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1. Yeah, it's the kompromat. He's running a criminal organization. This is how you ensure loyalty.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2024, 08:43 PM

Nov 2024

Sure, he particularly likes the kind of blackmail material that lines up with his white male hierarchy crap, but any leverage will do.

Of course, if we *know* some of this about Gaetz or whoever else, it's a lock that there's even worse we don't know about....

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Let's just say why Trump likes his people to have heinous sexual assault, illegal prostitution or sex with a minor [View all] Baitball Blogger Nov 2024 OP

Yeah, it's the kompromat. He's running a criminal organization. This is how you ensure loyalty. unblock Nov 2024 #1

Yep, you've got to commit a crime to get into the gang. tanyev Nov 2024 #2

and u can bet they've done more, which he knows all about. mopinko Nov 2024 #3

This and having a slew of equally reprehensibly despicable people around him B.See Nov 2024 #7

Rampant in business Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #4

Exactly. These people have forethought in picking the worst, not the brightest. Baitball Blogger Nov 2024 #5

I don't think they knew about Hesgeth (whose actions seem shockingly worse than Gaetz's) Prairie Gates Nov 2024 #6