Saturday, November 18, 2017

Robert Mueller issues subpoena for Russia related documents from Trump campaign.

Did that surprise you? Good.
Courtesy of NBC News: 

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has issued a subpoena to the Trump campaign asking multiple campaign officials to produce Russia-related documents, according to a source with first-hand knowledge of the matter. 

The subpoena was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which also said that the subpoena does not compel testimony by any of the officials. 

The source said the campaign has already turned over some 20,000 documents voluntarily, so it’s not clear why the subpoena was issued. A subpoena ratchets up the stakes for noncompliance.

The Journal reported that the Trump campaign had been caught by surprise by the subpoena.

I don't know about all of you, but I get a kind of thrill when I read that something Robert Mueller did caught the Trump White House of campaign "by surprise."

That just means that Mueller is keeping them off balance and on the defensive, and THAT is when people make mistakes.

As for why Mueller decided to issue these subpoenas, well that might have a little something to do with the fact that they discovered that Jared Kushner was holding out on them.

In other Trump/Russia collusion news it appears that the Trump Organization may have been using at least one of its hotels in Panama to launder Russian and mafia money.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

A Panama City condo high-rise development that carried the Trump Organization’s marketing imprimatur in the late 2000s was “riddled” with drug traffickers and international mafia figures, beset with dubious sales, and became, as one financial-crimes investigator called it, a “a vehicle for money laundering.” A joint NBC News and Reuters investigation, along with a report issued by anti-corruption watchdog Global Watch, says transactions at the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower served as a laundering operation for Colombian cartel proceeds and Russian human traffickers, and Trump Organization officials did little if anything to question where the money was coming from. One key broker, Alexandre Henrique Ventura Nogueira—now a fugitive in Europe—told interviewers that President Trump and his adult children were directly involved in the marketing, management, and even the design of the skyscraper, which opened in 2011. Ventura Nogueira said he had at least 10 direct meetings with Ivanka Trump about the sales. Ivanka Trump didn’t respond to requests for comment. The White House referred questions to the Trump Organization, who legal counsel denied involvement in sales: “No one at the Trump Organization, including the Trump family, has any recollection of ever meeting or speaking with this individual.”

Of course they don't. Right up until the Mueller team discovers an email or document which proves they actually did speak or meet up with this individual. 

Tick tock.

23 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:06 AM

    A subpoena is not as good as an indictment but the family and I will drink another White Russian to Mueller.

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  2. Anonymous11:10 AM

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-panama-specialreport/special-report-ivanka-trump-and-the-fugitive-from-panama-idUSKBN1DH1DT

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  3. Anonymous11:11 AM

    https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-10-03/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-used-third-private-email-account-report

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  4. Anonymous11:38 AM

    Trump family sounds like a bunch of bumbling idiots that are way out of their league.

    All the world leaders know they just have to tell trump he is awesome and they get whatever they want. I'm sure it is the same with criminals.

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  5. Anonymous11:46 AM

    Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM),

    YOU'RE FIRED!!!

    Nobody disobeys:
    COMMANDER -IN-CHIEF DONALD J. TRUMP

    CBS NEWS
    Top general says he would resist "illegal" nuke order from Trump

    The top U.S. nuclear commander said Saturday he would push back against President Trump if he ordered a nuclear launch the general believed to be "illegal," saying he would hope to find another solution....

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-strategic-command-gen-john-hyten-resist-illegal-nuke-order-from-trump/

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  6. Anonymous11:48 AM

    Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Ru$$ia isis watching Xxx--->>>

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    1. Anonymous1:20 PM

      And your point is?

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  7. Anonymous11:50 AM

    getting tasty. i hope it finishes soon. i'm getting sick of rat and skunk.

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  8. Anonymous12:00 PM

    Richard Engle had a nice hour long report on this in lieu of Rachel's show last night. Highly recommended.

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  9. Anonymous12:16 PM

    “No one at the Trump Organization, including the Trump family, has any recollection of ever meeting or speaking with this individual.”
    Richard Engel's report shows Ivanka with Alexandre Henrique Ventura Nogueira and shows Donald Trump also with him at the opening.
    Trump Family, the pictures were on TV .... We saw it all.

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    1. Anonymous1:57 PM

      Oops,too bad Donald has never met a camera he didn't like.

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    2. Anonymous2:50 PM

      @1:57 HE FIXates on the RED 'HOT' CAM DOT.

      Delete
  10. Anonymous12:30 PM

    I wouldn't be surprised if they already destroyed many documents.

    More obstruction of justice.

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  11. Anonymous1:08 PM

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-investigative-journalist-snowden-sort-ghost-170357193.html

    "“Nobody can talk to him, nobody has seen him,”"

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  12. Anonymous1:55 PM

    Poor Donald trump, his ego,vanity and need for revenge got the best of him.
    If he hadn't become president, his criminal business called the trump organization would have stayed under the radar.
    Now he is being slowly exposed for what he really is a crass, low life criminal.
    Let's see what kind of a deal maker he really is when they start negotiating jail time

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  13. Anonymous2:03 PM

    As long as there is a dime in it for Trump he won't say no. Including selling out his own country.

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  14. Anonymous2:11 PM

    The Trump family must have known that they were courting bad people. Maybe that's the way they devised to get out of bankruptcy. You know like bootlegging. As long as it is in different countries that are corrupt no one knows the better. And now that he's president he'll owe some favors. Including to Russia who has been there for him when no bank in America would touch him. Sigh. We have Tony Montana as president.

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  15. Anonymous2:28 PM

    https://thinkprogress.org/ivankas-real-estate-deals-corruption-33f65f778d0f/

    "American kleptocrats
    The Trumps have distanced themselves from the projects once shepherded by Ivanka in both Panama and Azerbaijan – but not before both projects attracted allegations of massive money laundering, and not after the president and his daughter decided to ignore some of the clearest signs of grand corruption that exi$'T'."

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  16. Anonymous3:46 PM

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ivanka-trump-promotes-weird-looking-thanksgiving-dinner-centerpiece/

    I say ~IT'$ 'BUGGED'

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    1. Anonymous7:45 PM

      I like the suggestion about the stainless steel tray and utensils to prepare them for prison!

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    2. Anonymous8:07 PM

      Why does she keep proving money can't buy taste.

      The plates run $120 each,just the right price point for those angry,unemployed trump supporters!
      I sure hope the white house staff does allow the trump family to decorate "the dump"for Christmas.

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  17. Anonymous7:27 PM

    I am kind of surprised that the hackers haven't posted financial$ on ol Donny Brook. Pics & all?!
    That would really make him cranky

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    1. Anonymous8:08 PM

      Because the hackers are working for trump.

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