Rosenstein will not appoint a special prosecutor, surprise, surprise.
Hard to disagree with any of this article. Not only did Trump humiliate Rosenstein but Rosenstein allowed it to happen with his supine acceptance of Trump’s attempt to obstruct the course of justice. He looks hopelessly compromised now.
The joke last week was that the Russians put bugging equipment all over the Oval office.
Turns out they didn’t even have to do that, Trump just told them classified information.
These thickos have an old tweet for every occasion.
McMaster has issued a denial about stuff that the Washington Post hasn’t reported.
The story has been verified by Reuters and the New York Times.
Buzzfeed is saying it’s “far worse” than the Washington Post is reporting.
I bet they were tuned to Fox News.
Vladimir Putin and his sidekick Vladislav Surkov are Machiavellian geniuses.
They really have turned the US into the laughing stock of the world.
I doubt in their wildest dreams they could ever have imagined their plan being as successful as this.
I’d say the Saudis are seething at being outed like this.
This is what happens when you vote in an ego-maniac.
A Republican congressman in New Jersey tried to get a woman who had protested against him sacked from her job.
And he effectively succeeded.
“Small government” apparently includes using your government influence to contact employers to get employees who campaign against you sacked.
Some “small government”.
Surely anyone who runs for public office is an egomaniac?
She lost but what the hell .
President Fruit Loop has just confirmed the Washington Post story’s legitimacy via Twitter.
He’s made McMaster look like a prize idiot now, just like Rosenstein, Conway, Spicer, Huckabee Sanders et al were made to look last week.
This is priceless stuff.
Reuters reports that major US multinationals are pushing the Trump administration to deepen the tax break it has already tentatively proposed on the USD 2.6 trillion in corporate profits held offshore. The newswire reports that lobbyists for technology, drug and other manufacturers are working with officials behind closed doors. The lobbyists said they are telling the White House and Treasury Department that if companies are forced to repatriate foreign earnings, they want a sharply reduced tax rate.
Dutch TV investigation into Trump’s ties to money laundering, the Russian mafia and other mobsters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdZ-RbL7pmw
TRUMP BUSINESS PARTNER ACCUSED OF INVOLVEMENT IN DUTCH-BASED MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME
DINSDAG 2 MEI 2017
Dutch letter box companies implicated in million-dollar fraud
The American real estate development company Bayrock, through which Donald Trump constructed hotels and apartment complexes, used Dutch letter box companies in a network suspected of being involved in money laundering. A ZEMBLA investigation suggests that Bayrock siphoned off $1.5 million dollars by setting up a corporate structure in the Netherlands in 2007. In New York, Bayrock also stands accused of large-scale tax fraud. This incriminating information could place Donald Trump in an extremely difficult position, claims attorney F. Oberlander, who is prosecuting Bayrock on behalf of the State of New York: “The maximum jail term would be 30 years. So you’re in really serious trouble.”
In 2005, Donald Trump became 18% owner of an hotel-condominium known as Trump SoHo. Bayrock, the other owner, is accused of perpetrating fraud on a grand scale through, among other things, Trump SoHo. According to US law, this means that Trump is jointly liable for Bayrock’s criminal activities. Oberlander concludes:
“Anybody running a business through a pattern of crime is guilty of racketeering. Anybody knowing what they’re doing and are helping is guilty of racketeering conspiracy. They go to jail.”
All Bayrock wants is to make clear to ZEMBLA that the Dutch corporate construction was established on the advice of an external legal counsel. ZEMBLA discovers that the firm in question is Bracewell & Giuliani. Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and part owner of the law firm at the time, is also a Trump confidante. ZEMBLA has access to correspondence between the law firm and the Dutch director of a trust company in Amsterdam, which leaves no doubt as to the ultimate beneficiary owners of the Dutch business construction: the director of Bayrock and the Khrapunov family from Kazakhstan.
Viktor Khrapunov is a fugitive ex-mayor and governor from Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan government accuses Khrapunov of embezzling hundreds of millions of state assets. In 2007, Bayrock and the Khrapunov family founded the Dutch joint venture KazBay B.V. ZEMBLA has copies of the act of incorporation, bank statements and internal communications showing how the suspected money laundering scheme was set up. “It was designed to get millions of dollars out of New York into Europe. Through KazBay. KazBay was just a conduit”, asserts attorney Oberlander.
The Dutch director of KazBay B.V. tells ZEMBLA that he has no knowledge of his clients’ dubious backgrounds. In 2007, the year that the Dutch letter box companies were established, Viktor Khrapunov’s alleged criminal dealings become public knowledge. Around the same time, it also becomes clear that Felix Sater, one of the Bayrock owners, has concealed his criminal past and mafia connections.
For years, the Dutch Central Bank has been concerned that Dutch trust companies are failing to comply with legislation. Over half of the companies investigated by the Dutch Central Bank are in breach of the regulations, such as subjecting their clients to rigorous screening. Investigations performed by the supervisory body reveal that hundreds of politicians from Russia and Kazakhstan make use of Dutch trust companies. Frank Elderson, director of the Dutch Central Bank: “There are no legal stipulations forcing you to do business with a former political hot-shot from Russia or any other high risk nation.”
Six months ago, the Financial Times reported that, in 2013, the Khrapunov family had bought three apartments in Trump SoHo to the tune of 3.1 million dollars. A sale from which Trump benefitted as joint owner. The White House, the Trump Organization and Viktor Khrapunov decline to answer ZEMBLA’s questions. In the episode ‘The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump: Part 1 – the Russians’, ZEMBLA explores the possible implications of these shady business dealings for the United States’ 45th president.
Conway, Spicer and Huckabee Sanders were obviously pathetic, supine shills with no credibility as it was.
But McMaster and Rosenstein were thought to be experienced, independent-minded professionals in their respective fields who would at least attempt to stand up to Trump and mitigate his megalomaniac tendencies.
Trump has now chewed them up and spat them out almost as quickly as he appointed them.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/864452996129853444
Oh right. He said the word “intelligence”. Which, given that he doesn’t have any, means this tweet doesn’t apply to him.
