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No, because it's not really a quid pro quo. It's like calling slavery a quid pro quo because they gave the slaves water and some kind of food. There's no real "quo" for these lawyers except the right to operate their businesses in peace that they should have anyway. It's much more like blackmail.

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It’s like paying protection money.

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Good analogy.

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Exactly in line with the patrimonial form of regime that DT is forming and that he learned at the knee of the mob bosses in NYC.

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it's a mix of racketeering, sadism, terrorism. all the worst.

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