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This. Trump isn’t the wealth machine he has led people to believe. These fines will hurt him.
I never believed he was wealthy. >

Everything about him is an attempt to make him look more wealthy than he actually is. He's a morons idea of a rich man. He's a living caricature. >

A weak man's idea of a strong man, a poor man's idea of a rich man and a stupid man's idea of a smart man. Sums him up fairly nicely. >

Unfortunately, most of his supporters manage to be all these things at once.
Weak, poor and stupid. >

And the ones easiest to grift. The GOP is a con game designed to convince them that emptying their pockets to Republicans is the smartest, strongest, most financially savvy thing they could do.
To save freedom, own the libs, let Jeebus take the wheel and keep the brown people from raping our wimmin and murdering our childrens.
Trump just scooped up the conservative scam and ran with it. >

You ain't wrong...there's some trump ball gargler around here that likes to park around my county hawking Trump's campaign, and anti lib paraphernalia that claims he needs to sell the shit to pay his rent.  I wanna slap him upside the head al a Gibbs from NCIS, take him by the shoulders, shake him and scream "Maybe you wouldn't need help with rent if you didn't give all your money to a fraudster that depends on you being this fucking stupid!!" >

Lengthy jail time would be a better deterrent >

Paying fines makes him angry, but it doesn't actually punish him. >

Right because Clown Prince Muhammad Bone Saw slips him all the cash he could ever need... >

That was my reaction too but if money is not a problem, why not push forward the New York AG lawsuit? If Middlebrooks rules the same way, couldn't they potentially claim the judge is biased? >

Trump is sue-happy, and he's been suing people for most of his career, so this fine won't mean a thing to him.  However it will mean a tremendous amount to Alina Habba, who is jointly liable for this.  So while this won't necessarily mean much for Trump, this may make Trump's current and future attorneys hesitant to enter into lawsuits that have no legal basis, but are simply a way to get media attention and harrass the opposing parties. >

Trump isn't actually rich so this will matter to him.