Trump Needs to Keep the Cash Coming In


To me, the most interesting question from the Capital invasion is what will happen in the "back office." Prior to the event, Trump had a strong flow of money from fans. He hoped, I have come to believe, he could accomplish two things with this cash flow. He could finance primary challenges to Republicans who had not supported him. Thus, he could decide who got elected to DC and every person would have been chosen by him and would be loyal to him. The second use was to pay off loans he had promised pay for personally if his businesses failed to pay them. 

As I recall, about $430 million comes due in 2021. He could use this money from donors, legally it appears, to pay for rooms in all of his properties. The rooms would not be used. This fake revenue would be used to pay off the loans. We know he likes this trick because foreign companies and governments paid for unused rooms in his properties the last four years. It was a way to gain access to the President. Why not unused rooms to pay creditors?

The back office question is whether the DC debacle will hurt his donor cash flow. The ability to retain his  wealth, which he claims is vast, depends on this money. 

His risk is the small donors who have been sending him money figure out he really did lose the election and it was not "stolen." Senator Lindsey Graham put it powerfully on the Senate floor yesterday. He said, (paraphrasing) "They claimed 10,000 vote from those to young to vote were given to Biden. I asked them to show me just ten. I saw zero. They said there were those dead people who voted. I asked them to show just ten. They couldn't do it."

If these demands for evidence keep coming forward and there is no response it could be that some of Trump's most devoted and most uninformed fans will stop sending money. Just for the sake of this cash flow he needs stop the requests for evidence of fraud.

Some say he has thought of being an on air television personality, perhaps having his own show as a pundit. Several posts today have said the invasion will take away that opportunity, if it ever really did exist.

If Trump, however, has become a God-like figure, he may yet have a big cash haul and get out of debt. The Christian God have never delivered a single life after death that we know of yet brings in millions each Sunday.

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  1. HenryJanuary 8, 2021 at 9:38 PM

    "If these demands for evidence keep coming forward and there is no response it could be that some of Trump's most devoted and most uninformed fans will stop sending money."

    China Joe doesn't have this same dilemma. He doesn't need the little guy. He has China and big tech. It is such a comfortable situation for him, he can be assured Hunter can sleep like a baby. Isn't he adorable? Strange looking pacifier though. Part of a chemistry set? Maybe the guy is a scientist? Funny little scorch marks at base. Must have had a Bunsen burner going. Smart.
    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/14/20/34395656-8838939-image-a-31_1602703342079.jpg

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