re: #27 Targetpractice

Like I said the other day, if you wish not to default to “He’s a Russian agent,” you could see this as a conman thinking he can extort money out of marks. But he doesn’t quite get that our allies don’t see themselves as marks and may finally be forced to bow to domestic pressure to demand we remove our forces from their territory.

Trump is a fair-to-middling swindler, and really, that’s about it.

If Trump were a Mafiosi, he’d be a caporegime that would end up either in New York Bay on the orders of the boss, or whacked by his own underlings (with permission from the head of their crime family) because of his utter incompetence.