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Donald Trump Reportedly Intervened to Stop Spygate Probe

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Former President Donald Trump loves to get involved in other people’s issues, especially when it’s for a friend. Now there is a report linking Trump to the New England Patriots Spygate scandal. According to the story, Trump got involved on Robert Kraft’s behest.

Via ESPN:

“But there was one man, a mutual friend of Specter and Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who believed that he could make the investigation go away. He was a famous businessman and reality television star who routinely threw money at politicians to try to curry favor, whether it worked or not. He had been a generous political patron of Specter’s for two decades.

One day in early 2008, Specter had dinner with the man in Palm Beach at his palatial club, not far from Kraft’s Florida home. A phone call followed. The friend offered Specter what the senator felt was tantamount to a bribe: “If you laid off the Patriots, there’d be a lot of money in Palm Beach.”

Twitter reacted to the breaking story:

https://twitter.com/timmarchman/status/1397526492582662145

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Spokespeople for Trump and Kraft denied the allegation that either man tried to influence Specter’s investigation.

“This is completely false,” said Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump. “We have no idea what you’re talking about.” Miller declined to answer a series of follow-up questions. A Patriots spokesman said Kraft “never asked Donald Trump to talk to Arlen Specter on his behalf.”

“Mr. Kraft is not aware of any involvement of Trump on this topic and he did not have any other engagement with Specter or his staff,” the spokesman said via email.

Despite the denials from Trump and Kraft, Shanin Specter, Arlen Specter’s son, told ESPN that he got the story directly from his father.

“My father told me that Trump was acting as a messenger for Kraft,” Shanin Specter says via ESPN. “But I’m equally sure the reference to money in Palm Beach was campaign contributions, not cash. The offer was Kraft assistance with campaign contributions. … My father said it was Kraft’s offer, not someone else’s.”

Is anyone really surprised?

At this point this is the kind of story you expect Trump to be right in the middle of.

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