{"id":60072,"date":"2024-02-11T14:20:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60072"},"modified":"2024-02-11T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:20:27","slug":"trump-is-running-a-mob-style-protection-racket-whose-victims-include-nato-and-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60072","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Running a Mob-Style Protection Racket Whose Victims Include NATO and Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The behavioral disorders of Donald Trump have been well documented. Psychiatric professionals have diagnosed him with a severe case of malignant narcissism and with prominent episodes of paranoia and sociopathy. These are mental maladies that are present in aspiring authoritarians and cult leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump is Running a Mob-Style Protection Racket Whose Victims Include NATO and Taylor Swift%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60072\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tyrant.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Tyrant Dictator\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35821\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s MAGA movement is a textbook example of a cult, wherein the indoctrinated followers regard the leader as infallible and near to a deity. They forgive him any and all transgressions. He can lie with impunity. He can break laws and openly violate moral standards. He can commit 91 felonies and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=59531\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly defame a woman that he raped<\/a><\/strong>. Trump has done all of this, while retaining the adoration of his glassy-eyed disciples, as well as his Republican Party parasites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57795\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IT\u2019S A CULT! Poll Shows Republicans Trust Only Criminal Messiah Trump to Tell Them the Truth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But Trump and MAGA are more than just a typical cult. Trump&#8217;s model for his operations is organized crime. He envisions himself as a mob boss whose underlings are beholden to him by a combination of favors and threats. No one is safe from his wrath, which is the eventual end of nearly every relationship he has.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning Trump posted a comment to his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=58998\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failing social media scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong> that exhibited his crime boss belligerence. It was directed at pop superstar Taylor Swift and <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111913990846366079\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and all other Musical Artists. Joe Biden didn\u2019t do anything for Taylor, and never will. There\u2019s no way she could endorse Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President in the History of our Country, and be disloyal to the man who made her so much money. Besides that, I like her boyfriend, Travis, even though he may be a Liberal, and probably can\u2019t stand me!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump thinks Taylor Swift should support him because he signed a bill (that he had nothing to do with, and probably knows nothing about) that benefited musical artists. He&#8217;s actually trying to take credit for Swift&#8217;s success that predated his occupation of the White House by a decade.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Trump thinks that this inane argument will win him Swift&#8217;s political support. He thinks that she is as stupid as his MAGA minions, and that she has no values of her own. He would certainly ditch her, and viciously malign her, the instant she expressed any appreciation for President Biden. In Trump&#8217;s mind it&#8217;s all about money. So, like his hero, Al Capone, he demands loyalty for protection.<\/p>\n<p>That was not the only recent example of Trump&#8217;s protection racketeering. He pulled the same move on America&#8217;s NATO allies. At his cult rally in South Carolina Trump told a story, that is surely pure fiction, about a leader of a <em>&#8220;big country&#8221;<\/em> who asked if the the U.S. would honor its treaty obligations in the event that Russia attacked them. Trump says that he replied&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You didn&#8217;t pay? You&#8217;re delinquent? &#8216;No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don&#39;t pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2RPVDFZIXy\">pic.twitter.com\/2RPVDFZIXy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1756412015793279117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is a grotesque betrayal of American and international law. Treaties are not mere handshakes between the signatories. They are explicitly cited in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/constitution-transcript#6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Constitution&#8217;s Article VI<\/a><\/strong> as the <em>&#8220;supreme Law of the Land.&#8221;<\/em> As president, Trump couldn&#8217;t unilaterly withdraw for alleged non-payment. The funds that he is referring to are not even owed to the U.S. They are goals, not requirements, for the member nations&#8217; own internal defense budgets. And yet, wannabe Dictator Trump believes that he can demand a ransom for America&#8217;s allegiance. To Trump American honor is for sale like any other commodity.<\/p>\n<p>However, when Trump says that he would <em>&#8220;encourage&#8221;<\/em> Russia to attack our allies he is going even further into the realm of overt treason, as defined by Article III of the Constitution that refers to giving <em>&#8220;aid and comfort&#8221;<\/em> to our enemies. That couldn&#8217;t be more submissive to the will of Vladimir Putin than if Trump planted a big, wet kiss on his &#8211; let&#8217;s say mouth.<\/p>\n<p>You know Trump is serious about this extortion scheme because that is precisely the position he&#8217;s taken on Russia&#8217;s invasion of &#8211; and continued slaughter in &#8211; Ukraine. It&#8217;s also similar to the threats he imposed on state election officials in Georgia and elsewhere to get them to falsify election results. He also tried to extort Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to pressure him to dig up dirt on Biden. Trump even threatened the Republican National Committee in order to divert donations to himself rather than the party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56591\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Threatens Republicans to Stop Using His Image to Raise Money that He Wants for Himself<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pattern you see developing here is not coincidence. It is representative of Trump&#8217;s transactional and tyrannical personality. And if he were to return to the White House he would sell the country to the highest bidder without blinking twice. We must never allow that to happen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57974\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Cult Cheers His Hope that Americans Suffer a \u2018Great Depression\u2019 While Biden is President<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56236\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Post Urges His Cult Followers to Take Up Arms and \u2018Physically Fight\u2019 for the Presidency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48117\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IT\u2019S A CULT! 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Psychiatric professionals have diagnosed him with a severe case of malignant narcissism and with prominent episodes of paranoia and sociopathy. These are mental maladies that are present in aspiring authoritarians and cult leaders. Click here to Tweet this article Trump&#8217;s MAGA movement is a textbook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1475,152,1,1200,16],"tags":[1377,554,1140,377,1325,1514],"class_list":["post-60072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-constitution","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-nato","tag-taylor-swift"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tyrant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-fCU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60271,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60271","url_meta":{"origin":60072,"position":0},"title":"The Biden-Harris Campaign Posts MSNBC Video of Trump&#8217;s Tyrannical Tendencies on Truth Social","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/22\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The new year has barely begun, but in its infancy there have already been some significant events that will likely shape the rest of the year as it progresses toward a profoundly significant election. 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