for him, which even his psychologist niece says she can't have for him any more.