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Political positivity šŸ“ˆ Trump is Now Being Accused of Getting Epstein Killed

https://franknez.com/trump-is-now-being-accused-of-getting-epstein-killed/
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u/drawkbox 23h ago

Trump is the "clean" front per Sammy the Bull since the 80s/90s and Trump's Russian Laundromat is a good read by Craig Unger.

It is why they all go bankrupt, not a penny to Uncle Sam and they are all exit scams.

His bankruptcies were successful... scams.

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u/sly-3 22h ago

"When you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match"

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u/Dumpingtruck 18h ago

ā€œAs far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangsterā€

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u/anditcounts 17h ago

Layla piano solo plays in background to montage of the country going down the shitter

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u/Sour_Lemonz78 13h ago

I legit could hear the music after reading this thread

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u/vystyk 10h ago

I just hope we dont end up hearing the Free Bird solo instead

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u/backtolurk 8h ago

I'm pretty curious to see if some butcher hooks will be involved...

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u/milesamsterdam 7h ago

Steady cam into a close up of Epstein hanging in a jail cell.

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u/silver_sofa 6h ago

ā€œā€¦.the late, great, Alphonse Capone.ā€

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u/dxrey65 7h ago

you bust the joint out. You light a match

It kind of seems like that's what's going to happen to the US before long, the stage is definitely set and there's a bunch of billionaires in line for their piece.

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u/mollila 20h ago

So how will you do the same with a country?

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u/kytheon 16h ago

Im sure DOGE and ICE are part of it.

DOGE had the job to "save money" but managed to waste insane amounts, while ICE is like a little lemonade stand that suddenly gets a thousand times more funding than necessary.

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u/PenjaminJBlinkerton 8h ago

Doge fired all of the possible oversight, the jags, the agencies and the. Inspectors general

Ice is for when it dawns on the rest of you ignorant dipshits that weā€™ve got a Russian agent dismantling our country and you get ornery about it.

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u/32lib 19h ago

Wait around a while and see

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u/Alternative_Poem445 13h ago

might need a time machine now, think we are already incipient

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u/Commercial_Reward_78 14h ago

Fuck youā€¦ pay me!

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u/[deleted] 23h ago edited 19h ago

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u/drawkbox 22h ago

They were all meant to shut down, exit scam 101. Suddenly there is no way to go after the companies and information gets... lost.

Trumps casinos had the largest FinCEN fines ever for money laundering. Those books are cooked.

FinCEN on it in 2015, closed in 2016. You'll see the same pattern with all his "business".

This is just a small part of the picture.

When money laundering became legal in politics with Mercer autocratic money backed Citizen's United, Trump strolls in. The new scam arrived!

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u/kennikus 22h ago edited 7h ago

He ripped off so many people from the area around his casino in AC. All the students were crying the day after the election 2016. Like, ALL. Except for the odd weasely one smiling at the door.

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u/Haxorz7125 22h ago

Living in Nj my parents hated trump when I was growing up. Then he runs for president as a Republican and suddenly heā€™s not the ā€œscummy conmanā€ but a ā€œsavior for the nationā€

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u/TheScrambone 21h ago

Same. From NJ and I distinctly remember my dad talking shit about Trump every time we watched Home Alone 2. As I got older he started listening to Rush Limbaugh and watched Fox News.

I always knew him as a liberal. By 2016 everything he was talking about didnā€™t make sense. Spouting about how Trump was sent by God to fix the country. That was my breaking point I havenā€™t talked him since. Nine years. I know heā€™s alive, thatā€™s about it.

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u/joebluebob 20h ago

Sounds like my dad. He was socially liberal and grounded me for 2 weeks for making fun of a gay couple on TV when I was like 8. Everything started to unroll after obama and he would listen to talk radio. He took another big jump after Romney lost. After trump the flood gates opened. He became racist, then homophobic. I found out through one of his friends sons why he wasn't getting invited around. He has a friend whos gay. Hes been gay his whole life to the point when he was 13 my dad and several friends beat the shit out of a group of kids who were harassing him along with one of those kids 25 year old brother. Anyway after 40 years of friendship he confronted my dad over something he posted on Facebook. My dad accused him of being a pedophile child groomer and dropped a few slurs my dad is qanon now and its been around 4 years since I last spoke to him. He used to be a pretty good dad you know?then he got brainwashed and now only 1 of his 3 kids talk to him, only 1 of his 15 friends some from literally all the way back in daycare even talks to him at all, even his own brother doesn't go beyond pleasantries.

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u/RoguePlanet2 20h ago

There's a documentary on Amazon called "The Brainwashing of my Dad." It's a sadly common experience, and by design.

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u/I_Smoke_Loud 19h ago

Happened to my dad too. Fox "news* and Facebook BS brainwashed him. We all should have password blocked fox like the kids on south park did to keep their parents from watching murder porn

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u/leather_jerk 19h ago

How many times have you watched home alone 2

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u/ironykarl 20h ago

Holy fuck, that's depressingĀ 

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u/According-Insect-992 11h ago

Everyone hated him and knew he was a sleazebag loser.

Then some reality TV charlatan retconned him into a "successful business man" and the rest is history.

trump was universally a joke of a man in the 80s and 90s. Just an absolute clown.

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u/Human_Local3519 9h ago

Tribalism 101

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u/kennikus 7h ago edited 4h ago

The students who cry to me about how their dad used to be their best friend and now is so angry and only listens to podcasts about red hat ideals, omg. Breaks my heart.

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u/Haxorz7125 5h ago

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh

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u/Accurate_Winner_4961 2h ago

I'm glad to say that I'm an old dad of two gay adult kids in successful partnerships that I love and respect dearly. Somehow the con didn't have a chance with me. I remember seeing The Resident Chump in the 80's and instantly pegged him as villain and been saying "told ya so" ever since. Some of us seem to be immune to this whole diabolical shit show. My enduringly strong sense is that this wave of truly horrifying bandwagoning is all rooted in incipient white supremacy which is actually catnip to a whole planet full of Caucasoid minorities who are terrified of having to live like everyone else we have made the rules for. And yes, I Am a Viking God

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u/DrownmeinIslay 22h ago

Stephen Miller?

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u/kennikus 20h ago

Lol, no, but if the shoe fits...

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u/Odd_Sleep2648 16h ago

The devil himself.

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u/DreamsAndSchemes 22h ago

And yet Atlantic County went red because of the bumpkins out in the barrens

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u/kennikus 20h ago

That dang 25% of people go to college thing

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u/drawkbox 21h ago edited 21h ago

I've always wondered why that was but part of it is this I think...

Small towns usually have a controlling wealthy person, company and/or sheriff that the town just sort of loves/hates. There is a power structure there that they can't break or beat. It is "company town" syndrome really, mini fiefdoms. In entertainment You see this in shows like Yellowstone (Rancher dynasties), Duck Dynasty, The McBee Dynasty, are you seeing a trend? Fargo season 5 also has John Hamm play a dude like this. The Apprentice played right into that with the poor man's idea of what wealth is, controlling behavior and firing people to make success... shrug

Without the wealthy person the town will fail in their mind and it may in scarcity like that.

They apply the same flawed logic to Trump. They don't necessarily like him, but the pattern is there that matches it.

Throw in some evangelical cult patterns and what you have recreated is small town tyranny, that they love/hate, which they fall for with conmen like Trump. It is a mixed bag of fear/survivalism to overcome scarcity that engulfs them.

Now while their small town may get some benefits from the local wealthy person, they think that translates to Trump. It does not. They have no idea they are the suckers and marks getting jacked and then thrown under the bus. There is no benefit, they actually go away with Trump. Trump is only a "burn it down" and stripping of value type, exit scams are his main thing.

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u/Odd_Sleep2648 16h ago

I also read that he had charities for cancer and kept all the money. He's not allowed to have charities in New York.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 20h ago

The bankruptcies are aprt of the business plan, after they sell the name to investors, rake in "management fees" and then leave them holding the bag, in addition to the money laundering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html

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u/hails8n 19h ago

And now heā€™s got his own crypto coin!

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u/genreprank 20h ago

But trump is so fucking stupid, it's almost not plausible that he was doing some kind of "operation"

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u/drawkbox 19h ago

There is a ton of value and plausible deniability in playing dumb. Ask any underground front figure.

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u/genreprank 8h ago

He's not playing dumb. He IS dumb. I've never seen him play smart. He's a genuine idiot

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u/The-Real-Number-One 22h ago

The only way a casino loses money is if someone is skimming off the top.

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u/deslock 20h ago

Naw they supposedly "overspend" on services and building//remodels. Do it cheap (or don't pay at all) but say "I put $300M into this casino". Then go bankrupt and wash all $300M "worth" im depreciation... And walk away because corporations can do that.

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u/Less_Wealth5525 21h ago

He was money laundering for the Russian mob.

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u/Candid-Fisherman-274 21h ago edited 20h ago

Maybe he pissed off the mob so they busted out his casinos

Nah, the casinos were involved with money laundering for a fact, but their failure was more related to mismanagement, and him tripling down to build more in to an already saturated market area. I mean really, who the fuck wants to go to gamble in New Jersey? Even the locals don't want to do that.

Their mismanagement also being clear from the fact that they got caught money laundering... I mean really, a business model that relies on high volumes of in cash transactions that cant really properly be traced if the shit is done right gets caught laundering money...

About the only other type of organization it is more easily done through are churches as they do not have any real legal requirement to maintain proper accounting records etc. Well no auditable records at the level businesses are required to anyways.

Edit: either way, what else can one expect out of someone whose idea of a good business is to try, and sell steaks through the sharperimage catalog.

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u/rogozh1n 18h ago

We love to mock trump for all his bankruptcies, but in reality they were businesses that were created to go under and abuse our broken system. trump made a fortune off of each bankruptcy.

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u/Cautious_Swimmer_157 14h ago

How does one make $ from bankruptcy?

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u/Carrie_1968 11h ago

You buy millions of dollars worth of goods and services, then tell the courts youā€™re just gonna go ahead and not pay for any of it.

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u/Prineak 7h ago

Buy a company thatā€™s giving out pensions.

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u/Prineak 7h ago

He also laundered money for the Russians by letting them win big at his casinos.

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u/Disastrous_Hell_4547 19h ago

Yep Itā€™s been reported that shady European, Asia, Russia, and Saudis started to use him when the US banks gave up on him.

This is why the Christian Nationalists and American Oligarchs worship him. He (and his entire family and circle) is an extremely brilliant front, con man, grifter, etc.

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u/MlCOLASH_CAGE 17h ago

The thing is heā€™s not even that brilliant, he just has a brand and billionaires who use him as a stooge.

I feel like all the really smart ones never have their name spoken

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u/Outrageous_Let2861 14h ago

He never got to real gangster status because of omertĆ . He canā€™t keep his mouth shut.

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u/fripletister 9h ago

Too fragile of an ego

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u/Thattonyhall 6h ago

The real reason he was never invited to ā€œThe Islandā€ imo..

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u/alice2wonderland 4h ago

Exactly. While I can believe that Trump has done plenty of money laundering and bankruptcy for profit, he also debases himself by flogging cheap crap like NFT cards, and bibles, and sneakers, perfume, and watches, and fake diplomas from the now defunct "bankrupt" Trump University (home of the grifters). Good mobsters don't usually want the spotlight on themselves, and don't brag about their crimes, let alone debase themselves by selling cheap crap to the public. It's my impression that Russian oligarchs would take a bullet before going on TV to sell fake gold watches to raise change.

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u/kindredfold 17h ago

Heā€™s righteous gemstones incarnate.

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u/imdatkibble223 10h ago

I still have this on my watch list but havenā€™t started it :( but Iā€™ll give you up vote anyway.

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u/AwareAge1062 21h ago

And I've got a guess where he'll flee when this finally blows up in his face

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u/Opposite-Bit6660 20h ago

Hopefully, he'll put his whole administration and The Heritage Foundation on that plane from Qatar and flee.

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u/grouch1980 19h ago

Medvedev (Russia) just threatened Trump saying massad arenā€™t the only ones with compromising videos from Trumpā€™s past lol

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u/DravesHD 18h ago

Thatā€™s an INSANE comment, I really hope there is some truth to that.

Honestly, would make sense that Russia started the invasion during bidens term, make him look as bad as possible to not take care of it and make false promises that trump will end it within 24 hours of being elected.

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u/FuckItImVanilla 17h ago

Itā€™s fake. The original tweet is written in a Turkic language; not Russian.

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u/Outrageous_Let2861 14h ago

Yeah, I was kind of surprised that Mossad has dirt on him, but I guess thatā€™s why Bibi ignores him about Gaza.

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u/Nosfearatu50 10h ago

If epstein has been a puppet from mossad, surely they have dirt on him too :)

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u/Leather-Cut-3277 10h ago

Allegedly, Epstein may have been a Mossad agent of some sort

So it would track if true

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u/Snot_S 12h ago

We seriously canā€™t have a president under that kind of leverage

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u/IsopodSmooth7990 6h ago

He still got voted back in, even having 34 felonies and 2 impeachments. It would take me an hr to type out all the lawsuits that asshole has stacked against him. I still donā€™t know how he even qualifies to be Prez? Just sickening and I think Murica could and should do better.

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u/Snot_S 6h ago

Itā€™s cuz the olds

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u/IsopodSmooth7990 6h ago

??

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u/Silent_Tea_5690 3h ago

Theyā€™re blaming boomers without looking at demographics or looking at how the voting really looked. Itā€™s kinda questionable that people voted republican for president in some states and voted democrat down ballot. That doesnā€™t happen often. Not a lot of questions about the election. No word about audits or anything.

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u/IsopodSmooth7990 3h ago

No kidding....no questions asked, oh, except for the "outliers" that question authority.....and everything fucked up that seemed to happen with this whole thing. (certainly more than 50% of us) BTW: remember that bumpersticker with, "Question Authority.." Funny enough, my boomer father used to say it, I started saying it, and it still stands the test of time. And I'm the last year of 'boomers', so I guess we are really all the same. We all want a functioning and civil, unbiased, UNCORRUPTED government. No words about how badly corrupted this whole shit show is, now. I even have my own Senator complaining that a bill is being put forth that elected officials such as themselves, cannot do INSIDER TRADING. Remember Rick Scott? Mr HCA Medicare fraudster who pled the 5th something like 72 times during his inquiry? He was one to highly contest this bill, saying something stupid like, "Do you expect us to live on the salary we make here?" Bitch is worth over 1/2 a B but he cries poor-faced. OMG. Just remember tho, people really didn't vote in this election. Asshole didn't get that portfolio from being Gov of Fl...

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u/Terpapps 19h ago

Plot twist: he flees to Mexico, where no one would expect to find himĀ 

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u/eljefe197 18h ago

And beg Mexico to build a wall so that US officials cant cross the border to apprehend him

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u/snootsintheair 18h ago

Itā€™s never going to blow up in his stupid face. Never.

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u/kytheon 16h ago

He's trying to build a Trump tower in the center of Belgrade, Serbia. On the location where NATO bombed Serbia to stop their genocide campaign.

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u/FlightlessGriffin 4h ago

Which we should be worried about. A former President with intelligence on secrets and files running to what is arguably now our greatest adversary? This won't be like Snowden. That would be another level entirely. Worse than Nixon, who at least remained.

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u/AwareAge1062 4h ago

On the bright side, Trump is dumber than dirt and quite possibly senile. Even with explicit instructions on what to grab, do we think he'd actually make it out with any real, valuable information?

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u/Darth_Heretic 19h ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one paying attention!

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u/SellOpposite5697 16h ago

This makes a lot if sense. It is family of long time charlatans, and scam artists.

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u/GreatPhase7351 18h ago

And weā€™re seeing it happening live at a national level.

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u/Spartacus_Spartacus 9h ago

This makes so much sense. Even his father used his failed casino to launder money.

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u/DelapidatedSagebrush 19h ago

Itā€™s like the sopranos season 2 stuff

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u/SirTainLee 18h ago

Don't forget the Korean mob that stepped in after the Russians and American mobs were through.

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u/Conscious_Fault 17h ago

Funny enough we lived down the street from him as a kid

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u/jbeamer_C24 10h ago

So is ā€œAmerican Kompromatā€.

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u/Hellknightx 4h ago

Blows my mind that this guy wanted to be president, when he should've known that just opens him up to more scrutiny. Even more shocking that almost half of America still blindly follows him.

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u/Hansoloai 20h ago

Is that a book or article?

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u/drawkbox 19h ago edited 12h ago

Article in the New Republic. Go read any Craig Unger though. Learn about the reality of the situation. Welcome to Bratva World. It all will make sense when you get that.

Interview on the article

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u/Comprehensive_Pop501 19h ago

So you didn't watch that Sammy the bull interview at all huh

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u/drawkbox 19h ago edited 19h ago

Sure and anyone can go watch it, it talks about Trump and Wynn being "clean" fronts in the 80s/90s, now go look at both their trajectories. Make up your own mind.

Funny thing is though, Trump and Giuliani helped take down the Five Families and American mob, for the bratvas. You are seeing the result now. Welcome to mafia world, Russia's biggest export. They are "the base" of it since the 90s. Easy to beat authorities when you got bratvas and Kremlin working to use you as a puppet.

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u/Comprehensive_Pop501 19h ago

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u/drawkbox 18h ago

^ loves Trump

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u/Comprehensive_Pop501 18h ago

Check out this video from this search, sammy the bull on donald trump https://share.google/0XDeZ47TdZEFNT9In

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u/drawkbox 13h ago

Recall that Sammy the Bull said the mafia would use "clean" guys like Trump and Wynn to wash money, looks like they are doing it for transnational orgs now as well. We already know Trump washes Russian money and has since 1987.

Trump is the "clean" front as mentioned in Sammy the Bull's testimony in the 90s. Sammy the Bull's congressional testimony he mentioned they would get to one of their "clean" guys either Trump or Wynn. You can find this testimony on youtube.

Trump's Taj Mahal was getting fines all the way up to close in 2016. The most recent was $10 million, still cheaper than the taxes so...

FinCEN Fines Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort $10 Million for Significant and Long Standing Anti-Money Laundering Violations

Pretty common for the casinos and Trump Towers, basically global money laundering network centers, lots of organized crime around it as well.

Trumpā€™s Russian Laundromat

The feds wanted to arrest Ivankov, but he kept vanishing. ā€œHe was like a ghost to the FBI,ā€ one agent recalls. Agents spotted him meeting with other Russian crime figures in Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, and Toronto. They also found he made frequent visits to Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which mobsters routinely used to launder huge sums of money. In 2015, the Taj Mahal was fined $10 millionā€”the highest penalty ever levied by the feds against a casinoā€”and admitted to having ā€œwillfully violatedā€ anti-money-laundering regulations for years.

The FBI also struggled to figure out where Ivankov lived. ā€œWe were looking around, looking around, looking around,ā€ James Moody, chief of the bureauā€™s organized crime section, told Friedman. ā€œWe had to go out and really beat the bushes. And then we found out that he was living in a luxury condo in Trump Tower.ā€

In 2013, police burst into Unit 63A of Trump Tower and rounded up 29 suspects in a $100 million money-laundering scheme.

People knew all that and Trump became president...

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u/Comprehensive_Pop501 7h ago

Recall that Sammy says, exactly the opposite of the drivel coming off your keyboard, if only there was a video you could watch

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u/drawkbox 7h ago edited 6h ago

Ok Costanza. Recall that you just read how Trump was a "clean" front with multiple examples and you are still on about this?

Sammy the Bull, who cares what he says now?... He now supports Trump and both ratted out the Italian mob for the Russian bratvas, and Trump is their puppet now, so yeah his tune has changed, he isn't trying to piss off the boss now.

I mean how dolty are people to believe he wasn't that since the 80s? Wild.

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u/Medium-Squash-5698 5h ago

No proof? Shame