Yeah. He assumes everyone else exists in the same depraved and crooked universe that he does, and so he assumes that accusations like this are perfectly plausible and threatening.
It’s the same reason he assumes Tish James is guilty of mortgage fraud. If someone picked up his business’s books and went through them, they would instantly find twenty different things to indict him on or thirty-six or more, and he assumes everyone else’s books are the same.
Yeah. He assumes everyone else exists in the same depraved and crooked universe that he does, and so he assumes that accusations like this are perfectly plausible and threatening.
It’s the same reason he assumes Tish James is guilty of mortgage fraud. If someone picked up his business’s books and went through them, they would instantly find twenty different things to indict him on or thirty-six or more, and he assumes everyone else’s books are the same.