Posted on 05/26/2021 6:50:33 AM PDT by chuck allen
IN THE SPRING of 2008, the NFL was in crisis. A hard-charging United States senator from Pennsylvania named Arlen Specter had launched an investigation into the Spygate scandal. He tried to determine how many games the New England Patriots' illegal videotaping operation of opposing coaches' signals had helped the team win and learn why the NFL, under the orders of commissioner Roger Goodell, had destroyed all evidence of the cheating.
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One day in early 2008, Specter had dinner with the man in Palm Beach at his palatial club, not far from Kraft's Florida home. A phone call followed. The friend offered Specter what the senator felt was tantamount to a bribe: "If you laid off the Patriots, there'd be a lot of money in Palm Beach."
Long article at link, says Trump wanted Ivanka to hook up with Brady, plus lots of innuendo.
(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...
All the old political families are conspiring to take Trump out before he solidifies his base in 2022. They are willing to do anything to win us back except stand up to the Dems.
Maybe he’ll be the first Republican to win Massachusetts since Reagan.
I may have missed it but the reporter searched Spectors calendar and doesn’t say he even found the meeting.
I call Fake and Gay BS anti-Trump smear
It’s no secret Trump and Brady are friends and have golfed together. Brady also sports a MAGA hat which has been photographed in his locker.
That said this is a really nonsense piece in that Specter has been dead since 2012 and there is no evidence this is anything but made up.
Has anyone spoken to Goodell? Who was the “friend”?
No “there”, there.
It’s a lot of words and no conclusion, just innuendo.
Another “writer” for Bongino to humiliate, and make fun of so we can laugh at these fools. So, so much material (to make clowns of “writers”) nowadays.
I’ll save you the time of reading ESPN’s childish and fact-free summary of why Trump would want to bribe a US Senator for an investigation which was going nowhere and for team and game in which he had no involvement
- Trump and Kraft were friends
- Trump had donated to Specter’s campaigns in the past
- Trump liked winners and Patriots were winners
- Trump liked Tom Brady and maybe Tom and Ivanka could get together
got it?
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ESPN is the biggest joke going.
It’s a bunch of political activists masquerading as if they have a sports interest.
What complete and utter BS !
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So what?!
I don’t want the federal government spending our hard earned resources on some unethical tactics used by a sportsball team which isn’t even a federal crime!!
JBU He is still my President. Neither the Thief nor Willie's whore will ever be.
Just for the record, Specter was a nasty SOB.
And he was quite a ballistics expert too.
ESPNDisney
Remember when they fired Rush Limbaugh because he was TOO POLITICAL?
They never did fire Hunter S. Thompson when he said that the offenses at Abu Ghraib were worse than the worst NAZI attrocities of WWII.
Im from Mass and two things still astonish me:
1. The sheer amount of overt/public Trump support during his campaign from folks here.
2. How many folks here still have their signs and stickers up today.
Arlene Spector one of the worst RINOs evah!
Arlen Specter, the great Scottish Law expert.
So what. Trump was a private citizen at the time. I’ll put Trumps actions both as a private citizen and President up against those of Pelosi, Obama, Biden Romney etc any day and he’d come out on top. This is more politicalization of ESPN and the corrupt NFL.
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