The inauguration committee spent insane amounts of money at Trump Organization facilities, at per service rates more than double any prior inauguration’s. Get it, now? There’s even documented email conversations with event organizers about prices being too high and complaining about how it will look in the inevitable audit.
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The upcoming tweet storm might be more interesting than usual…
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OT. About the arrest of Paul Whelan in Russia, both Michael McFaul and John Brennan think there’s something fishy about it. Whelan was dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corp for larceny (I think his brother said on teevee that he was “unaware” of this. Hmmm.) Brennan said the CIA probably wouldn’t use someone like that as a spy. And as we know, Whelan was an avid Trump supporter.
Butina’s name did come up in discussion. heheheh.
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Patten’s links to Cambridge Analytical might also be very interesting…
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The fund has the name ‘Trump’ on it. Any key witnesses like Barrack or Gates would be able to tell investigators whether meetings were arranged or documents exchanged that aligned with the timing of contributions to the fund. Even 1 conversation in which a payment was discussed in connection with a meeting would be enough to take a case to trial.
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I have long been curious as to Tom Barrack’s role, if any, in all of this. Wasn’t he instrumental in getting Paul Manafort recommended as campaign director, in additional to co-chairing the inaugural committee? Any ideas?
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Trump’s ordeals have just begun … he will have miles and mile of water to cross - essentially an ocean - and each question will be a treacherous stepping stone - it might be a stable step forward if it is truth - or it could be the exploding exposure of fraud if it is revealed to be a documented lie… so … helping Trump by pointing out where the lies and fraud have been discovered - just would take the sport out of all of this … much better to have Trump sweat like an amateur trying to cross a mine field without a map or guide.
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Ya hafta admit that it will not be hard to be smarter than these stooges. We’ve seen it in the past. Nixon covered up and it took dogged digging by Woodward and Bernstein to get to the meat of Watergate. Now trumpsters do their crimes in broad daylight for all to wonder at. They even advertise as in trump personally asking Russia for Hillary’s emails which by itself is a campaign finance crime. And trump knew what he was doing was illegal. And he didn’t care who knew.
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and a metric-shit-tonne went to a party organizer in an amount that I am certain is entirely coincidentally about the same amount that represented the tRump U. settlement.
Nothing to see here, move along folks. Normal griftation operations executed by trained griftitioners.
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This is such great reporting - inside baseball stuff - very curious, indeed.
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It is interesting there has been no discussion of Pence in this area. With his involvement in the transition and the inaugural, his personal investments in western Asia, and his ties with Manifort, Flynn, it is easy to see him in all of this.
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This story is an example why when some pundits say Mueller is almost done and should have a report by mid-February, I’m skeptical. Unless someone out there knows what Mueller knows, it’s baseless speculation. I’m still investing in popcorn futures.
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The GOP was probably the recipient of lots of this funneled money as well.
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Hah! I’m investing in research on the genetics of Zea mays var. everta.
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I bet the redactions have to do with who received monies from foreign governments and not just t*.
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Seems to be his career MO. Everything could always be fixed. Tie people up in court until they relented and went away whimpering, manipulate the justice system for dismissal on technicalities, or simply stiff people and dare them to do anything negative with fear of personal/career devastation. Laws, rules, regulations, social strictures are for losers and other little people.
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I wonder if they are looking into the formaldehyde jar where shrivelled Wilbur Ross is kept.
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“I’m the corpse of Leona Helmsley and I still approve of this message.”
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Khyber900,
I would like to write a diary over at DailyKos about this. Would you mind if I quoted this comment of yours in its entirety?
Sincerely,
AlyoshaKaramazov
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Sure. Go ahead.
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