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Donald Trump: ‘I’ve Lost Billions’ by Winning the Presidency
Breitbart ^ | 17 Oct 2020 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 10/17/2020 7:55:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

President Donald Trump said that he had lost billions by leaving his real estate company to run for political office.

“Believe me. I didn’t do it for me,” Trump said. “I lost a fortune. This job has cost me billions and billions of dollars.”

The president spoke about the impact that becoming president had on his personal wealth during a campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin.

“I would say it cost me two, three, maybe more billion dollars,” Trump said.

He noted that the “fake news” media harped on the fact that he was not raising as much money as former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign.

Trump said that he could easily raise more money, but he did not want to be beholden to wealthy donors.

“Nobody could ever raise money like me, I just don’t want to do it,” Trump said. “Because it puts us all … meaning us, I did this for us, and not for me.

Trump mocked the media for criticizing his hotels for allowing foreign dignitaries to stay in them for a few hundred dollars a night.

“Billions I lost, and that’s ok, because I’m doing something that’s the most important thing I’ve ever done,” he said.

The president reminded his supporters that he gave up his $400,000 annual salary as president.

“I never talk about it, they never talk about it,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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1 posted on 10/17/2020 7:55:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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The President and his entire family have been abused at every turn. The Dems are disgusting.

Obama was disgusting but we never abused him.

2 posted on 10/17/2020 7:59:01 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The job of President has made him the most famous man on earth though so there is that.


3 posted on 10/17/2020 7:59:56 PM PDT by xp38
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

People like Biden snd Obama got rich the old fashioned way. They arrived in DC Poor and left multi Millionaires.


4 posted on 10/17/2020 8:00:27 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The President should be introduced to us here at FR


5 posted on 10/17/2020 8:04:06 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Saw this at Free North Carolina


6 posted on 10/17/2020 8:10:08 PM PDT by skimbell
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We should be thankful for a billionaire who lost millions, than broke ass politicians who came in broke, and left millionaires.


7 posted on 10/17/2020 8:10:26 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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8 posted on 10/17/2020 8:11:19 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Funny how Democrats who get richer in office are not crooks but a man who gets poorer is incessantly called one, huh?


9 posted on 10/17/2020 8:12:37 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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L8r


10 posted on 10/17/2020 8:13:19 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: skimbell

God bless him.

11 posted on 10/17/2020 8:14:11 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Vermont Lt

Gotta wonder how much of those pallets of cash to Iran came back to Obama.


12 posted on 10/17/2020 8:14:33 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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13 posted on 10/17/2020 8:18:51 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Sounds like a great speech, maybe his best yet. Sorry I missed that one. 8>(


14 posted on 10/17/2020 8:38:35 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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I’ll be first in line to buy when he sells his book and/or makes it into a movie. It’ll be one for the ages.


15 posted on 10/17/2020 8:52:14 PM PDT by GreatRoad
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I have often thought that the President should become a member of Freerepublic.

He would certainly be welcomed.


16 posted on 10/17/2020 8:54:15 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me eDeath!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump doesn’t need a lot of money with a strong message like MAGA.

With all those many more millions what is Biden’s message?


17 posted on 10/17/2020 9:03:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Just gonna say Trump products and hotels are now places I look. Sometimes the first search for vacation plans.


18 posted on 10/17/2020 9:07:29 PM PDT by Bayard
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Thank you for sharing this.


19 posted on 10/17/2020 9:08:43 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Without a doubt public service has cost Trump a great deal of money


20 posted on 10/17/2020 9:12:57 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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