Perfect Candidate
from The Left Place Hosted by Ted Millar
He sired five children with three women, all toward whom he was unfaithful. One dalliance was with an adult film actor just after the third and current and current wife gave birth to the youngest child. He’s been running a shady New York real estate empire inherited from his sociopathic father, who was forced to intervene when his son’s Atlantic City casino went belly up. Then came the steaks venture, the vodka venture, the airline venture, the sham online university that ripped off veterans. There are also five bankruptcies and draft deferments, multiple rape allegations, and a rather unusually close relationship with child sex traffickers. In the 1980s is believed to be when he began working on behalf of Soviet interests lest he be overlooked for lucrative construction projects and salacious details of a sordid past be brought to light. As you might assume, his political experience is on par with his compunction. Don’t worry, though, friends, NBC invested millions in training him to pander to a television audience anesthetized on reality TV. (Never mind the network later fired him for being too racist.) So, yes, gentlemen, he’s perfect for angry, gullible, ignorant conspiracy theorists. We will tolerate him as long as he cuts our taxes more. Don’t worry about congressional republicans. They’ll fall in line. They always do. The Left Place is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Left Place at theleftplace.substack.com/subscribe
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