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Who could imagine that a Trump would engage in criminal behavior*?
*Besides everyone.
Crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
You forgot to add “that’s been broken in 23 different places.”
Two former city employees, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told ProPublica and WNYC that they accepted money from middlemen representing the Trump Organization to lower assessments on 40 Wall St. after Trump took over the skyscraper in 1995.
Middlemen = Deniability (ie Ask Michael…)
Another example …in the near indictment of Ivanka and Don Jr, the middleman was Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz who donated $25k to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr and asked him to drop the case. Vance overruled his own prosecutors…three months later, he told them to drop the case.
Nah, go look at a dog’s hind leg some time. It goes forward and back and then forward again. More visible in some than others.
Q. Ever heard the name McCardle?
A. No. Who is McCardle?
A. I think he is a man that represented many, many real estate people in New York. He represented some of the biggest real estate companies in New York. I don’t know if he represented us or not, but I don’t remember that.
He doesn’t even know the guy, and 30 seconds later he’s giving a dissertation on his business model.
Preet Bharara, if you’re listening…
If you’re a mediocre mobbed up NYC real estate developer that’s business as usual. But if you’re a mediocre mobbed up NYC real estate developer you shouldn’t run for preznit.
He wouldn’t do things the legit way if he could, is the thing. POS.
To paraphrase the incomparable Hunter S…
“Trump’s so crooked he needs servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.”
He could shoot your hypothetical dog in his crooked hind leg while it stops to pee on Fifth Avenue and…
I’ll restrict myself to one observation lest I cause a riot, but you know the pithy quotes used to introduce chapters in the Hell’s Angels book? I’ve never been able to confirm a blessed one, and I’ve tried. It troubles me.
You know, Matt, my father always belittled me by saying whatever I did…was just never good enough.
(sigh)
No shit, Sherlock! I am shocked, just shocked…
You call it bribes. They call it incentivized tax abatement.
As Dotard might say, “We should look into that.”
Hopefully, a good steaming will straighten them out.
Well, I’m pretty sure I’ve praised other writers and artists of all sorts unreservedly and think you’re quite the fellow yourself. And we had similar parents, actually. I’m just not sure about HST. But I don’t want to cause you pain, I mean seriously, so let’s not speak of it further. Actually Steinbeck, whom I like a lot, made up a St. Augustine quote in Tortilla Flat, and it seems was possibly a bit of a fabulist in works he presented as factual, so it’s been known to happen.
I’m sure Trump will get Hope Hicks right on that.