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CousinIT

(9,247 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2019, 08:34 AM Jan 2019

1950s TV Series "Trackdown" Featured a Conman named "Walter Trump" who was pushing for a wall... [View all]

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What the fresh hell. This is REAL. Filmed in 1958- about a conman who grifts a small town of suckers into building a wall. History not subtle enough for you? GUESS THE GRIFTER'S NAME
(And watch until the end)

SNOPES says it's true...https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trackdown-trump-character-wall/

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1950s TV Series "Trackdown" Featured a Conman named "Walter Trump" who was pushing for a wall... [View all] CousinIT Jan 2019 OP

And there you have it -- reality itself has now been broken by Trump. Girard442 Jan 2019 #1

I was trying to figure out what a Connan was in the OP title riversedge Jan 2019 #2

Gak. Typo. I fixed it. CousinIT Jan 2019 #3

Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" mentions his mentor Roy Cohn, who was a McCarthy-ite. TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 #4

I've seen episodes of that show recently on Grit TV. House of Roberts Jan 2019 #5

Frighteningly prescient durablend Jan 2019 #6

Duplicate thread from yesterday.... Pachamama Jan 2019 #7