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Nevilledog

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Sat Oct 15, 2022, 07:14 PM Oct 2022

Co-founder of Trump's media company details Truth Social's bitter infighting (Fraud)



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Executive at Trump Media said he was removed from the Board after he refused Trump’s demand to give some of his shares in the company to Melania, and has now turned over messages, documents and audio to SEC alleging fraud.

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Co-founder of Trump’s media company details Truth Social’s bitter infighting
A whistleblower has provided The Post and the SEC with hundreds of previously unreported company messages, documents, photos and audio recordings that reveal a stunning portrait of the animosity that...
Last edited 1:51 PM · Oct 15, 2022


https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/15/truth-social-trump-animosity-whistleblower/

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Will Wilkerson, then an executive at former president Donald Trump’s start-up Trump Media & Technology Group, was at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., coffee shop with company co-founder Andy Litinsky last October when Trump called Litinsky with a question: Would he give up some of his shares to Trump’s wife, Melania?

Trump Media, the owner of the fledgling social network Truth Social, had just been boosted by a huge merger agreement and a flood of investment that had made the stake worth millions of dollars. Trump had already been given 90 percent of the company’s shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement, leaving everyone else to split the rest.

Litinsky tried to brush it off, telling Trump “the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldn’t pay,” Wilkerson said in an interview. “Trump didn’t care. He said, ‘Do whatever you need to do.’”

Five months later, Litinsky, who first met Trump in 2004 as a contestant on the TV show “The Apprentice,” was abruptly removed from the company’s board. Wilkerson said he believes it was payback for his refusal to turn over a small fortune to the former president’s wife. Litinsky thought so, too, according to an email Wilkerson and his attorneys shared with The Washington Post and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In that email, Litinsky complained that Trump was “retaliating against me” by threatening to “ ‘blow up the company’ if his demands are not met.”

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Co-founder of Trump's media company details Truth Social's bitter infighting (Fraud) (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2022 OP
Did they not know what a greedy double-dealing amoral disloyal psycho they were dealing with? Wingus Dingus Oct 2022 #1
Touched by trump Turbineguy Oct 2022 #2
Can't wait to see/hear about the response! Grokenstein Oct 2022 #3
Are we supposed to care? IbogaProject Oct 2022 #4
It's pronounced Trush Sushal Blue Owl Oct 2022 #5
Social Truth Donald - STD keithbvadu2 Oct 2022 #6
ETTD FakeNoose Oct 2022 #7

Wingus Dingus

(8,054 posts)
1. Did they not know what a greedy double-dealing amoral disloyal psycho they were dealing with?
Sat Oct 15, 2022, 07:20 PM
Oct 2022

Litinsky knew him since 2004. How fucking dumb.

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