“I can just see the fake headlines,” Trump said. “President Trump is talking about all the money they’re making while people are suffering at the pump.”
“But I said, ‘I don’t give a damn, I’m gonna say it: We’re making a frickin fortune,’” he added.
“I can just see the fake headlines,” Trump said. “President Trump is talking about all the money they’re making while people are suffering at the pump.”
“But I said, ‘I don’t give a damn, I’m gonna say it: We’re making a frickin fortune,’” he added.
By “US” he means himself of course. L’État c’est moi. He does not have a concept of the US as a state or cares about anything of that kind. Mobsters only care about their own financial interests.
let’s have fun reading about the Rhode Island Banking Crisis caused by, you guessed it, a mobster in control of people’s money and fraudulent “insurers” securing the funds.
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these guys also came to prominence in the 80s, citing Trump’s deals in NY as a framework for how to use political connections to make money flow from out of the public pockets and into private accounts.