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@MichaelCBender FEMA tents (left): for the victims
FEMA country club (right): for FEMA Dept Head
Any questions?
#TrumpSwamp
#corruption
#kleptocracy
FEMA country club (right): for FEMA Dept Head
Any questions?
#TrumpSwamp
#corruption
#kleptocracy
@MichaelCBender Disaster preparedness checklist for kleptocats:
-private plane ✅
-beachfront property where there’s no hurricane (Mar-A-Lago?) ✅
-catering from France ✅
-maids, housekeepers & Butler ✅
-yacht on standby ✅
-private plane ✅
-beachfront property where there’s no hurricane (Mar-A-Lago?) ✅
-catering from France ✅
-maids, housekeepers & Butler ✅
-yacht on standby ✅
@MichaelCBender “For everything else there’s the Government MasterCard”
"The disclosure suggests these loans could have generated more income from interest in a yearlong period than the entire value of the loans themselves."
Yet another update to his disclosure forms: Kushner filed wrong info about 2 of his loans in Brooklyn
propublica.org/article/whoops…
Yet another update to his disclosure forms: Kushner filed wrong info about 2 of his loans in Brooklyn
propublica.org/article/whoops…
Kushner paid $72.5 million for 3 properties valued at $3 million along a toxic Brooklyn canal from a developer.
The developer then bought 4 apartments from Michael Cohen for almost 5x their assessed value, in cash.
Cohen then invested with the developer
usatoday.com/story/news/201…
The developer then bought 4 apartments from Michael Cohen for almost 5x their assessed value, in cash.
Cohen then invested with the developer
usatoday.com/story/news/201…
Despite the property's high level of contamination, and its wildly inflated purchase price (financed by Signature Bank, on whose board Ivanka sat), Jared was able to sell it for $115 million 4 years later.
"Experts say the transactions raise red flags"
"Experts say the transactions raise red flags"
"@DonaldJTrumpJr called IREO “truly a fantastic group” when the companies announced the project in April 2016"
Trump Organization’s real estate partner in India IREO accused of defrauding its foreign investors of at least $147 million
(h/t @Khanoisseur)
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
Trump Organization’s real estate partner in India IREO accused of defrauding its foreign investors of at least $147 million
(h/t @Khanoisseur)
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
.@EPAScottPruitt spent over $105,000 on first-class flights in 2017, in addition to the $58,000 Pruitt rang up on charter flights and a military jet to carry him from an event with Trump in Cincinnati to catch a connecting flight to Europe out of NY
politi.co/2DJ0WR5
politi.co/2DJ0WR5
Former official: @DonaldJTrumpJr pushed ‘blatantly illegal’ project in India
Trump project in Mumbai had its permits revoked after investigators found “significant irregularities", including a suspected $100 million fraud scheme propublica.org/article/trump-…
Trump project in Mumbai had its permits revoked after investigators found “significant irregularities", including a suspected $100 million fraud scheme propublica.org/article/trump-…
"Every dictator, when the economy finally betrays them, must create the image of a besieged fortress." - @Kasparov63 on why dictators create national enemies.
#PutinCon
#PutinCon
In America, consider how Trump uses this strategy. For Trump, the alleged #FakeNews media is the national enemy.
#PutinCon
#PutinCon
teaches #PutinCon about the '99 Russian apartment bombings, an episode where Putin's gov't bombed his own people & framed the Chechens.
It was Russia's reichstag event & Russia's autocratic history since can only be viewed with this context.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_a…
It was Russia's reichstag event & Russia's autocratic history since can only be viewed with this context.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_a…
A roadmap for understanding Mueller's strategy: analysis of the 270 people connected to the #TrumpRussia investigation, including
• 138 with ties to Trump Org, campaign, transition or regime
• 53 foreign nationals (39 directly connected to Russia)
politico.com/interactives/2…
• 138 with ties to Trump Org, campaign, transition or regime
• 53 foreign nationals (39 directly connected to Russia)
politico.com/interactives/2…
Tom Barrack hasn't received much attention, but he's connected to several key figures in the investigation.
Rick Gates worked directly for Thomas Barrack as late as October 2017, days before he was indicted (along with Manafort, whom Trump hired at Barrack's urging) by Mueller
washingtonpost.com/politics/hes-b…
washingtonpost.com/politics/hes-b…
