Isnāt Baghdad Ruddy supposed to deliver this kind of bafflespin? Where is he these days?
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders minimized reports that federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York subpoenaed President Trumpās inaugural committee on Monday, saying the news has ānothing to do with the White House.ā
No, Sarah, itās true. You are a idiot.
The Trump Inaugural committee has nothing to do with Donald Trump. He didnāt know those people. He barely met them. They may have brought coffee once or twice.
Gawdās Sake, Sarah, donāt you have a new lie? Do we have to keep listening to the same old ones?
How much money went into the pockets of various tRumpsā¦ I am sure the white house got none of itā¦ so in some ways it does have nothing to do with the white houseā¦ it has everything to do with the utter corruption of the entire tRump administration.
Donnie, Donnie, Donnie.
Everything (criminal) is about youā¦
In the post-Regime era, I want her begging her bread in the streets.
What did they inaugurate tRump to then?? Dog catcher? Grounds keeper? President of the Rotary Club? Shit. He couldnāt even do those jobs if he tried.
Heavens to Betsy, she is dumb as a fucking rock.
If they have to interview everyone who attended Donnieās coronation, thatāll take at least a day.
āNothing to do with the White Houseā but everything to do with its occupant. Is that what youāre trying to say? Not my job to be a shit-screen for this one?
And a flight to Russia to confirm all the attendees that were thereā¦providing tRumpās daddy, Putin, allows it.
This probe is going to land a lot of folks in jail. This is about embezzlement and other crimes relating to the redirection of funds for non-permitted purposes, FARA, bribery and treason (with a small ātā). It will likely lead to the end of any Trump connected business entity that received any of these funds as ill gotten gains. This is about the entire $102 million raised, not just the unaccounted for portion.
āThere are no American tanks in Baghdad, Never!ā
āSanders, ca. 2003
If youāre keeping score at home they just coffee-boyed Ivanka. We all knew it would happen, of course, but who had early February in the pool?
covfefe what?
Just go to Urban Dictionary like I always do, Iām sure itās there. 
Yeah, wasnāt she supposed to leave at the end of 2018? Thereās gotta be someone who will hire her to clean toilets.
We have all known about the grift-trough that was the inauguration for two years now; can we speculate that Mueller & Co. has near finished the case and now theyāre just looking for corroborating documents to put the final nails in the coffin to include perjury, destruction of evidence, etc. and to get some more rats?
If the case were theyāre just starting to look into it then Iād say we have ohhhhhhhhhh, another 20 years to go in the investigation.
How long was Venona? Deades? Oh just '43 to 80 or so. No worries then.
Reposted from another thread:
There are at least 4 articles on this subpoena (ABC, WSJ, WAPO, NYT). They are each organized a bit differently and speak to different things. This subpoena, although issued by the SDNY, has some direct ties to the Mueller probe because of Rick Gates (who was Tom Barrackās point person to run the inaugural fund), Tom Barrack, who got Manafort on the Trump campaign and smoothed things over with the Gulf Arab states to make them Trump allies, and Michael Cohen (the raid against him last April apparently sparked this investigation).
The usual WH spin eaters have to throw in the obligatory āas Mueller is winding downā. This isnāt Mueller winding down. This is the Mueller investigation. He has farmed out cases over the past 2 years to avoid giving Trump a single target to hit, to avoid unnecessary issues as to his mandate, and to take advantage of some pretty smart attorneys who know how to prosecute a wide range of criminal matters. The Mueller investigation will go on long after Trump is removed from office. This thread alone could result in 2 to 4 years of investigations, prosecutions and referrals for more prosecutions.
So based on a collective read of the articles here is what I glean:
- This is a subpoena from a SDNY organized grand jury.
- This relates to the actions of the Trump Inaugural Fund, which raised $103 million but identified vendors accounting for only $61 million (but no breakdown).
- The subpoena appears to list the crimes being investigated: conspiracy to defraud the United States, mail fraud, false statements, wire fraud, and money laundering. Thatās a pretty big list. The money laundering one would be the first time, I believe, that a Trump branded or connected entity has been criminally investigated for money laundering (Trump once had to pay fines on a civil money laundering charge for one of his casinos).
- The subpoenaās focus is broad. It addresses the scope of donors, whether they paid vendors directly, whether they were foreign (and that the Trumpers knew they were foreign and intentionally solicited them).
"Among the subpoenaās requests is one for documents regarding any donations to the committee āmade by or on behalf of foreign nationals, including but not limited to any communications regarding or relating to the possibility of donations by foreign nationals.ā
The subpoena also asks for documents related to ādonations or payments made by donors directly to contractors and/or vendorsā used by the committee, including any communications related to the possibility of such donations being āmade or directed to contractors or vendors.ā WSJ.
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Additionally, this probe is also looking at how the money that was collected in the inaugural fund was spent. Was this, as Maddow first identified 2 years ago, a slush fund? Did the Trumpers take these amounts for themselves, running the same scam and schemes that Fred Trump perfected to siphon money from renters to his children? That is not as explicitly stated but it is an implied area of inquiry. After all, if donors paid money directly to vendors, what happened to the very large unspent balance in the Inaugural Fund? Did the Trumpers and their friends pocket it? (We know the answer to this one as there has already been reporting of inflated invoicing, which is the commonly used means by the Trumpers to get a cut/kick back).
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Moreover, there is a big pay to play aspect here that is also a part of this investigation. Michael Cohen (per the Daily Beast) got paid $2 million selling access to Trump for donors (top companies like AT&T). But there is more than that. These articles reveal, by implication, that a driver of the investigation is whether the Trumpers solicited donations from foreigners, and foreigners sought to donate to the Trump Inaugural Fund in exchange for policy favors. That moves us into bribery territory, not just embezzlement or crimes relating to the misuse of funds for personal enrichment.
Like the investigation into the Trump Foundation, this is about corruption, misuse of funds, and hints at darker things like bribery and pay to play schemes that subvert the national interest of the American people and their govāt to those of foreign countries.
I think heās lying low after the retired judge in New York gave him some unwanted attention.