New Grift Alert: Donald Trump Jr. Is Out Here Selling ‘American’ Bibles

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  1. modernpaladin

    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What's dishonest or unethical about it? Is that the way you feel about everyone who sells things you dont think are worth it, or just Trump?
     
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    He’ll sell it to his hotels for their rooms, eh?
     
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    Have you ever criticized anything that you weren't forced to buy and wasn't being subsidized with public funds?
     
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    Hmmmmm - yes it does. There is a thing called “value for money” an expectation most people have
     
  5. modernpaladin

    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    'Scam' is defined as a dishonest scheme, fraud. Theres nothing dishonest or fraudulent about selling something at a high price. Unless the Bible turns out to not be KJV, or if its advertized as being inlaid with gold when its not, or if Trump is trying to sell the original constitution and just selling copies or if it has an advertized resale/investment value thats unrealistic or something like that, then its not dishonest or a scam. Its just overpriced. Everything sold for a profit is overpriced. Thats what profit is. If people wanna overpay for a Bible and a copy of the const to buy it from Trump instead of cheaper from Walmart or Amazon, who cares? Not me. Thats not a scam. Thats just people voting with their dollars. They're paying more to get it from Trump because they like Trump. And I imagine thats the real reason everyone in this thread is trying to call it a 'scam'...
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Criticized? Sure. Called it a scam or fraud just for being overpriced? No. Scam and fraud are terms that need to retain an actual meaning, not be watered down to include 'everything I dont like' as 'racist', 'terrorist' and 'disinfo' have been.
     
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    Not that Trump Jr. selling patriotic Bibles doesn't give me pause. But interestingly, the author of the anti Trump piece is an anti capitalist, pro socialist, lesbian misandrist. So that disqualifies her coming out of the gate. Trump may actually believe in God and America. She obviously does not.
     
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    don't care if the messenger believes in God(s) or not, if the story is true, it's true
     
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    What's true is that it's anti Trump spin, not news. And the author is more corrupt than the corruption she infers of Trump. Her hypocrisy is glaring except in progressivism where she is likely regaled as valiant. Trumps great sin then is not being imperfect enough.
     
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    KIMBERLY TERASAKI? You know all of this about her, um, how? And why?
     
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    Trump is really doing this, not spin at all
     
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    The kicker is that when the SOB croaks, he will get a state funeral and flags will be flown at half-staff for 30 days.
     
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    Selling a patriotic themed Bible with copies of our founding documents, a lapel pin and a T-shirt? That's pretty darned evil. Especially compared to the bigoted, man loathing, America bashing, freedom hating, sexual deviant who tried to make the case that there is something wrong with Trump Jr. Oh, and she gets paid to write what she writes.
     
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    getting Stormy in here
     
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    One would think that the jury be less corrupt than the the defendant.
     
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    one would hope, but with the republican run jury, Trump got a pass
     
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    Says the people who have nothing to say about Biden's crackhead son selling finger-paintings for gobs of money to undisclosed buyers.

    Or democrats theft of billions via FTX.

    When people without any ethics at all question those with ethics, it's not the stinging rebuke you might think it is.
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah.

    Another Democrat stealing money to donate to other democrats.
     
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    Injeun Well-Known Member

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    Justice isn't person specific. In fact there is no crime committed by Trump Jr.
     
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    who said his gifting was a crime?

    if you want a Trump branded Bible, buy one
     
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    As compared to Trump, stealing money to donate to himself?
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Really.

    Where did he steal money from.

    Let's keep in mind that Trump has raised tens of millions of dollars for charity over the years. Worked for $4 a year as POTUS.

    He used his personal jet to fly a critical boy from NY to CA. Gave $25k to a Marine that got stuck in Mexico. Gave $10k to a bus driver for saving a woman.

    What money has the Bidens ever raised for charity?

    Joe Biden's largest contribution is to the Beau Biden Foundation at $5000.

    What the **** has he done outside that?
     
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    Stole money from the city and state of New York with his tax fraud scheme of which the Trump organization has been found guilty.
    The Trump Foundation was dissolved and Trump had to return $2 million in money illegally used from the charity to fund his political campaign. Trump had to admit, in court, that he engaged in illegal activity. His ability to sit on the board of any future charity is severely limited.

    https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/201...ainst-donald-j-trump-trump-children-and-trump
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah yeah, so says Leticia James. The person who said she was going to investigate Trump to find crimes.

    Now tell us about Biden's history of fund raisers for anyone other than himself.
     
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    No, so says the courts of NY. This isn't what she said she was going to do, it's what the courts RULED. It's what Trump admitted to in the plea agreement. This is not speculation, this is not wishful thinking on the part of a Trump hater...this is the reality of the situation. Trump was found to have misused charitable funds from his "charity" the Trump Foundation. The Foundation has been liquidated. Trump had to pay back $2 million and Trump (and his children) are no longer allowed to control the board of any charity that they sit on the board for in the state of NY BECAUSE of their mishandling of donations.

    For the life of me I do not understand why some people can't just admit that Trump is a conman. He's always been a conman and he has shown no indication that he's going to stop being a conman.
     
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