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8. And there's something to that. His political boss, Trump's pal Macri, is descended from mafiosi

Wed Nov 29, 2023, 03:15 PM

Nov 2023

Mafiosi from the feared N'Draghetta in southern Italy's impoverished Calabria region.

And indeed, as president, Macri was notorious for spying on everyone who was anyone in Argentina: over 1,500 people, among them executives, top journalists, judges and politicians - particularly those of his own coalition.

Dozens of Argentine intelligence agents and police were convicted - but not Macri himself, who was given a pass by a "napkin" judge on the premise that it was all "the agents' doing."

Riiight.

No wonder Trump likes him so much. I can just hear him: "Why can't I get away with shit like that!"

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