Rich Felker
@GottaLaff And the number of people who nominally had power to stop this, but just... didn't... all the way along is just... baffling.
Any one of the countless judges he faced over his long career of mobster bs had the opportunity to put him in jail for contempt of court.
And... didn't.
For no good reason.
Laffy
7/ "I'f Trump has a political theory at all, it’s... the system is just an interlocking series of rackets & ‘this is just the way the world works.’”
Trump is now the boss, & he seeks to rule America not like the 44 presidents who came before him, but like the mobster who once competed w him for the Post’s daily front pg. You see it in his Teflon Donald ability to duck prison, his skimming of tributes for his “legitimate businesses,” but mainly in his all-encompassing need to display domination"
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6/ "There’s no evidence that Trump & Gotti ever met, but clear that the so-called Dapper Don was a role model for developer Donald, who shared an atty in Trump’s infamous mentor, Roy Cohn, as Trump navigated Gotti’s associates & his crew in the mobbed-up world of Manhattan construction & Atlantic City casinos. Indeed, the devil’s bargain of “raw earth”—overpriced Gambino concrete —in return for labor peace at Trump high-rise projects was clearly the blueprint for his Ukrainian extortion" scheme"
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5/ "If America is still the world’s policeman, then we are Derek Chauvin with our knees on the neck of Ukraine or Panama, ripping off their “raw earth” or blackmailing them to take our shackled prisoners.
But why?...Gotti, beaming from the front pages of the Post and Daily News, appeared to the unmoored masses to offer what at a time of a crack-driven murder epidemic and the LA riot was missing: order. In other words, he alone could fix it."
Laffy
4/ "On a certain level it’s hard to know what to say about what just happened that is new or insightful. We told you so? What were you expecting differently after living through four years of Trump 45?
Yet this was, to be sure, a moment of clarity for what America has become and how the rest of the world now perceives us."
Laffy
3/ "(Minus journalists from AP & Reuters, banned by hostile-to-1st Amend Trump regime, yet witnessed by reporter for Russian news agency Tass who was mysteriously allowed into the Oval)..The no-longer leader of the free world sure sounded more like Sammy “The Bull” Gravano when he rhetorically asked journalist, ”What if a bomb drops on your head rt now?” Vance’s incessant demand that Zelensky thank America for presumably saving him from getting whacked by Putin was only lacking a basebll bat"
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2/ "With underboss JD Vance & his foreign policy consiglieres, he pulled off public shakedown, offering protection to recalcitrant citizen Zelensky & exploding w rage when Ukrainian pres turned down Trump’s offer he wasn’t supposed to refuse..Most of world & at least 1/2 of Amer's were shocked to watch this truly momentous event in US history—the betrayal of a democratic friend, realpolitik embrace of strongman doctrine, & rejection of our global alliances—play out on 10 stark mins of live TV"
Laffy
" #Trump's decades-long worship of John Gotti-style mob rule reached its zenith Friday in the Oval Office, with the shakedown of #Ukraine's #Zelensky aided by his underboss #JDVance
Like Gotti, America's embrace of an amoral strongman will not end well.
If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.© 🧵 1/...
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-zelensky-ukraine-mob-boss-20250302.html
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