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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
8. Ralph Reed and Trump have a lot in common
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 07:59 PM
Oct 2016

it's kind of amazing how similar this Trump scam was to the Reed / Abramoff Indian gambling scam was:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-anti-indian-campaign-20160630-snap-story.html

Soon after an American Indian tribe announced plans to open a casino at a Catskills horse track, ads started appearing in local newspapers and on radio, sounding an alarm about unbridled crime and corruption.

They came from the New York Institute for Law and Society, a new self-described grass-roots anti-gambling group targeting the St. Regis Mohawks. Its campaign in 2000, supposedly supported by 12,000 “pro-family” donors, warned of the evils an Indian casino would bring: “increased crime, broken families, bankruptcies and, in the case of the Mohawks, violence.”

But there were no 12,000 donors. Virtually all the money for the campaign, more than $1 million, came from Donald Trump.

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