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'Conmen, grifters and criminals': why is Trump's circle so at odds with the law?
This is a good article to pass along to any right-win knotheads among our coworkers or friends....'Conmen, grifters and criminals': why is Trump's circle so at odds with the law?
Apart from legal trouble, what Bannon, Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Stone, Gates and Papadopoulos have in common is the president
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/donald-trump-law-crime-steve-bannon
Excerpts:
To live outside the law, Bob Dylan sang, you must be honest. It also helps, apparently, to stay as clear as possible from Donald Trump, whose inner circle of advisers has suffered steady attrition since 2017, through a series of encounters with the criminal justice system.
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“Why this unprecedented situation?” said Cotter, now a Chicago-based officer with the Greensfelder law firm. “My almost 40 years working in criminal law has taught me that criminals of a particular type tend to associate with other criminals of the same type. There is a comfort level and mutual understanding in such associations.
“So when I see a swarm of conmen buzzing around one particular man, in this case Trump, my experience suggests that it is because they recognize one of their own. And in selecting them to be his confidants, the president also recognized kindred spirits.”
It just keeps happening. But it has not happened to Trump, yet.
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“Why this unprecedented situation?” said Cotter, now a Chicago-based officer with the Greensfelder law firm. “My almost 40 years working in criminal law has taught me that criminals of a particular type tend to associate with other criminals of the same type. There is a comfort level and mutual understanding in such associations.
“So when I see a swarm of conmen buzzing around one particular man, in this case Trump, my experience suggests that it is because they recognize one of their own. And in selecting them to be his confidants, the president also recognized kindred spirits.”
It just keeps happening. But it has not happened to Trump, yet.
The author gives us a snapshot review of the criminality that has surrounded tRump since day one in office.
KY.........
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