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[The Barbarian]

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee is asking the Treasury Department for documents related to a Florida property previously owned by President Trump.

In a letter to Secretary Steven Mnuchin reported by CNN, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) requested any related documents or Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) the Treasury Department may have regarding the property, which Trump sold in 2008 to a Russian named Dmitry Rybolovlev.

“In the context of the President’s then-precarious financial position, I believe that the Palm Beach property sale warrants further scrutiny,” Wyden writes in the letter.

“It is imperative that Congress follow the money and conduct a thorough investigation into any potential money laundering or other illicit financial dealings between the President, his associates, and Russia.”

The letter says Trump in 2004 bought the property for $41.35 million and sold it in 2008 to Dmitry Rybolovlev at the price of $95 million. Rybolovlev reportedly sold the property in parcels.

Rybolovlev, according to CNN, was included the Treasury Department's list of Russian oligarchs who have close ties to the Kremlin.

Bloomberg reported last year that special counsel Robert Mueller began probing Trump’s previous business dealings as part of the investigation into Russian election meddling and any potential ties between Trump campaign staff members and the Kremlin.

Wyden asked Treasury to provide the committee with documents related to Rybolovlev's later sales by March 8.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/373314-wyden-wants-records-on-sale-of-trump-mansion-to-russian

 

[fool]

I don't get it.

 

[musterion]

They're beyond desperate. The axe is about to drop on the FBI and points north, so they're throwing everything they can into the spin cycle, trying to suck as much air out of the room before the feces hits their rotating blade unit.

It won't help.

https://theconservativetreehouse.co...anine-interview-with-hpsci-rep-chris-stewart/

 

[jgarden]

They're beyond desperate. The axe is about to drop on the FBI and points north, so they're throwing everything they can into the spin cycle, trying to suck as much air out of the room before the feces hits their rotating blade unit.

It won't help.

https://theconservativetreehouse.co...anine-interview-with-hpsci-rep-chris-stewart/

The Nunes Memo was a colossal "NOTHINGBURGER" even without the benefit of the Democratic Rebuttal that the White House has refused to release!

Paul Manafort has already been charged with "money laundering" - is it just coincidence that "The Donald" happens to own real estate that would interest prospective Russian oligarchs with whom Manafort has personal contacts?

 

[fool]

The Nunes Memo was a colossal "NOTHINGBURGER" even without the benefit of the Democratic Rebuttal that the White House has refused to release!

If lying to the FISA Court is a nothingburger.

Paul Manafort has already been charged with "money laundering"

Manafort was dirty and he was fired as soon as Trump got his first Top Secret Briefing.

- Trump just happens to own the real estate that would interest prospective Russian oligarchs trying to get their money out of the country!

If you're going to sell real estate in the US you can't discriminate on who you sell it to.

 

[jgarden]

If lying to the FISA Court is a nothingburger.

Manafort was dirty and he was fired as soon as Trump got his first Top Secret Briefing.

If you're going to sell real estate in the US you can't discriminate on who you sell it to.

The Republicans spent weeks "hyping" a MEMO that would prove conclusively the FBI misrepresented evidence to a FISA court - once again it only demonstrated that with friends like Devin Nunes, you don't needs enemies!

Mamafort's Russian connections were common knowledge long before he became Trump's Campaign Manager - he became expendable after the WikiLeaks emails and the media started questioning Russian attempts to influence the election!

"The Donald" stated unequivocally that he has no Russian connections, something that fewer an fewer Americans now believe!

 

[zzub]

:thumb:

The Republicans spent weeks "hyping" a MEMO that would demonstrate conclusively the FBI misrepresented evidence to a FISA court - it only proved that with friends like Devin Nunes, you don't needs enemies!

:thumb:

 

[The Barbarian]

I don't get it.

Precisely when Trump is in financial difficulties, a Russian oligarch connected to Russian crime syndicates, steps in and buys a property from him at a greatly inflated price.

Just another piece of the puzzle.

As all of this comes out, Trump's lawyers are getting more and more concerned. This is another reason they desperately don't want Trump talking to Mueller.

Trump thinks he smart enough to handle it. And that's exactly what has them concerned.

 

[The Barbarian]

The house wasn’t built for a Russian oligarch, although it looked the part. The 62,000-square-foot, 17-bedroom mansion is a palace of new-money flash, featuring Greek fountains, tennis courts, trompe l’oeil murals, underground parking for dozens of cars, and a 100-foot swimming pool and hot tub overlooking the ocean. It even had a faux-aristocratic name: “Maison de l’Amitie,” or the House of Friendship. It was the trophy of a Boston-area nursing home magnate, until he lost his fortune in 2004. That’s when Donald Trump scooped it up.

After paying $41 million for the place in November 2004, Trump called it “the finest piece of land in Florida, and probably the U.S.” He vowed to upgrade the structure into “the second-greatest house in America.” (Second, of course, to his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort.) But Trump had no intention of living there. He intended to flip it for a quick—and huge—profit. His initial asking price, less than two years after buying it, was $125 million. By the time Trump listed the property, in early 2006, the real estate market was already cooling off. The property sat on the market for about two years as a frustrated Trump churned through real estate brokers and slashed his price 20 percent. It wasn’t at all clear who might pay Trump three times his buying price for a neoclassical palace amid a looming recession.

In the summer of 2008, Trump found a solution to his problem in the form of one of the world’s hundred richest men: a 41-year-old Russian billionaire named Dmitry Rybolovlev. Then with a net worth that Forbes estimated at $13 billion, Rybolovlev had made his fortune in the wild west of 1990s post-Soviet Russia. He’d spent a year in prison on murder charges (he was later cleared) and wore a bulletproof vest when his own life was threatened. He would pay Trump $95 million for Maison L’Amitie in what was widely described as the most expensive U.S. residential property sale ever...

But the connection isn’t just political. Trump has repeatedly explored business ventures in Russia, partnered with Russians on projects elsewhere, and benefited from Russian largesse in his business ventures. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. said at a real estate conference in 2008.

On Wednesday, Trump angrily insisted that he has “nothing to do with Russia,” and said that he has no investments in the country.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/donald-trump-2016-russian-ties-214116

 

[patrick jane]

They're beyond desperate. The axe is about to drop on the FBI and points north, so they're throwing everything they can into the spin cycle, trying to suck as much air out of the room before the feces hits their rotating blade unit.

It won't help.

https://theconservativetreehouse.co...anine-interview-with-hpsci-rep-chris-stewart/

I glanced at that link earlier I think in chatbox. I just read the whole thing. You're exactly right and you worded that well. # 4 of The Memo is bad news for Bill Priestap and the Mueller investigation . That explains all the distractions and smoke screens.

 

[glorydaz]

They're beyond desperate. The axe is about to drop on the FBI and points north, so they're throwing everything they can into the spin cycle, trying to suck as much air out of the room before the feces hits their rotating blade unit.

It won't help.

https://theconservativetreehouse.co...anine-interview-with-hpsci-rep-chris-stewart/

Oh my. I was wondering about that guy after watching Judge Jeanine.

 

[Tambora]

 

[The Barbarian]

Rachel Brand will resign from the DOJ. That could be bad news for Mueller.
Rachel Brand, the No. 3 official at the Department of Justice, is resigning after just nine months on the job — a decision with big ramifications for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigations.

Here’s why: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is currently in charge of overseeing the Mueller probe. Rosenstein has said that he won’t fire Mueller without good cause.

But if Trump were to fire Rosenstein, or if he were to recuse himself from the investigation or quit outright, the responsibility for overseeing the probe would go to the next in line: Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand.

Which means that whoever Trump picks to replace Brand could potentially end up in charge of the Mueller investigation. Technically, the next in line is Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who is now serving in Brand’s role in an acting capacity. But legal experts told me that Trump has the authority to name anyone he wants to replace Brand.

And here’s the scary thing: That person might follow Trump’s order to dismiss the special counsel.
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/9/16997508/rachel-brand-resigns-doj-trump-mueller

Last time that happened, a president panicked, and fired the man investigating him. It was the beginning of the end of the Nixon presidency. And Trump is much dumber and much less disciplined than Nixon was.

Now here we are again.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

Here’s why: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is currently in charge of overseeing the Mueller probe. Rosenstein has said that he won’t fire Mueller without good cause.

Due to Mueller's close friendship with Comey he should have never taken the job. After all, the FBI tells its people to avoid even the appearance of any conflict of interest!

If Mueller has any sense of decency he should recuse himself right now!

 

[The Barbarian]

Due to Mueller's close friendship with Comey he should have never taken the job. After all, the FBI tells its people to avoid even the appearance of any conflict of interest!

If Mueller has any sense of decency he should recuse himself right now!

Nice try. But it won't fly. Trump will probably lose his nerve and find a way to fire Mueller. If so, then the fewmets will hit the windmill.

And we get replay of Watergate.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

After all this time the sum total that Trump did anything illegal is a big fat ZERO!

Even with Obama's Secret Police illegally spying on the Trump camp they still have nothing!

That is why FBI agent Peter Strozk said that there is no there there!

 

[fool]

Precisely when Trump is in financial difficulties, a Russian oligarch connected to Russian crime syndicates, steps in and buys a property from him at a greatly inflated price.

Just another piece of the puzzle.

But what's in it for the Russian?

 

[fool]

The house wasn’t built for a Russian oligarch, although it looked the part. The 62,000-square-foot, 17-bedroom mansion is a palace of new-money flash, featuring Greek fountains, tennis courts, trompe l’oeil murals, underground parking for dozens of cars, and a 100-foot swimming pool and hot tub overlooking the ocean. It even had a faux-aristocratic name: “Maison de l’Amitie,” or the House of Friendship. It was the trophy of a Boston-area nursing home magnate, until he lost his fortune in 2004. That’s when Donald Trump scooped it up.

After paying $41 million for the place in November 2004, Trump called it “the finest piece of land in Florida, and probably the U.S.” He vowed to upgrade the structure into “the second-greatest house in America.” (Second, of course, to his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort.) But Trump had no intention of living there. He intended to flip it for a quick—and huge—profit. His initial asking price, less than two years after buying it, was $125 million. By the time Trump listed the property, in early 2006, the real estate market was already cooling off. The property sat on the market for about two years as a frustrated Trump churned through real estate brokers and slashed his price 20 percent. It wasn’t at all clear who might pay Trump three times his buying price for a neoclassical palace amid a looming recession.

In the summer of 2008, Trump found a solution to his problem in the form of one of the world’s hundred richest men: a 41-year-old Russian billionaire named Dmitry Rybolovlev. Then with a net worth that Forbes estimated at $13 billion, Rybolovlev had made his fortune in the wild west of 1990s post-Soviet Russia. He’d spent a year in prison on murder charges (he was later cleared) and wore a bulletproof vest when his own life was threatened. He would pay Trump $95 million for Maison L’Amitie in what was widely described as the most expensive U.S. residential property sale ever...

But the connection isn’t just political. Trump has repeatedly explored business ventures in Russia, partnered with Russians on projects elsewhere, and benefited from Russian largesse in his business ventures. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. said at a real estate conference in 2008.

On Wednesday, Trump angrily insisted that he has “nothing to do with Russia,” and said that he has no investments in the country.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/donald-trump-2016-russian-ties-214116

What's in it for the Russian?

 

[jgarden]

Due to Mueller's close friendship with Comey he should have never taken the job. After all, the FBI tells its people to avoid even the appearance of any conflict of interest!

If Mueller has any sense of decency he should recuse himself right now!

Obviously "Jerry Shugart" has totally missed the irony of defending a billionaire President who refuses to release his income tax returns - while condemning Comey and Mueller for not avoiding "even the appearance of any conflict of interest!"

 

[The Barbarian]

What's in it for the Russian?

Yes, why on Earth would a Russian oligarch throw away money to bail out Trump? It's a deep mystery, isn't it?