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BumRushDaShow

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32. "a deep pit of hurt that will make him regret he ever ran for president."

Reply to PJMcK (Reply #20)

Fri Jul 21, 2017, 01:19 PM

Jul 2017

That's the thing - he and the rest of the TFEE have been flying under the radar for so long - always keeping one step ahead of the NY AG and U.S. Attorneys for the SDNY, that they figured they could continue to operate like that while employed by the federal government.

Sad thing is that he has gone this long in the position only because the Congress run by his party has been completely complicit by stalling and/or refusing to carry out investigations... if only to try to get their own agendas enacted before he is snagged, country be damned.

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