Except Trump is much closer to Harvey Weinstein than Al Capone. Donnie and Harvey both got away with it for years because the cost of prosecution was always prohibitive. None of Trump’s people thought of themselves as soldiers, just employees doing what literally every other business was doing.
Except other business rarely do what he engaged in. Public traded business even less likely as who would risk jail time for a simple job at the end of the day? Particularly when it factors little to none for your paycheck.
No there is nothing normal about what Trump has done. Or those that helped him.
Granted, Trump was an outlier, but he didn’t create the shady practices he employed. It’s normal for someone to steal towels or bathrobes from a resort; it’s theft, but it’s not something that usually gets a lot of attention. Donnie and his people saw their crimes that way, minor peccadillos that no one would ever actually care about.
I agree with you there. I believe his enablers acted out of ego and the belief that as president any action he takes is lawful. This is why I think it is so important to charge and convict those involved as it will set an example for those to follow.
Legitimate governance has constitutions that are only as strong as they are willing to enforce then. Failing to enforce then essentially indicates they did no wrong and that a constitution has no meaning.
It takes two sides to have an agreement, but only one to start a fight. They were happy with ‘law and order’ as long as they got to pick the cops and judges.
Trump is much closer to Gob Bluth than he is either Weinstein or Al Capone. Weinstein was a POS of the highest order and I’m glad he’s in prison with his dick rotting off, but he at least made money and movies. Trump isn’t gonna leave behind anything but his weird adult children, the complete squander of his father’s empire, and hopefully an electorate that gained some wisdom from its painful experience.
This is my favorite Trump story. The tl, dr is that Trump had a golden opportunity to get in good with the Manhattan elites, and blew it through his own stupidity, greed, and arrogance.
Back in 2015 I told a friend that Donald Trump was running for President. She said she really didn’t want to have to think about Donald Trump at all. It’s mind boggling that I’ve been forced to think about this idiot for almost a decade.
My guess is he perjured himself early on to protect himself, not Trump. “In negotiations” to plead to as minor as crime as perjury for being at the very crooked center of Trump’s whole empire translates into “I sang like a fuckin canary.”
Anyone who worked as closely as he did with Trump for as long, has to know what the score is. I think he started severely regretting his past actions and bought himself a nice pair of bus-throwing-under gloves years ago.
very strange this guy… willing to go to jail over an orange turd.
evil coagulates, i guess
Mafia employees have classically been willing to go to jail to protect their bosses because the alternative is ending up dead.
Except Trump is much closer to Harvey Weinstein than Al Capone. Donnie and Harvey both got away with it for years because the cost of prosecution was always prohibitive. None of Trump’s people thought of themselves as soldiers, just employees doing what literally every other business was doing.
Except other business rarely do what he engaged in. Public traded business even less likely as who would risk jail time for a simple job at the end of the day? Particularly when it factors little to none for your paycheck.
No there is nothing normal about what Trump has done. Or those that helped him.
Granted, Trump was an outlier, but he didn’t create the shady practices he employed. It’s normal for someone to steal towels or bathrobes from a resort; it’s theft, but it’s not something that usually gets a lot of attention. Donnie and his people saw their crimes that way, minor peccadillos that no one would ever actually care about.
I agree with you there. I believe his enablers acted out of ego and the belief that as president any action he takes is lawful. This is why I think it is so important to charge and convict those involved as it will set an example for those to follow.
Legitimate governance has constitutions that are only as strong as they are willing to enforce then. Failing to enforce then essentially indicates they did no wrong and that a constitution has no meaning.
It takes two sides to have an agreement, but only one to start a fight. They were happy with ‘law and order’ as long as they got to pick the cops and judges.
Trump is much closer to Gob Bluth than he is either Weinstein or Al Capone. Weinstein was a POS of the highest order and I’m glad he’s in prison with his dick rotting off, but he at least made money and movies. Trump isn’t gonna leave behind anything but his weird adult children, the complete squander of his father’s empire, and hopefully an electorate that gained some wisdom from its painful experience.
This is my favorite Trump story. The tl, dr is that Trump had a golden opportunity to get in good with the Manhattan elites, and blew it through his own stupidity, greed, and arrogance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/?sh=2563c8fe5f69
Eerie parallels to the taliban destroying sacred Buddha monuments
His malignant narcissism and pathological lying on full display
I hadn’t made the Taliban connection before. Thanks for the insight.
They both gently haunt my deep thoughts
Back in 2015 I told a friend that Donald Trump was running for President. She said she really didn’t want to have to think about Donald Trump at all. It’s mind boggling that I’ve been forced to think about this idiot for almost a decade.
oh snap! thanks!
until somebody started singing. Then they all did.
My guess is he perjured himself early on to protect himself, not Trump. “In negotiations” to plead to as minor as crime as perjury for being at the very crooked center of Trump’s whole empire translates into “I sang like a fuckin canary.”
Anyone who worked as closely as he did with Trump for as long, has to know what the score is. I think he started severely regretting his past actions and bought himself a nice pair of bus-throwing-under gloves years ago.