Good Cates thread on Baltimore
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1156178389646155777.html
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Another great thread by Cates.
This is incredible if true!
“...Every other president who came into office looked at these political machines early on & came to 1 of 2 decisions:
1) join it and reap the $$$ yourself
or
2) just accept it as a fact of life and learn to work around it.
We all know which ones Obama, the Bushes picked.
Well Trump came and created his own third option:
3) Expose and prosecute these corrupticrats.
Now stop for a moment and think hard.
**IF** you decided to do this, how would you plan it out?
First of all, you would not be that successful pursuing PAST billions of dollars allocated and stolen before you came into office. You’d waste a lot of time tracking down where the $$$ went, who got what.
So you need to MARK the $ and have people IN PLACE watching as it’s stolen
2nd, you need to set it up so that you could recover most of the billions of marked federal funds you handed to these goons that you **knew** they were going to steal.
That’s where asset forfeiture comes into play.
Folks, Trump & his team spent YEARS carefully setting this up.
Trump has things going on on multiple fronts. People who gave him 2-3 months to lock them all up lost their patience long ago & emotionally went into narratives long ago about what a blazing idiot Trump is because he’s not doing what they want/expect/demand him to.
Trump is getting ready to swing a trap shut on not just on the SpyGate plotters, on another front he’s about to swing a trap shut on **entire political machines** that have run these big blue cities for decades that have been STEALING incredible amounts of fed. $ every year.
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