aranteed. And of course Trump would know that. He wouldn't be trying to get away with something because he would know it the same as the banks. Everybody in business knows that. Nobody relies on your impression of your asset's value. Everybody knows that.

So now the appellate court is sitting there just excoriating the attorneys who brought this case and won. They actually won in the most absurd case. They won. Nobody was damaged. Nobody had a complaint. And the people who were allegedly damaged would be happy to do business with them again because they just made money and had a good experience. And so the appellate judges who are not obviously Soros-picked people are just saying has this ever happened in the history of the world that you brought a case where there were no victims and everybody was happy and everybody understood the process and everybody understood the process gave them no risk whatsoever in this transaction? And the lawyers are just blah blah blah blah. They have nothing. So I don't think it's been ruled on yet but I don't think there's any doubt how it will be ruled if you're judging from what questions are being asked and the comments of the appellate court. Trump's going to get his half billion back. I don't think he paid it but yeah I think that just goes away. I would love to see it go away before election day because the number of Democrat idiots who challenged me on social media that this was a horrible crime and Trump should be in jail for it or at least pay half a billion dollars for it, will any of them come back and say oh you know it turns out that being a lending officer might give you some experience and knowledge about being a lending officer? Yes it does. Turns out it does.

I've told you many times that understanding economics, and I put banking under that category, and persuasion are the two most predictive skills. If you understand everything about money and I've got a background in economics and MBA and lots of business experience and you understand persuasion you can often predict the future better than chance. So that's how I predicted that Trump would win in 2016. It's also how I predicted that the appellate courts if they were honest would throw this out while laughing at it. Right? So watch this pattern. The pattern is that people who understand money and business and who understand persuasion are really good at predicting. If you see somebody who knows both of those things that's what I call a talent stack where you've intelligently combined things that work well together. That person is going to guess the future better than other people. It's just those two skills are future-oriented skills. That's how they work.

Anyway so that's more good news.

New York Post is reporting that there's a Brooklyn-based company that manages some apartments in the suburbs of Denver and they say that the fake news is fake news and that these Venezuelan gangs have in fact taken over their apartments. Now taking over might be a phrase with some ambiguity to it but let's just say they can't get rid of them and if they want to beat up one of their employees apparently they do and they don't necessarily pay rent. And so for all practical purposes quote gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado. Can we put this to rest? Yeah. Are we done about the question of whether it's true? The company that owns the buildings says they're taking over and not one, multiple buildings. And this is just one management company who's saying on the record, saying in public, showing you a picture of their employee who was beat up by the gang for I think trying to expel them or something. Can we agree that the news was always fake when it said that this was fake? That the gangs have in fact taken over the buildings. Can we now say true? Or is there some made-up Brooklyn-based company? If there's really a Brooklyn-based company that owns buildings and they say that the gangs are controlling them not the people whose job it is to control them, aren't we done arguing whether it's real? I think we're done. And then if you know what is real then you can deal with it. Pretending it wasn't real was the problem. It's not that you can't know how to expel people from a building for doing illegal things if you have to.

Here's a story you never heard. This is on the George account on X. Did you know that years ago when Nelson Mandela got out of prison he wanted to arrange a trip to the United States and for whatever reason the government of the United States couldn't arrange appropriate transportation. I don't know what's beyond that. But so Donald Trump offered his private plane. So Donald Trump on his ow