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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:46:34 GMT
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The Trump Crime FamilyTHE TRUMP CRIME FAMILY Extended Trump Family Ties to Organized Crime
No previous United States president has had anything close to Donald J. Trump’s record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks.
Investigative reporter Wayne Barrett wrote that Trump didn’t just do business with mobbed-up concrete companies in Manhattan in his early career. He likely met personally with “Fat Tony” Salerno at the townhouse of notorious New York fixer Roy Cohn. There were witnesses to the meeting, one of whom kept detailed notes on all of Cohn’s contacts.
Cohn was a mob consigliere of Salerno, boss of the Genovese crime family, the most powerful Mafia group in New York, and Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino crime family.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Trump had partnered with men with organized crime ties in New York and Atlantic City. Later, he and his children would also strike deals in Brazil and Azerbaijan with partners who had shadowy backgrounds or unusual legal entanglements.
Thanks in part to the laxity of New Jersey gaming investigators, Trump has never had to address his dealings with mobsters and swindlers head-on.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Trump saw a opportunity to cash in there. Trump testified under oath in a 2007 deposition, “It’s ridiculous that I wouldn’t be investing in Russia. Russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment.”
A conduit for Trump’s dealings with Russia’s newly minted, mobbed-up oligarchs was a company that marketed itself as a property developer, the Bayrock Group. Bayrock operated just two floors beneath Trump’s own office on the 26th floor in Trump Tower.
In a 2007 deposition, Trump testified that Bayrock would bring Russian investors to his Trump Tower office to discuss deals in Moscow.
One of Bayrock’s directors was career criminal Felix Sater who had ties to Russian and American organized crime groups. Before linking up with Bayrock and with Trump, Slater had worked as a mob informant for the U.S. government.
Slater had gone to prison for slashing another man’s face with the stem of a broken margarita glass. Later, he fled to Moscow to avoid criminal charges while boasting of his KGB and Kremlin contacts there.
Slater’s one-time business partner, Salvatore Lauria reported that Slater “was always hustling and scheming, and his contacts in Russia were the same kind of contacts he had in the United States. Lauria continued, “The difference was that in Russia his crooked contacts were links between Russian organized crime, the Russian military, the KGB, and operatives who played both ways, or sometimes three ways.”
In a series of interviews, a former Bayrock insider, Jody Kriss, claims that he eventually departed from Bayrock because he became convinced that the firm was actually a front for money laundering.
In April 2013, police burst into Unit 63A of Trump Tower and rounded up 29 suspects in two gambling rings. The operation, which prosecutors called “the world’s largest sports book,” was run out of condos in Trump Tower—including the entire fifty-first floor of the building. Unit 63A served as the headquarters for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States.
In addition, the Taj Mahal was fined $10 million in 2015—the highest penalty ever levied by the feds against a casino—and admitted to having “willfully violated” anti-money-laundering regulations for years.
A Justice Department investigation led by Robert Mueller is also looking into whether Trump associates laundered financial payoffs from Russian officials by channeling them through offshore accounts.
Sins of the Father
“My legacy has its roots in my father’s legacy.” –Donald Trump
According to his obituary, Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump was born in 1905, in New York, the son of German immigrants.
In 1927, Fred Trump started Elizabeth Trump & Son Co., the real estate company that would later become The Trump Organization. Fred Trump began his career constructing low-income apartments and row houses in Brooklyn and Queens, New York.
As with his son Donald, accusations of racism would dog real estate developer Fred Trump for much of his life.
According to an article in the New York Times, in September 1927, Fred Trump was arrested during a Ku Klux Klan rally in New York. Fred Trump (whose name and address was listed in the article) was one of seven men arrested “in a near-riot.” The men were also accused of assaulting a police officer and taken into custody.
Fred Trump’s backward views on race would reemerge in later years. In 1973, the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed suit against Trump and his company for refusing to rent apartments to black people. The suit followed an investigation by the Urban League which sent white and black testers to apartments owned by Trump. The testers found that white applicants were able to rent apartments, while blacks weren’t.
The Department of Justice concluded that “racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity.” Trump was forced by the Justice Department to sign a consent degree, requiring him to advertise vacancies in minority papers and to list them with the Urban League.
One of Fred Trump’s former tenants was none other than folk music legend Woody Guthrie. Guthrie wrote a song that referred to Fred Trump as, “Old Man Trump” and added that Trump “drew a color line” by forcing minorities into segregated housing.
Ivana Trump Says Donald Kept a Copy of Hitler’s Speeches for Bedtime Reading
Like Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler, real-estate mogul Donald Trump frequently uses racism, xenophobia, and other techniques of scapegoating to incite his coalition of angry voters.
According to a Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, Donald Trump, kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bed.
“Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed … Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist,” Marie Brenner wrote.
When Brenner asked Trump about how he got a copy of Hitler’s speeches, “Trump hesitated” and then queried, “Who told you that.”
“I don’t remember,” Brenner replied.
Trump then said, “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis acknowledged. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later in the Vanity Fair article, Trump returned to the subject of Hitler’s speeches and said, “If, I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
Ivana Trump also told a friend that her husband’s cousin, John Walter “clicks his heels and says, ‘Heil Hitler,” when visiting Trump’s office.
Investigation Reveals that Trump Made Millions from Drug Money Laundering in Panama
President Donald Trump made millions of dollars in profits by allowing Colombian drug cartels and other groups to launder money through a Trump-affiliated hotel in Panama, according to an investigation by the organization Global Witness.
In the early 2000s, a series of bankruptcies meant Donald Trump was shunned by most lenders. Struggling for credit, Trump started selling his name to high-end real estate projects. One of these developed Panama’s Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower.
In its report, Global Witness said that Colombian drug cartels purchased hotel units to hide the origins of money earned through drug trafficking, and that Trump was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the money laundering.
At the time Trump Ocean Club was announced in 2006 and launched in 2011, Panama was known as one of the best places in the world to launder money. Whole neighborhoods in Panama City were taken over by organized crime groups, and luxury developments were built to serve as money laundering vehicles.
Investing in luxury properties is a tried and trusted way for criminals to move tainted cash into the legitimate financial system, where they can spend it freely.
One key player at the Trump Ocean Club was David Eduardo Helmut Murcia Guzmán, who a U.S. court subsequently sentenced to nine years in prison for laundering millions in drug money. Another was Guzmán’s business associate, Ventura Nogueira, who brokered nearly a third of the pre-construction unit sales at the Trump Ocean Club. Nogueira’s sales brokerage was critical to ensuring the project’s lift-off and Trump’s ability to earn tens of millions of dollars.
At Trump Ocean Club, Trump received a percentage of the financing he helped secure. He also got a cut on every unit sold at the development. Trump and his family made millions more from management fees. The family even participated in marketing and project design. Broker Ventura Nogueira said that Trump’s daughter Ivanka met with him and project developer Roger Khafif at least ten times.
Nogueira told both NBC News and Reuters that many of those involved with the Trump Ocean Club were Russians and Eastern Europeans with “questionable backgrounds.” Nogueira added that he found out later that some were part of the Russian Mafia.
Among the shady buyers were:
Louis Pargiolas, who pleaded guilty in 2009 in Miami to conspiracy to import cocaine.
Stanislav Kavalenka, a Russian national charged in Canada for compelling women into prostitution.
Arkady Vodovozov, convicted in Israel of kidnapping, according to Reuters.
With the Russian government’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, much has been made of Trump’s heavy reliance on funds from Russia for his licensing deals, and some of this money has come from Russian criminal networks.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:47:01 GMT
Politics Trump Foundation To Shut Down Amid Lawsuit Against The CharityHuffPost Nina Golgowski,HuffPost 1 hour 21 minutes ago
President Donald Trump’s personal charity has agreed to shut down amid an ongoing ethics investigation into its finances, the New York attorney general announced on Tuesday.
The agreement follows a court ruling last month that a lawsuit filed against the Donald J. Trump Foundation by Attorney General Barbara Underwood in June will be allowed to move forward.
“Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more,” Underwood said in a statement. “This amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests.”
President Donald Trump has agreed to dissolve the Trump Foundation after being accused of using it for his personal and political benefit. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
As part of the agreement, the Trump Foundation will dissolve under judicial supervision. It will also be required to distribute any remaining charitable assets to reputable organizations approved by Underwood’s office.
Underwood’s lawsuit seeks millions in restitution and penalties. It also seeks to prevent Trump and his three eldest children ― Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump ― from serving on the boards of other New York charities.
The president vowed shortly after Underwood’s lawsuit was filed to fight the case, calling it the work of “sleazy New York Democrats.”
“I won’t settle this case!” he tweeted.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.Trump charity to dissolve under agreement with N.Y. attorney generalReuters By Brendan Pierson,Reuters 46 minutes ago
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump presents a mock check from the Trump Foundation representing $100,000 to members of the Puppy Jake Foundation, which provides military veterans with trained service dogs, in Davenport, Iowa, U.S., January 30, 2016. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo
By Brendan Pierson
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's namesake charitable foundation has agreed to dissolve under court supervision following a lawsuit by New York's attorney general claiming Trump misused the foundation to advance his 2016 presidential campaign and his businesses, the attorney general said on Tuesday.
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, a Democrat, said the Donald J. Trump Foundation's assets will be distributed to charities vetted by her office. The deal is subject to approval by a New York state judge.
The White House and a lawyer for the foundation could not immediately be reached for comment. Trump, a Republican, has previously said on Twitter that Underwood's lawsuit was a concoction by "sleazy New York Democrats."
The ruling came less than a month after Justice Saliann Scarpulla of the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan rejected Trump's motion to dismiss Underwood's lawsuit.
The motion had argued that the U.S. Constitution immunized Trump from Underwood's claims alleging breach of fiduciary duty, improper self-dealing, and misuse of assets belonging to the Foundation.
Underwood sued Trump and his adult children Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka on June 14, after a 21-month probe that she said uncovered "extensive unlawful political coordination" between the foundation and Trump's campaign. The lawsuit remains pending.
(Reporting by Brendan Pierson in New York; Editing by Richard Chang)
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:47:41 GMT
Quote by moon: And here we were thinking how impossible that would be. |
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:48:05 GMT
Anytime you see the word "secret," Kushner's name seems to always pop up. How come he has so many ties to things that must be kept secret: Trump Tower meeting with the Russians, Seychelles meeting about Putin's plan for America, and a meeting with a Russian bank during the transition period. Trump family does business with Saudi Arabia (which gave us 9/11), Saudi Arabia put $1 million into this company, Trump sells arms for this country with abysmal human rights record, Trump/Kushner make money, USA gets screwed - just another day at the office for this crooked, low-life family. This crime family is taking the US citizens for all they can with the help of the "protected" Goldman Sachs. For those who voted for Trump, you deserve it. For those of us who didn't, we are being unfairly punished. We saw this side show coming. Trump supporters and republiconservatives in general decided not to care from the get go. The ONLY thing they care about is WINNING and winning at ALL cost. No one thought things could get any worse than Bush Cheney? Think again. ALL THANKS TO TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY. ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/5464/deplorable-nation-tyranny-minority
www.salon.com/2016/12/23/conservatism-turned-toxic-donald-trumps-fanbase-has-no-actual-ideology-just-a-nihilistic-hatred-of-liberals/ Kushner CAUGHT Red HandedKushner Firm's Reported $90 Million In Secret Foreign Investments Riles Ethics ExpertsHuffPost Mary Papenfuss,HuffPost Tue, Jun 11 4:40 AM MST
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Alarmed ethics experts are weighing in following a bombshell report in The Guardian Monday that $90 million in secret foreign investments have poured into an offshore account for a real estate company founded and still partly owned by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.
At least $1 million is from Saudi Arabia, sources have told The Guardian.
The money for the company, Cadre, has been deposited since 2017 via a Goldman Sachs financial vehicle in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven that guards corporate secrets, The Guardian reports.
In response to the revelations, Richard Painter, chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush, called Kushner a “national security risk,” saying that he should never have been granted security clearance. Donald Trump overruled U.S. intelligence and White House officials’ recommendations against granting Kushner top security clearance because of concerns about his foreign business entanglements.
Former Trump and Obama administration ethics chief Walter Shaub responded on Twitter to the report by calling again for the release of Kushner’s mysterious federal ethics agreement — if it in fact exists.
Constitutional law expert and Harvard professor Laurence Tribe told Salon that Kushner’s apparent conflicts of interest have “grown more distressing with time.”
Tribe called Kushner a “scion of a family, whose wealth is intertwined with Jared’s many roles in the Trump administration, roles that have put him virtually in bed with, among other bloody despots, [the] Saudi crown prince.”
Kushner reduced his stake in Cadre to less than 25% after joining his father-in-law’s administration, but he is still an owner and his share of Cadre is worth up to $50 million, according to his financial disclosure statements. His initial statements failed to mention Cadre, but were later amended to reveal his holdings.
The foreign millions poured into the account even as Kushner continued to negotiate issues with various senior officials from some of the same nations that could have been the source of investments to Cadre.
The Guardian report exposes exactly the kind of relationship and conflict-of-interest risk that ethics experts have warned against after Trump administration officials refused to divest from companies. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed an ethics complaint about Kushner’s stake in Cadre two years ago after he failed to disclose his holdings. CREW argued then that Cadre’s “opaque structure” was a tool to hide financial relationships.
Cadre was founded in 2014 by Kushner, his brother Joshua and a friend who previously worked for Goldman Sachs. The company operates from a Manhattan building owned by the Kushner family real estate corporation, according to The Guardian. Part of the operation is a real estate investment fund — worth more than half a billion dollars — used to buy U.S. properties. The value of the fund has increased fivefold since 2017 when Kushner joined the Trump administration, according to the newspaper.
One of Kushner’s more unnerving positive relationships during his time as a White House envoy is with wealthy Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who American intelligence officers determined ordered the vicious murder last year of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Despite the murder and other extensive human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, the Trump administration has decided to share nuclear power technology with the Saudis and plans to sell billions of dollars in weapons to the country. The chummy link between the two administrations has raised suspicions about financial ties.
A Goldman Sachs spokesman told The Guardian that Cadre has no access to information about the Goldman Sachs clients “who have invested in these vehicles,” indicating that Kushner would not know who was funding his company. Presumably, however, a Cadre owner could encourage people to invest.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:48:33 GMT
Can you imagine if this were a Democrat doing this?Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner took in as much as $135M last yrAssociated Press BERNARD CONDON,Associated Press 50 minutes ago
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Jared Kushner, right, and Ivanka Trump, second right, watch from a window before a ceremonial welcome in the garden of Buckingham Palace in London for President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, Monday, June 3, 2019 on the opening day of a three day state visit to Britain. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
NEW YORK (AP) — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner took in as much as $135 million in revenue during their second year as aides to President Donald Trump, generated from their vast real estate holdings, stocks and bonds and even a book deal, according to their financial disclosures released Friday.
Ivanka Trump's stake in her family's Washington D.C. hotel down the street from the Oval Office generated $3.95 million in revenue in 2018, barely changed from a year earlier. The hotel, a favorite gathering spot for foreign diplomats and lobbyists, is at the center of two federal lawsuits claiming Trump is violating the Constitution's ban on foreign government payments to the president.
Another big Ivanka Trump holding, a trust that includes her personal business selling handbags, shoes and accessories, generated at least $1 million in revenue in 2018, down from at least $5 million the year before. Ivanka Trump announced in July of last year that she planned to close her fashion company to focus on her work as a White House adviser for her father.
The disclosure for her husband, Jared Kushner, shows that he took in hundreds of thousands of dollars from his holdings of New York City apartments and that he owns a stake in the real estate investment firm Cadre worth at least $25 million.
The disclosures released by the White House and filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics shows minimum revenue for the couple of $28 million last year. The disclosures that must be filed by federal government officials show both assets and debts compiled in broad ranges between low and high estimates, making it difficult to precisely chart the rise and fall of the financial portfolios.
Among the dozens of sources of income was a $263,500 book advance for Ivanka Trump's "Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success," published in 2017. Trump has pledged to donate royalties to her charitable fund.
Kushner's holdings of apartment buildings through his family real estate firm, Kushner Cos., was the source of much of his income. Westminster Management, the family business overseeing its rental buildings, generated $1.5 million. Separately, one of the family's marquee holdings, the iconic Puck Building in the Soho section of Manhattan, generated as much as $6 million in rent.
Among other properties cited in the disclosure was a former warehouse-turned-luxury-condominium in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn that brought in more than $350,000 in sale proceeds and rent.
Former and current tenants in the building have filed a suit against the Kushner Cos. alleging it used noisy, dusty construction to make living conditions unbearable in an effort to push them out so their apartments could be sold. The Kushner Cos. has said the suit is without merit.
Cadre has also drawn conflict-of-interest questions. It launched a fund to take advantage of massive tax breaks by investing in downtrodden areas designated "Opportunity Zones," a Trump administration program pushed by both Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Also, this month the Guardian newspaper reported that Cadre received $90 million in foreign funding from an opaque offshore vehicle since Kushner entered the White House.
Kushner lawyer Abbe Lowell did not immediately respond to an email and phone message seeking comment.
Kushner appears to have cut his debt. He had loans and lines of credit worth at least $27 million at the end of last year, down from a minimum value of $40 million the previous year. His lenders include Bank of America, Citi Group and Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank is also a major lender to President Trump's company and has been subpoenaed by congressional investigators looking into his finances.
Both Kushner and his wife took steps to distance themselves from their businesses before taking on their roles as unpaid White House advisers. Kushner stepped down as CEO of Kushner Cos. and sold stakes in many holdings
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:48:59 GMT
The US’s founding fathers installed an emolument clause. The concern was the threat of foreigners using financial means to exert influence over American officials. Trump has gained from nepotism, corruption and graft since his inauguration. Trump has publicly announced that the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution is "phony". Therefore, he doesn't have to respect the Constitution and is in his rights to make money off the Presidency for as long as the GOP covers for him. When the Ukrainian President had his meeting with President Trump he went out of his way to comment on the wonderful hotel that he had stayed at in NYC. By a marvelous coincidence it just happened to be owned by Mr. Trump. That little comment from the Ukrainian leader tells you all that you need to know regarding how governments and organizations are trying to curry favor with the President by helping his bottom line.Federal agency says it doesn't track foreign spending at Trump Hotelwww.yahoo.com/news/federal-agency-says-it-doesnt-track-foreign-spending-at-trump-hotel-012638206.html
Alexander Nazaryan National Correspondent
Yahoo NewsJanuary 29, 2020, 1:26 AM UTC
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mark Tenally/AP)
WASHINGTON — The federal government does not know how much money foreign governments and entities have spent at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., according to testimony from Emily W. Murphy, head of the General Services Administration, which is in charge of leasing federal buildings. Murphy also said that she did not know if the Trump Organization is preparing to sell its lease to the Old Post Office, the grand building that houses the hotel, to a foreign entity.
“The only thing I know is what I’ve read in the paper,” Murphy said, speaking specifically of what foreign governments may have already spent at the controversial property.
Democrats seized on her admission. “This is a remarkable lack of curiosity on the part of GSA,” said a plainly annoyed Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.
Murphy, who was appointed by Trump, also said she had not read the legal memorandums written by GSA officials about the propriety of the Trump lease. Those memorandums remain secret, as do financial records relating to the hotel.
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Rep. Dina Titus. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
“The Trump Organization is violating the law, and the Trump administration is letting them get away with it,” Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., who chaired the hearing, told Yahoo News afterward. “It’s an obvious conflict of interest. The potential transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars into the president’s pocket creates even more legal and ethical issues that the Trump administration is desperate to ignore.”
The hearing was conducted in front of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee, which is part of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The Trump Hotel is not part of the ongoing impeachment proceedings, which are focused on allegations that the president held up foreign assistance designated for Ukraine in order to prompt investigations that would benefit him domestically. But since the start of his presidency, Trump has also faced allegations that he has used his office to enrich the Trump Organization, his marketing and real estate business.
Those allegations have crystallized into lawsuits alleging that Trump has violated the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prevents him or any other figure in the federal government from making an income from a foreign government.
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GSA Administrator Emily W. Murphy. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
One of the emoluments lawsuits has been filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, a government watchdog group that opposes the Trump administration. Tuesday’s hearing did little to allay concerns about potential corruption on Trump’s part, said CREW policy director Jennifer Ahearn. “GSA has repeatedly refused to acknowledge the Trump family’s and Trump Organization’s conflicts of interest in maintaining a lease at the Old Post Office building,” Ahearn told Yahoo News.
www.courthousenews.com/second-circuit-revives-emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump/
“Her admission that GSA has not looked into whether the Trump Organization has done business with foreign governments is unsurprising,” Ahearn continued, “given GSA’s inaction to address the ethics concerns that were clear before Donald Trump even assumed the presidency.”
Foreign governments have routinely booked rooms and events at the Trump International Hotel, which is just a few blocks from the White House. So have many Republicans. While observers like Zach Everson of the 1100 Pennsylvania blog have pieced together who stays and dines at the hotel from social media postings and calendar entries, no official record of comings and goings exists.
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Rep. Greg Pence arrives at the Capitol on Jan. 8. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The hotel also features in the impeachment inquiry. It is where former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker had breakfast with Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is now Trump’s personal attorney. And an associate of Giuliani, Lev Parnas, recently provided congressional investigators with a secret recording from a dinner at the hotel at which Trump ordered the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, whom he perceived to be hostile to his political interests there.
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Among the figures who have turned the Trump Hotel into a kind of clubhouse is Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind., brother of Vice President Mike Pence. Greg Pence, who has spent some $45,000 at the hotel, happens to be the ranking Republican member of the subcommittee before which Murphy appeared on Tuesday morning, and he used his opening remarks to downplay the significance of the hearing. He suggested that instead of “bashing the president,” the committee should focus on “crumbling infrastructure.” Pence characterized the investigation into the Trump Hotel lease as a “partisan fishing expedition,” echoing language Republicans have used to describe the impeachment inquiry, as well as the earlier investigation into Russian electoral interference.
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Democrats were unlikely to take the suggestion, since the Old Post Office, now emblazoned with Trump’s name, is to them representative of the conflict of interest they believe to be endemic to the current administration. The lease was signed in 2013, when Barack Obama was president and Trump was two years from announcing a run of his own. In recent months, the Trump Organization has considered selling that lease. The company, which is now run by the president’s sons Eric and Donald Jr., could make as much as $500 million from that sale.
www.wsj.com/articles/trump-organization-exploring-sale-of-marquee-washington-hotel-11572019874?mod=hp_lead_pos1
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
Murphy was not at GSA when that lease was signed, but Democrats nevertheless see her as an all-too-willing accomplice in the ongoing matter. An attorney by training, she had previously worked for the Republican National Committee, and for Republicans on Capitol Hill. Last year she faced intense questioning about her role in keeping the FBI from moving its headquarters from its current location, on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the Trump Hotel, to the Washington suburbs. Trump wanted the FBI to rebuild its current headquarters instead of moving; Murphy told Congress that he had been uninvolved in the decision to keep the FBI from doing so, but according to a report by the GSA inspector general, Murphy and Trump did actually discuss the move.
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A spokesperson for GSA did not respond to a request for comment.
In the course of Tuesday’s hearing, a sometimes flustered Murphy offered Democrats few assurances — if any at all — that GSA was conducting the kind of oversight they were hoping for. In her opening remarks, for example, Murphy did not mention the Trump International Hotel by name, though she did reference her inability to reveal documents that are “highly deliberative in nature and contain attorney-client communications.” That was a reference to the hotel documents Democrats have long been eager to see.
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Murphy’s circumspection only deepened Democrats’ irritation as the morning went on.
Initial proposals for offers on the Trump International Hotel lease were due to the Trump Organization last week. Under questioning from Titus, Murphy said she had not heard from the Trump Organization about potential buyers. Nor could she say how GSA would determine whether the buyer was a “qualified transferee,” which is one of the stipulations of the 2013 lease.
A representative for the Trump Organization did not answer a question about the current status of the lease sale.
Democrats fear that a government seeking to gain favor with the Trump administration could try to buy the hotel. “Let’s just say that Vladimir Putin or one of his oligarch friends decide to buy the hotel for an outrageous price,” an irate DeFazio said in his opening remarks, referencing the Russian president, for whom Trump has routinely expressed fondness.
Murphy was vague in describing what kind of review a foreign buyer would undergo, though by no means did she rule out such a review. She said merely that she would not “speculate on hypotheticals.” Democrats retorted that such a scenario was far from hypothetical.
Rep. John Garamendi speaks on the House floor on Dec. 18. (Photo: House Television via AP)
Murphy and Republicans on the subcommittee repeatedly noted that the original Old Post Office lease was signed by the Obama administration.
The GSA inspector general report made public early last year found that agency “unwillingness to address the constitutional issues” surrounding the lease was improper. “Like any other federal agency, it is not only appropriate that GSA address potential violations of the Constitution that arise with its activities, GSA cannot ignore them,” the inspector general found. “GSA did not fulfill that obligation.”
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Democrats were angered by what they saw as Murphy’s apparent lack of concern for those constitutional issues. In a testy exchange, Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., asked Murphy to confirm “that the GSA has no idea, whatsoever, as to how much spending by foreign governments accounts for the income and profits at the Trump Hotel.”
“That’s correct, sir,” Murphy said.
“So you have no idea about foreign expenditures at the hotel, correct?”
It was at this point that Murphy said that all her information about foreign spending at the Trump Hotel was based on “what’s been reported in the paper.”
“I see,” Garamendi said in response to that admission. “Have you ever made an attempt to request information from the Trump Organization regarding foreign spending at the hotel?”
Murphy said she had not, because that was the duty of a subordinate “contracting officer.”
Garamendi was unsatisfied with the explanation. “We understand stonewalling well around here,” he said sharply. He added — holding up a copy of the document for her to see — that Murphy should “carefully read the Constitution of the United States and your oath of office, in which you said you would uphold the Constitution, including the Emoluments Clause.”
As the hearing concluded, Trump’s impeachment trial began on the other side of Capitol Hill.
Speaking to Yahoo News following the hearing, Garamendi did not want to say whether his committee could potentially recommend articles of impeachment based on the Emoluments Clause. He said he would not consider the matter until the current impeachment effort had run its course. A representative for Titus said much the same thing.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:49:43 GMT
George H.W. Bush deputy attorney general says ex-colleague Barr is creating a 'banana republic'The Week
Peter Weber,The Week•February 18, 2020
More than 2,000 former Justice Department officials, current federal prosecutors, and federal judges are urgently concerned about Attorney General William Barr's evident politicization of the Justice Department. Even "Trump voters" should be afraid of "Bill Barr's America," a "banana republic where all are subject to the whims of a dictatorial president and his henchmen," Donald Ayer, a former colleague of Barr's and deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, wrote in The Atlantic on Monday. He elaborated on CNN Monday evening.
theweek.com/articles/895432/rule-law-dead
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/donald-ayer-bill-barr-must-resign/606670/
Barr was Ayer's successor as deputy attorney general before starting his first go as attorney general a year later, in 1991. In the 40 years the two men have known each other, Ayer told CNN, Barr has "always had a very strong view that the executive ought to have a great deal of power. I've never known quite how far it would go, and there was never any reason to test it, because when he was attorney general under George H.W. Bush, George H.W. Bush had no interest in being an autocrat. So now we're faced with a situation where Bill Barr has won the job of attorney general under a president who apparently does want to be an autocrat."
In The Atlantic, Ayer writes that "it is not too strong to say that Bill Barr is un-American," and he elaborated on CNN. "The reason that I say that he's un-American is because I think it's fair to say, and I think most people would agree with me, that the central tenet of our legal system and our justice system is that no person is above the law," he wrote. "Bill Barr's vision is quite different. Bill Barr's vision is that there is one man, one person who needs to be above the law, and that is the president. ... He said that before he became attorney general but he's now carried it out in many steps."
Ayer elaborated on the ways he thinks Barr is harming America in his Atlantic article, concluding that to prevent this "banana republic," America needs "a public uprising demanding that Bill Barr resign immediately, or failing that, be impeached." Read more at The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/donald-ayer-bill-barr-must-resign/606670/
If William Barr Truly Believed in Rule of Law, He Would Resign news.yahoo.com/william-barr-truly-believed-rule-190047288.html
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 18, 2020 8:04:43 GMT
“Gangster in the White House”: Noam Chomsky on COVID-19, WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism
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We continue our conversation with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky. He responds to President Trump’s cuts to U.S. support for the World Health Organization and the surge in deaths in the United States to another record high, and discusses conditions in Gaza, the rise of authoritarianism around the world, and the progressive response. “This is typical behavior of autocrats and dictators. When you make colossal errors which are killing thousands of people, find somebody else to blame,” say Chomsky. “In the United States, it’s unfortunately the case, for well over a century, century and a half, that it’s always easy to blame the 'yellow peril.'”
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Post by the Scribe on May 5, 2020 8:36:29 GMT
Trump's latest crime spree: With pandemic as cover, he's going for epic corruptionwww.salon.com/2020/04/08/trumps-latest-crime-spree-with-pandemic-as-cover-hes-going-for-epic-corruption/
Trump knows he's in trouble, and wants to fire everybody who might stop him looting the place before November
AMANDA MARCOTTE
APRIL 8, 2020 5:20PM (UTC)
Donald Trump is on a search-and-destroy mission to remove anyone who might get in the way of him committing more crimes or using the federal government as a personal piggybank for himself and his friends. And he's using the coronavirus pandemic as a cover, knowing that both the media and Congress are too busy dealing with the crisis to prioritize Trump's obsession with maximizing his level of criminality and corruption.
Last week, with the media preoccupied with rising death tolls and exploding unemployment figures, Trump fired Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for intelligence services, as a clear cut act of revenge against Atkinson for reporting the original Ukraine whistleblower complaint to Congress last summer. That complaint, of course, exposed Trump's criminal conspiracy to blackmail Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into a phony investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden, who is now certain to be Trump's Democratic opponent in the 2020 election. (Bernie Sanders officially suspended his campaign on Wednesday.) The result was Trump's impeachment by the House of Representatives, which should have led to his removal from office — if Senate Republicans weren't willing to sign off on any crime he wishes to commit.
Trump described Atkinson as "not a big Trump fan, I can tell you," as if that justified firing an inspector general who fulfilled his legal responsibility to report a president's potentially criminal actions to Congress.
On Tuesday, Trump removed another inspector general, Glenn Fine, who oversees the Defense Department. Fine was originally set to chair the committee that oversees how the $2 trillion in coronavirus relief funds will be disbursed. Trump would like to replace him with Jason Abend, a Customs and Border Protection official. This move, coupled with reports that Trump is appointing Brian Miller, one of his personal lawyers — who has publicly sneered at the idea that Congress should have the power to hold the executive branch accountable— as the special inspector general overseeing stimulus spending should make the president's intentions clear.
As Democrats have warned, Trump clearly wants to treat the stimulus fund, which is supposed to mitigate the nation's economic collapse, as a slush fund for his rich supporters. One by one, he's eliminating anyone he perceives as an obstacle to that goal.
During Monday's propaganda rally and/or press briefing, Trump lashed out angrily when ABC News reporter Jon Karl asked him about a report from the Health and Human Services inspector general that detailed Trump's massive failures to help the medical community deal with the onslaught of COVID-19 patients.
"Did I hear the word 'inspector general?" Trump ranted. "Could politics be entered into that?"
Translating Trump's incoherent ramblings isn't fun for anyone, but his implication was clear — any inspector general who wasn't hand-picked by him is motivated by "politics" and therefore can't be trusted. What HHS inspector general Christi Grimm had in fact concluded was that Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis has been incompetent, which is about as controversial as observing that cats have whiskers.
Trump's attack on Grimm sends the same message as the other two firings: Anyone who tries to criticize Trump, much less stop him from committing crimes or treating government money as a slush fund, is in danger of losing their job.
Indeed, it's starting to look like the purge of inspectors general — and their replacement with Trump cronies who will look the other way while he wets his beak or nourishes his allies — has just begun. Late on Tuesday, Real Clear Politics White House correspondent Susan Crabtree tweeted that "Trump is firing 7 IGs" in one fell swoop, and "wants his own people in those positions now."
Crabtree tried to put a positive spin on this, in the spirit of RCP's obvious Republican tilt. But Trump — who would face any number of criminal indictments if he weren't protected by his office — deserves no benefit of the doubt.
On Tuesday, Trump appeared to confirm the rumor during yet another of his tedious camera-hogging sessions disguised as public health briefings. He claimed there are "reports of bias" involving inspectors general and his team would be "putting in seven names. I think it was seven."
"President Trump is abusing the coronavirus pandemic to eliminate honest and independent public servants because they are willing to speak truth to power and because he is so clearly afraid of strong oversight," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
That's all true, but could be considered a massive understatement, considering what we've seen of Trump's behavior over the past three and a half years. There's no telling what kind of criminal and corrupt behavior he plans to get up to between now and the presidential election, and what he fears that honest inspectors general might tell Congress if they aren't driven out and replaced with Trump flunkeys.
Trump has had only three goals as president: 1) Do as much racist crap as possible; 2) work as many angles as possible to enrich himself and his corrupt allies; and 3) Get re-elected, even if it means massive cheating or illegal interference on a previously unimaginable scale.
Having honest inspectors general embedded in government agencies poses a threat to all three goals, but especially to Nos. 2 and 3. (Sadly, entirely too much of Trump's racist agenda is legal, or has been rendered so by a Supreme Court controlled by Republican hacks.)
That Trump is making his big move now isn't a surprise.
For one thing, the coronavirus and the resulting economic collapse are obviously threatening his chances of winning in November. That's only going to escalate his interest in finding ways to use the powers of his office to cheat in the election, which is what he was impeached for doing in the first place.
But even if Trump loses the election, he will want to grab as much cash for himself and his friends as he can on his way out the door. (Even assuming he accepts the results and will leave office voluntarily.) That $2 trillion stimulus package is clearly quite the temptation for Trump, and there can be no doubt that looting it is a major goal. There are provisions in the bill meant to prevent Trump and his close allies from siphoning off stimulus funding, but making sure those provisions are observed requires vigorous oversight — which is obviously and blatantly what Trump doesn't want.
That means Congress and the media are going to have to step up and do more — which is a big ask, in the middle of a pandemic. The coronavirus is interrupting the ability of Congress to do its work, and removing the inspectors general who are supposed to inform Congress of presidential wrongdoing only makes the problem worse.
The media is already getting hit by reduced advertising revenue — even though readership and viewership are up with so many people stuck at home — and is mainly focused on getting out accurate information about the pandemic, rather than digging deep into Trump's corruption. Even reporters who do that work can expect fewer people to read it or elevate it on cable news or social media, because other stories will seem more pressing.
In a statement released after his firing, Atkinson urged government contractors and employees to report "unethical, wasteful, or illegal behavior in the federal government," because the "American people deserve an honest and effective government."
"Please do not allow recent events to silence your voices," he concluded.
But of course that's exactly what Trump, an opportunistic weasel to the core of his being, hopes will happen during what could be his last year in office. People are dying and losing their jobs, but our president's principal focus is on grabbing as much silverware as possible before he's evicted from the White House.
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Post by the Scribe on May 14, 2020 7:04:40 GMT
Donald Trump's business links to the mob - BBC Newsnight
BBC Newsnight
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Donald Trump now looks like the front-runner to be the Republican candidate for the US presidency. One of his big appeals is his business success - and his claim that his wealth means he can't be bought and sold. But there's evidence which not only casts doubt on Trump's wealth claims - but also reveals his history of business relationships with figures connected to organised crime. John Sweeney reports.
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Post by the Scribe on May 17, 2020 22:48:24 GMT
Eric Trump says lockdowns about hurting his dad, coronavirus fears will disappear after electionwww.yahoo.com/news/eric-trump-says-lockdowns-hurting-220025731.html
William Cummings, USA TODAY
USA TODAYMay 17, 2020, 3:00 PM MST
Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said Saturday that Democrats are "trying to milk" the coronavirus outbreak for political advantage, adding that concern about the outbreak will disappear after the election.
Speaking with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, Eric Trump said Democrats "are trying to milk this for everything they can and it's sad."
He said the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, "loves" the pandemic because it allows him to avoid the campaign trail.
"Biden can't go on stage without making some horrible blunder. I mean even from his basement he's making awful gaffes every single day. So, his campaign is thrilled that he's not going out there," said Eric Trump.
And he said Biden and his Democratic allies were happy to use the virus as a reason to his father from conducting campaign rallies.
"They think they are taking away Donald Trump's greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time," Eric Trump said. "Joe Biden can't get 10 people in a room. My father is getting 50,000 in a room. And they want to do everything they can to stop it."
When asked about the comments by President Donald Trump's son, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Sunday, "I think hyperbolic rhetoric on any side is not appropriate."
"I just think we need to have balanced, accurate information out there. That's all I and our public health leaders are trying to do, is to present the fact that we're now in a position where we can be reopening," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Azar said President Trump "laid out very balanced criteria and approaches that he suggests states follow" as they reopen.
"These aren't partisan issues," Azar said of Americans' "health and economic welfare."
Eric Trump was so certain that concern about the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 90,000 Americans, was politically driven that predicted it would no longer be an issue after the election.
"You watch, they'll milk it every single day between now and Nov. 3. And guess what, after Nov. 3, coronavirus will magically all of a sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen," he said.
The president was sharply criticized for a similar comment he made at a Feb. 28 rally in South Carolina where he referred to Democrats' criticism of his coronavirus response as "their new hoax." Many said the president was downplaying the threat posed by the outbreak, though Trump denied he was calling the virus itself a hoax.
The Biden campaign attacked Eric Trump's remarks in a statement.
"We’re in the middle of the biggest public health emergency in a century, with almost 90,000 Americans dead, 1.5 million infected, and 36 million workers newly jobless," said Kate Bedingfield, communications director for the campaign. "So for Eric Trump to claim that the coronavirus is a political hoax that will 'magically' disappear is absolutely stunning and unbelievably reckless."
Bedingfield said Trump "ignored the threat of the coronavirus for months and has mishandled the response at every step since – destroying the strong economy he inherited from the Obama-Biden administrations and leading to countless unnecessary death."
She said that because of the president's "dismal record" handling the pandemic,
"they're desperate to do whatever they can to throw up a smokescreen to try to conceal his historic mismanagement of this crisis."
Eric Trump also accused the news media of "stoking fear" and said outlets were "essentially a propaganda arm for the Democrats."
"They're doing a massive disservice," he said. "But they're doing it for one reason: they want to hurt Trump. They tried to do with the Russia thing, they tried to do it with the Ukraine scandal, they tried to do it with impeachment. Now, they're trying to do it with coronavirus."
He said that shutting down the economy was not about slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but hurting his father because Democrats and the news media do not believe Biden can defeat Trump. Several polls show Biden leading with voters.
"This is a very cognizant strategy that they're trying to employ," he said. "It's no different than the mail-in voting that they want to do all these places. It's no different than wanting illegal immigrants to vote in our country. It is a cognizant strategy. And it's sad. And, again, it's not going to be allowed to happen and we're going to win in November."
When asked if he believed Democratic governors ordered lockdowns in their states to hurt Trump, rather than protect their citizens, Azar said, "I find that it's better not to try to impugn individuals' motives."
"The president and the vice president and I have had superb working relationships with the governors across this country, from whether red state or blue state," he continued. "We have all been working in partnership to try to help the American people. And we're going to keep doing that."
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Eric Trump: Coronavirus fears are strategy to hurt dad's reelection
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Post by the Scribe on May 17, 2020 23:09:50 GMT
If you think children being abused is a joke ,it really shows your character not anyone else's.Donald Trump Jr. Smears Biden With Baseless Instagram Postwww.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-jr-smears-biden-154946071.html
Jonathan Martin
The New York TimesMay 17, 2020, 8:49 AM MST
Donald Trump Jr. Smears Biden With Baseless Instagram Post
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s eldest son on Saturday posted a social media message suggesting Joe Biden was a pedophile, an incendiary and baseless charge that illustrates the tactics the president is turning to as he attempts to erase Biden’s early advantage in key state polls.
Donald Trump Jr., who is one of his father’s most prominent campaign surrogates, put on Instagram a picture of Biden saying: “See you later, alligator” alongside an image of an alligator saying: “In a while, pedophile.”
When a reporter shared the Instagram post online, the younger Trump, echoing one of his father’s tactics, wrote on Twitter that he was only “joking around” and noted that he had included emojis of a laughing face.
Yet in the same Twitter post, he also reprised his original insinuation. He accused the former vice president of “unwanted touching” alongside a collage of photographs of Biden showing affection for children. The misleading images were mostly taken from public swearing-in ceremonies at the Capitol, where the former vice president warmly greeted lawmakers and their families.
Biden has been accused by some adult women of inappropriate behavior but he has never faced any suggestion of misconduct with a child. Trump himself faces roughly two dozen accusations of sexual misconduct, and in the “Access Hollywood” tape from 2005 bragged about sexually assaulting women and grabbing them by their private parts.
Trump Jr.’s inflammatory and baseless claim, which he shared with his 2.8 million Instagram followers, comes as his father and the reelection campaign have sought to weaken Biden and attack other perceived enemies with an onslaught of allegations and insinuations rarely seen in modern elections.
The 73-year-old president has, for example, purchased a series of Facebook ads openly accusing his 77-year-old Democratic rival of being “old and out of it,” as one of them puts it. And the president himself has said much the same, stating Thursday that Biden “doesn’t know he’s alive.”
Trump’s scorched earth campaign strategy comes as little surprise — he has broken an array of norms during his three years in office. But his offensive has taken on a new urgency as the country reels from the health and economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus, and Biden enjoys a modest lead in the battleground states that will decide the election.
A spokesman for the president’s campaign did not respond to an email message asking if they condone the younger Trump’s message.
Andrew Bates, a spokesman for Biden, said: “No repulsive, manipulative tactic will change the subject from how almost 90,000 Americans have paid for Donald Trump’s coronavirus negligence with their lives and how the booming economy he inherited from the Obama-Biden administration is now suffering from Depression-level job losses.”
Trump Jr., 42, is affiliated with his family’s real estate business. But he spends much of his time on his father’s political efforts and is ubiquitous on social media, where he often posts barbed memes about Democrats that can go beyond even the president’s accusations and insinuations. The eldest Trump son is also more of a dedicated conservative than his father and often gives voice to some of the more extreme elements of the right.
Further, Trump Jr. is something of an early warning system for Republican lines of attack. For months, he has been posting material questioning Biden’s mental acuity and accusing him of being “creepy,” as he wrote again Saturday.
In an interview with Axios earlier this year, Trump Jr. acknowledged his father sometimes calls him to tell him he’s being “too aggressive” in his attacks.
But the younger Trump said with a smile that he tells his father he “learned it by watching you” and claimed the president often is more jealous than irritated. “He just wanted the material. He was mad I beat him to the punch.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 5, 2020 20:44:35 GMT
Trump, Inc. Live
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He's the president, yet we're still trying to answer basic questions about how his business works: What deals are happening and who are they happening with? Are the president and his family keeping their promise to separate the Trump Organization from the Trump White House?
Join WNYC's Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz and ProPublica's Eric Umansky as they explore some of the biggest questions about the president's family business. They'll be joined by journalist and author Masha Gessen and Tony Schwartz, co-author of The Art of the Deal. And not to be missed, a closer look at a special collection of Trump-branded objects courtesy of journalist Max Abelson and the Mmuseumm.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 5, 2020 20:46:40 GMT
The Family Business: Trump and Taxes | Full Documentary (TV14)
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Free Full-Length Documentary short film directed by Emmy nominee Jenny Carchman and produced by Oscar nominees Liz Garbus and Justin Wilkes that follows a team of New York Times investigative reporters as they uncover information that leads to an exclusive breaking news story about President Trump's financial history. Order SHOWTIME for more groundbreaking documentaries! (TV-14)
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