The long nightmare has just begun: Inauguration of a fraud.

exminister

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Comrade Trump

Awhile back Deutsche Bank was fined $630 million over Russia money laundering claims. The bank moved about 10 billion dollars out of Russia. Some of these dirty accounts were held by relatives and closest friends of Vladimir Putin. The Russian central bank looked into this scheme because they were concerned about so much money leaving Russia. Duetsche Bank was fined $5,000 by Russia, wink, wink. This laundering involved branches in Moscow, New York and Cyprus. Russian oligarchs often use Cyprus for moving their ill gotten gains.

The chairman, Ackerman, after various scandals was nicely appointed chairman of the bank of Cyprus. He had mad skills for this kind of thing.

This appointment was done by a couple of large shareholders, Victor Veselberg, a close personal friend and business partner of Putin.

The other shareholder was done by the Russian oligarch Dmitri Robolovlev, the "fertilizer king". His divorce was very expensive, ugly, involved 6 courts and lots of time. His wife ultimately got over 4 billion dollars. Before the divorce he began hiding his money around the world to keep from his wife. He needed to move a lot of money very fast, not wasting time for the best deals and if he made important friends along the way all the better.

In 2011 he bought his daughter a luxury apartment at 15 Central Park West NYC. It is in her name and it is her part time residency. Her primary residence is Monaco. He paid an over the top price of $88 million dollars and became a news item. He bought a Greek island for $150 million.

In 2008 he bought a Florida estate for outstanding amount of money. It was built in 2001. It had 22 bathrooms and was very gaudy. It developed a bad mold problem. In 2004 the owner went bankrupt. Trump bought it for $40 million. Years later Dmitri bought the house for $100 million dollars, which at the time was the highest price for any personal real estate. He hasn't set foot on the property. Because of its problems it is now being tore down.

Trump and Robolovlev have publicly stated they never met in person, but only through intermediaries. Who was that? It was the chairman of the bank of Cyprus, Ackerman and more importantly, the single largest shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus and the only American - billionaire Wilbur Ross. He is now our new Secretary Of Commerce appointed by Donald Trump. One of Donald's oldest friend. He does know all the best people. Now I can understand yet another reason for Trump's fondness for Russian/Putin and how he wants to undo loads of regulations. It is onerous for corrupt billionaires doncha know.

Profiles in Corruption awards all around. :first:
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The Russian oligarch highlighted above, Robolovlev, owns an Airbus plane which is normally parked in Moscow. During the 2016 campaign and recently this plane designated as M-Kate has landed at airports the same time and place where Donald Trump was. This has been documented by amateurs plane buffs and a cool website https://www.flightradar24.com/.

October 30, 2016 - Both planes were in Las Vegas, Nevada. Donald Trump held a rally there that day.

November 3, 2016 - Both planes were in small airport in Concord, North Carolina where Donald Trump was holding a rally just days before the election. M-Kate arrived from New York and landed in Concord around 9:30am, stayed for a few hours and flew to Charlotte, NC. Both planes were photographed there that day.

The week of February 11, 2017 - Donald Trump was at Maralago in Florida. This is the famous dinner with the Japanese Prime Minister when North Korea launched a missle and all the private members of the club were flashing pictures, using their phones for lighting and one member took a picture with the guy who carries the President's football. Friday of that week M-Kate flew from the south of France to Miami.

There are other odd coincidents but not as easy to relate.

Details here on this and other Russian oligarch connections with the Trump campaign
https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-russian-connections/

Robolovlev is indebted to Putin.
 
annabenedetti

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Thanks, exminister, for the info. That radar website's an extremely cool website. I can see all the planes I'm hearing when they come into Lindbergh.

I couldn't get the dcreport link to open, either to the wilbur-ross page or to the main page. I'll try again later.

There's a photo of Rybolovlev's private plane at the Charlotte, NC airport on the same day that Trump was there.

I can't help but wonder if the real reason Trump won't show his tax returns is because it will show the extent of his Russia dealings.
 
Crucible

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Desperate and making conspiracy theories.

The libbies are like spoiled children who finally didn't get their way :rolleyes:
 
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Trump Administration Considering Separating Women, Children At U.S.-Mexico Border


Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials.

Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on the proposal.

The policy shift would allow the government to keep parents in custody while they contest deportation or wait for asylum hearings. Children would be put into protective custody with the Department of Health and Human Services, in the “least restrictive setting” while until they can be taken into the care of a U.S. relative or state-sponsored guardian.

Currently, families contesting deportation or applying for asylum are generally released from detention quickly and allowed to remain in the United States until their cases are resolved. A federal appeals court ruling bars prolonged child detention.

President Donald Trump has called for ending so-called “catch and release,” in which migrants who cross illegally are freed to live in the United States while awaiting legal proceedings.

Two of the officials were briefed on the proposal at a Feb. 2 townhall for asylum officers by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum chief John Lafferty.

A third DHS official said the department is actively considering separating women from their children but has not made a decision.

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annabenedetti

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annabenedetti said:
Trump Administration Considering Separating Women, Children At U.S.-Mexico Border

Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials.

Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on the proposal.

The policy shift would allow the government to keep parents in custody while they contest deportation or wait for asylum hearings. Children would be put into protective custody with the Department of Health and Human Services, in the “least restrictive setting” while until they can be taken into the care of a U.S. relative or state-sponsored guardian.

Currently, families contesting deportation or applying for asylum are generally released from detention quickly and allowed to remain in the United States until their cases are resolved. A federal appeals court ruling bars prolonged child detention.

President Donald Trump has called for ending so-called “catch and release,” in which migrants who cross illegally are freed to live in the United States while awaiting legal proceedings.

Two of the officials were briefed on the proposal at a Feb. 2 townhall for asylum officers by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum chief John Lafferty.

A third DHS official said the department is actively considering separating women from their children but has not made a decision.

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serpentdove said:
Trump is pro-legal immigration.
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Trump is for separating mothers from their children.
 
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ummmm - i don't think so
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annabenedetti

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If the Feds Did Wiretap Trump Tower, It’s Not Obama Who Should Worry


It started, like so many eruptions these days, with a tweet.

Early Saturday morning, President Trump fired off a series of tweets accusing, without evidence, former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in the month before the election. Trump compared the alleged snooping to “Nixon/Watergate,” and intimated legal action.

Anatomy of an Allegation

Baffling as it may be, it appears Trump’s accusation stems from a recent article published on Breitbart, the conservative news outlet formerly run by White House senior adviser Stephen Bannon.

“This is a somewhat stunning, in so far as the president of the United States doesn’t need to get his information about classified activity from Breitbart,” says Cato Institute fellow Julian Sanchez.
. . . .

Look past the president’s conspiracy theories, though, and one fact stands out: However strongly Trump feels that he’s right, he’d better hope he’s wrong.

Tower of FISA

If nothing else, Trump’s tweets show he doesn’t understand how the FISA system works. If he did, he may have limited himself to tweeting about Arnold Schwartzenegger quitting The Apprentice this morning.

“While the order would have been requested by some part of the executive branch, Obama can’t order anything. Nor can Trump,” says former NSA lawyer April Doss, who stresses that her comments are based only on public information. “The order has to come from the court, and the court operates independently.”

FISA court judges serve seven-year appointments, so the court’s composition doesn’t ebb and flow with the political tides. What’s more, specific laws adopted in the wake of Watergate prevent the very activity Trump accuses Obama of.

“You can’t tap the phones of a political candidate for political purposes,” says Doss.

What you could tap them for? Acting as a foreign power, or as an agent of a foreign power. In other words, spying against US interests with both knowledge and intent.

Clearing that bar is difficult, by design. FISA warrants don’t allow for broad wiretaps of, say, every call going in and out of a specific office in a 58-story Manhattan skyscraper. Federal authorities must demonstrate not just probable cause, but that a given phone line serves primarily to undermine US interests. It’s difficult, for instance, to obtain a warrant to wiretap a shared office, for fear of picking up innocent third-party conversations.

“I have high confidence that a FISA court judge would not have authorized any warrant unless it met all the requirements under the statute,” says Doss.

Trump’s wiretap claims, then, carry presumably inadvertent implications. First, based on previous reporting and the nature of FISA courts, any wiretaps within Trump Tower would be legal. And they would stem from overwhelming evidence that the Trump campaign, or someone within it, has unsavory ties to Russia or another foreign power. Otherwise, it’s unlikely those wiretaps would exist at all.

If federal authorities did have cause to listen in on Trump Tower, though, and they provided enough evidence for a FISA court to approve the snooping, Obama is not the one who ought to worry.

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"This may come as a surprise to the current occupant of the Oval Office, but the president of the United States does not have the authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of American citizens,” said Josh Earnest, a former White House press secretary under Obama. He accused the Trump administration of trying to distract from the controversy surrounding its alleged contacts with Russian officials.

"We know exactly why President Trump tweeted what he tweeted," Earnest told The Post. "There is one page in the Trump White House crisis management playbook, and that is simply to tweet or say something outrageous to distract from a scandal. And the bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet."

Earlier this year, George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, crafted a "taxonomy" of how Trump uses Twitter to shift the conversation from unwelcome reports and subsume the news cycle with his own agenda.

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ClimateSanity

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It seems anna and company find whatever the MSM is cooking up in their fevered imagination and each and every story is a complete nothing burger. The only people who give these stories credence have minds that will stretch in any conceivable direction in hopes of latching on to the littlest scrap possible.
 
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ClimateSanity said:
It seems anna and company find whatever the MSM is cooking up in their fevered imagination and each and every story is a complete nothing burger. The only people who give these stories credence have minds that will stretch in any conceivable direction in hopes of latching on to the littlest scrap possible.
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The same people who examined and assessed, criticized and scoffed at the previous president for eight years have a real problem when the same thing is being done to their man in office. Amazing double standard.

And for some crazy reason, they think snarking at me is going to fix their Trump problem.
 
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annabenedetti said:
The same people who examined and assessed, criticized and scoffed at the previous president for eight years have a real problem when the same thing is being done to their man in office. Amazing double standard.

And for some crazy reason, they think snarking at me is going to fix their Trump problem.
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It won't though. :nono:
 
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It won't though. :nono:
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No, it won't. We haven't even gotten through the first 100 days.

I just finished reading a really good, very interesting article in the New Yorker about how Congress answers their constituents' calls, letters, emails, etc. Well after the election, as you can imagine, constituent communications exploded. When they couldn't get their calls through the overloaded phone system, they resorted to the old-fashioned fax, and one machine pumped out over 7000 of them in a 24 hour period. But the prize goes to the person who ordered the Senate a pizza and had it sent with his opinion attached. :chuckle:
 
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