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Best_man23

(5,124 posts)
Wed May 26, 2021, 07:48 AM May 2021

ESPN:Arlen Specter's Son says FG Offered Campaign Cash to stop Patriots Spygate probe in 2008

"Follow-up conversations with the people closest to Arlen Specter -- his oldest son, Shanin, a Philadelphia personal injury and medical malpractice attorney, and Charles Robbins, Specter's trusted longtime communications aide and the ghostwriter of two Specter memoirs -- revealed this: The man who dangled campaign cash if Specter were to drop the Spygate inquiry was none other than Donald J. Trump."

Not only that: (emphasis is mine) Trump had told Specter he was acting on behalf of Robert Kraft.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31484993/son-ghostwriter-late-senator-say-trump-intervened-stop-probe-patriots-spygate-scandal

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ESPN:Arlen Specter's Son says FG Offered Campaign Cash to stop Patriots Spygate probe in 2008 (Original Post) Best_man23 May 2021 OP
So, now we are finding out tRumps DOJ multigraincracker May 2021 #1
This is the first time I have heard of this attempted bribe* by Trump but the media (and DU) knew... Botany May 2021 #2
?FG? h2ebits May 2021 #3
FG stands for Former Guy Best_man23 May 2021 #4
Was wondering same thing krkaufman May 2021 #5
Thank you for asking! liberalla May 2021 #7
who is FG? LymphocyteLover May 2021 #6
Rather than Former Guy... Picaro May 2021 #8
I like UFM bluecollar2 May 2021 #9
How about SPPS, Mr.Bill May 2021 #10
There's OM for orange menace, wnylib May 2021 #11
There are many to choose from, for sure. BobTheSubgenius May 2021 #12

Botany

(72,592 posts)
2. This is the first time I have heard of this attempted bribe* by Trump but the media (and DU) knew...
Wed May 26, 2021, 08:38 AM
May 2021

... of Trump's crimes, that he wasn't really a billionaire, that the Apprentice was phony (funded by Russia??),
all his law suits, his con man act, not paying his bills, his ties to both the NYC's Italian & Russian mafia, his scams,
drug use, cocaine and sex parties, his business failures, and so on and yet in 2016 all we heard about was HRC
and her emails.

The mother fucker shouldn't have been anyway near the White House.


* Funny isn't Trump a big Tom Brady, Bill Belicheck, Craft, and Pats fan?

krkaufman

(13,749 posts)
5. Was wondering same thing
Wed May 26, 2021, 10:13 AM
May 2021

It’s more commonly used as “TFG,” which I prefer (due to the alternate interpretation).

BobTheSubgenius

(11,804 posts)
12. There are many to choose from, for sure.
Wed May 26, 2021, 11:27 AM
May 2021

In another context, it could be described as an embarrassment of riches.

Not so much, in this one.

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