trump tried to end Spygate probe of New England Patriots by offering bribe, late senator's son says

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Donald Trump allegedly attempted to stop a congressional probe of the Spygate case involving the New England Patriots by offering a bribe to then-Sen. Arlen Specter, the late senator’s son claimed Wednesday.

An ESPN report detailed how Trump, nearly a decade before he became president, allegedly acted on behalf of Patriots owner Robert Kraft when he met with Specter in 2008 to offer him “a lot of money in Palm Beach” if the then-Republican senator from Pennsylvania dropped his investigation into the team. Shanin Specter, the senator’s son, said to ESPN that Trump intervened in the probe, while Charles Robbins, the senator’s longtime communications aide, told The Washington Post that he surmised Trump to be the person who offered Arlen Specter the bribe.

In a Wednesday email to The Post, Shanin Specter confirmed that his father, who died in 2012, explicitly indicated to him that Trump had attempted to bribe the senator, then the ranking Republican of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in exchange for dropping the investigation of the Patriots illegally filming an opponent’s hand signals.

“He told me it was Trump,” Specter, a personal injury and medical malpractice attorney in Philadelphia, said to The Post.

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[Blue Owl]

1. Oh FFS

Is there no level of fraud t***p won’t stoop to?

[spanone]

4. I doubt it.

[Eugene]

7. FG45 expected politicians, once bought, to stay bought.

FG45 was big contributor and fund raiser for Specter. He thought he owned him.

That relationship soured after Specter brushed him off.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. This is getting a lot of media play, but that was a warm-up to his evolving criminal enterprise.

They own the Republican Party now and 30 years of breeding out things like character and integrity makes the federal party putty. This is what you end up with.

[RegularJam]

3. I can't read the article so I don't know if it's covered.

What did Specter do? The attempted bribe of a Senator is illegal. Who did Specter tell? I expect this of Trump. A senator who doesn’t divulge a bribe is a senator accepting of bribes.

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5. here's a link to a free story

https://www.boston.com/sports/new-england-patriots/2021/05/26/trump-robert-kraft-arlen-specter-patriots-spygate/

[Eugene]

8. According to the WaPo article, Specter quietly brushed off the bribe offer.

Specter told his son that Dump definitely offered the bribe, and Specter suspected that Kraft put Dump up to it.

Dump was a big donor and fund raiser for Specter until the bribe offer happened.

Also, Jason Miller officially denied the whole thing on 45's behalf. So it's probably true.

Nobody Former Guy touches comes away clean.

[smirkymonkey]

6. K&R

The more you dig into TFG's past, the worse it gets. He is such a corrupt POS.