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malaise

(268,930 posts)
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 05:48 PM Oct 2021

The Slobfather on Murderer Robert Durst: Trump to Robert Durst in 2013: I Get Your Anger

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-to-robert-durst-in-2013-i-get-your-anger

Before Donald Trump joked that he would shoot people on Fifth Avenue, he empathized with an acquitted, self-professed killer who admitted to cutting off an old man’s head.

“Personally, I think Douglas Durst’s brother got screwed by Douglas—no wonder he’s angry,” Trump tweeted at 2:20 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2013. This, of course, came after the brother in question, Robert Durst, was acquitted of a 2001 murder in Texas in which he admitted cutting off his neighbor Morris Black’s head. Durst is awaiting trial for the 2000 slaying of friend Susan Berman in California.

Trump’s tweet came 14 months before an HBO docuseries put Durst’s violent past back in the spotlight.

In 2003, the same year of his acquittal, Durst allegedly showed up to his brother Douglas’s New York estate with two loaded handguns. He claimed he was contemplating suicide and not considering killing his brother. Durst later trespassed in front of townhouses owned by Douglas and other relatives in 2012 and 2013 and later insisted on a trial instead of spending a maximum 15 days in jail after his arrest.

“I felt like kissing my lawyers,” Durst said after being acquitted of the trespassing charges in 2014. He asserted once again that he didn’t have murder on the brain.

“I’m not spending my time running around 43rd Street wanting to shoot my brother,” Durst added.
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malaise

(268,930 posts)
4. He got away for way too long but he was sentencedto life without parole - now he'll get death
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 06:17 PM
Oct 2021

What's it with the sons of real estate scumbags?

marble falls

(57,077 posts)
11. The only real entitled people in the US. Makes me sick. Durst is 79 and it's pretty doubful ...
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 07:00 PM
Oct 2021

in my mind he'll get past the ventilator.

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
9. He has no conscience, zero compassion, phony empathy, puerile understanding.
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 06:50 PM
Oct 2021

Thus the death of others has no meaning to him. Hope he lives a long life in prison. History will mark him as evil incarnate for eternity.

malaise

(268,930 posts)
14. I am curious about this
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 08:29 PM
Oct 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Durst

On Saturday October 16, 2021, just two days after Robert Durst was sentenced to life in prison in a packed California courtroom for the murder of his friend Susan Berman, it was learned he had been diagnosed with COVID-19 and was on a ventilator. His defense attorney Dick DeGuerin said Durst was in the worst shape he had ever seen at the sentencing, having a hard time breathing and speaking. It was not known if Durst had been moved from the USC Medical Center where he was staying during the trial, under the watch of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, or when or where he became infected with the coronavirus. It was also not known if anyone else at the sentencing had been infected.[6]

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
15. The guy wore a mask and a visor.
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 09:30 AM
Oct 2021

Sometimes the mask was under his nose. The visor is like a splash guard at the smorgasbord salad bar, lots of air there. It’s a good bet the officers of the court are vaccinated, but still, I’d be worried about being anywhere near that guy’s exhaust.

When I was young, I rode the commuter trains from the suburbs of Chicago to my rabbit in the Loop. The trains were packed. The best dressed lawyer-finance-big money men also were the rudest sons of bitches. They NEVER covered their mouths when they coughed. I played my Walkman so loud…

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