Interesting, but does this impact Trump personally? Genuine question - will this make any difference to his Truth Social thing, or does he just pick another auditor and carry on?

kingdragonfly: Top Trump VP PICK Gets INSTANT Reality Check from FED UP Southerner

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And now she's walking back the comments in her book about meeting North Korea's leader: 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/potential-donald-trump-running-mate-kristi-noem-admits-error-of-describing-meeting-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-in-new-book/WVPK7TVL5BG3PE34ZN5WWYEQD4/

quickymart:

Interesting, but does this impact Trump personally? Genuine question - will this make any difference to his Truth Social thing, or does he just pick another auditor and carry on?

kingdragonfly:

quickymart:

 

Interesting, but does this impact Trump personally? Genuine question - will this make any difference to his Truth Social thing, or does he just pick another auditor and carry on?

 

It hardly affects even the auditing firm. They can no longer perform audits, paid a fine, without admitting guilt.

Lesson: if you're a criminal, but don't like jails, be a white collar criminal.

Steal expensive bikes in the USA: perhaps up to 15 years jail. Run a bike stealing gang, up to 20 years.

In California and Florida, convicted three times of bike theft, it's life in prison without parole.

Be a high-ranking executive at a bicycle manufacturing company, manipulate the company’s financial records to show higher sales and lower costs, to inflate the company’s stock price, and sell shares at inflated price. Pretty unlikely going to jail for even a day.

Periodically just to keep the unwashed masses fooled, occasional a white collar crime is very publicly punished.

Yeah its about who you pi$$ off...

Elizabeth Holmes - Big Pharma

Crypto scams - Financial industry

kingdragonfly: The auditor, BF Borgers CPA, and its owner, Benjamin Borgers, have agreed to be permanently suspended from practicing as accountants before the SEC, and also agreed to pay a combined $14 million in civil penalties, without admitting or denying the allegations, the SEC said.

The agency, calling BF Borgers a “sham audit mill,” said the company and its owner “deliberately systematically failed to conduct” audits and quarterly reviews incorporated in more than 1,500 SEC filings from January 2021 through June 2023 in accordance with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board standards.

The SEC said the Lakewood, Colorado-based auditor lied to clients by saying its work complied with PCAOB standards, fabricated audit documents to make it seem that the work did comply with those standards, and falsely claims in audit reports included in more than 500 public company SEC filings that the firm’s audits complied with such standards.

In other words after catching the auditor committing fraud on a massive scale the SEC said "you've been a very naughty boy, now don't do it again".

AI is... not intelligent:

Also:

Time cover May 2024

"TIME Magazine was able to get an interview with Donald Trump which was unique because he usually only gives interviews to sycophantic outlets that don’t ask challenging questions like Fox News, Breitbart, NewsMax, Daily Stormer, Sputnik, Golden Showers Afficianado, etc."

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Time cover May 2024

 

"TIME Magazine was able to get an interview with Donald Trump which was unique because he usually only gives interviews to sycophantic outlets that don’t ask challenging questions like Fox News, Breitbart, NewsMax, Daily Stormer, Sputnik, Golden Showers Afficianado, etc."

Here are the relevant Time articles - interesting reading if overly long:

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/ (26 min's)

https://time.com/6972043/donald-trump-interview-story-behind-2024/ (3 min's)

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/05/politics/vp-fundraiser-trump-campaign-presidency/index.html

Trump's Vice President picks - are these really the best the Republican party has to offer?? Pretty small talent pool!

Also...

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