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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFolks. Hillary was not playing when she said Donald was Putin's puppet.
Link to tweet
https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/politics/clinton-puppet-vladimir-putin-trump/index.html
After Trump attacked Clinton during the third and final presidential debate, saying Putin had no respect for her or President Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee shot back, Well, thats because hed rather have a puppet as president of the United States.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,890 posts)betsuni
(25,371 posts)international organized crime, especially Russia, for many decades. History and reality somehow disappeared.
Rereading Sarah Kendzior's "Hiding in Plain Sight, The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America," which has a good history of Trump's organized crime history.
RocRizzo55
(980 posts)We New Yorkers knew about his mob connections forever. Since he first started building buildings in NYC. He got his concrete from the mob.
You didn't have to read any book to know that, you just had to live in NYC or thereabouts, back in the day, to know that.
Why NYC didn't lock him up before all this crap is beyond me.
Better Days Ahoy
(698 posts)We from the tri-state knew what Fred and Donald were about going back to the '70s. And it only got worse. And you don't need to look any further than ol' Cy Vance to answer the question your last sentence poses.
Why indeed.
RocRizzo55
(980 posts)Knew Donny's modus operendi. That was to keep the case in court as long as possible, and make as many appeals as possible.
Vance probably also had pressure on him from the moneyed interests in NYC to let the orange menace go. Or perhaps mob protection for Orange Julius Caesar. With the amount he spent on mob concrete, I wouldn't put it past a quid pro quo between the two of them.
betsuni
(25,371 posts)I don't understand how old people from around the country who absolutely read the tabloids and knew all about his scandals erased all of that from their memories and loved Trump. Because of a reality TV show, I guess.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)She was speaking the truth.
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(144,890 posts)RocRizzo55
(980 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,378 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,666 posts)As with all his "acting" assistants/cabinet members, it's impossible to think of all of them at once. And every single day we learn of new ones - and each crime is more serious than than the previous one. I used to wonder what history would make of this period in this country, but we've learned about so much more since then. It will take more than one history course to study each of his crime sprees.