Like a non-fictional novel, Trump whines about the morning news programs, and is upset he might lose his NYC golf course, among other Floridian complaints about the confiscatory “communists” in the NYC mayoral administration. He really misses not being able to get amplified via Twitter. He’ll likely get his Facebook account back to make more mischief like another dummy explosive.
“Not even possible to believe the lies, exaggerations, and outright fraud committed by very poorly rated Morning “News” Shows about the January 6th protest. They say whatever comes to their mind, like writing a fictional novel…
“The press has lost its way at a level that is not even believable. Books, likewise, are made up stories and should only be sold as fiction. These are terrible human beings that do this to our Country. The 2020 Election was a fraud rife with errors, irregularities, and scandal.
“The Radical Left knows it, the media knows it, and the Patriots of our Country know it, and now the U.S.A. is paying a big price—it is very sadly going to hell!”
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Before he was famous for anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, Donald Trump was famous for, among other things, gloating about his business acumen while running businesses into the ground. When it comes to the demagogic presidential candidate's Trump Golf Links golf course in the Bronx, it's unclear how much money he's actually making. What does seem fairly obvious is that New York City taxpayers are getting screwed.
The group NYC Park Advocates obtained financial reports regarding Trump Links, showing that the course, the most expensive city-funded golf facility in the country at around $164 million, brought in more than $8 million in its first year, none of which is going back into city coffers.
Built on a former landfill next to Ferry Point Park in Throgs Neck, the golf course was first begun in 1998, under then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani. A series of delays, cost overruns, and disputes with developers followed. Trump stepped in with a proposal to salvage the project in 2010, and Michael Bloomberg chose his bid over two other unnamed companies', signing off on it in early 2012. The revised deal was far more generous to Trump, and the course far more expensive, with little included to ensure public benefit. The course opened last spring.
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Under the terms outlined by the 20-year contract, the Trump Organization has to pay nothing to the city for the first four years of operation, then for the fifth year, the larger of $300,000 or 7 percent of gross revenues, and an increasing share up until year 20, when it is supposed to cough up the greater of $470,000 or 10 percent of gross revenues, plus 3 percent of sub-vendors' gross revenues.
"It’s like the city is actually paying Donald Trump to run a luxury golf course that caters to the rich," Geoffrey Croft, head of NYC Park Advocates, told the New York Post.
The Post found that city taxpayers are on the hook for the course's sewage and water fees, which ran more than $1 million in the last year and are expected to rise in the coming year. In constructing the course, for which former golf pro Jack Nicklaus also got a sweetheart design contract that includes private jet and helicopter travel, the Trump Organization only had to pitch in $10 million for construction of a permanent clubhouse. The clubhouse has yet to be completed.
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