barely a word about Nixon in this thread.
Originally Posted by Chung Tran
I'll try again .... Re Nixon:
Nixon had personal knowledge of the relationship that had matured by the time he took office as Potus between the Mafia bosses and the U.S. intelligence community ... it began to get access to Southern Europe during WWII via Sicilian connections and continued through water front surveillance at shipping docs and into the Cuban money laundering, hotel, brothel, and casino businesses.
Nixon's Florida neighbors were crime/union/bosses. They knew he knew of their activities. Fast forward to "watergate" ... the intelligence operatives who conducted that 5th rate, sloppy burglary with "markers" left everywhere to ID themselves, and who had lawyers already in place before they were arrested to meet them at bookings ... were called "The Plumbers" who had slipped into the office undetected and left of Daniel Elsberg's shrink and stole papers kept there under some "privilege" which were regarding the malfeasance and misfeasance (and deception) of the U.S. Government in the rap up of the Vietnam War. ("Pentagon Papers?")
A method of discrediting is setting one up for the fall ... and "The Plumbers" (who survived the debacle) took the sword to make it happen.
Plug some of that into the assassination of JFK when one considers the disdain the intelligence community had for the Kennedy brothers, one of whom took on the Mafia as U.S. AG. and screwed up their playground in Cuba with bungling that shit almost intentionally ..... remember the U.N. presentation by Stevenson?... fake pictures!!! Reminded me of Powell's Iraqi presentation when I saw it.
Trump knows all these fools running against him and the skeletons in their closets!
Remember: Trump put on a campaign fund raiser in Florida for Schumer? Look at some of the photo op pics when Schumer's in the WH ... meeting his former fund raiser!!!!! Hanging his head and he blubbers like a baby when he has to oppose him. Trump knows about his daily shit stains, just like Nixon did. LBJ was even worse, because he got the FBI files delivered to him daily via Hoover. Nixon's no less, no more than any of them, he just "knew too much."