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April 13, 2018

When you start to worry that justice might be evaded, remember this:


Mueller is not working in a vacuum
He was FBI Director for 12 years. He worked in the Justice Dept for years, is an expert in white collar crime, fraud, etc.
He knows a lot of the good guys, and they are helping out in various ways. Latest case example, when Cohen got busted..

Which explains how the investigation into the the GOP, Russian mob,international money laundering, etc. is being done so well.
the man is literally cleaning up the country.

at the end of this, there needs to be a special award for this special hero. he will go down in history even as Watergate might fade from memory.

When you have a quiet moment, send him a warm and supportive thought from time to time.
April 13, 2018

Briody has far far greater problems than a mistress payment.

He is a key figure in the Russia bribery of our politicians to change that anti-Russian statement at the GO convention.
Muller is looking into that, meaning he has info.

Trump Fundraiser Offered to Help Lift Sanctions on Russian Firms
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/trump-fundraiser-offered-to-help-lift-sanctions-on-russian-firms

AND
Briody was arrested for taking bribes in 2009:

Broidy pleaded guilty to committing a felony by giving nearly $1 million in illegal gifts to state officials in order to secure a lucrative deal with New York’s public pension fund for his then-firm Markstone Capital Partners.

Broidy avoided jail time by blowing the whistle on the same people who accepted his bribes. He admitted to ponying up $75,000 for an all-expanses paid luxury trip to Jerusalem, which included first-class tickets, luxury hotel suites, a helicopter tour, and a personal driver for New York State’s comptroller and his family.
https://www.thewrap.com/meet-elliott-broidy-donald-trumps-new-shady-fundraiser/

AND
Trump donor Elliott Broidy named in Ukraine criminal probe

Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy under scrutiny over alleged deal with sanctioned Russian bank VTB.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/trump-donor-ukraine-criminal-probe-180307124432781.html

AND
How 2 Gulf Monarchies Sought to Influence the White House

A cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top Trump fund-raiser into an instrument of influence at the White House for the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to interviews and previously undisclosed documents.
High on the agenda of the two men — George Nader, a political adviser to the de facto ruler of the U.A.E., and Elliott Broidy, the deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee — was pushing the White House to remove Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, backing confrontational approaches to Iran and Qatar and repeatedly pressing the president to meet privately outside the White House with the leader of the U.A.E.
Mr. Nader tempted the fund-raiser, Mr. Broidy, with the prospect of more than $1 billion in contracts for his private security company, Circinus, and he helped deliver deals worth more than $200 million with the United Arab Emirates. He also flattered Mr. Broidy about “how well you handle Chairman,” a reference to Mr. Trump, and repeated to his well-connected friend that he told the effective rulers of both Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. about “the Pivotal Indispensable Magical Role you are playing to help them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/us/politics/george-nader-elliott-broidy-uae-saudi-arabia-white-house-influence.html

AND
He promised 2 Romanian politicians to help them influence Trump, while they were at the same under investigation in their own country.
Lovely details here, tis worth the read.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article198952434.html

AND...THIS year..it was reported..
Leaked Emails Appear To Show A Top Trump Fundraiser Abusing His Power
Emails and documents an anonymous group leaked to HuffPost this week appear to show a Los Angeles lawyer asking for more than $80 million to scuttle a Department of Justice investigation into a multibillion-dollar scandal involving Van Gogh paintings, the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the prime minister of Malaysia — and the lawyer’s husband, a Republican National Committee deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy, trying to use his influence with the Trump administration to help.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elliott-broidy-trump-malaysia-doj_us_5a988471e4b0a0ba4ad18d65


AND
Mueller knows about it all by now.

Edited to add:

With law degrees from institutions in Russia and California, Baev has worked for corporate law firms in the U.S., London and Moscow, according to his LinkedIn profile. At the time of his discussions with Broidy, he was the managing partner at Chadbourne’s Moscow office.
from the above bloomberg article.


April 13, 2018

Have you noticed we have no government now?


Trump's insanity has been known, but this morning he went full tilt into the need for a straight jacket when he tweeted hysterical stuff about Comey. Mueller would not have gotten Cohen 's search warrant without showing the judge who signed it that serious crimes have been committed. Trump has been bunkered down for weeks now, canceled previously scheduled trips, not even golfing.
The VP is keeping such a low profile he is invisible.
The Attorney General is under investigation.
We don't HAVE a Sec. of State now, anyone Trump chooses will have to be confirmed, and that is unlikely.
The Speaker of the House sez he’s going to quit, as has the Senate Pro Tempore.

The Republican majority Congress is doing zilch. The leadership is being investigated for their own roles in the illegal election,conspiracy against the United States, and campaign fund violations.

Rosenstein and Mueller are trying to right a badly listing ship. It will take a bit more time. Meanwhile Russia and China are stepping into the void left my Trump.

April 11, 2018

US president accused of tax evasion in 2006 development in Baja, Mexico



The federal Attorney General’s office (PGR) will hear new evidence today in a case against United States President Donald Trump in connection with a failed luxury resort project in Tijuana, Baja California.

Jaime Martínez Veloz, the former head of the Commission for Dialogue with the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico, will present documents that he says prove that neither Trump nor his business partners had set up a trust that gave them the legal right to develop the abandoned project known as Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico.

Snip: ( the karma part)...Martínez Veloz told the newspaper Milenio that his motivation for filing his complaint were the insults Trump directed at the Mexican people during his 2016 presidential campaign.

“I requested information about whether Trump, Ivanka Trump or Irongate . . . had applied for a permit to establish a trust, which is the only way they could sell land that’s within 100 kilometers of the border and 50 kilometers of the coast, which can’t be sold to foreigners,” he said.

“There is no record that these people applied to establish a trust or that they are part of a trust,” Martínez added.


https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/investigators-probe-charge-against-trump/?utm_source=Mexico+News+Daily&utm_campaign=616eaaf895-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1536a3787-616eaaf895-349483909
April 10, 2018

Trump 's security blanket dinner last night: pic

Remember when we were 6-7- or so and played with those plastic army figures?
Then outgrew that and realized war was no game?




https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983698762760704000
April 9, 2018

"We can't have this administration dictating to us our coverage just because they don't like

what we print about them in our newspaper".

Ben Bradlee Washington Post, 1971.

I am watching The Post. And my eyes are full of tears remembering what it was like then, and what it is like now.
It should not have come even this far.
those of us who are still here, with our memories of that history, now 50 some years ago, won't be around much longer to have our voices heard. It is so easy now to distort and erase history, we are watching that happen every day.

Which is why the struggle for good happens again and again and again every generation.
Today we have such a massive attack on education and the ability to read and understand our history, that I am fearful for the first time in my life.

Please raise your children well.

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Long time political activist, working to tint my lil "Mayberry" more blue. Collector of strays of various species and minds.
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