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May 15Liked by Nina Burleigh

Why do some women love Trump? Why does anyone do business with Trump? Why would anyone want to be in politics with Trump? The world is a revolving door full of suckers. Nice work, Nina. You are really rocking it. Too bad the people who need to read you, probably can’t read anything beyond a snippy social media post.

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May 15Liked by Nina Burleigh

I wrote a comment to USA Today about JD Vance being a hillbilly traitor which was rejected for language issues so I appealed the censorship telling the editors the name of his NYT Best seller was Hillbilly Elegy, they ghosted me.

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May 15Liked by Nina Burleigh

I knew he was evil the minute I saw the first ad for the Apprentice. His catchphrase “you’re fired” was the cue.

In real life he always has someone else do the evil to people.

“You’re fired” reflects bad leadership.

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Nailed it.

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Thank you Nina!

Wonder if the reporter who caught TFG writing out anti-gag order talking points for his Congressional Posse, will provide information to the Court of what THEY know?

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May 15Liked by Nina Burleigh

What accounting method was “Allen Weisselberg” using at the time of the “hush money” payments that was designed to defraud the voting populace? If #FIFO, then “David Pecker” should have been paid before #Stormy!

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Thanks for the corrected spelling of Allen!

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I always get that mixed up, too! Generally, if the subject is of #Hebrew-origin … I normally go with the shorter “Alan.” But, if not … Then, I opt for the “generic” Allen. I had to google that a dozen times during these #Trump-cases to get it right!

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Andrew Rice of NY Magazine saw/reported on this per MSNBC last night. Violated gag order.

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Thanks Nina. Must’ve been hard to choose which bits of M. Cohen knowledge to highlight. As supplement for your readers is the Cohen family / Russian- Ukrainian mafia connection. MC was co-owner of El Caribe Country Club in Brooklyn; a Russian mob gathering place. <> After USSR went kaput in Dec. 1991 and Vodka addled Yeltsin was busy creating new oligarchs from black market racket bosses, the USSR fleet of oil tankers went to one guy. Start up required re-flagging, insuring & bonding the ships. The Oligarch came to El Caribe Country Club several times to meet with the owner of a start up marine insurance/bonding company. A deal was made. The insurance guy later spent 1.5 days in an imperial hotel - ballroom in Saint Petersburg co-celebrating the successful launch of Russia’s fleet of used oil tankers. Cavier, vodka, and champaign, flowed while beautiful nude women swam in glass tanks in the ballroom.

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The best, NB. I am never disappointed in your reporting - always learn and laugh as well. It is indeed a freak show, but I do think we’ll make it to the exit intact…and if not, run screaming from the red tie brigade.

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“Trump wanted Cohen to be a Roy Cohn, the ruthless mob lawyer and Joe McCarthy commie-hunter who served the Trump family. Cohn was closeted gay, drug-addicted, straight out of fascist central casting. He successfully defended the Trump company against federal charges of refusing to rent to African Americans and taught Boy Trump how to bend law to the breaking point. 

Cohen, with his puppy dog eyes and fifth tier law degree and seedy taxi medallion business, was never going to measure up to that cenobite. He could play the heavy with journalists and women who had become inconvenient for The Boss, but his form of menace lacked the malevolent efficiency of a true killer. “

What an incredible portrait. I knew Michael Cohen was a strong-arm bully (who could forget the way he man-handled the Press ?), but next to tRump, he is pathetic. A bully given over to a mob boss. It’s just extraordinary that tRump continues to spew mumbo-jumbo and fart his way to the Presidency. We are a nation of wannabe Bullies; a nation of Michael Cohens.

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