I mean to quote Catwoman, "The rich don't even go broke like we do," and Trump has spent his whole life demonstrating how that works https://twitter.com/GlennF/status/816081745799852032 …
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(The movie demonstrates that actually - it's hard to make people sitting on large amounts of real property liquidate it)
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(It gives you leverage fight for a debt "restructuring", which is how Trump could go bankrupt a bunch of times w/o actually going bankrupt)
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When you *started out* rich you can technically run out of money and yet have dozens of ways to get yourself out of it
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Including bizarre Hail Mary plays like, say, running for President
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Can't force the current President of the United States to declare bankruptcy, right, that'd fuck up the whole country
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Morosely thinking about how, after Trump leaves the White House, assuming the world still exists in recognizable form, he'll be set for life
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The Secret Service is obligated to give him free security for the rest of his life, so that's one big budget item crossed off the list
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It used to be that there wasn't an obvious way for former Presidents to make money so Secret Service for life made sense
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Gerald Ford changed that tradition, and now between book deals, speeches and sitting on boards it's impossible for a former PotUS to be poor
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So it's worth asking whether it's fair to make taxpayers keep paying for lifetime security
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Especially with evidence from Obama's administration that the Secret Service is getting stretched trying to protect the current President
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