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You give him too much credit. He is a conman, but not a good one. He attracts conmen who are better at the game than he is and they have been milking him for d
by nabla9 2y ago
You give him too much credit.
He is a conman, but not a good one. He attracts conmen who are better at the game than he is and they have been milking him for decades. He had eventually to get into business with shady East-European businessmen who used him as a front. He was in descent to money laundering when he won the elections 2016.
- dc396 2y ago> He is a conman, but not a good one. How many other conmen have conned 77.3 million (at least, that's just in the US and I hear there are many outside the US who have fallen for his schtick)? There have been a few others in this class (Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc.) but there's no denying that he has confidence skillz...
- Zigurd 2y agoHe's had help. For the audience here, the relevant helpers are on a spectrum from Barstool sportball techbros to Moldbug fans. The rich among them cultivated JD Vance. But he's got other help. None seem to care that some help comes from pretty dire adversaries. Fun's over. Now let's see who can admit a large error.