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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Giuliani and Trump go way, way, way back. In 1988, as a favor to Trump, then–U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani quashed an investigation into the shady financing of Trump Tower.

“Accompanying Hopkins’s bank application were two purported tax returns, describing Hopkins as “a wholesale jeweler and Russian enamel dealer” and claiming a 1982 income of $563,000 and a 1983 income of $616,000. The problem is that the state prosecutors who convicted him on gambling charges a couple of years later could find no evidence that he had any job or reportable income in either year. In addition, the tax preparer who supposedly signed the returns sold his business after suffering a totally disabling stroke in January 1983, three months before the first return was executed.... To complete this bizarre transaction, Hopkins came to the closing with a suitcase containing between $150,000 and $200,000 in cash, which he sat counting at the far end of the Trump Tower conference room table. 
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I read the newspaper article. It’s the same theme of quid pro quo with Trump. He helps a mobster with no credit acquire a condo in his first residential building, Trump Tower, at a price greater than market value, so that his property appears more exclusive and other buyers are more willing to pay that price. The transaction involves fake income tax returns created for said mobster to convince the bank, which also managed Trump’s casino accounts, to approve the mortgage, that no other bank in town would do.

And then when this deal starts to get investigated for fraud by then US attorney Rudy Guiliani, the case doesn’t even get filed, while at the same time Trump starts publicly endorsing Guiliani and donating money to Guiliani’s compaign to help him get elected. Another pro quid pro.

I’m starting to see that Trump’s whole life and “success” is based on shady deals with people willing to be as dishonest as he is. Never help anyone unless they’re willing to pay back. Offer to help someone if they can get him out of legal trouble or can help him financially. No one gets something for nothing. This whole loyalty thing he has is about someone showing they’re willing to engage in this way of dealing.

He’s applying that same mindset to all his decision making as a president of a rich nation because every interaction has to be a transaction. For sure he is consciously aware that Putin is helping him in some way, whether it’s to win elections or increase his wealth by building hotels in Russia. It isn’t a question of whether he is benefiting but how he is benefiting.

I’m sure others have made this conclusion. What’s astonishing is how deep the shadiness is, how far back it goes. Trump must have so much dirt on Guiliani for the latter to be supporting him. I don’t think Trump is capable of making any honest, above board, transaction. For sure most Republican senators and house reps will be afraid to vote to impeach because they know he will punish them. He may not get impeached, this time around. But I do think that eventually the good in American people, whether they be politicians or private citizens, will prevail. [/quote]

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