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 A reminder that in Trump world, it's all corruption all the time -- and always has been. 

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-letitia-james-fraud-lawsuit-1569245a9284427117b8d3ba5da74249

Yet for decades, federal and New York State law enforcement ignored his serial fraud and other crimes.

If they'd done their jobs, this career criminal would never have captured the White House. 
 @f8d9bc1c I wonder how many others in the 1% have done similar things.... 
 @f8d9bc1c EXACTLY !
If others had done their job and not been on the take, he wouldn't have progressed.
That goes for LAW ENFORCEMENT as well. 
 @f8d9bc1c The thing is, everyone in NY knew it. Rapist and fraud are no surprise to anyone following his career for decades.🤷‍♀️ 
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It's too bad this lying, conniving huckster bullshitted his way right to the presidency before this fraud was discovered.
What is it teaching future fraudsters? 
 @f8d9bc1c I lived in NYC in the early 1980s. The Village Voice was a HELL of a lot harder on Trump than the Times was. 
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Imagine if the NY prosecutors did their job and investigated Trump for business fraud, say after his casino bankruptcy. 
 @f8d9bc1c There's a side to this line occupied by white nationalists that continue to want to see some rich white dude keep fucking up everything he does and still get media attention rather than actual consequences and somehow conceptualise it as a 'success story'. 
 @f8d9bc1c what’s surprising is this only “comes out” now. It’s been true for decades. Why wasn’t this investigated before? 
 @f8d9bc1c Bravo! Journalists must differentiate between a reality show, public relations and real journalism. 
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I am still, to this day, doubfounded that "The Floridian Fondler" got away with it. We knew, prior to his ascendence to office, who he is. It was laid bare in direct recorded quotes (grab 'em by the pussy, etc) that this "man" is evil. How did this come to pass? How have we strayed so far from reality to allow this gollum to harvest so much attention from us?

This must end now! Stop giving air to the gas-bag that wants to hurt us all. 
 @f8d9bc1c This was sorta kinda obvious since the first NYTimes article "John Barron" flacked to them about Trmp entering the Manhattan real estate market back in the 1970s. 
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I’ve been offline today, working on classes which start Wednesday. (Quarter system.)

I just checked news and saw this. I almost fell out of my chair! Damnation!!! 
 @f8d9bc1c Must be the only one businessman and politician. Looks like all politicians are crooks 
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Mob informant status made Trump an untouchable to the legal system.  Doubly so when he became supposedly super-rich. 
 @f8d9bc1c he paid everybody off 
 @f8d9bc1c Every contractor Trump defrauded, every customer for his crappy products, every citizen of this country, all suffered because law enforcement turned a blind eye to Trump's crimes. Instead, SDNY devoted their efforts to entrapment of Muslims into "terror" plots.