Trump and the Mogilevich Defense

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Olear
@gregolear
"As long as the bad guys walk free, and there remain no legal consequences for their villainy, the #MogilevichDefense holds & nothing will change.

This is a nest of vipers, hellbent on destroying our democracy. Indictments are the mongoose. Unleash them."

Trump and the Mogilevich Defense
Only indictments can pierce the MAGA disinformation bubble.
gregolear.substack.com
7:33 AM · Nov 16, 2021

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-mogilevich-defense

Everything Trump touches dies—except false narratives about him. When it comes to telling his own story, the guy can’t lose. He’s golden. He’s controlled the narrative since the fateful moment in 2015 when he came down the escalator to announce his candidacy. Despite being complete horseshit, his version of events trumps (ahem) all others, drowning out the truth.

The real Donald Trump is a creature of the underworld, second-generation mobbed up, a money launderer for the Russian mob. He’s a serial rapist, with four dozen credible allegations against him. He’s an unrepentant racist. As a businessman, he’s such a profound and utter failure that it’s almost comical. During the 2016 campaign, the transition period, and his entire term in office, his surrogates had numerous shady contacts with Russian nationals close to Vladimir Putin. The chair of his campaign worked hand in glove with a Kremlin intelligence operative who specializes in election fuckery. A number of his associates were indicted and convicted of crimes related to the Russia connection.

Once in office, Trump was so egregiously beholden to Putin that it became a national embarrassment. The Helsinki summit in particular was a capitulation on the world stage—“nothing short of treasonous,” in the words of former CIA director John O. Brennan. Trump spent his time in the White House profiting off the office, enriching his cronies, damaging our institutions, bullying Ukraine to help him smear his political rival, and, in 2020, sabotaging the pandemic response to kill as many Americans as he could. He refused to accept defeat in the 2020 election, spinning the Big Lie, and in January of 2021, after pardoning his accomplices, he orchestrated an attempt to overthrow the government.

Trump is a dark stain on the history of this country. Future historians will regard him with the same disdain current scholars of totalitarianism regard Mussolini. But unlike his strongman predecessor, Trump has not been stopped. To the contrary, he has hijacked one of the nation’s two political parties, whose supine politicians must kiss his ring to survive. The gridlock in our politics is caused by the GOP putting Trump over country.

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[llashram]

1. I'm watching

just to see how much fear of these fascists drives the prosecution of them. I smell deep fear...

[Poiuyt]

2. Good summary of Trump