Not being totally direct on his parents’ real estate acquisitions. These are a bad look even if you buy the argument that the only way to find space in the Bahamas is to buy a few hundred million of extreme lux resort condos. I know a small handful of very wealthy people who would be able to immediately talk about how they have financed / held their RE assets.
Not being totally direct on his relationship to Alameda: the guy lived with principals of and founded/owned 90% of the firm which was also located in the Bahamas (and maybe dated the CEO?). I have no more intel than what’s available in the press but it just does not read as truthful as an outsider.
Drug use: who cares, but it has become a meme and I think he would have been better served to say: ‘yeah, I have a special patch-based scrip for ADHD meds I’ve used throughout my career—not sorry about that’.
Things that I think played particularly badly:
Not being totally direct on his parents’ real estate acquisitions. These are a bad look even if you buy the argument that the only way to find space in the Bahamas is to buy a few hundred million of extreme lux resort condos. I know a small handful of very wealthy people who would be able to immediately talk about how they have financed / held their RE assets.
Not being totally direct on his relationship to Alameda: the guy lived with principals of and founded/owned 90% of the firm which was also located in the Bahamas (and maybe dated the CEO?). I have no more intel than what’s available in the press but it just does not read as truthful as an outsider.
Drug use: who cares, but it has become a meme and I think he would have been better served to say: ‘yeah, I have a special patch-based scrip for ADHD meds I’ve used throughout my career—not sorry about that’.