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“$275k?”
“No sir, $275.”
“I’ll take it!”
Spy correspondent Julius Lowenthal wanted to know just how cheap some of the city’s richest figures were. So he set up a company, called the National Refund Clearinghouse, and sent letters with checks for $1.11 enclosed, “for services that you were overcharged for.” The letters went out to 58 “well-known, well-heeled Americans,” 26 of whom promptly cashed them. Curious as to how low they might go, Lowenthal sent those 26 “nabobs” a second refund check, for $0.64. This time, 13 people cashed them.
Finally, he sent those 13 respondents a check for $0.13. This time, only two people cashed the check. One was an arms dealer. The other was Donald Trump, whom the magazine identified as a “demibillionaire casino operator and adulturer.”
Not defending them here at all, but did the checks need to be chased personally? I assume their assistant opened/gathered/cashed all their incoming checks.
Valid point. Maybe you’re right. If it was one series of checks, definitely possible It’s interesting how less of them got cashed as the values went down. Maybe the arms dealer and Trump are the only ones who never looked at the amounts (which maybe says a similar message).
One was an arms dealer
Dammit Viktor Bout strikes again.
Plx say he was not refused at art school
It’s like Hitler’s art. All architecture with a profound disinterest in people.
But these are posted because he drew a naked girl for Epstein.
Yet another frustrated non-talented “artist” who should have stayed out of politics.
Dude’s still just human, even if he is a fucking idiot. Are we trying to draw parallels to Hitler because “art”?
No, he specifically said he didn’t like to draw/didn’t draw much to add credence to his claim that he never sent a very friendly letter (with a drawing) to Jeffrey Epstein (who did not kill himself).
I think the top right one is actually kind of ok in a single line minimalist sort of way, almost like a wacky graph. The lines are all decently clean too. The detailing takes away from it though imo.
The rest are really just doodles and framing them seems crazy lmao
The frames are because they were donated or otherwise gifted. I think.
I also find the one on the right in the middle row interesting
Normally I don’t dog on peoples sketches because they’re not high effort, but these are flat pencil drawings of bland skylines in frames, which means he considers those finished. They look like a middle schooler drew them.
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