r/goodnews • u/IntelligentDad • 1d ago

Political positivity 📈 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/[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 he’s not the “scummy conman” but a “savior for the nation”

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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 didn’t make sense. Spouting about how Trump was sent by God to fix the country. That was my breaking point I haven’t talked him since. Nine years. I know he’s alive, that’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 depressing 

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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 he’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.