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Does it really though?
That's gotta be bad for his reputation, hasn't it? What self-respecting organized crime lord would want to be seen with Trump? >

It’s the only place Don can get a loan. >

From Deutsche bank to Douche bank >

Yea but Hunter was reading emails on a tarmack somewhere during an oil coke orgy with Chinese-Ukrainian hookers so can we Benghazi back to what is important here? >

And 45 stored hundreds of classified documents even top secret ones in his basement where all the Russian, Chinese, Israeli spies could just walk in to and out and read them through. So stop with this hunter shit while the guy you are defending has had more dead people on his sleeve than Americans dieing in WW2. >

i believe they were being sarcastic but still hard to tell because there are peps that think this way >

I was and yes, it is. 
Worst timeline, gl! >

Hot, hot hot hot >

Didn't Sater also carve up someone's face with...I want to say a margarita glass? >

Trump is now trying to Make Russia Great Again >

Trump's aura of lies and incompetence make anywhere he is measurably worse. He could make America slightly greater again by simply leaving, right? >

No it doesn't. Trump spent his entire career tooling around with fellow slimeballs, this is well known. 
Almost anyone closely associated with Trump has shady foreign business deals and/or criminal convictions >

Right? Every headline makes it sound like a surprise when this clown is doing something predictably awful, or associating with the exact kind of people we expect him to associate with. None of it is shocking, none of it is a surprise, there is no rock bottom for this man, just an endless, infinite well of sludge. Why is anyone pretending to be surprised? When this man is still roaming free several years after trying to stage a violent coup to overthrow democracy and insert himself as some kind of sad emperor. Why is he still free? After multiple, in-depth investigations, full of more smoking guns and forensic evidence, witnesses, and guilty co-conspirators than you could fill a stadium with. In what world does any of this make sense?!? >

"I can't see this picture very well. What is it?" -- Garland >


Merlino and Trump, the Inquirer said, “share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who ‘flip’ to help federal investigators”.

lol >

The crazy part is they have quotes from the both of them to support this claim. It’s so outlandish that it almost can’t be real. >

Appeals to his base. They love mobsters and fantasize being them. >

im dony sobrano
woke up in mornning got meself a gun >

Booka chookala >

gabgool >

Hamberders >

It raises answers >

how does anything this man ever does still raise questions? >

I have no questions. Trump was a property developer in New York and New Jersey. He not only knew actual mobsters but he paid them off. He had to or the concrete doesn't show up or maybe your job site has a little fire... The man owned casinos in Atlantic City. Fahgettaboudit. >


The man owned casinos in Atlantic City

Correction, he bankrupted all those casinos, which is a staggering achievement for a casino owner. 100% Taj mahal was used for money laundering.(great podcast series covering all his numerous crimes and stupid businesses)
It's hard to say when he wasn't involved with mobsters

But Trump was not clean as a whistle. Beginning three years earlier, he’d hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying ostensibly overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal investigation, which also concluded that in a construction industry saturated with mob influence, the Trump Plaza apartment building most likely benefited from connections to racketeering. Trump also failed to disclose that he was under investigation by a grand jury directed by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, who wanted to learn how Trump obtained an option to buy the Penn Central railroad yards on the West Side of Manhattan.

Long article detailing numerous mob dealings. >

It’s my pet peeve that people say “trump bankrupted a casino” as a sign of his business incompetence.  And I don’t mean that to defend him/ the truth is even worse in my opinion- but it’s simply false.
What really happened is that he made the casino issue loans to his other businesses to such an extent that the casino (casinoS plural- as he did this three times at least) could no longer afford its own obligations and had serious cash flow issues causing them to be insolvent. 
Once the casinos went under, his other businesses didn’t have to pay back the loans. 
But all that initial money didn’t come from him in the first place- it was all from outside investors in the casinos and banks loans to the casinos so he literally just essentially stole all the money from one company (the casino- and by extension investors and banks) and put it into his other companies.  That’s sinister, not incompetence (which again, I think is even worse). >


That’s sinister, not incompetence (which again, I think is even worse).

I'd argue incompetence. A casino is a proven massive cash cow, but if you kill the cow, no more cash, which is what he did.
He could have continued to launder money and collect a handsome fee on top of the casino profits and been Steve Wynn instead of Steve Wynn.
Alas, now he has his name on one hotel in Vegas, in a shitty location, that can't obtain a gaming license to build a casino because of Trumps mob ties and his past in Atlantic city. >

I can’t believe I haven’t heard this point before. I think I agree with it and have never thought of it that way, which forces me to reevaluate this pet peeve of mine.
It’s still false that to say his casinos failed from pure mismanagement, but I’m now open to seeing how what happened is indeed incompetence.  He’d STILL be printing money from them, as you point out, if they still existed. >

Ah, the eternal question over how to best define Trump: criminal or idiot? Philosophers will debate the issue for decades to come. 
My answer to this is usually: it doesn't matter. At sufficiently high levels of either stupidity or corruption, the two become indistinguishable from each other, at least in terms of observable impact. Trump has definitely crossed that threshold. Either characteristic should be disqualifying for him ever regaining any amount of authority over others. >

Headline: Mob boss has picture taken with wanna be mob boss (twice impeached) >

Were they fellow travelers on a cart?