2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumABC report details 100s of millions of dollars in Russian business for Trump
https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/778961292908498945
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russia-trump-political-conflict-zone/story?id=42263092
Trump has never been truly vetted before.
The scandals just keep coming..thanks ABC news!
BootinUp
(47,144 posts)lewebley3
(3,412 posts)protect American from Trumps treason and working against the American
people. Trump is maybe spy or working against this country: he is a sicopath
calimary
(81,238 posts)louis-t
(23,292 posts)He's planning on making lots of money off Putin.
rurallib
(62,413 posts)Saint Ronnie said "Trust but verify"
rurallib says never trust a republican. They have shown over and over they can't be trusted.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)skylucy
(3,739 posts)To me this is (sorry for the word choice) HUGE! Thank you ABC...Did this just come out on ABC today?
factfinder_77
(841 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Cycle2016
(161 posts)lewebley3
(3,412 posts)Cycle2016
(161 posts)I meant for the journalists at ABC to do more digging into Trumps past history. We need all the scandals we can get. Sorry for the confusion.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... report was applied to Trump instead of Hillary's e-mails.
In the case of Trump it's well warranted!
How can the MSM decision makers have lived with themselves not doing this from the beginning?????
factfinder_77
(841 posts)Fulfilling what might be the Russian autocrats dearest wish, Trump has openly questioned whether the U.S. should keep its commitments to NATO.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)His beautiful eyes?
safeinOhio
(32,675 posts)Against the Russian mob or Chinese Gov..
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Coffer or coffin, which fills first?
factfinder_77
(841 posts)In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he
persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his background to six months. Most potential owners were scrutinized for more than a year. Trump argued that he was clean as a whistleyoung enough that he hadnt had time to get into any sort of trouble. He got the sped-up background check, and eventually got the casino license.
But Trump was not clean as a whistle. Beginning three years earlier, hed hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying ostensibly overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony Fat Tony Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal investigation, which also concluded that in a construction industry saturated with mob influence, the Trump Plaza apartment building most likely benefited from connections to racketeering. Trump also failed to disclose that he was under investigation by a grand jury directed by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, who wanted to learn how Trump obtained an option to buy the Penn Central railroad yards on the West Side of Manhattan.
Why did Trump get his casino license anyway? Why didnt investigators look any harder? And how deep did his connections to criminals really go?
These questions ate at me as I wrote about Atlantic City for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and then went more deeply into the issues in a book, Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business. In all, Ive covered Donald Trump off and on for 27 years, and in that time Ive encountered multiple threads linking Trump to organized crime. Some of Trumps unsavory connections have been followed by investigators and substantiated in court; some havent. And some of those links have continued until recent years, though when confronted with evidence of such associations, Trump has often claimed a faulty memory. In an April 27 phone call to respond to my questions for this story, Trump told me he did not recall many of the events recounted in this article and they were a long time ago. He also said that I had sometimes been fair, sometimes not in writing about him, adding if I dont like what you write, Ill sue you.
Im not the only one who has picked up signals over the years. Wayne Barrett, author of a 1992 investigative biography of Trumps real-estate dealings, has tied Trump to mob and mob-connected men.
No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trumps record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks. Professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said the closest historical example would be President Warren G. Harding and Teapot Dome, a bribery and bid-rigging scandal in which the interior secretary went to prison. But even that has a key difference: Hardings associates were corrupt but otherwise legitimate businessmen, not mobsters and drug dealers.
This is part of the Donald Trump story that few know. As Barrett wrote in his book, Trump didnt just do business with mobbed-up concrete companies: he also probably met personally with Salerno at the townhouse of notorious New York fixer Roy Cohn, in a meeting recounted by a Cohn staffer who told Barrett she was present. This came at a time when other developers in New York were pleading with the FBI to free them of mob control of the concrete business.
From the public record and published accounts like that one, its possible to assemble a clear picture of what we do know. The picture shows that Trumps career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Trump retained as the head of his personal helicopter service.
Now that hes running for president, I pulled together whats known piecing together the long history of federal filings, court records, biographical anecdotes, and research from my and Barretts files. What emerges is a pattern of business dealings with mob figuresnot only local figures, but even the son of a reputed Russian mob boss whom Trump had at his side at a gala Trump hotel opening, but has since claimed under oath he barely knows.
Neither Trumps campaign spokesperson, Hope Hicks, nor Jason Greenblatt, the executive vice president and chief legal officer at the Trump Organization, responded to several emailed requests for comment on the issues raised in this article.
Here, as close as we can get to the truth, is what really happened.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)been pushing him on everybody I run into, urging them to read his body of work, reminding them that he's part of the Panama writers' group that exposed the apparently limitless schemes/scams being played out against taxpayers all around the world.
this bit about the mob is truly stunning, and incredibly well-documented, yet, just like Bush AWOL, completely, and I mean COMPLETELY ignored in the media.
what fricking GIVES?
my guess would be that it's just now starting to dribble out because it's TOO LATE to have an effect. combine the fact that nobody seems to care what he does/says, there's too little time before the election, and that the emails/CGI faux scandal/Hillary health bogosity may have already sunk her in the credulous geeb voter mind.
other than that, my disposition is very sunny
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,793 posts)factfinder_77
(841 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)I honestly don't think anything would stick now. Well other than some secret tape came out where he says he is all for gun control, lgbt rights, and hates Jesus.
Hate radio, Faux News have successfully insulated him by over exaggerating Hillary's mistakes and Poo pooing his. On top of that all scandals against Trump are seen as made up and false.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)than Imelda Marcos after a typhoon hit.
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)And he taught these values to his kids. They make me sick.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Who are calling for Hillary to be locked up over nothing.
tanyev
(42,553 posts)Had to pick my jaw up off the floor to continue getting ready for work.
randome
(34,845 posts)Just more evidence that Rome has fallen.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)to this...
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/09/top-dems-us-intelligence-committees-russia
It looks official now.
Russian Intelligence interfering with our election.
Coincidence?
I think not.
yorkie77
(87 posts)And they are propping him up financially. I think his empire is not what he pretends it is.