Trump Is Just Another Mafia Thug

The Republican Party is officially no longer a political party, but an organized criminal gang, like the mafia. 

You need look no further than Donald Trump, who is literally the Don of the Republican Party, for evidence of this fact.

He has never sounded presidential, but the other day he showed his true stripes.

“I know all about flipping, for 30, 40 years, I’ve been watching flippers,” he said in a Fox News interview. “I have seen it many times,” he continued, leaning in toward Earhardt. “I have had many friends involved in this stuff. It’s called flipping, and it almost ought to be illegal.”

Trump is supposed to be a real estate developer, so you'd think that the "flipping" he's talking about is buying property at one price, and then turning around and selling it for a much higher price. The practice of flipping was a major factor in the Great Recession, and yes, it almost ought to be illegal.

Except that's not what the Don is talking about. No, Trump is talking about the extremely common legal tactic of getting underlings involved in criminal activities to provide testimony against their bosses in exchange for lesser sentences.

Wait a second -- Trump has "many friends involved in this stuff?" Why does the president of the United States have so many crooked friends prosecuted based on the testimony of underlings? What kind of people has he been palling around with?

When the New York Times reported that White House counsel Don McGahn had been interviewed for 30 hours by the the special counsel's legal team, Trump sounded like an irate mobster:

The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type 'RAT.' But I allowed him and all others to testify - I didn't have to...

A 'RAT?' A John Dean type 'RAT'? As you may recall, John Dean told the truth and provided critical testimony that helped remove a corrupt and criminal president:

Dean pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice before Watergate trial judge John Sirica on October 19, 1973. He admitted supervising payments of "hush money" to the Watergate burglars, notably E. Howard Hunt, and revealed the existence of Nixon's enemies list. Archibald Cox, Watergate Special Prosecutor, was interested in meeting with Dean, and planned to do so a few days later, but Cox was fired by Nixon the very next day, and it was not until some time later that Cox was replaced by Leon Jaworski. On August 2, 1974, Sirica handed down a sentence to Dean of one-to-four years in a minimum-security prison. However, when Dean surrendered as scheduled on September 3, he was diverted to the custody of U.S. Marshals, and kept instead at Fort Holabird (near Baltimore, Maryland) in a special "safe house" holding facility primarily used for witnesses against the Mafia.

That's funny: Michael Cohen, like Dean, just admitted supervising illegal payments of "hush money." This time it was to Trump's mistresses, to prevent their stories surfacing in the media just before the 2016 election.

The net is closing around Trump. The other day Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to several crimes, indicating that Trump had directed him to commit them. Three people close to Trump have been granted immunity to prosecution in exchange for their testimony: David Pecker, the National Enquirer publisher, another Enquirer executive, and Allen Weisselberg, the CFO of the Trump Organization.

Weisselberg has been working for the Trump family since the 70s, and he knows where all the financial bodies are buried.

The other day I suggested that Republicans in the House and Senate should threaten to release Trump's tax records unless he resigns from office, and have his successor pardon him and all his cronies before the Mueller investigation dug any deeper. With Weisselberg's cooperation it may already be too late for Trump.

Now we have word that the Manhattan DA is looking into pressing charges against the Trump Organization. Trump and the Republican Party won't be able to pardon his way out of that.

Think about that name, "The Trump Organization." Most legit real estate developers have names like Brookfield Asset Management, Simon Property Group, Prologis, Ventas, Boston Properties, and so on.

But Trump's company sound like some mafia front. And it's no wonder. Trump has a long history of dealing with the mobs that controlled the New York construction industry, had Russian mobsters living in Trump Tower, got a sweetheart real estate deal from a Russian oligarch, and associated with mobsters in Atlantic City with his failed casinos.

Trump's election is one of the worst things that has ever happened to this country. Ironically, Trump's election is also the worst thing that ever happened to the Republican Party -- and him.

If he hadn't been elected he could have continued on his corrupt and merry way, and gotten away with it all. But he just had to open his big fat mouth and invite the Russians to hack Hillary's emails in front of the entire world.

What a moron.