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In reply to the discussion: I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October. You Should, Too [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)could have kept their mouths shut. But his dad took care of him up through most of the 1980s.
He has had nothing but dicey times after that, of course. We know he's associated with some who really might have been stupid enough to plot murder with The Donald and risk ending up in a Doonesbury comic strip. But none of those at least would have belonged to the Russian mafia.
Fwiw, my picture of him is of a coward, and murder as a private citizen would have taken him out of the zone of wealthy safety he was born and raised in, expose him to consequences he couldn't use the legal system to get around or just throw money at to go away. But a clown capable of turning into a dangerous clown as long as he thinks he's beyond consequences. Like this situation.
And wondering what else. Who's dying in our drone and other covert strikes, which are not being covered by the media (censored?) or overseen by congress? He once argued publicly that we should deliberately murder the families of terrorists, which to me suggests his only limit is what he has the guts for and can get away with.