US acting like a mobster

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US acting like a mobster

Post by Gfamily » Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:09 am

"Hey, since I'm forcing you to sell part of your business, you should be paying me a substantial portion of the sale price.
Else I'll close your business down.
You got it?"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53633315

I can't think of another interpretation, can you?
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Re: US acting like a mobster

Post by Martin Y » Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:25 am

Don Donnie: "Hey, China, nice Tiktok you got there. Be a real shame if anything was to <beat> happen to it. Maybe you should sell it to a guy I know. And maybe you should give me a slice of that money for, you know, giving you this opportunity."

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Re: US acting like a mobster

Post by nekomatic » Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:26 am

Explained by Trump in the language of the crooked landlord that he is
Move-a… side, and let the mango through… let the mango through

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Re: US acting like a mobster

Post by Martin Y » Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:30 am

nekomatic wrote:
Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:26 am
Explained by Trump in the language of the crooked landlord that he is
Wow. He literally explains what he wants as being like an illegal bribe to a landlord.

He knows other people can hear what he's saying, right?

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Re: US acting like a mobster

Post by lpm » Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:42 am

Are you suggesting the US is run by someone with decades-long links to organised crime? In particular, linked to the USSR-immigrant mafias of New York, both Russian and Ukrainian? Someone who first sold property to the Russian Mafia in 1984?
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