See what happens when you go out of country for your cash infusion, Donnie?
Deutsche Bank could share its “rich trove” of documents related to Donald Trump with investigators looking to probe the president’s financial dealings.
According to a report from The New York Times, the “reams” of records in possession of the German lender include internal corporate documents, parts of Trump’s personal and business tax returns and a detailed breakdown of his assets’ value.
On April 15, the bank was issued a subpoena by two House committees, both controlled by the Democrats, to hand over information on Trump’s finances. Investigators demanded that the bank hand over documents related to Trump’s companies, such as “parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, divisions, partnerships, properties, groups, special purpose entities, joint ventures, predecessors, successors or any other entity in which they have or had a controlling interest.”
Capital One was also issued a subpoena by the two committees, prompting Trump, three of his children and seven of his companies to file a federal lawsuit against both banks.
The lawsuit, which was filed late on Monday in New York, claims the committees’ demands for records have no lawful purpose and were simply designed to harass the president.
Well, he can TRY to sue them, but ultimately, their pockets are deeper than his. And the fact that he’s not a real billionaire should prove ultimately embarrassing…not to mention bad for any future deals he may try to strike when he’s a disgraced (and possibly indicted) ex-president. And that’s the actual, lawful purpose of the demands for his records. The fact that he’s been dicking people for dollars since at least the 1980s is the real issue here. And it may, in fact, prove impeachable…particularly if Donnie is found in violation of the emoluments clause, for example. (The fact that he’s still been trying to wheel and deal while in office isn’t exactly a deep, dark secret.)
I mean hey…you wanted to find “efficiencies” so that things could be cut, right?
You big, fat SNOWFLAKE, Dougie. Can’t take the heat? Get out of the fucking kitchen. Nobody wants you there anyway. A majority of Ontarians didn’t elect you to shit all over the people while claiming to be “for the people”.
And you silly snowflakes in the media, too. Do you overpaid idiots even understand the concept of actual free speech? Because that’s what you’re all clutching your pearls over. You’ve been letting actual fucking Nazis get away with literal murder for years, only reporting it when there’s been a homicide but glossing over the fascism at the root of it all. But let a bunch of leftists protest cruel cutbacks in kind, and all hell breaks loose? Fuck RIGHT off.
Well, guess what, kiddies? It’s all over but the shouting…and in less time than the big one of ’02 took. And that’s no wonder, because unlike the coup of ’02, this one didn’t succeed in abducting a legitimately elected president from behind his duly constituted desk. For all the talk of military officers being “turned” (no doubt by offers of big dinero from Gringolandia), the loyal Bolivarian forces (and civilians in the street) far outnumbered the traitors and putschists. And that’s why, in just one day, this coup was quashed.
Mark my words: In the days and weeks to come, you’ll be hearing about how the high command is being purged of every one of those traitors, and you’ll be seeing court-martials and imprisonments of dozens of disgraced ex-officers — which will not be the acts of a dictator, but of a democratic leader who takes the rule of law seriously, as Chavecito did before him. Back then, the coup of ’02 served one very useful purpose in Venezuela: It exposed who in the high command was to be trusted, and who was not.
Okay, maybe two: It also showed the mainstream media of many countries in their true, farcical colors. Here’s a bit of hilarity where Voof Bleetzah — sorry, WOLF Blitzer’s mask slips:
When even a CIA suck-up like the Old U-Boat Captain isn’t buying your lies, you know you’re a lousy liar. Mike Fucking Pompeo is out of his depth here. His predecessors were every bit as evil and slimy as he is, but they were also better at fooling the public.
And now there’s talk of a possible US invasion? Hahahahahaha. Newsflash: This WAS the invasion. The US has shot its wad. If they actually send the troops to Venezuela, they’ll get another Iraq quagmire. Nothing could be worse for Donnie’s already flagging image. So, at “best” (from their viewpoint), they might go with Erik Prince and his Blackwater mercs; the evil little fashy haircut is just salivating for that. (He, too, is reckoning without the Venezuelan people, who can smell a mercenary faster than a heap of rotting, hoarded food — which, you may recall, is one of the things that touched off the Caracazo.)
And finally, as usual, a bunch of self-styled “jagoff comedians” — Jimmmy Dore, Lee Camp, et al — come the closest to the actual truth of what’s going on down there:
Yeah, some “dictator” — not arresting or killing the traitor who dared to grab a megaphone and preach to a “crowd” of trained seals in the rich-folks part of Caracas! And not having the firing squads out in the streets to intercept Pretty Boy Leo either as he fled to the Spanish embassy, ha ha. If Madurito’s a dictator, then hi…I am the actual Queen of Sheba.
And, credit where due: Tucker Fucking Carlson, of all people, actually got something right for a change. A real stopped-clock moment for Bowtie Boy. How about THAT? (Okay, credit where it’s REALLY due: It was his guest who did it — Anya Parampil, a real journalist, called out the actual fake news while Tucky sat there with his jaw off its hinges.)
Jimmy does get one small detail wrong: Donnie may have talked a big game about the “deep state” and ending foreign interventions, but the truth is, like everything else he ever said, that was a lie. Keep in mind that Donnie is a compulsive, chronic, pathological liar, and everything will actually make sense. His political promises are as empty as every one of his marriage vows ever was.
“We enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan, and truth is not determined by opinion polls,” Rosenstein wrote. “We ignore fleeting distractions and focus our attention on the things that matter, because a republic that endures is not governed by the news cycle.”
Oooooooo, was that a dig at Donnie and his famous FUX Snooze addiction? Because Cheetolini is well known for tweeting in panics after FUX has come out with its fauxtrage du jour.
Earlier this month Rosenstein defended his handling of the Russia investigation and recalled during his Senate confirmation hearing that he had promised to “do it right” and “take it to the appropriate conclusion.”
“It’s not our job to render conclusive factual findings. We just decide whether it is appropriate to file criminal charges,” Rosenstein said at an event in New York.
And how convenient that he decided NOT to file criminal charges against Donnie. Leaving it to the New York state Attorney General, who, as luck would have it, is NOT beholden to Donnie, instead. The man’s a mouse, and this resignation was his last act of wussery.
Because you just KNOW Donnie demanded it of him…for not covering up Donnie’s crimes enough.
My only quibble with this coverage of an under-reported story is the characterization of Juan Guaidó as a “parallel president” of Venezuela. He is not the president of anything; the people did not elect him. He is a puppet hand-picked by imperialist thugs in Washington and Miami, full stop.
And I laughed out loud when I heard that Elliot Fucking Abrams called these good people “lawbreakers”. Does anyone need a refresher course on what he did to Central America in the 1980s? Where I come from, we call people like him WAR CRIMINALS.
A Washington state Republican politician took part in private discussions with rightwing figures about carrying out surveillance, “psyops” and even violent attacks on perceived political enemies, according to chat records obtained by the Guardian.
State representative Matt Shea, who represents Spokane Valley in the Washington state house, participated in the chats with three other men. All of the men used screen aliases – Shea’s was “Verum Bellator”, Latin for true warrior. The Guardian confirmed the identity of those in the chat by cross-checking phone numbers attached to the Signal accounts.
The group included Jack Robertson, who broadcasts a far-right radio show, Radio Free Redoubt, under the alias “John Jacob Schmidt”. The chat also included Anthony Bosworth, whose history includes a public altercation with his own daughter and bringing guns to a court house. Bosworth participated in the 2016 occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge, reportedly at Shea’s request.
Yeah, they sure sound like a fine bunch of fucking scumbags. Shea’s so stupid, he can’t even get his Latin right…verum is a neuter adjective that doesn’t agree with the masculine noun bellator. He’s neither a warrior nor a true anything, unless perhaps it’s a piece of shit (verum stercore).
And if you think he’s innocent and only doing this in response to threats against his family (as he claimed), you’re wrong. When Bosworth suggests finding out where “they” work and where “their” kids go to daycare, Shea’s response was “Ok. What BG checks need to be done. Give me the list.”
In other words, SHEA IS OFFERING TO DOX ANTIFASCISTS.
Luckily, the anticipated rebellion never happened, but morons gonna moron. And the higher this monkey Shea climbs, the more he shows his ass:
Shea, a six-term legislator and military veteran, came to international attention in 2018 after a document he authored surfaced laying out a “biblical basis for war”, which appeared to be a plan for an apocalyptic battle with people who practiced “same sex marriage” and “abortion”, and instructed: “If they do not yield, kill all males.”
Shea denied that the document meant what it appeared to say.
At that time, Shea lost donors, and he was stripped of his role as chair of the Republican caucus – though he was serving in this position at the time of the leaked chat.
But Shea has since regrouped, introducing bills to criminalize abortion and roll back gun laws, which other Republicans in Washington have supported. He has also continued pushing a plan for eastern Washington to secede and reconstitute as Liberty State. Robertson has also been a key architect of this campaign, and he and Shea have been regular guests on each other’s broadcasts.
Shea has long promoted conspiratorial views about the cooperation of leftists and Muslims in creating “counter-states” in the US. He has associated with conspiracy-minded far-right groups, and later this month will emcee a dinner for the anti-communist John Birch society in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho.
In addition, the John Birchers are just one step (and one swastika) removed from the actual, unvarnished fascists they have a funny way of bringing out of the woodwork wherever they go. Stands to reason; they are overtly anti-democratic, and have vocally supported every fascist movement extant in Europe, including the murderous Spanish dictatorship of Franco. They’ve also been having a resurgence in recent years, no doubt due to the rise of the “alt”-right.
So I’m not surprised that a man who tacitly endorses stringing up Antifa women “by their nipple rings”, as one of his perverted pals suggested (no doubt typing one-handed), and who offered to help those perverts find the addresses of presumed enemies, would go to such a place, and speak to such a crowd. On the contrary, I expect no better from him.
The question is, WHEN WILL HE BE ARRESTED FOR AIDING AND ABETTING TERRORISM? Because that’s what all this doxxing and threatening of violence is. And because that’s what boogying with neofascists of ANY stripe is, too.
Look at that new, Hitleresque moustache on him, too:
And that shit-eating grin, too. Would sure be a shame if anyone actually threw a sack of shit at him and the two sacks of shit became one, eh?
(Yeah, the headline and photo are a bit deceptive because that’s Donnie in there, not his lackey. But you get the idea.)
Anyhow, nice to see that nobody’s hailing Juan Guai-WHO? as the president of Venezuela anymore. Because, you know, he’s not the president of anything except, maybe, Epic Fails.
And with any luck, this latest kill-Cuba gambit will go the way of the exploding cigar that blew up in the CIA’s face instead of Castro, too.
Oh lord. Did he ever remove that shiny thing from his rear, to begin with?
Yeah, I’m gonna go with nope.
I’m also going to gently remind you that Bernie Fucking Kerik carried on with not one, but TWO women in the apartment near Ground Zero that had been set aside for first responders searching for survivors (and later, dead bodies) in the wreckage of the World Trade Centre after 9-11. So yeah, he’s the perfect one to accuse duly elected Muslim women of terrorist ties that they don’t have.
I mean, just LOOK at the exemplary conduct of this paragon of virtue:
Dramatically, each woman learned of the existence of the other after Pinero discovered a love note left by Regan in the apartment.
[…]
Kerik said that questions about the immigration status of his family’s former nanny and failure to pay taxes prompted his decision to walk away from the job. But speculation has continued that there were deeper and more controversial reasons.
Yesterday, The News reported that a six-month investigation showed Kerik had accepted thousands of dollars in cash and gifts without proper disclosure, and had ties to a construction company that investigators believe is linked to the mob.
Yeah, nothing screams PATRIOTISM!!! like a two-time two-timer two-timing in an apartment that was set aside for firefighters and paramedics to sleep in between shifts of scouring the rubble of a terror attack.
Unless, maybe, it’s hiring undocumented nannies (so you can grossly underpay them, of course, and then turn them in to La Migra if they complain).
Or committing tax fraud.
Or having ties to the Mafia.
OR taking what smells an awful lot like bribes.
And yet, there he is, dear ol’ Dubya’s golden boy, making a touching effort to pronounce the names of groups that Ilhan Omar is no part of and has nothing to do with, in some semblance of Arabic style.
Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next.
--Arthur Miller, "Why I Wrote 'The Crucible'", The New Yorker, October 21, 1996
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