Date: 2020-04-01 06:09 am (UTC)
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This overview matches up with several decades of news accounts. I'd given peripheral glances at those, but only in passing. Some things just didn't make sense then...

Date: 2020-04-01 05:34 pm (UTC)
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The amount of spoiled fish stench is overwhelming.

Date: 2020-04-01 09:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cynthia1960
The one bit of the smelling of fish stench story I'm not quite buying is the being an actual legit informant for the same reasons as Elaine gives below. But doing business with the mob over the years, oh hell yeah. Especially with casinos.

Date: 2020-04-01 07:22 pm (UTC)
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While it is a compelling framing, I have read other equally compelling alternative framings of facts.

I am confident that the man enters into relationships with a "what can I get out of it" mind set and that he has some sort of charisma that allows him to influence others. I have a strong belief that he is also a person who can be manipulated by certain other folks - particularly men who project "strength."

I keep in mind my dad's explanations of how real estate developer deals work even in the unglamorous South East U.S. and venture capital funders' willingness to throw money at " Serial Enterprenurs" and the paradoxical (to me) cachet of Big Fails.

There are rhetorical flourishes in the article that cover various speculations that could be Explained in different ways.

| don't believe there will be one Trump story: I expect a slimy mess of interconnections and deals. I assume he's bought and bribed his way through some problems, blackmailed his way through others ( the Epstein connection seems a nausiatingly plausible source), used influence( perhaps with the Eastern Bloc connections?) and pressure in others, as well as his willingness to bully with lawsuits. I have no doubt he would rat out someone to save his own skin.

However, if he were a true CI - a groomed informant Who was protected as a source- it seems additional investigations would not have been opened so frequently.

I also feel his treatment of the FBI is inconsistant with that sort of prior relationship.

The two inside FBI hints the article offers also doesn't sell the CIstory to me Either.

But I'll buy that that man used mafioso contacts in full awareness and intout.

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