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Baked Potato

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1. Trumps whole life is extortion for personal gain

Reply to dlk (Original post)

Mon Nov 4, 2019, 02:35 PM

Nov 2019

That’s how he makes deals... find dirt or weakness, exploit, threaten, leverage, deal. He bends or settles when the dirt on him is a larger pile.

Forget the Squid Go Pro, call it Extortion like you said.

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Republicans are right, there was no quid pro quo. It was a conspiracy to commit extortion [View all] dlk Nov 2019 OP

Trumps whole life is extortion for personal gain Baked Potato Nov 2019 #1

Nonsense. But THE FIRST REQUEST was the first serious crime. Hortensis Nov 2019 #2

If that's the case, then extortion is nothing more than a voluntary trade dlk Nov 2019 #3

:) Sophistry's like solitaire -- fun for one. nt Hortensis Nov 2019 #4

Opinions are like noses; everyone has one dlk Nov 2019 #5