trump empire. and what he found than probably wouldn t shock anyone today. but back then it was a big deal. tim o brien discovered that donald trump s much lauded business excellence was actually far less impressive than trump had anyone to believe. he found that donald trump had been significantly overstating his net worth by billions of dollars. that he wasn t remotely close to being a billionaire. and so in 2005, tim o brien wrote a book exposing donald trump s prolific lies, and exaggerations about his wealth. donald trump reported by suing time o brien for defamation a year later, and that is how we got to see what it s like when donald trump testifies under oath. quoting from the transcript, attorney, mr. trump, have you always been completely truthful in your public statements about your net worth of properties? trump, i try. attorney, have you ever not been truthful? trump, my net worth blocked away, and it goes up and down with a market and with attitudes and w
new information about the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. trump world has now reportedly started speculating about who in the former presidents orbit, might have talked to the fbi, and what it could mean for the investigation. we will have more on that later. but let s go back in time a little. to 2005. more than a decade before donald trump s first run for president, before he started fighting with racist birtherism conspiracies, back when he was just a real estate guy, with a funny hairdo, and a reality tv show, that year the intrepid journalist, tim o brien, the guy on the left, the side to side digging into the so-called trump empire. and what he found then probably wouldn t shock anyone today. but back then it was a big deal. tim o brien discovered that donald trump s much lauded business success was actually far less impressive than trump had anyone to believe. he found that donald trump had been significantly overstating his net worth by billions of dollar
Bullets could care less what color you are and when i m calling in air support i could care less what color the pilot is s. i just want bombs and rockets on foreheads of the bad guys. i want somebody to meet the standard to do that because that s the big thing. if you re not having standards, you re going to allow certain elements of politics to come into play and what that does is it puts soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines lives at risk. if you have people who can t perform the job in positions of real importance, that s when people die. look, i was laying on a battlefield myself bleeding out. if i had people surrounding me who could not meet the standards physically, to carry me off the battlefield, could not meet the standards in the air to provide air support, fighting off the taliban to make sure a medivac could land, i m dead. i m not here. obviously i love being here and have a wife and grow a family but when we look at this over
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