I’ve thought from the beginning that Trmp et alia are performing a Mafia bust-out on a national scale. Nothing is beneath them. It’s all “Fck you, pay me,” as this clip from “Goodfellas” points out.
What’s a bust out?
Definition: A forced bankruptcy of a person or an organization, usually through theft, fraud or extortion.
Source: http://mafiatrickster.tripod.com/kikai/mafiaslang.html
Once you get into business with a mobster, they take over. They exploit the business, run it into the ground, and then torch it for the insurance.
This is exactly what Trmp et alia are doing. Everything is a profit center, an opportunity to grift some graft, and wet the beak. It is why I would not be at all surprised to find out, someday down the road, that Trmp et alia were getting kickbacks on PPE and anything else that can put a buck in their pockets.
SomervilleTom says
Vladimir Putin is “Paulie”. America is being busted out.
Christopher says
I like Bill Maher’s explanation.
SomervilleTom says
Hilarious, I appreciate the laugh.
Steve Consilvio says
What, you think because his daughter was hawking her dress and bracelet at the Republican National Convention that they are somehow only interested in using politics as a way to cash in for themselves? Goya, I don’t know what you’re thinking.