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Never been proven? He’s been convicted of a crime already. Are there really HNers who only watch Fox News?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-30/bloomb...


> TDS is real,

No it isn't. It's just a hand-wavy way to say "this is no longer a serious conversation".


My degree from Trump University can confirm this.

He has never committed "fraud", besides all those times he had to pay fines for committing fraud and settling class actions for fraud. But beyond that, he's fine. It's just TDS haters talking about "reality" and "facts".


Can you illuminate the legitimate reasoning behind the OP then? If you have a claim that people have the wrong idea about Trump, then why not provide some of your own evidence?


> no one has ever proved it

What? Trump University [1]. Atlantic City [2][3].

> any successful business person will have those in their portfolio

Most businesses don’t have this sort of widespread rap sheet. And most businesses aren’t headed by a felon.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/spin-deride-attack-h...

[2] https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-trump...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Rock_Hotel_%26_Casino_A...


The only TDS is the blind devotion his cult has, that lets them contort themselves into supporting anything the fascist con-artist spews out.

Not getting into the cryptocurrency rug-pull he just pulled during his inauguration 2 months ago.

Not even getting into his lie about election fraud.

Here's just a small smattering of the civil and legal judgements Trump has lost in regards to defrauding people.

> In December 2022, two entities of the Trump Organization were found guilty on 17 counts, including tax fraud and falsifying business records. The scheme involved providing executives with off-the-books perks to evade taxes

> In May 2024, Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The charges were related to hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to conceal information.

> In February 2024, a New York judge ruled that Donald Trump and his companies had engaged in a years-long scheme to inflate his wealth on financial statements. The court imposed a $355 million penalty and barred Trump from serving in top roles at any New York company for three years

> In August 2022, Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's former CFO, pleaded guilty to 15 felony charges, including grand larceny and tax fraud, admitting to a scheme that evaded taxes on $1.7 million in income.

> In November 2019, a New York state judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $2 million in damages for misusing the Trump Foundation's funds to further his political and business interests.

> Trump University, a for-profit real estate training program, faced multiple lawsuits alleging that it defrauded students by making false claims about the value of its courses and the involvement of Trump himself. In April 2018, a federal judge finalized a $25 million settlement to resolve these lawsuits

> Trump and his companies have been accused for decades of refusing to pay contractors, workers, and small businesses after work was completed




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