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patphil

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2. Of course it's oil; always been about oil.

Reply to AZProgressive (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:33 PM

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In fact, it'll probably be business as usual for the drug cartels once the smoke clears from all this.
Trump will probably get protection money from them, and that will be that. It's the same kind of BS as we saw when he pardoned Hernandez. You know there had to be money changing hands on that one. Trump is strictly transactional in his dealings.
And, there'll be a lot of money coming in from the oil companies...same kind of deal will be cut. They get the oil, Trump gets a pile of money.
This is how Trump does things; nothing is for free.

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