Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Contents of locked Trump Tower filing cabinets new focus of NY AG Letitia James: report



According to a report from Business Insider, New York Attorney General Letitia James' investigation into the business practices of the Trump Organization is now focusing on the contents of two-dozen locked file cabinets located in Trump Tower.

On the same day that the company's accounting firm severed ties with Donald Trump and his family and suggested the filings they prepared for them should not be trusted, now comes news that James is ramping up her investigation prior to a court hearing later this week.

With the report noting that a hearing is set for Thursday over attempts to get Don Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump to sit for depositions sought by the state's investigators, Insider claimed the cabinets are likely to come up.

"According to sources and recent court filings, investigators' sights are set on two dozen beige, metal file cabinets in the former president's Trump Tower headquarters on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan," the report states. "The cabinets line a back wall of the skyscraper's 26th floor, where Trump has his executive offices."

The report continues, "Given the former president's reportedly heedless way with documents, New York Attorney General Letitia James appears particularly eager to secure their contents," with one insider who wished to be anonymous, stating, "They go back decades."

The report goes on to point out that there are "additional files that are no longer active are stored in an off-site facility."

"Both the AG and the [Mantatan] DA have been looking into possible tax, banking and insurance law violations at The Trump Organization since early 2019, shortly after Trump's prison-bound former attorney, Michael Cohen, testified before Congress that his boss routinely lied about the value of assets to get loans or tax breaks," the report adds. "Nearly three years into these probes, only one official connected to The Trump Organization has faced civil or criminal allegations — CFO Allen Weisselberg, charged with dodging income taxes on more than $1.7 million in perks that the DA says should have been reported as pay."

You can read more here:

https://www.insider.com/letitia-james-trump-tower-files-court-battle-2022-2


Trump about to be hit with racketeering case — 3 oldest kids may get charged too: David Cay Johnston



Donald Trump's family business will be charged with racketeering, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist predicted on CNN on Tuesday.

CNN's John Berman interviewed David Cay Johnston — one of the few journalists to obtain Trump's tax returns — following news that the accounting firm Mazars dropped Trump as a client.

"What happens if Mazars cooperates with investigators?" Berman asked. "Which, by all accounts, it does seem that they are."

"Well, Donald Bender, the Mazars accountant who prepares Trump's tax returns testified before the Manhattan grand jury and New York has this very unusual law, if you testify before the grand jury, you are granted immunity," Johnston explained. "That's not true at the federal level and in other states. So, he no longer is in concern personally for anything he may have done, from the Manhattan prosecutors."

"But, it does mean that Mazars is helping the prosecutors put together the, what I expect, will be a racketeering case. A New York state racketeering case against Trump, the Trump Organization, Allen Weissingberg and probably Donald's three older children," he said, referring to Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.

New York's Enterprise Corruption and the Organized Crime Control Act, often known as "little RICO," is the state's adaption of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) that is designed to go after organized crime.

The New York statue can carry prison terms of up to 25 years.

"Where do you think this ends for Donald Trump and the Trump Organization?" Berman asked.

"Well, the civil case -- the civil matter by Letitia James — is going to result in a civil suit making numerous charges of falsification of documents, false claims, and obtaining benefits as a result. The Manhattan grand jury is eventually going to indict Donald Trump," Johnston predicted. "They got 5 million pages of documents, John, they have to go through every one of them before they can finish their work."

"But Donald Trump will be indicted on a state racketeering charge, I'm confident of that," he said. "And perhaps in Westchester County, by Mimi Rocah, the new D.A. there and in Fulton County, Georgia, by Fani Willis, looking into voter fraud and now has a grand jury just for the purpose of investigating Trump's effort to interfere with the Georgia vote count," Johnston added.

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[Richard Smith]

Just like I said, this phony "convoy" was a funded right wing operation to cause chaos and to disrupt the Canadian and American government. This is the ongoing violent right wing coup to overthrow our governments. 

Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors
GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked on Sunday night.

The Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada was hacked on Sunday night, and the names and personal details of over 92,000 donors were leaked online.

You are really suggesting that giving money to a political cause is somehow not permissible?  And your support for this is apparently someone illegally hacking the name of donors?  Do you see the irony of supporting illegal conduct to advocate against what you are falsely suggesting is illegal conduct?  You would fit in perfectly with the Clinton campaign that illegally hacked in into the WH servers.  Spying on the US President.  A treasonable crime. 

[Rick Plant]

You are really suggesting that giving money to a political cause is somehow not permissible?  And your support for this is apparently someone illegally hacking the name of donors?  Do you see the irony of supporting illegal conduct to advocate against what you are falsely suggesting is illegal conduct?  You would fit in perfectly with the Clinton campaign that illegally hacked in into the WH servers.  Spying on the US President.  A treasonable crime.

First of all this is not a "political cause". This is another violent insurrection set up by far right wing extremists and the money is being funneled by hate groups and other far right groups. And I never condoned any hacking. Once again you make up stuff against me. Pathetic!

Also, Criminal Donald was never "spied on". He was under an FBI investigation for his Russian involvement. Your right wing media is hyping a lie and a nothingburger. The only ones who committed treason is Criminal Donald and his cohorts and they will all be in prison for an attempted coup against the United States government.

Criminal Donald is a private citizen and he's calling for executions. He should be arrested immediately. Durham is nothing but a right wing political hack.

'The Durham investigation is in real trouble': Legal expert untangles the right wing's latest conspiracy theory

The Donald Trump-appointed special counsel filed a misleading motion that has lit up Fox News and other conservative outlets, but a national security expert threw cold water on their narrative.

Fox News has been hyping special counsel John Durham's filing, which they have inaccurately declared as evidence that Hillary Clinton's campaign had paid technology executive Rodney Joffe to "infiltrate" a White House server, and Trump has called for anyone involved to be executed -- but attorney Marcy Wheeler explained how they had gotten their facts wrong to MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"One of the things [Durham] revealed in that, which I have heard from other people is this claim that Rodney Joffe was accessing data from the White House," Wheeler said. "All of that data precedes Trump's inauguration, so you have Trump out there calling for these people to be put to death when really what happened is Rodney Joffe was trying to keep [then-president] Barack Obama safe from hackers. That's all it is. That's why Trump wants these people killed, Durham knows that."

"Durham knows that this data precedes Trump," she continued. "He didn't include it in the filing so he has everyone worked up on Fox News. John Ratcliffe, you showed him earlier. Kash Patel is the source of many of these false claims. They were both witnesses to John Durham and Kash Patel has known about this allegation going back to December of 2017 because he's the one who asked [cybersecurity lawyer] Michael Sussman about it. Michael Sussman was honest about it back in December 2017 and Kash Patel when he was an Intelligence Committee staffer, when he was working in the White House, when he was the chief of staff for [the Department of Defense] he did nothing about this because he knew that all Rodney Joffe was doing was trying to keep the White House safe from hackers. That's what this is about."

Durham has accused Sussman of lying to FBI investigators during a September 2016 meeting about Trump's possible links to Russia, and this latest filing centers around the tech executive's investigation of rumors that computers at Trump Tower were communicating with servers at Russia's Alfa Bank.

"The Durham investigation is in real trouble," Wheeler said. "One of the allegations in the indictment is that Sussman was coordinating with the Hillary [Clinton] campaign on these Alfa Bank allegations back in October. Sussman was, like, name the people. In October, Durham said, 'I don't have any people.' In November, he first interviewed a Hillary staffer, he hadn't actually investigated this. We also learned recently that even though Durham and [then-attorney general] Bill Barr flew to Italy to get the phones from Joseph Mifsud, if you remember, is that Italian who was talking to George Papadopoulos. He never walked across DOJ to get the phones from James Baker, who is the single witness to this conversation with Michael Sussman. He didn't find out that DOJ [inspector general] had two of the phones until January. Then, after he revealed that he had these phones that he should have looked for four years ago, he then had to disclose that he had been told about one of the phones back in 2018 but he didn't remember it anymore."

"That's not the only thing that Durham didn't do before charging Sussman," Wheeler added.

She listed other flaws in Durham's investigation, and she expects Sussman to file a motion to dismiss the indictment against him -- and she believes the special counsel filed his pretrial motion last week to get ahead of that move.

"Probably what last Friday's stunt was about for Durham was an attempt to preempt that, an attempt to pretend that this investigation isn't kind of post-hoc a discovery of things," Wheeler said. "For example, he didn't investigate what the FBI's relationship is with Rodney Joffe before he charged Michael Sussman. He only pulled the communications when Sussman said, 'Why don't you find out what kind of relationship the FBI has with Joffe.' He discovered there were thousands of communications, so Durham is very close to position where Sussman is going to have the opportunity to say, 'You didn't do an investigation before you charged me.'"

"A week before he probably is going to have to do that this stunt comes out and you have all of these people who were witnesses, who fed these conspiracy theories to Durham on the front end," Wheeler concluded, "who then go on Fox News and make false claims about it. That's what the story is, Kash Patel garbage in, Kash Patel garbage out, and Trump threatening to kill people as a result."

 

[Rick Plant]

Trump's criminal kids crimes are now in the spotlight and it's going to trial.

'Now we're going to trial': Trump kids suffer major legal blow in DC inauguration investigation



According to a report from the Daily Beast, while Donald Trump and his family were reeling from a New York Times report that the Trump Organization's accounting firm was severing ties with the company while casting doubts about the past ten year's worth of financial statements, the family suffered another stinging blow in a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C.

As the Beast's Jose Pagliery reported, the Trump organization -- and specifically Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump -- are now facing the prospect of going to trial in a case involving the misuse of inauguration donations back in 2017.

According to the report, Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is seeking to take Donald Trump and members of his family to court over more than a million dollars that the prosecutor maintains was used illegally.

Previously "D.C. Superior Court Judge José M. López appeared to ruin the local attorney general’s investigation when he decided the case could proceed—but dropped the Trump Organization from the lawsuit. His odd reasoning was that Donald Trump Jr.’s financier friend, Gentry Beach, had made a deal on behalf of the Trump Organization without the company’s permission and therefore the company wasn’t really at fault," report notes.

However, on Monday, newly appointed Judge Yvonne Williams on Monday overruled López, saying there is enough evidence to include the Trump family members by writing, "It was erroneous for the court to rule against the district based on the district’s failure to depose… Mr. Beach… when the Court had [withheld] ruling on the district’s request to conduct that very discovery."

According to Pagliery, that puts the Trump kids squarely back in the middle of the case.

"Racine seeks to have the Trump Hotel D.C. pay back nearly $1 million in funds that were spent on what local government investigators describe as self-dealing by the incoming president’s adult kids—Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump—to personally benefit themselves using money meant to celebrate the nation’s peaceful transfer of power," Pagliery reported. "At the crux of that alleged scheme is an episode in which the Trump Organization reserved a block of rooms at the Loews Madison Hotel, only to stiff the hotel when more than a dozen expected guests didn’t show up. The company managed to dodge a credit collection agency and pushed off the $49,358 bill to the nonprofit presidential inaugural committee, the PIC."

The report notes that Racine celebrated the ruling by announcing his next steps, tweeting out, "Our lawsuit is moving forward fully intact & full steam ahead. We sued the inaugural committee for misusing funds to enrich the Trump family. Now we’re going to trial.”

You can read more here:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/valentines-day-really-sucked-for-the-trump-organization

[Rick Plant]

Expert: Trump's financial desperation 'explodes the national security risk by a factor of 10'



Donald Trump is facing financial peril after his accounting firm, Mazars, broke up with him and cast doubt on a decade of financial reports the firm had created for the Trump Organization.

Trump's financial desperation has created a national security risk, The Daily Beast reported Wednesday.

Despite Trump's reassurances that Mazars is not a problem for his family business, the developments have "stopped members of his inner sanctum from wondering if the highly publicized investigations in New York could actually be what ultimately torches the ex-president’s sprawling family business."

The BEAST interviewed Miami attorney Steven J. Solomon for information on the dynamics.

“It’s incredibly significant. And frankly, I’ve never heard of a situation where an accounting firm is going back retroactively 10 years,” he told The Beast.

Joseph Cirincione, a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, warned Mazars' decision will scare off legitimate accounting firms and banks from working with the former president.

“This explodes the national security risk by a factor of 10, because now he's going to be desperate for new loans. Legitimate banks are not going to touch him. So it expands the universe of shady characters who could offer him loans in return for favors that might include disclosing U.S. national security secrets,” Cirincione said. “Whether it is the Saudis, Russians, narcoterrorists—anybody with access to hundreds of millions would be in the running for Donald Trump’s new loan officer."

“That is why you don’t give security clearance to people who are financially compromised," he explained.

Read the full report:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-inner-circle-freaks-that-his-tax-firm-screwed-him

[Rick Plant]

Way to go Joe!

Biden rejects Trump's executive privilege claim -- and orders release of White House visitor logs



Donald Trump's efforts to block the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol from obtaining government documents was once again rejected by the White House, which ordered the National Archives to hand over visitor logs.

"In a letter to the National Archives, Mr. Biden’s White House counsel, Dana Remus, said Mr. Biden had rejected Mr. Trump’s claims that the visitor logs were subject to executive privilege and that “in light of the urgency” of the committee’s work, the agency should provide the material to the committee within 15 days," The New York Times reported Wednesday. "Mr. Biden had similarly decided last year not to support Mr. Trump’s claim of executive privilege over other batches of White House documents and records sought by the committee."

Trump has lost his court efforts seeking to keep the documents secret.

"The White House sent the letter to David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, on Tuesday, and planned to inform Mr. Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday morning. The New York Times obtained a copy of the letter. It is not clear what the visitor logs might show or how extensive and complete they are," the newspaper reported. "Committee investigators have made some progress in recent weeks putting together a better portrait of what Mr. Trump was doing inside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, and who visited with him."

Read the full report:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/us/politics/biden-trump-white-house-visitor-logs.html

[Richard Smith]

First of all this is not a "political cause". This is another violent insurrection set up by far right wing extremists and the money is being funneled by hate groups and other far right groups. And I never condoned any hacking. Once again you make up stuff against me. Pathetic!

Also, Criminal Donald was never "spied on". He was under an FBI investigation for his Russian involvement. Your right wing media is hyping a lie and a nothingburger. The only ones who committed treason is Criminal Donald and his cohorts and they will all be in prison for an attempted coup against the United States government.


 

Keep up the Stasi-like vilification of the working class.  That's a great recipe for a crushing election loss in November.  There has been no "violence" among the Canadian truckers.  An entirely peaceful protest despite Trudeau's outlandish threats.  Trudeau is acting more and more like a Communist era dictator trying to repress the uprisings that will sweep him from power.  He is cowering in fear.  His elitist upbringing led him to believe he ruled over the mass by divine right.  Wrong.  Let's go Brandeau.