Oddities About This NBA Betting Investigation ...

 

Now, I'm not a total idiot - I know that betting on sports can and does affect sports outcomes - and it's not just basketball. 

This has gone on for years in the top 3 sports, with Pete Rose famously going down because of it in baseball, for betting on games himself and profiting from betting, meanly he likely threw games himself.

There also were allegations of steroid use and sexual assault - again, not a new problem nor exclusively a basketball problem.

Thus, in this particular situation, a few oddities stand out to me:

1)   Betting and "throwing games" happens in football and baseball, too - why just basketball?

 

2)  As we know, the DOJ and FBI investigating this have weeded out any non-Trump supporters in their ranks, and they are heavily focused on trying to find ways to prosecute Trump critics.

 

2)  Why ignore organized crime/mafia, heavily involved in sports betting/cheating, especially in Vegas - who largely support Trump?

 

3) Why only investigate and charge black people - who largely do NOT support Trump?

 

5)  If  Trump's DOJ and FBI care so much about cheating, why pardon convicted fraudster, George Santos, and worse -  convicted fraudster and money-launderer, billionaire Binance crypto money founder Changpeng Zhao - who not only defrauded retirees out of money, but had proven money-laundering transactions with Hamas - and also with whom Trump had business dealings in the past and planned future?  

(FYI - Zhao and Binance also financed Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. )

Why this issue, why now?

Why pardon fraudsters and money launderers, ignoring chronic fraudsters, cheaters, and money-launderers like the mafia/organized crime, and why only basketball and people of color?

Now, I would say it's racist - and it is racist - and worse. 

(Trump -  like other racists and narcissists -  is okay with people of color if they support him/kiss his butt and "know their place." )

The "worse" is ...  y'all understand how organized crime/the mafia works, right?

They're predatory - they want their under-the-table cut from every smaller business in their purview beneath them, public or private, offering their mandatory "protection" - or else - it is you who will need protecting from them.

So considering all of the above, especially the pardons... is this really about cheating and criminality?

Or is this - and other criminalities he ignores and pardons - more about Trump (and his organized-crime supporters) not getting his/their private financial cut and punishing people who don't support him politically, won't play ball?

(Pardon the pun.)

We shall see ...