Newsletter: Guilty or coerced? Ryan Salame’s last interviews before prison
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One thing that became clear to me throughout my conversation with Salame is that he doesn’t seem to believe wealthy people are capable of theft.
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As for the apparent smoking gun, in which he texted his brother to say that “Sam will route money through me” to donate to Republicans without it being connected back to him, he says it was just a way to try to avoid awkward Thanksgiving conversations.
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Unlike Tucker Carlson, who claimed during their interview that Salame was being unfairly targeted because he was a Republican, Salame never suggested that to me — perhaps because he knows I know that Democratic donor Nishad Singh was also hit with campaign finance charges.
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@[email protected] "haha he's too smart to have done it in an illegal way, your honor! look, he's wealthy, soooooo"
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@molly0xfff
So why in the world would someone who was wealthy and had resources just plead guilty and surrender their money instead of fighting it, when they have the resources to keep fighting and will just lose them if they don't?This is a thing that doesn't explain his own behavior and it feels like maybe that is why he is stuck on it?
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@Vrimj according to him, because he thought it would keep his wife out of jail.
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@molly0xfff
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Molly Whitereplied to Vrimj last edited by [email protected]
@Vrimj she presumably has access to his money — whatever’s left of it — plus whatever she brings in on her own. she was also using his same lawyers.
he’s not been particularly willing to speak about bond’s case (understandably, as it’s ongoing), but his claims that she’s innocent of her charges are a little hard to square with his claims that he pleaded guilty to things he didn’t do to save her from prison.
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@molly0xfff
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thank you!
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"non-zero amount of knowledge" is now my compliment of the week.
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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯replied to Molly White last edited by
@molly0xfff did you post the raw and uncut interview anywhere? would love to see that.
also fuck tucker carlson.
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Molly Whitereplied to ⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ last edited by
@cryptadamist i didn’t it was pretty meandering
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@molly0xfff It’s interesting that he simultaneously claims he didn’t know all this fraud was going on, but also claims to know that, for example, Caroline Ellison is more responsible for it than has been portrayed, etc. This seems to me to be a case where both these things cannot be true. You either know both or you know neither.
Also, you’ve got a typo in your image caption: “Potomoc.”
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@freeagent oop, thanks! and yes, i had the same thought in an earlier draft — unfortunately ended up cutting it bc of length
