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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:34 PM Jan 2019

"This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government."




“I don't buy this theory at all that Trump thought he wasn't going to win or he didn't want to win. I mean, first off, this is Trump and you have to imagine that in his head he's content to lose to a woman and lose to a Clinton.

“But second of all, his relationship with Russia goes back 30 years as do his political ambitions. He nearly ran for president in 1988, in 1996; he ran in 2000, he ran in 2012, and he ran again in 2016. That's not a political neophyte, that's somebody whose had long-term political ambitions.
We also know that Trump has had ties to Russian officials and to organized crime for about 30 years and that he's been the source of various crackdowns on those crimes. For example, there's an investigation into the Taj Mahal casino by the US Treasury in 2015, Trump may have been in trouble.

“A great way to get out of trouble is if you're the President of the United States and you can pack the courts, you can purge agencies, you can rewrite the law so that you can be immune from prosecution as well as filling your own autocratic objectives and partnering with autocrats around the world, which is what he's done.

“This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”


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"This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government." (Original Post) Soph0571 Jan 2019 OP
she says things people do not want to hear. Kurt V. Jan 2019 #1
She's got it right. triron Jan 2019 #7
I love this description, a 'transnational crime syndicate'. Time to get the giant can of 'raid' ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2019 #2
K&R Jeffersons Ghost Jan 2019 #3
I have felt that way for a long time RussBLib Jan 2019 #4
+10000 triron Jan 2019 #8
Spot on Sarah! smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #5
Right on Sarah....who is serious and smart and she does not play nor mince words. nt UniteFightBack Jan 2019 #6
It's that simple. lindysalsagal Jan 2019 #9
Yep. Scurrilous Jan 2019 #10
And multiple gop senators are now conspiring with donald Rocky888 Jan 2019 #11
Sorry but he just is not smart enough to devise a plan like this. He is dumb as a door knob. Pepsidog Jan 2019 #12
K & R Duppers Jan 2019 #13
write the laws, execute the laws, appoint those who interpret the laws Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #14

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
2. I love this description, a 'transnational crime syndicate'. Time to get the giant can of 'raid' ...
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:02 PM
Jan 2019

out and spray for bugs!!

RussBLib

(8,984 posts)
4. I have felt that way for a long time
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:07 PM
Jan 2019

Trump is connected to the mafia here, in Italy, and in Russia. It's as plain as the noses on our faces. A lot of people don't want to think about that.

So much of what he has done has benefitted himself and his family. This is another thing people don't want to think about.

The sooner we get this leech off of the body politic the better. Sooner rather than later, before he sucks billions from the government.

Rocky888

(297 posts)
11. And multiple gop senators are now conspiring with donald
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 02:13 PM
Jan 2019

To keep government shut down to weaken our fbi investigation of their many crimes.

Pepsidog

(6,252 posts)
12. Sorry but he just is not smart enough to devise a plan like this. He is dumb as a door knob.
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 03:05 PM
Jan 2019

That’s not to say that others (Russians, crime syndicates) didn’t conspire to put him in office. He can’t think beyond his next berder let alone a sophisticated conspiracy to win the presidency.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,039 posts)
14. write the laws, execute the laws, appoint those who interpret the laws
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 10:20 PM
Jan 2019

Pretty well covers even a trumpian sized ass.

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