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June 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/wildweezle/status/879092814335758338
For young people who voted for Trump/GOP - YOU are about to take it up the wazoo...
https://twitter.com/wildweezle/status/879092814335758338
June 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/878393694545686528
MAGA: Putting our "minors" back to work.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/878393694545686528
June 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/SenBobCasey/status/877916165229641728
This will affect everyone. & Yes, I am talking to YOU - Trump Voters.
https://twitter.com/SenBobCasey/status/877916165229641728
June 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/877912729310416896
This is fantastic news. And I think a clear case of how having decent health care can save lives.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/878589311993643009https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/877912729310416896
June 24, 2017
All it took for Trump to say "election meddling by Russia" was opportunity to blame Obama over it?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/878413313188802560
June 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/878107124278185984
Front page of NY Daily News hits the GOP health bill: 'BLOOD MONEY'
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/878107124278185984
June 23, 2017
Hey, Mueller, You Should Check Out Iceland
That's where a shady Trump associate got some of his money. And where some investigators heard Russian footsteps.
By Timothy L. O'Brien
June 23, 2017, 4:30 AM PDT
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When I asked her during an interview in her Brussels office about ways in which the FL Group, Bayrock and Russian money might have intersected, she brightened: "I have been waiting almost 10 years for a journalist to walk into my office and ask me these questions."
Joly said that she had to prod the Icelandic government to commit resources to an investigation that implicated many of the country's most powerful political and business leaders. (She also likes to point out how many Icelanders -- along with a former prime minister -- surfaced as owners of off-shore accounts in the Panama Papers document trove: "600."
Like Haukkson, Joly said that she never uncovered evidence that Russian money was moving through Iceland's banks. Unlike Haukkson, she was interested in the global funds washing in and out of Iceland's lightly regulated banks and wanted to explore that vigorously. But she says she needed greater cooperation from authorities in other countries to uncover the source of the funds, and that didn’t happen.
"There was a huge amount of money that came into these banks that wasn't entirely explained by central bank lending," she said. "Only Mafia-like groups fill a gap like that."
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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-23/hey-mueller-you-should-check-out-iceland
Hey, Mueller, You Should Check Out Iceland
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/878265254542573569Hey, Mueller, You Should Check Out Iceland
That's where a shady Trump associate got some of his money. And where some investigators heard Russian footsteps.
By Timothy L. O'Brien
June 23, 2017, 4:30 AM PDT
...............
When I asked her during an interview in her Brussels office about ways in which the FL Group, Bayrock and Russian money might have intersected, she brightened: "I have been waiting almost 10 years for a journalist to walk into my office and ask me these questions."
Joly said that she had to prod the Icelandic government to commit resources to an investigation that implicated many of the country's most powerful political and business leaders. (She also likes to point out how many Icelanders -- along with a former prime minister -- surfaced as owners of off-shore accounts in the Panama Papers document trove: "600."
Like Haukkson, Joly said that she never uncovered evidence that Russian money was moving through Iceland's banks. Unlike Haukkson, she was interested in the global funds washing in and out of Iceland's lightly regulated banks and wanted to explore that vigorously. But she says she needed greater cooperation from authorities in other countries to uncover the source of the funds, and that didn’t happen.
"There was a huge amount of money that came into these banks that wasn't entirely explained by central bank lending," she said. "Only Mafia-like groups fill a gap like that."
................
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-23/hey-mueller-you-should-check-out-iceland
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