Imagine this:
You are Donald Trump.
You were born into a crime family. But you have... issues. You’re compulsive. Craven. Not too bright.
You were raised around mob bosses. Brilliant criminals. Roy Cohn. Tony Salerno. Even Costello, but no one’s supposed to talk about that.../1 https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/1119220488088244224
2/...As Donald, you inherited your father’s carefully constructed laundering front for the mob. An empire - filled with graft and rackets that Cohn and Salerno and a generation of men all the way back to Luciano had leveraged politicians and other businessmen to build.
But...
3/...As Donald, you are not bright enough to run it. You have no subtlety to keep it hidden from view. You are craven & lustful & so empty inside that you have to consume more & more of everything around you - trying to fill that void. Trying to outdo those brilliant criminals...
4/...It doesn’t take long before you, as Donald, burn through it all.
And there was something else happening in the underworld that helped to tip the scales.
The Russians were coming. Mobsters. Connected to the Kremlin.
They infiltrated our shores through our underworld...
5/...Through all the players & their rackets that Fred’s empire fronted for.
Oops.
Now, you - as Donald - are rolled up by those Russian mobsters, who work with/for the Kremlin.
And then, they wash their money through you.
But they’re much smarter than even your dad’s masters...
6/...When the Russians roll you, they take everything. Leaving you filing for bankruptcy again & again - until no one else can touch you but the banks and people they control.
And then you’re owned.
And used however they see fit.
If they need you to be a pretend billionaire...
7/...to maintain a facade for their laundering, then that’s what you are.
If they need you to front for their Saudi & Chinese partners (or maybe new masters?), then that’s what you do.
But, you’re still a fraud. A con. Broke.
And you still have that empty hole inside - that need.
8/If you are that person - Donald, well...
Imagine how damaging a Special Cousel probe would be. Imagine the threat of having who you really getting exposed by the very man, Mueller - & an entire team of prosecutors who’ve spent their entire careers hunting all your mob bosses -
9/ foreign and domestic.
Imagine knowing the entire world was going to find out that you, Donald, were an idiot con - owned by criminals - who burned thru your father’s empire.
You, Donald - who had a tv show, then a campaign, then a presidency, where you’d touted for decades...
10/...a version of yourself that was a complete and total lie.
Imagining all of that -
How far would you go to keep it all from coming out?
- End -
11/ CODA for the new followers, who will demand an answer as to why if all that is true, then why wasn’t he caught?
And you’re going to have to read that first tweet within this thread as well. https://twitter.com/lincolnsbible/status/972643791319351296?s=21
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