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Come on Flagg, it's over.
John McCain said in a street interview we should hire a special prosecutor because it's big, "and I'm sure there's more to come." on PBS NewsHour.
The problem is pbs newshour is not on thing dial for FOXNews watchers.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Right...got it...once an opinion is formed then you must maintain it regardless of changing circumstances or any new information that is uncovered.
The biggest inconsistency of all is that republicans loved the guy when he was fucking with Hillary when he was supposedly 'doing his job' and when the guns were turned the Republicans fired him.
See...we democrats have to live by his half decade long investigation. But instead of enduring the same, the hypocrite republicans fired him.
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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...
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So Hoe Scarborough and Mika Brizenski are getting married. Fucking weird and kind of gross. But I would fuck her.
