Courtesy of Mother Jones:
A German business magazine is reporting that Deutsche Bank, the German financial giant which is a major lender to both President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, identified “suspicious transactions” related to Kushner family accounts, and has reported them to German banking regulators. The bank is reportedly willing to provide the information to special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s team of investigators.
Manager Magazin, a respected German business magazine, reported in its latest print edition, which hit German newsstands on Friday, that Paul Achleitner, chairman of Deutsche Bank’s board, had the bank conduct an internal investigation and the results were troubling. Those results have been turned over to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority—Germany’s bank regulatory agency, which is commonly known as BaFin.
“Achleitner’s internal detectives were embarrassed to deliver their interim report regarding real estate tycoon [Jared] Kushner to the financial regulator BaFin,” the Manager Magazin article, translated from German, reports. “Their finding: There are indications that Donald Trump’s son-in-law or persons or companies close to him could have channeled suspicious monies through Deutsche Bank as part of their business dealings.”
The magazine did not provide additional details about the “suspicious monies”, but Manager Magazin reports that Deutsche Bank’s leadership is worried about the public relations hit the bank might take when—not if—the results of the investigation are turned over to Mueller. “But what BaFin will do about [the bank’s findings] is not the bank’s greatest concern,” the article states. “Rather, it’s the noise that US special counsel Robert Mueller (73) will make in his pursuit of Trump. For he will likely obtain this information—a giant risk to [the bank’s] reputation.”
You know perhaps Donald Trump does not fully appreciate what is happening, but international banks are well aware that when a Special Counsel turns their attention your way it is time to throw up your hands and just give them every single thing they are asking for, even if you know it ain't going to make you look too good.
And keep in mind that if Deutsche Bank is dropping a dime on Kushner, they have already shared all of Trump's financial records with Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors.
Tick Tock.
Is Deutsche Bank where the Kushners owe millions or billions?
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why Ivanka did not stand in for Donald when he had to miss his anniversary celebration. The family really screwed their donors. They did not even try to make it up to all those rich Trump supporters. Ivanka had to pose in that White House photo with Trump to show he was not working on the shutdown?
Mar-a-Lago guests paying $100k or more per couple to attend Trump’s inauguration anniversary political fundraising fala—which Eric & Don Jr attended in President Trump’s stead due to the shutdown—are apparent “traumatized” by scooping caviar with plastic spoons.
https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/955116544601837569
C'mon, it's not that hard to figure out.
DeleteWhy is his preeminent posse wearing black to celebrate? Hmmmm
Deletehttps://twitter.com/daisandconfused/status/954865006620880898
The end is near.
DeleteCome on, he has to keep his costs down.
DeleteWhy anyone would participate w/that Trump Klan in New York is beyond me! They all make my skin crawl. Donald will not be reelected.
ReplyDeleteMoney does talk, but I think his influence w/it (as well as his family members) is running out....at least on a national level! Just want him to go play in his mansion in Florida w/whomever and leave the rest of us alone.
Same reason that Hollywood is gettin' all gussied up for the SAG awards tonight? The beautiful people - just ask 'em.
DeleteOT?"“The problem with President Trump is that he continues to make statements in his tweets that are not reflective of the position that the government is going to take in litigation,” Eggleston said. “It’s only relevant if there’s a disparity between the litigation position and what the president has said, and most presidencies are disciplined enough that they don’t have disparities.”"
ReplyDelete"“There's an emerging consensus that where the President's words might go to the President's intent, they're fair game in cases in which the challenge alleges some impermissible intent on the part of the President,”
"“The courts are going to be very cautious in how they handle what the president says, specifically the extent to which he is simply riffing or engaging in political commentary as opposed to actually disclosing official government information and acknowledging actual government activities,”"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/one-sure-thing-about-trumps-first-year-his-tweets-have-been?utm_term=.rympr1lGj#.oykW5oaQl
Doing a great job there Bud, keep it coming.
ReplyDeleteI especially liked the last sentence.
Pence is Run amuck on his Embassy mission to Israel. He is visiting military bases, giving pro war/die for your leader speech.
NEWS:The Belfast Barb just published on a USA JRS Embassy Annex as early as April.
They have a game plan that is failing, but as fascists, they think they can maintain control.
And Kudo's on your large following, I saw one day the Russian Government was here reading the mail.
You matter.
With Trump In Charge, Young Americans Are Turning To Democratic Socialism As The Only Alternative
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump’s dark presidency may turn out to be the best thing that has happened to Socialism since Eugene Debs at the height of the socialist movement in American politics. Anyone puzzled by my sense of optimism should look to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a grassroots organization whose membership has jumped from about 5,000 a year ago to around 31,000 today.
The foundation for this resurgence has been the young people who grew up in the era of untrammeled capitalism. For decades, they’ve seen that the Democratic center is not capable of dealing with the concentration of economic power and the rapid rise of rightwing xenophobia that is sweeping the western world. Put simply, young voters are turning to democratic socialism as a means of resistance against Trumpism, as well as the prevailing political settlement that enabled his election victory.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump_uk_5a594287e4b01ccdd48b5c46
Stormy Daniels, Trumps piece on the side reports sex with Don John was textbook. Crazy to imagine Don John read a pop up book on sex and never expanded. The Kama Surtra has too many pages like his other favorite unread book, the bible.
ReplyDeleteThe truth about the new ‘top secret’ memo Republicans can’t stop talking about
ReplyDeleteYes, please, release the memo.
https://thinkprogress.org/republicans-hype-fisa-memo-nunes-jordan-gaetz-trump-russia-3b9c044b5508/
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-administration-waives-punishment-convicted-banks-including-deutsche-which
ReplyDeleteThis sounds and smells fishy.
"They think it is a good thing that millions of people will be harmed starting on Monday."“My father has incredible momentum. He has gotten more done in one year than arguably any president in history. How do they divert from that message? How do they save their own party when they don’t have any leadership. They don’t have any good candidates out there. They don’t have a message of their own. How do they do that? They obstruct. They distract, and they try and place blame. It’s the worst of government, and honestly, I think it’s a good thing for us.”
ReplyDelete"Eric’s Trump’s comments blew to pieces the Republican cover story that Democrats made this shutdown happen. Democrats negotiated in good faith. They tried to prevent this shutdown. It has always been Trump who has blown up two deals and insisted on shutting the government down."
"The Trumps only care about and see self-benefit."
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/21/colossal-blunder-eric-trump-wrecks-gop-cover-story-blaming-democrats-shutdown.html
Sporting his fresh #AltRight haircut, #EricTrump , who is of course separated from #USgovernmentshutdown because #ConflictofInterest #TrumpBusiness - thinks #TrumpsShutdown is a good thing for the #TrumpCrimeFamily politically. @votevets #CadetBoneSpurs
Deletehttps://twitter.com/Hillaryh4444Hos/status/955110021297311745
Trump's #Maralago bash. True friends and a cardboard cutout. Where was Ivanka?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUFAnkZWkAE_daH.jpg
Protests at Trump's #Maralago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUE7qM1W4AAgw-D.jpg
January 20: Multiple people close to the White House told me this morning that Trump is absolutely furious he hasn’t been able to leave for Mar-a-Lago yet. Now they are trying to figure out a way for him to get to Florida without much backlash. I don’t think that route exists. #TrumpShutdown https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUFAnkZWkAE_daH.jpg #TrumpShutdown2018
Deutsche Bank has been in hot water before with the U.S. Feds. They’re not going to risk it again. Not even from President Shithole’s son in law. Probably especiallly not for Kushner. The Germans don’t suffer fools and Trump is not only a fool but a Nazi sympathizer and racist. That doesn’t sit well with them at all. Germany doesn’t “need” the U.S. for anything. They’ll simply wait it out until a rational adult is once again in the White House. Meanwhile, Merkel, Macron and Trudeau have become the leaders of the Free World.
ReplyDeletewell said.
Delete"Wolff was practicing sycophancy journalism under the guise of access journalism. "
ReplyDelete"While he was publicly lambasting reporters actually writing history’s first draft of the Trump presidency, he was leveraging their work to advance his own."
"What is so fascinating and comical about this is that just as Wolff was oozing his way into the Trump inner circle, Trump was deepening his relationship with press kingpin Rupert Murdoch, the ultimate owner of Fox News. Murdoch had always seen Trump as basically a clown. But that changed when he got power – at least how he treated Trump changed and dramatically."
'Much was made of Wolff’s alliance with Murdoch, that it would lead to complicity and sycophancy, but Wolff remains true to his nature, which is joyously nasty. It is a baked-in reflex of a kind that Trollope described: “His satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.”
Wolff takes no specific offense at Murdoch’s willingness to use his media properties to cold business ends, but depicts him as a cranky, monomaniacal newspaper hack, a con man with bad hearing, no interest in new media paradigms and no real friends to speak of. It is also pointed out that he is “a good family man — even if he has three of them.” Like the man he writes about, Wolff is a gossip who is very skilled at extracting information and sensing weakness.'
"the added bonus that Trump was talking to Murdoch regularly while Wolff had the run of the White House and was laying the ground work to shiv him as he had his new friend Rupert." It’s chaotic settings with corrupt individuals who always attract spies and grifters looking for an angle and a mark: the desperate and the greedy, the corrupt and the stupid. Similarly, they look for chaos and disorganization. Any reasonably competent press organization would have been aware of the fact that Wolff had managed almost unprecedented and unimaginable access to the West Wing of the White House, essentially unfettered."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-wolff-and-the-secret-of-the-russia-story
According to data being collected by researchers the total number of participants in the 2018 women’s march range from 1.5 million to 2.3 million Americans across the US.
ReplyDeleteAccording to data being collected by Jeremy Pressman (U of Connecticut) and Erica Chenoweth (U of Denver), the crowds were massive for the 2018 women’s march. An estimated 1.5 million-2.3 million+ people participated.
This data should be terrifying for Trump and the Republican Party because the 2018 march was focused on mobilizing people for 2018 midterm elections.
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/21/2-3-million-people-participate-in-the-2018-womens-march.html
“I mean, this is a first in American history,” the exasperated ex-prosecutor exclaimed. “I can’t think of any other circumstance in our republic where we’ve had a president who’s basically taken a back seat and is out to lunch all the time. You can’t trust him one day to the next as to what he’s for, what he’s against.”
ReplyDelete“He started this whole problem by basically eliminating the DACA that President Obama put in place,” Akerman stated. “Yeah, he’s the one that started this. He could have had this whole problem solved months ago; we never had to get to this spot. It’s only because we have an incompetent in the White House, a lack of leadership from the White House. I don’t care who the staff people are, you can blame all the staff people you want. But as Harry Truman said, ‘the buck stops’ with the president.”
Watch the video below via MSNBC:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/ex-federal-prosecutor-shutdown-gridlock-is-thanks-to-a-president-who-is-out-to-lunch-all-the-time/
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/954212586056118272/video/1
ReplyDeleteLove that man, O.
DeleteDon't light a match near Ivanka.
ReplyDeleteShe'll melt.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/761241/Ivanka-Trump-plastic-surgery
DeleteFrom those pics, I'd say she's had:
Delete- Nose job
- Cheek implants
- Chin implant
- new set of teeth
Democrats Asked 16 Times In 24 Hours To End The Trump Shutdown And Republicans Said No
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/21/democrats-asked-10-times-end-trump-shutdown-republicans-keep-saying-no.html
Comic genius! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6dfzqw#tab_embed
ReplyDeleteThe government is shut down. Congress is in chaos. We have a “very stable genius” who is also a bigot in the White House. But the porn industry is booming. Pathetic. https://twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/955147274413400065
ReplyDeleteWomen's March Whitehorse, Yukon 2018 #womensMarch2018
https://twitter.com/BBerezan/status/954866543216570371
How the Trumps Struck Klondike Gold
Long before 'the Donald,' his stampeder grandpa's seedy restaurant gave birth to a glittering dynasty
https://uphere.ca/articles/how-trumps-struck-klondike-gold
Bar and Thrill
DeleteLiquor in the front~poker in the rear