Gonna be a busy few weeks pic.twitter.com/ZKLcqlWRuf
— erin mccann (@mccanner) October 5, 2016
* flagged for next time someone makes a very dumb comment about @BuzzFeedNews not being a ~real~ news organization * https://t.co/iN55S5euJl
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) October 5, 2016
Those financial filings should certainly prove interesting, per the Buzzfeed article:
… In the early 1990s, Trump’s companies filed several major bankruptcies, and the massive court filings in those bankruptcies have been a key part of previous reporting on Trump’s finances.
But those files — totaling thousands of pages — have not been available online before today, though they have been pored over by reporters at a range of outlets. With Trump’s finances the source of intense speculation and interest a month before the election, BuzzFeed News is making them available in full for the first time…
The documents are, in particular, court filings from three of his bankruptcies in 1991 and 1992: The Trump Taj Mahal Casino, Trump’s Plaza, The Trump Castle…
Click over for the full document links.
Speaking of Deadbeat Donnie, I woke up from a nap with a weirdly vivid image of Roger Ailes, Roger Stone, and Sean Hannity as MacBeth’s witches, hovering over an array of soundbanks and monitors, feeding advice to you-know-who while Paul Ryan moaned about the perfumes of Araby. Anybody want to help me with cast the other characters?…
(As a matter of fact, yes I do have a paperback of Barbara Garson’s most famous work around here somewhere…)
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