05-29-2020, 08:32 AM
(05-28-2020, 11:43 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The BBC can get away with investigative reporting of American mobsters as American media can't. It is old (four years old)...
Trump was deep in the pockets of mobsters, and one of his associates (Felix Sater) was involved in a pump-and-dump stock market fraud.
(Basically, insiders push a stock to suckers while overstating its value and sell it off only to take the money and run, leaving behind burned investors. This is one of the most flagrant frauds in the stock market, and people go to prison for this).
Trump said that a deal is a deal, which prevented him from dropping his involvement with the pump-and-dump crook
In the grand world of assigned names, I've often wondered why no clever Democrat chose to name him Mafia Don. It works on so many levels.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.