Posted on 10/23/2025 7:32:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
“Follow the money trail” was a comment made on an October 12, 2025 article describing Chicago politics as a gangster movie rerun. Well, both Jesse Watters of Fox News and the Chicago Sun-Times decided to “follow the money trail” for Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, now that he is standing in the way of arresting criminals and blocking President Trump’s heroic attempt to shut down crime in Chicago.
Jesse Watters reported that Pritzker made over a million dollars playing blackjack in 2024 while staying in Sin City Las Vegas. Senior National Correspondent Kevin Corke stated Pritzker made “$1.425 million bucks in a single day,” as reported on his 2024 taxes. Pritzker stated that he was on vacation with his wife and was “incredibly lucky.” That was a good choice of words, for in the definition of the word “incredible” is, “so implausible as to elicit disbelief, not credible.”
...
In 2024 Chicago had the dubious honor of reigning as the” homicide capital” of the U.S. for the 13th straight year. In fact, Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Assistant Secretary, stated that cartels working with domestic extremist groups have issued bounties to target ICE and CBP agents in Chicago. They are “coordinated and highly organized, waging war against our law enforcement in a terror campaign against them,” having created a tiered bounty system, “offering $2000 for intelligence about our ICE law enforcement agents, including their family, to dox them, $5000 to kidnap an ICE law enforcement agent, and even more money to kill them.” Groups are actually handing intelligence over to the cartels to go after American law enforcement officers.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Looks like a bribe.
I VOTE PAYOFFS.....
Operation Royal Flush!
I VOTE PAYOFFS.....
DID HE PAY INCOME TAXES ON IT ALL????
Yep. There’s big money in the street crime business and someone wanted to show their appreciation for all Pritzker is doing to keep Trump from cleaning it up.
A billion dollars worth of illegal drugs flow through Chicago every year.
L
I would like to know more about the size of Pritzker’s bets and what game he played. I would want to know if my governor has a gambling problem. Not to mention it wouild be simple for a casino to make a bribe look like winnings. I hope Patel puts the FBI on Pritzker.
Is there any doubt?
Video of stated games would be available, as is everything around the tables.
If released, they’ll be made to be “inconclusive”. Bet it.
Start arresting the appartchiks that are giving the orders to police and others to obstruct justice, then very soon they will turn snitch on Pritzger and Johnson.
Pritzker “won” $1.4 million? How much was he betting?
How much does blackjack pay on $100 bets?
3 to 2 Blackjack Payout Chart
Bet-—Payoff
$95 $142.50
$100 $150
$125 $187.50
$150 $225
“Cocaine Quarterback” is about laundering illicit money through fake gambling.
<><>buy in with a million, play a little and cash out.
<><>Or have accomplices intentionally lose to you.
oldernittany posted: “I believe Newsome and Pritzger are
backed by the cartels. They certainly are carrying their water.
I might very well be wrong, but I thought casinos had to report any large winnings to the IRS.
The payoff came before the election, so it's not Trump-related. The article suggests that Pritzer 'significantly expanded' gambling within his state since taking office in 2019... that tracks.
The article notes that Pritzer reported the ‘winnings’ on his next tax return.
I might very well be wrong, but I thought casinos had to report any large winnings to the IRS.
Definition of incredible is “impossible to believe”. Perfect choice of words.
It might be that most of the democratic politicians are also under the gun of the cartels, gambling money laundering ops, and Islamists. That would explain the illogical, illegal, and outrageous decisions. Van Hollen, Wu, Bass, Newsom, B. Johnson, judges etc.. They are using the cover of the woke agenda to give them voting clout. The wokesters are the “useful idiots” in this scenario.
IMHO
Gotcha. Thx for pointing that out.
Could a “bent” dealer at a table adjust their play to be so terrible that Pritzker won and won and won again or would poor play by the dealer stand out to all around them as crooked? Would onlookers call out such unbelievable play if they saw it or remain silent? Then again, I don’t imagine Pritzker plays out on the floor at tables with anybody and everybody... Maybe there are high roller rooms or areas that are more private and luxurious for customers like him?
The guy is a billionaire, it is probably the same as me winning $1,000, nice to win but not life changing
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.