Fred Trump bought $3.3 million in casino chips at Taj Mahal Casino so Trump could make a payment. Such a GREAT BUSINESSMAN owned TWO casinos, borrowing heavily to pay for the extravagant Taj Mahal Casino, essentially building his OWN competition. The limited number of gamblers couldn’t support all three casinos, the first two lost money. His first MoneyLaundering fine for $477,000+ didn’t deter him, nor did repeated warnings. His second fine in March of 2015, $10 million is the largest in FinCEN history. As easily as Fred Trump bought the casino chips, oligarchs could be launder their dirty money by buying casino chips and simply cashing them in as winnings. Real estate is used for money laundering as well. Three units of the #TrumpSoHo sold to Kazakhstan fugitives from MoneyLaundering. EVERY Trump deal has problems. Azerbaijan, Panama, Philippines, NOW I’m reading Vancouver… Because of Bayrock Group, Felix Sater and Arif, both born in the former Soviet Union and partners in Bayrock who partnered with the Trump Organization- Bayrock Group was found to be substantially owned and operated by the mob, #TrumpSoHo was described as a MONUMENT TO MONEYLAUNDERING LAUNDERING and Ivanka and Donald Jr ALMOST went to prison for FRAUD, overstating the number of units sold to potential buyers. Sater’s emails saying that “We can get our boy elected. I can handle things. I can get all of Putin’s team onboard” Sater escorting the Trump children around Moscow, letting Ivanka sit in Putin’s chair. MUELLER is looking hard at the Bayrock Group and #TrumpSoHoFraud and Ivanka is certainly a subject of the investigation. Trump declared $98 million in casino losses, he got a $98 million tax offset that allows him to make $98 million tax free. His other bankruptcies and his pattern of failing to repay loans and his workers made it impossible for him to get a loan from American banks, as you said. Taj Mahal Casino sealed his fate regarding loans, rather the lack of. The television show The Apprentice allowed him to continue his charade as the billionaire deal maker, he often touted Trump SoHo on The Apprentice. A monument to money laundering, using the funds of a Russian oligarch and mob ties of a convicted felon. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/ivanka-trump-russia-mueller-investigation-organisation-subpoena

Fred Trump bought $3.3 million in casino chips at Taj Mahal Casino so Trump could make a payment. Such a GREAT BUSINESSMAN owned TWO casinos, borrowing heavily to pay for the extravagant Taj Mahal Casino, essentially building his OWN competition. The limited number of gamblers couldn’t support all three casinos, the first two lost money. His first MoneyLaundering fine for $477,000+ didn’t deter him, nor did repeated warnings. His second fine in March of 2015, $10 million is the largest in FinCEN history. As easily as Fred Trump bought the casino chips, oligarchs could be launder their dirty money by buying casino chips and simply cashing them in as winnings. Real estate is used for money laundering as well. Three units of the #TrumpSoHo sold to Kazakhstan fugitives from MoneyLaundering. EVERY Trump deal has problems. Azerbaijan, Panama, Philippines, NOW I’m reading Vancouver… Because of Bayrock Group, Felix Sater and Arif, both born in the former Soviet Union and partners in Bayrock who partnered with the Trump Organization- Bayrock Group was found to be substantially owned and operated bhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/ivanka-trump-russia-mueller-investigation-organisation-subpoenay the mob, #TrumpSoHo was described as a MONUMENT TO MONEYLAUNDERING LAUNDERING and Ivanka and Donald Jr ALMOST went to prison for FRAUD, overstating the number of units sold to potential buyers. Sater’s emails saying that “We can get our boy elected. I can handle things. I can get all of Putin’s team onboard” Sater escorting the Trump children around Moscow, letting Ivanka sit in Putin’s chair. MUELLER is looking hard at the Bayrock Group and #TrumpSoHoFraud and Ivanka is certainly a subject of the investigation. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/ivanka-trump-russia-mueller-investigation-organisation-subpoena

You seem to believe that only the ‘left’ have a problem with Trump. I see people who voted for Trump and bitterly regret it now. You ALSO assume that only Republicans serve their country in law enforcement and the military. If that’s so, why are people complaining about how many Democrats are on Mueller’s team? Mueller a Republican and appointed by a Republican.
Russian interference in the election, with the intent of helping Trump win, was confirmed by The FBI, CIA and NSA, released the declassified version 1/6/17. Trump and Obama received the classified version. Google Assessment of Russian Activities and Intentions In 2016 election for a 25 page pdf. Trump denies what our own intelligence agencies show and says he believes Putin. HE IS DERELICT IN DUTY, putting NATIONAL SECURITY at risk.
There’s a common misconception that people who believe that Trump is unfit for office are all latte drinking liberals. Apparently that’s what you think. However, elections in Alabama, Virginia and Pennsylvania should show people that Republicans are tired of the chaos, lies and threat to National Security that Trump is.
The Doomsday Clock was moved forward 30 seconds when Trump was elected to 2.5 minutes to midnight.
January 2018 The Doomsday Clock was moved forward another 30 seconds due to Trump’s bombastic attitude, Twitter tirades and chaotic situation in The White House. We stand at 2 minutes til midnight.
Midnight means total annihilation and little chance of human survival.
As for standing up for The Constitution, that’s exactly what #TheResistance is doing. Trump is corrupt and vulnerable to blackmail. You think Stormy Daniels is the only sex payoff? Or the Playboy Bunny? Or the woman who he harassed on The Apprentice?
Has The United States grown in stature in the eyes of the world since January 2017? Trump has corrupt deals worldwide, as does Kushner. My oldest brother Army, my other brother Marine. I lost my Uncle Pete fighting Nazis in Germany before I was born, we NOW have Nazis marching in the streets, killed Heather Heyers, carrying tiki torches and Nazi flags. Trump doesn’t support and defend the Constitution. He is aiding and abetting Putin as he reassembles The USSR piece by bloody piece. Crimea, Ukraine, United States.

Ladies and Gentlemen–The Iceberg

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Joseph Oldenbourg

On January 18 the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted to publish the transcripts of testimony provided to the committee by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.

Congressman Devin Nunes’ Communications Director, Jack Langer, emailed the transcript to the Valley Voice that afternoon.

Simpson’s firm, Fusion GPS, was the outfit that contracted former British spy Christopher Steele to investigate the Russia side of the Trump/Russia equation. The result was the now famous dossier bandied about in the news media.

Simpson testified for six hours before the committee on November 14, fielding questions and interpreting the dossier.

Having read Simpson’s testimony, it is readily apparent that no commentary is necessary. The following, therefore, is lifted–in order–directly from the 165-page transcript. The elipsis are not for editorial purposes but to streamline the narrative.

According to Simpson:

One of the very first things that I focused on was Donald Trump’s relationship with a convicted racketeer named Felix Sater, and who was alleged to have an organized crime, Russian organized crime background.

Over the course of the first phase…we developed a lot of additional information suggesting that the company that Donald Trump had been associated with and Felix Sater, Bayrock, was engaged in illicit financial business activity and had organized crime connections.

…Mr. Trump had long time associations with Italian organized crime figures. And as we pieced together the early years of his biography, it seemed…during the early part of his career he had connections to a lot of Italian mafia figures, and then gradually during the nineties became associated with Russian mafia figures.

And so all of that had developed by the spring of 2016 to the point where it was not a speculative piece of research; it was pretty well-established.

…We also increasingly saw Mr. Trump’s business career had evolved over the prior decade into a lot of projects in overseas places, particularly in the former Soviet Union, that were very opaque, and that he had made a number of trips to Russia, but said he’d never done a business deal there. And I found that mysterious.

…Lots of other issues came up during the primaries that raised concerns in my mind about whether there might be connections–Donald Trump might have unexplained connections to Russia or people involved in that part of the world.

…The funding of Bayrock was, I think, much of what we initially were concerned about and focused on. The company seemed to have some sort of funding source from either Russia or the former Soviet Union that was opaque. So we spent a lot of time looking at the people around that and their backgrounds and why Mr. Trump would be in business with them.

…The amazing number of people from the former Soviet Union who had purchased properties from Mr. Trump, including Dmitry Rybolovliev, who purchased a derelict estate at an extreme markup in Florida. And a number of other people bought into his properties.

I guess the general thing I would say is that…the Russians are far more sophisticated in their criminal organized crime activities than the Italians, and they’re a lot more global. They understand finance a lot better. And so they tend to use quite elaborate methods to move money.

…The offshore system has grown in sophistication in the last decade or so, too, so they’ve taken advantage of that.

…If you can think of a way to launder money, the Russians are pretty good at it. But they specifically understand financial markets.

…The thing that comes to mind, of course, is the real estate deals. And…it came to our attention…that there were a lot of real estate deals where you couldn’t really tell who was buying the property.

…I think we saw patterns of buying and selling that we thought were suggestive of money laundering.

…There was various criminals were buying the properties. So there was a gangster–a Russian gangster living in Trump Tower.

His gangster name is Taiwanchik…These are the kind of things that prompted us to hire Mr. Steele.

And when Mr. Trump went to the Miss Universe pageant in 2013, Taiwanchik was there in the VIP section with Mr. Trump and lots of other Kremlin biggies. So that kind of thing that raised questions with us.

…The patterns of activity that we thought might be suggestive of money laundering were…fast turnover deals and deals where there seemed to have been efforts to disguise the identity of the buyer.

…Some of the things that we…looked at that we thought were very concerning are existing investments in projects…specifically a project in Panama, the one in Toronto. These both got a lot of fraud associated with them, a lot of fraud allegations, a lot of activity that I would say smacks of fraud, and a lot of Russian mafia figures listed as buyers who may or may not have put money into it.

The other one that is–was concerning to us was–is the golf courses in Scotland and Ireland.

…We saw what Eric Trump said about Russian money being available…for the golf course projects, making remarks about having unlimited sums available.

…Because the Irish courses and the Scottish are under UK…corporate law, they…file financial statements. And they don’t, on their face, show Russian involvement, but what they do show is enormous amounts of capital flowing into these projects from unknown sources and…it’s hundreds of millions of dollars. And these golf courses are just…sinks. They don’t actually make any money.

…If you’re familiar with Donald Trump’s finances and the litigation over whether he’s really a billionaire…there’s good reason to believe he doesn’t have enough money to do this and that he would have had to have outside financial support for these things.

…Well established in criminology now is that the Russian mafia is essentially under the dominion of the Russian Government and Russian Intelligence Services. And many of the oligarchs are also mafia figures.

…Basically everyone in Russia works for Putin now.

…Essentially, if people who seem to be associated with the Russian mafia are buying Trump properties or arranging for other people to buy Trump properties, it does raise a question about whether they’re doing it on behalf of the government.

…One of the central mysteries of Donald Trump is that…beginning in the mid-2000s he was not a creditworthy businessman.

…So if you’re analyzing…someone who says they’re a billionaire but can’t get a bank loan…there’s this whole issue of where is the credit coming from.

I think that the evidence that has developed over the last year, since President Trump took office, is that there is a well-established pattern of surreptitious contacts that occurred last year that supports the broad allegation of some sort of an undisclosed political or financial relationship between the Trump Organization and people in Russia.

…The first thing that I would do would be to subpoena the brokers and…the other people that were involved in the transactions, and the title companies and the other intermediaries that would have that kind of information.

Then I would go to the banks next. But I actually think some of the intermediary entities in a lot of these transactions are going to be where a lot of the information is.

…It’s these sort of intermediary entities that have no real interest in protecting the information, and all you have to do is ask for it and they just sort of produce it by rote.

…All dollar transactions are generally cleared through New York…So…the main thing you have to do is identify the banks that were used.

…By 2003, 2004, Donald Trump was not able to get bank credit…and if you’re a real estate developer and you can’t get bank loans…you’ve got a problem.

And then ultimately…what we came to realize was that the money was actually coming out of Russia and going into his properties in Florida and New York and Panama and Toronto and these other places.

One of the things we now know about how the condo projects were financed is that…you can get credit if you can show that you’ve sold a certain number of units.

…So the real trick is to get people who say they’ve bought those units, and that’s where the Russians are to be found, in some of those pre-sales, is what they’re called. And that’s how…in Panama they got the credit of…they got…Bear Stearns to issue a bond by telling Bear Stearns that they’d sold a bunch of units…

…There’s supposed to be contracts, down payments, all that sort of thing. So in the case of Panama where the evidence was most vivid…the buyers were fake. I mean, they were real people. They just never paid.

This–it’s in the public records.

President Donald Trump is an active member of the Russian mafia.

Unfortunately you are probably correct …… but one can always hope that there are enough Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who will get out and vote who aren’t as enamored with Trump/Putin/Nunes as you seem to be. Tulare County has always been a red county but I never thought that it would be Russian Red.

You sound like you are Colonel Nathan R. Jessep rather than Filo Beto. You really do! And for the record Filo, I do appreciate law enforcement and our men and women who serve in the military…….how could I not….I have been married to a Viet Nam Veteran for well on 50 years now as well as having many more members of my family proudly and bravely serve in the U.S. military. As a long time Tularean for well over 70 years I have always supported our local police chiefs and the rank and file officers. I praise them when they do good but I will speak out when I think that they are in the wrong. You think you are an American patriot……well so am I….. as a real patriot is someone who loves their country enough to speak up when they see something that needs to be changed; not someone who blindly assumes that their government knows best and is always right no matter what! But I will end this back and forth conversation with you by adding a big thank you for your service. Goodbye Filo.

First Trump came for the women
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a woman.

Then Trump came for the people with disabilities
And I did not speak out
Because I did not have a disability.

Then Trump came for the African Americans
And I did not speak out
Because I was not African American.

Then Trump came for the Mexicans
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Mexican.

Then Trump came for the Muslims
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Muslim.

Then Trump came for the gay, bi, and trans people
And I did not speak out
Because I was not gay, bi or trans.

Then Trump came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew.

Then Trump came for the journalists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a journalist.

Then Trump came for the judges
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a judge.

And now Trump is coming for the Constitution of the United States
And if I do not speak out, what am I?

ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE…..I DON’T WANT TO BE ANOTHER FILO BETO!