Follow The Money
Now, this is interesting.
Trump released his financial disclosure forms and, sure ’nuff, it shows that Trump “paid his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, back for an expense listed at between “$100,001–250,000.”
I wonder if that’s …. oh yeah, you know it is.
You can look at that particular page by clicking right here.
Trump’s lawyer says that omitting this from the previous report was not a lie or anything, they just didn’t count it as a liability because … well, because they say it isn’t.
The former Director of the Department of Government Ethics replied that this is “tantamount to a criminal referral.”
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.
“Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up!”
1May I just say: Al Capone.
2When you commit fraud, evade paying taxes, omit the truth, you are liable. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and Dump may be ignorant, but he’s liable. Throw the book at him!
I hope someone’s keeping a list of all the illegal and corrupt things this scumbag has done so far, because I’ve lost track. It seems to be a full-time job.
3I have one ear on MNBC right now. They are chewing over some stuff the ANYT revealed today about the FBI investigation before the election into Trump. And then I look at this message from the WMDBS and I once again have a Mona Lisa smile.
4@1 Liess: Projection is a GOP way of life…
I wonder, no Mueller, no Avenatti, no declaration?
5I keep hearing the now-silent Michael Flynn as a fading echo, “If we did a tenth of what she did…”
Apparently Mr. Flynn didn’t know the difference between division and multiplication.
6Aww, c’mon. You can’t expect Trump to remember all the porn stars he has had his attorney pay off. There are so many!
7PBS is rerunning a good program on some of this swampthing stuff tonight, it may be on your local PBS channel, at 8PM here.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trumps-takeover/
“SEASON 36: EPISODE 7
8FRONTLINE goes inside President Trump’s high-stakes battle for control of the GOP, examining how he attacked fellow Republicans and used inflammatory rhetoric that rallied his base and further divided the country in his first year as president.”
(How many years could I live on the difference between $100,000 and $250,000?)
9So much noise over 30,000 emails.
10Let’s make a racket over $30,000 DOLLARS!!! on top of another $100,000 DOLLARS for good measure. Or in the case of Trump, probably small, bad measure.
This is a bit O/T but I have always wondered why the Repugnicants in Congress who were “investigating” Hillary’s emails didn’t just require the NSA to send them a copy of all of the emails. If Hillary was using a private email server you can bet that the NSA has every email on file somewhere. They admitted that they were doing that for everyone else’s email communications.
11Oh my!
The Cohen financial records were leaked in response to entries in a database going missing. Someone with the requisite clearance was somehow able to do what should be impossible.
And yet…
12Wow! They really do have delusions of grandeur in that payoff the porn star thing! And they all come tumbling down! Now Mueller is issuing s subpoena to the phone company to release the “blocked” number Dumbo Jr. called right after he met with the Russian “lawyer” (KGB). Dumbo Jr swears he can’t remember who he called at that time on that day. My God! Who in the world helps him put his shoes on the right feet in the morning!
13Here is the article Old Fart is referring to.
It will be interesting when the US Treasury Department Inspector General follows the electronic trail on who made the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) go missing. There’s a Watergate moment in the making if this 21st Century theft is traced back to the Oval Office.
The whistleblower said two files about Cohen’s business dealings are missing from a government database.
14https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whistleblower-michael-cohen-suspicious-activity-reports_us_5afcd865e4b0779345d5b933
@James Cargas
Can the Rooskies be trusted to provide 100% accurate copies of the missing Financial documents? Asking for a friend.
15Read that footnote carefully. The strained way that this is trying to be characterized as attorneys fees tells me that the payment actually had to originate in a fund to which the same would be deductible to balance out. Remember how many times Rudy denied that the payment came from campaign funds that first day of his wingnut TV tour? Trump’s track record hints that he would never pay this from personal funds.
16Destruction of evidence is a felony.
And somebody well connected in the Treasury Department has been quietly removing bank reports of suspicious financial activity by Michael Cohen:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/missing-files-motivated-the-leak-of-michael-cohens-financial-records
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