Trump Sues Truth Social Co-Founders to Zero Them Out

Donald Trump has sued two co-founders of his newly public Trump Media & Technology Group, claiming they set the company up improperly and shouldn’t get any stock in it. Bloomberg’s Bailey Lipschultz joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Technology.”

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@brooklynknite

April 3, 2024 at 1:54 pm

I thought he owned it?

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@charlottekathrine1625

April 3, 2024 at 2:43 pm

News Flash! Truth Social founders just pleaded guilty in a Florida Court. This is a totally currupt entity

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@oska2843

April 3, 2024 at 3:07 pm

Trump like Truth Social is in financial freefall…Another Trump ‘Con’ is going down the ‘Gurgler’ and fast…

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@halberderdier8073

April 3, 2024 at 3:22 pm

Trump involved on another lawsuit? Can anyone help me count? Does he still find lawyers wanting to fight a lost cause for a broke businessman? ????????????????????

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- @ssuwandi3240
  
  April 3, 2024 at 8:26 pm
  
  COUNTER Lawsuit.. do you get it?
  
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- @amielvasco3503
  
  April 4, 2024 at 5:38 am
  
  Did you count how many of those many, many lawsuits failed despite the resources and connections of liberals?
  
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- @billyscenic5610
  
  April 4, 2024 at 3:16 pm
  
  @@ssuwandi3240 cope harder
  
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- @ssuwandi3240
  
  April 4, 2024 at 3:27 pm
  
  @@billyscenic5610 why? Mind your own India biz . . I support American workers!
  
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@DrHughMonguscoque

April 3, 2024 at 4:20 pm

Let them fight????

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@Wonkothesane-sz2oy

April 3, 2024 at 11:24 pm

They like burps. Me like burps too! La la la la la… Burpety burp! Boopety boop! Gotta go burp now. Bye bye!

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@duran9664

April 4, 2024 at 1:36 am

???????????? The Saudi Royal Mafia has bailed Trump out yet again! ???? Under everybody’s nose!????‍♀️ It happened via the SPAC of Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) that just recently merged with Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (TMTG) & listed on Nasdaq few days ago as (DJT). It handed Trump a giant gift around $5.2 billion, which is as much as twice of his original net worth of $2.6 billion ????

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@marcamusprime9513

April 4, 2024 at 2:16 am

He wants to get rid of them so that he can get an exemption from the board to cash out his shares before 6 months is over.

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@lynnfrancesanderson1829

April 4, 2024 at 3:41 am

Give the backstory of the $millions in loans Trump media got from Russians and Putin Allies to keep Truth Social afloat until it went public! And the connection with the Russian dude who got caught lying to the FBI.

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@rickgarza6710

April 4, 2024 at 11:47 am

Do business with trump and find out

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@billyscenic5610

April 4, 2024 at 3:17 pm

That’s what you get doing business with that scumbag. Trump exemplifies capitalism: the mediocre failing up. Meritocracy is a joke when it just produces people like Trump.

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@dp1288

April 4, 2024 at 5:55 pm

You would have to be psycho to invest with this company, lol. There are a million red flags!

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