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#951 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
Trump tweets that Comey should be careful, and indicates he's been "taped" at the WH.
Spicer is then asked three times if they are indeed recording people without their knowledge and will not answer.
I'm starting to think Trump is just bonkers now. Nobody in their right mind would say these things.
#952 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
The interview with Lester Holt seems like nails in the coffin.
He contradicts himself, then Pence and finally sets himself up for an obstruction of justice charge.
#953 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
I find it very possible Trump didn't personally collude with Russia, but his campaign did in some capacity. Right now he's making moves that could easily fall into a cover up. Hillary had a horrible habit of making really little problems into really big issues. This reminds me of that.
Yes, that's what I don't understand. Reports are saying that Trump is shocked that there is this fall out with the Comey firing. As I stated earlier, how stupid can he be? He's got all this heat on him. All he has to do is provide documents they are requesting (which he is refusing) and co-operate with investigators. Instead he's acting like a horse's ass at best and guilty at worst.
Today Trump and Pence have completely different stories about the Comey firing. They can't even keep their lie straight. What a mess.
#954 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
Screaming for Comey to get the boot and then crying foul cause Trump gave it to him is even more retarded.
It's only "retarded" if you take your talking points from the right wing media. Otherwise they are two entirely different things.
#955 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
It's starting...
FBI searching Annapolis GOP fundraising firm
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
The FBI confirms agents are executing a search warrant at an office of a GOP fundraiser/consulting firm in Annapolis, the 11 News I-Team has learned.
The investigation is being run out of Washington, not locally, the I-Team has learned.
The FBI used trash bags to cover a window at the offices of Strategic Campaign Group at 191 Main St.
The firm is touted for pioneering the use of technology in political campaigns, and it represents GOP candidates nationwide.
http://www.wbaltv.com/article/fbi-searc … rm/9639787
#956 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
So Hoe Scarborough and Mika Brizenski are getting married. Fucking weird and kind of gross. But I would fuck her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=303&v=mZXNqic_Zi8
#957 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
So Trump has lawyered up and is going to send an "official letter" stating that he has no Russian ties. What the hell? An official letter? OK.
Either way, at the end of the day, Trump just hired a powerful law firm to represent him.
Also the letter he wrote to Comey contained a big whopper: That Comey assured him he was not under investigation three times. That was proven false today.
The Senate committee has now issued a subpoena for Michael Flynn.
WH staff and members of the IC now leaking that Trump's pretense for dismissing Comey was also false.
I expect more leaks coming up now after this mess. Will they be big enough for the GOP to abandon Trump? I'm guessing it might happen. The IC appears to be irate. This is war.
Get your popcorn ready...
#958 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
Russia probe: Senate requests Trump documents from agency that monitors money laundering
The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested information about President Donald Trump and his top aides from a financial intelligence unit in the Treasury Department.
The Senate panel has requested information about President Donald Trump and his top aides from a financial intelligence unit in the Treasury Department that imposed a $10 million civil penalty on Trump Taj Mahal in 2015 for multiple violations of money-laundering laws.
The Senate Intelligence Committee wants to see any information relevant to its Russia investigation the Treasury agency has gathered, including evidence that might include possible money laundering, according to a committee aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. Also at issue: to what extent, if at all, people close to Vladimir Putin have invested in Trump's real estate empire.
The request, made in recent weeks, comes as part of the Senate's investigation into whether Trump associates colluded with Russian meddling in the U.S. election. The FBI is also investigating that issue, but that probe is now under a cloud after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
White House spokesman Michael Short said the president is confident the investigation will exonerate his campaign.
"There's a process, and that process is moving forward, and we're confident that once it's complete everyone will again see that there is no `there,' there when it comes to alleged collusion."
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has assisted in the ongoing FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump administration ties with Russia, multiple U.S. officials have said. A former senior Treasury official said that agency would have the authority to demand from any bank with a U.S. branch, including foreign banks, relevant records of transactions by Trump, his family members or his associates. FinCEN also maintains databases of reports of suspicious and cash transactions.
Trump's ownership in the Taj Mahal was sharply reduced in 2009 when he resigned as chairman of the company owning the Atlantic City casino after it was reorganized in a bankruptcy. His remaining stake was wiped out when the company was acquired in 2014 by billionaire financier and Trump advisor Carl Icahn, who shut down the casino in October.
FinCEN imposed a $10 million civil penalty in 2015 against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort for "willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act," and ordered the casino to conduct "periodic external audits to examine its anti-money laundering" compliance program and "provide those audit reports to FinCEN," according to a Treasury Department statement announcing the penalty.
FinCEN "collects and analyzes information about financial transactions in order to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes," the agency says on its website.
The Senate committee's request covers any potentially relevant information about Trump, his family, his businesses and his associates, the aide said. Such a request presumably would cover copies of the Taj Mahal audits.
In a consent order, Trump Taj Mahal admitted to having "willfully violated" reporting and record-keeping requirements under the federal Bank Secrecy Act from 2010 to 2012.
FinCEN's complaint said violations had been revealed by the Internal Revenue Service as far back as 2003. In 1998, FinCEN assessed a $477,700 civil penalty against Trump Taj Mahal for currency transaction reporting violations.
"Trump Taj Mahal received many warnings about its deficiencies," then-FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery said in the 2015 statement. "Poor compliance practices, over many years, left the casino and our financial system unacceptably exposed."
The penalty became an unsecured claim in Trump Taj Mahal's bankruptcy proceeding, which was originally filed in September 2014.
Under the Bank Secrecy Act, casinos are required to report suspicious transactions of $5,000 or more. Trump Taj Mahal failed to file about half of the required suspicious activity reports during periods covered by two reviews by the Internal Revenue Service, according to the consent order.
#959 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
A pretty astute post I saw on an articles comments section elsewhere:
Its not just that Trump is so blatantly, openly corrupt, its that he is so appallingly stupid. The man isn't even a good #$%$, he's just a blithering imbecile bullying his way across our political landscape, destroying everything he touches.
I agree.
And it's no surprise to me that a wrecking ball with a bad comb-over continues to act like a wrecking ball with a bad comb-over once in office. He showed us all who he was during the primaries and then the general. People say he's unpredictable. I'd argue the opposite: He's entirely predictable.
A post a came across while reading an article from the Guardian:
Republicans need to decide which side of history and the law they wish to be on and act, quickly. If this had been a Democrat president, the screams of impeachment would have been resonating up and down the Washington halls of power. Instead, 8 years in the political wilderness, or at least, not in firm charge of the WH, despite a congressional majority, seem to have allowed them to forge a Faustian pact with an unstable, unsuitable, unscrupulous narcissist and demagogue. By staying silent, they are complicit, by doing nothing, they are aiding abetting and, at the risk of melodrama, the maxim: "for evil to prevail, all it requires is for good me to do nothing" could not be more prescient. How long can they tolerate this aberration of a presidency, and for how much longer will they allow Trump to drag America's reputation - and their's - through the gutter?
#960 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 470 weeks ago
James Comey Sought More Funding for FBI’s Russia Probe Before Being Fired
