
08-22-2018, 03:56 PM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 26,554
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Trump as Mob Boss
Donald Trump promised to be a law and order president who would “hire the best people”. On Tuesday he appeared more like a cross between Richard “I’m not a crook” Nixon and Tony Soprano...
But it was also a sobering reminder of how closely the president of the United States resembles a crime boss struggling to keep his head above water as his henchmen are picked off by law enforcement, one by one...
If the special counsel nailed Manafort, Cohen and the others so effectively, what will he do to Trump? Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ lawyer, tweeted: “Remember when they were saying, during the 1980s, that John Gotti was the ‘The Teflon Don’ and was ‘untouchable’. That was always true, right up until the very moment it wasn’t …”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...n-tony-soprano
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