Crooks, Flim-Flam Men and Foreign Despots
Jun. 28th, 2019 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribOver at Talking Points Memo, they have a nice run-down of the state of play between Jerry Falwell Jr., his pool boy, and Donald Trump. The article is short, but the gist of it is that it appears that:
1) Falwell and/or his wife got caught with their pants down (literally) by the pool boy.
2) Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer of Pants Malfunctions, fixed the problem by arranging for Falwell, a humble Christian minister, to toss money at Pool Boy. (Remind me, since when do Christian ministers get personally rich?)
Then, suddenly, Falwell endorses Trump. Trump, a man who wouldn't know a Bible if it fell on his head. Suspicious, anybody? The whole thing looks like something out of a bad soap opera. The fact that people seem to want to follow Falwell is another example of the American Right following a flim-flam man.
So where do the foreign despots tie in? We keep wondering why Trump is so friendly with Putin. Marshall suspects that Putin has something on Trump. Given Trump's lack of shame, I doubt that.
No, I suspect Trump fancies himself as another Putin. In this case, Trump (via Cohen) appears to have done something Putin would do - use blackmail to get somebody (Falwell) to endorse him. And thus a group of people get doubly fleeced by a flim-flam man: first in donating to Falwell and then in voting for Trump.
1) Falwell and/or his wife got caught with their pants down (literally) by the pool boy.
2) Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer of Pants Malfunctions, fixed the problem by arranging for Falwell, a humble Christian minister, to toss money at Pool Boy. (Remind me, since when do Christian ministers get personally rich?)
Then, suddenly, Falwell endorses Trump. Trump, a man who wouldn't know a Bible if it fell on his head. Suspicious, anybody? The whole thing looks like something out of a bad soap opera. The fact that people seem to want to follow Falwell is another example of the American Right following a flim-flam man.
So where do the foreign despots tie in? We keep wondering why Trump is so friendly with Putin. Marshall suspects that Putin has something on Trump. Given Trump's lack of shame, I doubt that.
No, I suspect Trump fancies himself as another Putin. In this case, Trump (via Cohen) appears to have done something Putin would do - use blackmail to get somebody (Falwell) to endorse him. And thus a group of people get doubly fleeced by a flim-flam man: first in donating to Falwell and then in voting for Trump.
