- Robert Mueller decides to invoke his 5th Amendment right to remain silent
The wheels began to come off this past Wednesday. Originally, it had been reported that Mueller would testify on that may date...
Mysteriously, even with no legal or procedural impediment, Mueller elected to not testify and the earliest he will testify is next month. This even though Barr has seemed to throw down the gauntlet to Mueller by his direct criticism of Mueller’s unethical stunt of devoting half his report to allegedly investigating “obstruction” by President Trump and then failing to arrive at a conclusion.
Now, some frustrated Democrats say his testimony could slip into June, while others are beginning to doubt he’ll ever show, saying Mueller has no desire to become a political pawn in an ugly, partisan fight that’s become a proxy battle for the 2020 presidential race. “He doesn’t want to be trashed by the Republicans,” said Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who serves on the House Intelligence Committee and is close to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fellow California Democrat.
Right now the US Attorney for Connecticut, John Durham, has been tapped by the Attorney General to determine how the Russia hoax investigation came to be. One of the obvious lines of inquiry there will be what did Mueller know about the roots of the investigation, the provenance of the Steele Dossier, and the amazing coincidence that found him hiring a Hillary Clinton partisan, Andrew Weissmann, as his deputy an detailing to his team people who had been involved in pushing the Steele Dossier for months.
So it's an interesting legal dilemma. What if Robert Mueller knew that the Steele Dossier was fake, but chose to hire Weissmann to further the hoax? Not that anyone would admit such, but what "would" be the legal ramifications? Obviously, if Mueller knew early on that there was no conspiracy or coordination, and hid it from the public for nearly two years, there is something blatantly unethical with that. But is there also something that could be considered "illegal"?
What we do know is that there is a much better chance that Mueller did something illegal during his investigations, than Donald Trump did during the election campaign.
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What I love is that Barr tasked Rosenstein to assist in his 4-page memo (When you attack Barr here you are also attacking Rosenstein who the left said you couldn't attack...) on the Mueller report which he oversaw and as I recall to stay on to write a report of his knowledge of the Mueller investigation.
This is a memorialized document that Barr can use. From someone who had defended Mueller throughout the process. And now it's looking like Comey and Rod are having a bit of a disagreement. Will be real interesting what he wrote.
Barr is way more intelligent than the Commies (turns out Comey was one too, as was a Obama mentor and Brennan, must be a book coming out on that). And his deliberate style, being on the right side of the law, and his obvious wisdom is very much needed at this point in history.
Nixon was a saint by comparison.
in the past mueller has knowingly sent innocent men to prison, some of whom died there.
assuming that he did something illegal during his fishing expedition is the safest bet you'll make this year.
The New York Times reported this afternoon that watchdogs at Deutsche Bank flagged several of Donald Trump’s financial transactions for money laundering in 2016 and 2017, and that certain higher-ups at the bank then moved to quash it instead of reporting it to regulators. Some of these transactions were with Russia. This means there’s some kind of smoking gun, and considering how close House Democrats are to winning their court battles to get Trump’s financial records from places like Deutsche Bank, it means it’s time for Trump to panic. So naturally, he’s panicking.
Donald Trump had been spending the afternoon on autopilot, tweeting his usual rhetoric about how great of a job he’s done, and how all the news about his scandals is fake. But after the Deutsche Bank bombshell landed, Trump decided to tweet this: “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!” That’s right, he’s suddenly threatening to “end” a country – genocide, we think – because he’s desperate to change the narrative.
We’ll see how the media responds. The story of Russia using Deutsche Bank to launder money through Donald Trump’s businesses in New York city has been surfacing in pieces for the past two years, but most (not all) of the American mainstream media has paid little attention to it. Today’s bombshell is very different in that the bank itself is making the accusation, the financial records to substantiate it will soon be public, and there’s a whistleblower who can be brought in to testify.
Yawn.
Mueller should be racing to Testify.
Yet, he is Stone Walling.
Roger, you failed Spectacularly again on your attempt to put make up on pig lipped Obimbo.
Why did you fail to included the 2 trillion Obama put on the books as debt at The Federal Reserve?
And , Roger , why do you not talk about Obama not Raising the inherented minimum wage of $7.25 during The Lost Years.
Mr. Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank spans two decades. During a period when most Wall Street banks had stopped doing business with him after his repeated defaults, Deutsche Bank lent Mr. Trump and his companies a total of more than $2.5 billion. Projects financed through the private-banking division include Mr. Trump’s Doral golf resort near Miami and his transformation of Washington’s Old Post Office Building into a luxury hotel.
When he became president, he owed Deutsche Bank well over $300 million. That made the German institution Mr. Trump’s biggest creditor — and put the bank in a bind.
Senior executives worried that if they took a tough stance with Mr. Trump’s accounts — for example, by demanding payment of a delinquent loan — they could provoke the president’s wrath. On the other hand, if they didn’t do anything, the bank could be perceived as cutting a lucrative break for Mr. Trump, whose administration wields regulatory and law enforcement power over the bank.
LOL.
the palmer report, alky???
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/berserk-deutsche-bank-accuses-money/18085/
Palmer Report is a liberal American political blog.[1] It is written by Bill Palmer, who describes himself on his website as a political journalist who covered the 2016 election cycle from start to finish, along with more than fifty additional writers.[2] Palmer previously ran a site called Daily News Bin, described by Snopes.com editor Brooke Binkowski as “basically a pro-Hillary Clinton 'news site.' It was out there to counter misinformation.”[3] The site has been criticized for building a large following based on "wildly speculative theories about Donald Trump."[4]
[...]
The Atlantic's McKay Coppins called the Palmer Report "the publication of record for anti-Trump conspiracy nuts who don’t care about the credibility of the record."[6] The New Republic's Colin Dickey claims that Palmer "routinely blasts out stories that sound serious but are actually based on a single, unverified source," such as the time when he reported Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had ordered Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself from all Trump-related Russia hearings, with his only sourcing coming from a "single tweet from an anonymous Twitter account under the name 'Puesto Loco.'"[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Report
the fucking palmer report.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...
mail order bailed for a reason, alky.
when you read the full account from the ny times (not the palmer report - LOL) you learn that their entire story is built upon -
1) anonymous sources
and
2) the claims of a serial racial lawsuit broad. mcfadden is al sharpton with tits. even some of the commenters of the times story picked up on this.
good job alky. you really got orange man this time!!!
LOL.
.....was very good and highly professional to deal with - and if for any reason I didn’t like them, I would have gone elsewhere....there was always plenty of money around and banks to choose from. They would be very happy to take my money. Fake News!
What a tool.
But former Deutsche Bank employees said the decision not to report the Trump and Kushner transactions reflected the bank’s generally lax approach to money laundering laws. The employees — most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve their ability to work in the industry — said it was part of a pattern of the bank’s executives rejecting valid reports to protect relationships with lucrative clients.
“You present them with everything, and you give them a recommendation, and nothing happens,” said Tammy McFadden, a former Deutsche Bank anti-money laundering specialist who reviewed some of the transactions. “It’s the D.B. way. They are prone to discounting everything.”
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Deutsche Bank employees flagged concerns about activity in accounts linked to both Mr. Kushner and Mr. Trump.
Deutsche Bank employees flagged concerns about activity in accounts linked to both Mr. Kushner and Mr. Trump.CreditPablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press
Ms. McFadden said she was terminated last year after she raised concerns about the bank’s practices. Since then, she has filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators about the bank’s anti-money-laundering enforcement.
The New York times
Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts https://nyti.ms/2Ht1Czs
Trump is The Godfather President.
Gee Roger...
What, you want "another" investigation of the President?
Obsessed much!
What, you want "another" investigation of the President?
Sure.....he's a crook and needs to be prosecuted....He runs the country like his business.....screws everything up and blusters his way out of it....time for a change!!!!
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