Showing posts with label Trump Organization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump Organization. Show all posts

Thursday, May 12, 2022

July 5, 2019: Trump Explains a Baffling Speech and Why He Hires Undocumented Workers

 

7/5/19: Reporters manage to stop Trump outside the White House and pose a few questions. Trump never holds real press conferences because he’d face tough queries and have to offer follow up. Then he’d get logic tangled in hopeless wads and have to start lying again. 

What happened with that speech, someone asks, the part where Washington “took over the airports” during the Battle of Yorktown? Well, the president admitted, rain knocked out his teleprompter. (See: 7/4/19.) 

(Trump and Fox News used to hate it when Obama used a teleprompter, and sounded articulate, and spoke in complete sentences.)


 

“That’s not a good feeling when you’re standing in front of millions and millions of people,” he added. 

Still, he said his memory was sharp as a bone saw, and his speech, it would live forever in the annals of presidential speech-making, like the Gettysburg Address, only way more creative. Luckily, he says, “I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter. And it was actually hard to look at anyway because of the rain.” 

So, the part about Washington taking over the airports was in the original speech? Meaning whoever wrote the speech was a blithering idiot? 

And the person delivering it was too dense to realize immediately, that that couldn’t be right?




 

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ANOTHER REPORTER manages to ask the president if he realizes the Trump Organization has been employing undocumented workers for years? 

 

A way that people did business. 

“I don’t know, because I don’t run it,” the president said. “But I would say this: Probably every club in the United States has that because it seems to be, from what I understand, a way that people did business.” 

Ironically, Trump was about to board a helicopter for another trip to his Bedminster, N.J. club, where many of the undocumented worked as recently as 2018. Once the free press started interviewing workers who admitted they were in this country illegally – workers who said their employer knew they had phony papers and even helped them get those phony papers – the Trump Organization leaped into action. As the president explained, again in Gibberish, his preferred language, his clubs were now following tougher standards. “But we’ve ended whatever they did, we have a very strict rule that, those rules are very strict [emphasis added, for fun].” 

 

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IT TURNS OUT, the president isn’t the only Trump who speaks the Gibberish tongue. Last January, Eric, who, along with Don Jr., now runs the Trump Organization, claimed the fact that all Trump properties seemed to have hired undocumented workers and employed them for years – well, that was a sign that the U.S. immigration system, not the Organization, was messed up. 

Eric did want to make clear. He had a heart. True, it was a Trump heart, but a heart with valves and chambers. “I must say, for me personally, this whole thing is truly heartbreaking. Our employees are like family, but when presented with fake documents, an employer has little choice.” 

Wait! 

Did he just admit there are good people who sneak into this country and don’t want to rape and kill? 

What about the monsters of right-wing fever dreams, the drug mules “with calves like cantaloupes?” What about the “animals” crossing illegally so they can join MS-13 and disembowel Americans in MAGA hats? What about the “invaders” his dad always describes: “A lot of young men, strong men. And a lot of men that maybe we don’t want in our country.” 

Was Eric admitting there were actual human beings who came across the border, people who were like “family” to him?

 

Let’s give the final word to Victoria Morales, an undocumented worker from Guatemala. She worked for the Trump Organization for years, both before the president turned over control to his sons, and after. “How can the president profess to not know we were undocumented workers if we have all [now] been fired?” she said recently. “I cleaned his house. I cleaned Ivanka’s house. He saw me all the time. I’m sure he figured I didn’t have papers.”

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

December 30, 2019: The Trump Organization Hires Undocumented Workers!

 

12/30/19: Holy sh*t! The Trump Winery in Virginia fires at least seven employees who lack legal immigration status. 

Omar Miranda, who gave his name, and a second worker who refused, both told reporters they had worked at Trump Winery for more than a decade. Miranda noted that employees had finished the harvest season, which meant 60-hour work weeks, sometimes picking grapes under floodlights. 

(Something tells Mr. Blogger that the Trump Winery wasn’t paying overtime for these workers.)

 

According to the Washington Post “Fake News” to all Trump fans – but a paper that contacted the Trump Organization for comment – the Trump Winery “has long relied on a couple dozen immigrants – primarily from Mexico. Those workers arrive legally year after year, on seasonal work visas, living in a dormitory on the winery property during the harvest.” But it was another group of year-round staff that got the axe just before the end of the holiday season. 

So, let’s recap: 

1.     Trump can’t find American workers to do the grape-picking. 

2.     He’s not willing to pay a wage that would attract them. 

3.     He takes a chance and hires Mexicans.

 

And we all know, with few exceptions, Mexicans who come here are “murderers” and “rapists.” Trump said so himself. 

Over the past year, the Post has spoken with at least 49 former Trump employees who lacked proper immigration documentation.


Few Americans are interested in picking grapes for poor pay.

(Not a Trump property shown.)

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, Vladimir Putin invites President Trump to come to Moscow next spring, to celebrate the anniversary of the victory against Germany, during World War II. 

You figure the two leaders can discuss better relations and also plan for the 2020 U.S. election. 

If Trump does attend, he can watch a big military parade. Putin can also provide tips on how to silence pesky critics forever.

Sunday, March 20, 2022

May 19, 2021: Trump Organization Under Investigation - January 6 Insurrection, Likewise

 

5/19/21: The State of New York has notified the Trump Organization that it has opened a criminal investigation into its operations, expanding a probe that involved possible violations in civil matters.

 

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“Wait for investigation.” 

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL.)

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We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature,” a spokesperson for the office of the Attorney General of New York said in a statement. “We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.” 

Innocent until proven guilty is the rule; but I won’t deny it would be fun to go to a rally like Trump fans, and shout, “Lock him/her up!” before all the evidence has come in. Likely areas of legal jeopardy for the Rejected-President and his kids: tax evasion, conspiracy to commit various crimes, and fraud. 

(Barron is innocent.)



Rep. Brooks speaking at the Trump rally, the morning of the attack on Capitol Hill.
 

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SPEAKING OF investigations, Republican leaders in Congress, and Loser Don made it clear yesterday that they preferred not to have a 9/11-style commission investigate the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. This was  a surprise, since Loser Don and a host of GOP lawmakers and right-wing media types spent the days following the attack howling that the people involved were wicked left-wing types. 

Rep. Matt Gaetz said it was Antifa. Said he read all about it in the right-wing Washington Times. 

Rep. Paul Gosar said the attack had all the “hallmarks of Antifa provocation.” He said it on Fox News. 

Rep. Mo Brooks told Lou Dobbs he had a hunch about who was doing all that cop-clubbing: “there is some indication that fascist antifa elements were involved, that they embedded themselves in the Trump protests.”


 

Later, he sent out a series of tweets, claiming that he had received information before the attack, that Antifa types were planning violence on January 6. And you couldn’t fool Old Mo, not after all those windows got smashed and five people were killed. “Please, don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia,” he tweeted, “don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.”

 

Yes, wait for investigation. Ferret out the “fascist ANTIFA” folks. Get the “evidence.” That would be excellent advice.

 

You could dredge up any number of Republicans who insisted that “patriots,” namely, Trump fans, “don’t act like this,” as one California state lawmaker suggested. So, it had to be leftists.

 

In fact, you could turn on any of the right-wing news outlets and hear the same brain-dead refrain. Our people wouldn’t do this! Mark Levin said so on Fox. Greg Kelly on Newsmax was equally certain. Having looked at the same video images as the rest of us, Kelly proved – if nothing else – that he needed to learn braille. “These people don’t look like Trump supporters,” he told gullible Trump supporters who tuned in to listen to his show. “Trump supporters don’t do these things.” Brian Kilmeade, and Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity insisted, thumping the same drum. “I’d like to know who the agitators were,” Hannity exclaimed. Those “who truly support President Trump…do not support those who commit acts of violence.”

 

Donald J. Trump, chimed in during his second impeachment trial, and sent his lawyers out to argue that he couldn’t be blamed for inciting a riot, because the rioters were liberals and Democrats who hated America.

 

So he had to be innocent.


 

Going on five months later, here we are. The House of Representatives holds a vote. Will a 9/11-style investigation be held to find out who these attackers were? President Trump makes it clear beforehand that an investigation will be a “Democratic trap.” That is: An investigation might prove who the rioters really were. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tells colleagues to vote “no.” Yet, just one week after the attack McCarthy knew exactly who the attackers were. Trump fans. Trump fans, stirred up by Trump himself.

 

“The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,” McCarthy said on January 13. “He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate action by President Trump.”

 

Today, McCarthy would like everyone to forget that the rioters showed up dressed in full MAGA regalia. The vote in the House today went as you might expect if you expected one party to show abject cowardice. There were 252 votes in favor of an investigation, including 35 Republicans, 175 against finding out who attacked the Capitol and why. Unfortunately, Sen. Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he doesn’t want any of the 50 GOP senators voting in favor of an investigation. Someone called Mitch “spineless,” as a result. But at this point you wonder if Mitch has femurs and patellas. He’s more like a cup of vanilla pudding in a suit.

 

It’s also worth noting that the bill would create an investigating panel made up of five people chosen by Democrats and five by Republicans. The bill would require that all “should be prominent United States citizens, with national recognition and significant depth of experience in at least two of the following areas” –  governmental service; law enforcement; the armed forces; intelligence; counterterrorism; cybersecurity; technology; law; or civil rights, civil liberties and privacy.


 

Trump might change his mind on setting up a commission, but only if Democrats would agree to compromise, and let him pick all ten members of the panel. Here are ten names he would accept:

 

Donald Trump Jr.

The MyPillow Guy

The Demon Sperm Lady

Sean Hannity

Rudy Giuliani

“Q”

Rep. Mo Brooks

Roger Stone

Rep. Matt Gaetz (assuming he hasn’t been indicted)

 

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Rep. Andrew Clyde, who said recently that it was a “bald-faced lie” to call the riot an insurrection, adding that the people who came to the Capitol on January 6 looked to him like people on a “normal tourist visit.”

 

It did not help Rep. Clyde’s defense of the “tourists” when a photo surfaced of him helping push a large piece of furniture in front of the doors to the House chamber on that fateful day.

 

Worst tourist group ever!

 

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BUT WAIT! There’s more! The Cyber Ninja outfit hired to conduct an “audit” of the votes in one Arizona county (but not in any county where Republicans piled up more votes) has admitted it was bulls***ting when the claim was made that Maricopa County officials deleted voting records.

 

Rejected-President Donald made the same claim a few days ago; so let’s see if he backtracks. (Ha! He won’t. The man is as clueless as a goat.)

 

And did we mention that the Board of Supervisors in Maricopa County has five members, including four Republicans? Those five have unanimously agreed that the audit by Cyber Ninjas is a “sham.”

 

We should add that since various right-wing media outlets and individuals have accused Board members of participating in criminal acts, the chance that members might file defamation suits may have had something to do (besides ineptitude) with the admission by Cyber Ninjas that, okay, we’re sorry. We found the “missing” information. The records we accused the Board of deleting. They were right there. On the Maricopa County website. So, can someone please notify the Orange Goat?

July 5, 2021: Send in the Marines! To the Cayman Islands!

 

7/5/21: The Biden administration continues work on a major agreement with other nations. Mr. Biden does not resort to insulting allies, nor does he suck up to bloodthirsty dictators, as did the leader of the previous administration.




 

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Make multinational corporations pay a minimum tax of 15%.

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So far, 130 countries have signed on to a plan to stick it to the multinational corporations, and make them pay a minimum tax of 15%, wherever they happen to have been hiding their profits. Only nine countries involved in the talks have held out, including Ireland, Hungary, and Estonia. Those three members of the European Union have helped screw other members by offering lower corporate tax rates to attract more corporations to plunk down in their countries. 

And pay minimal taxes. 

According to Reuters, “German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told reporters after a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that he expected rapid implementation of the global tax deal by the EU despite the refusal of several members to sign the deal.”

 

In the meantime, this liberal blogger is calling for a series of dramatic steps to crack down on the tax cheaters. 

First: The British Navy blockades the Isle of Man, home to trillions of dollars of tax-sheltered loot. Food shipments to bankers are cut off until they surrender. 

Second: European Union forces mass along the border with Lichtenstein. Offer an ultimatum. Surrender your tax records or we invade your crappy little 62-square mile tax-haven/country. 

Third: President Biden sends in the Marines. We conquer the Cayman Islands (home to 65,000 people, headquarters (for tax-evading purposes) to a nice round 100,000 corporations.

 

Fourth: U.S. marshals go in on Tuesday and slap the cuffs on all the top executives working at the Trump Organization. 

After all, if you are going to choke to death Eric Garner for selling untaxed single cigarettes, you should be tough on guys like Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, now indicted for his role in what prosecutors have called “a sweeping and audacious illegal payments scheme.” Allegedly, Mr. Weisselberg managed to evade taxes by local, state and federal governments on an estimated $1.7 million in perks that should have been counted as income. 

And that’s by no means the last shot of the investigation into the Trump Organization’s operations. 

That’s the first shot, and a warning to others.

September 21, 2021: Shake the Trump Tree and Crooks Rain Down

 

9/21/21: We learned yesterday that lawyers for the Trump Organization are predicting fresh indictments are coming. These will likely pile on top of the one that prosecutors have already filed against Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer at the operation for many years. 

Where you find one crook hiding under a Trump rock, you often find five or ten or lose count, as they scurry away. (See below.)


Trump and Razak: Two crooks?


 

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“He that delights to walk and talk with them that have the plague, it is no marvell if he catch infection.” 

Richard Mather, c. 1639

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Law enforcement authorities recently uncovered a trove of evidence in the basement of a “co-conspirator,” and alerted the defense team, as required by the rules of discovery. It’s not clear yet who the “co-conspirator” might be, or whether the material might lead to charges against multiple individuals. Bryan Skarlatos, speaking for the defense did say, “We have strong reason to believe there could be other indictments coming.” 

Plural? 

Others who might be under the microscope include Allen Weisselberg’s son, Barry, and Matthew Calamari, who rose through the ranks, from Trump bodyguard to chief operating officer. We know prosecutors have said that there was a “sweeping and audacious illegal payments scheme” in place to evade taxes, which sounds as if multiple individuals might be involved. And even Michael Cohen – when testifying before Congress – said he thought several persons with the Trump Organization would be able to turn over the legal rocks and reveal a wide-ranging plan to cheat local, state, and federal tax collectors. (He mentioned Calamari, by name.)

 

Of course, all of these gentlemen might be innocent lambs, and this blogger is not prone to shouting, “Lock them up!” and drooling, as if at a Trump rally, before trials play out. Still, let’s be honest. Cohen went to the slammer for a scheme cooked up while he was employed at the Trump Organization. And his indictment mentioned an “Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1.” 

That was Donald John Trump, himself – who evaded indictment by virtue of the fact he was President of the United States at the time. 

In any case, this latest news is not a good look for an already battered Team Trump. 

Even worse, Allen Weisselberg’s trial is set for next summer, just in time to remind voters ahead of the midterms what it was like to have a pack of criminally-inclined individuals leading the nation.

 

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THE FORMER PRESIDENT reacted badly to the news – because – when does he not? In a statement he first blasted Gen. Mark Milley, who he referred to as a “lightweight,” even though he had picked him to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He went on to complain about the “bullshit” he’d had to endure for years, as law enforcement officials continued to examine his business adventures. He went on to yowl that a bunch of “Never Trumpers” prosecutors were out to get him, insisting, 

they have NOTHING! Murder and all forms of crime are “through the roof” in New York, and their focus is on “Trump,” despite numerous other political investigations that went nowhere. They are spending tens of millions of dollars with a vast army of Trump Haters. This has been going on for years and the people of our Country are not going to take it anymore!

 

You almost had the feeling that Trump was finally worried about what investigators were going to find. 

Especially now – when he can no longer pardon himself.

 

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We’ve got “criminal bingo” in one story. 

WHAT OTHER legal developments might we have missed? In short order, we learn this week that the Department of Justice has filed charges against two men, including a former aide of both Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. Mitch McConnell. That aide, Jesse Benton, had already garnered a pardon from President Trump in an unrelated criminal scheme, but clearly failed to learn his lesson. 

(You know some of these crooks are really going to be hoping Donald J. Trump gets elected again in 2024.) 

Now, Benton has been charged, along with Doug Wead, with taking $100,000 from a Russian – that’s right a Russian – pocketing $75,000 as their fee, setting up a convoluted structure to disguise the source, and sending $25,000 on to – yes – we’ve got “criminal bingo” in one story – a Trump joint fundraising committee! 

What did the Russian want for his money? He wanted a photo op with the Orange President. 

Both Benton and Wead have been charged with six criminal counts, including conspiracy, and abetting illegal foreign political contributions (which we will see in a moment is a theme when we’re talking about Team Trump). Benton had practice playing hide and seek with campaign cash – and got convicted – and then pardoned in the waning days of Donald John’s first and only term in office.

 

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You are essentially putting U.S. foreign policy up for sale. 

IF YOU MISSED this larger story, as I did (until a few days ago), Igor Fruman as now plead guilty in federal court. (See: 10/25/21.) 

This is when the liberal blogger, who has profound respect for the way the U.S. courts are structured, shouts gleefully, “Lock him up!” 

A reminder, of course, who Fruman is. Along with Lev Parnas, he worked with Rudy Giuliani on a variety of what would seem to have been questionable deals in Ukraine. (See, for example, the seedy story of Dmitry Firtash, and his efforts to avoid extradition to the United States.) You may recall how, during President Trump’s first impeachment trial, his defense rested on the idea that all his efforts to get Hunter Biden and his dad investigated by the Ukrainians boiled down to his abiding interest in draining swamps both here and abroad. Yet, Parnas is now a suspect in an insurance fraud case; and together he and Fruman are accused of funneling stacks of foreign cash into U.S. political campaigns. (See: Benton and Wead, above.) Fruman has plead guilty to a charge of showering Republican committees with $500,000. 

Why might this smell – politically – like dead-skunk roadkill by the side of the street? It is well-established that foreign individuals may not legally donate to U.S. political campaigns, and don’t risk doing so illegally, unless they hope to get something extremely valuable in return. That means if you take foreign money, you are essentially putting U.S. foreign policy up for sale.

 

Here, in the annals of Team Trump, we have already turned over several rocks, and seen creepy individuals run from the light. We know Trump’s first National Security Advisor, General Michael T. Flynn, took a $45,000 speaker’s fee from the Russians in December 2015. Then he neglected to tell the U.S. Army about the payment, as regulations required. Later, he and his son took $530,000 from Turkish interests – at the same time dad was giving the newly-elected Mr. Trump foreign policy advice. As for Paul Manafort, and all his efforts to get a few million dollars to end up in his secret bank accounts, let’s just remind everyone he piled up at least ten felony counts. Then, oddly enough, he got a coveted Golden Pardon from President Trump. 

In the fall of 2020, we also learned that Elliott Broidy, another pal of President Trump, plead guilty to selling influence to foreign entities – during which schemes he raked in some truly impressive bucks. Broidy reaped what prosecutors described as “millions of dollars” for his efforts. Those efforts focused on convincing top officials in the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the looting of a Malaysian wealth fund. 

Then, inexplicably, on the morning of January 20, 2021, he too snagged a pardon from Trump on the soon-to-be ex-president’s way out the White House door. 

Flynn had snagged a pardon previously if you think there might be a trend.

 

There are a lot of crooks in stories about Team Trump, so you have to pay attention if you hope to follow along. The looted wealth fund that had Broidy’s attention was looted by none other than Najib Razak, the then-Prime Minister of Malaysia. Along with an assortment of sleazy accomplices, he got away with embezzling $4.5 billion, at least for a while. 

Eventually, Razak was convicted, despite Broidy’s efforts, in July 2020. But he and his lawyers have vowed to appeal. 

We already noted that there are a lot of crooks in this tale. So, let’s not forget Goldman Sachs. That’s the company you, the American taxpayer, helped rescue in October 2008, by virtue of a $10 billion government bailout. That bailout and others like it were necessary because the Lords of Wall Street had managed to bring the U.S. economy to its knees. This past July, the investment firm agreed to pay a $3.9 billion settlement to the Malaysian government for its role in helping Razak steal all that dough. In return, criminal charges against the bank were dropped. 

(George Floyd? Passed a counterfeit $20. You know the rest.) 

The list of convicted and alleged criminals grows longer, the more we look. We haven’t even mentioned Razak’s stepson, Hollywood producer Riza Aziz, yet. He got arrested and charged with laundering $248 million in stolen cash. (Ironically, one of his most successful films was “The Wolf of Wall Street.”)

 

Then there’s the fugitive Malaysian businessman, Jho Low, who agreed through his lawyers to forfeit $700 million in assets, including five luxury homes in New York, London and Beverly Hills, along with his Bombardier jet. He continues to claim innocence – while still hiding out. 

Are we done yet with criminals? This is a story about Team Trump. So, we’re not even close. Low got nailed again – ironically on ex-President Trump’s last birthday – and charged with a fresh basket of crimes. His alleged accomplice this time: Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a member of the Fugees, a hugely popular 90s hip hop trio that included Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean. 




 

Suddenly, the story is even more fun. Low faces five to ten years on each of several counts with which he has been charged. Michel could get five to twenty on at least one of his charges – and their alleged crimes rise to double digits for each. Then – we have another Elliott Broidy sighting! 

As the Department of Justice explained in a press release in June: 

According to the superseding indictment, Low Taek Jho, 39, also known as Jho Low, and Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, 48, are alleged to have conspired with Elliott Broidy [emphasis added], Nickie Lum Davis, and others to engage in undisclosed lobbying campaigns at the direction of Low and the Vice Minister of Public Security for the People’s Republic of China respectively [that’s right, these guys were working with the Chinese!!], both to have the 1MDB embezzlement investigation [the Malaysian wealth fund case] and forfeiture proceedings involving Low and others dropped and to have a Chinese dissident sent back to China. Michel and Low are also charged with conspiring to commit money laundering related to the foreign influence campaigns. Michel is also charged with witness tampering and conspiracy to make false statements to banks.

 

If you didn’t catch that last detail, let’s be clear. These guys were going to take millions in illegal money to get a Chinese dissident sent back to his home country. Had their scheme been a success, that dissident would have been given a preemptory trial and carted off to jail. 

 

Millions of foreign dollars went into the presidential election. 

The DOJ further notes: 

In May 2019, Michel and Low were charged in the District of Columbia for allegedly orchestrating and concealing a foreign and conduit contribution scheme in which they funneled millions of dollars of Low’s money into the U.S. presidential election as purportedly legitimate campaign contributions, all while concealing the true source of the money. According to the indictment, to execute the scheme, Michel received Low’s money and contributed it both personally and through approximately 20 straw donors.

 

So, can we guess whose campaign got those millions of dollars in illegal foreign cash? 

I think we can.

 

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IN FACT, we have a whole other collection of alleged crooks – charged with similar crimes – including longtime Trump pal, billionaire Thomas Barrack. We highlighted his possible crimes in pervious posts (see: 1/21/21, 7/21/21). He, too, has been indicted for selling influence to foreign nations. 

And just to tease you a little: federal authorities decided Barrack might be a flight risk and set bail at $250 million. 

Anyway, you may have heard the right-wing folks make a huge deal about what a crook Hunter Biden is – and how his dad supposedly used his influence to keep him out of jail for supposed crookery in Ukraine. One problem is that we haven’t seen any evidence yet, although it seems clear the son is prone to engaging in questionable business deals, playing off the family name. 

The dilemma, if you’re a Trump fan, and you’re not blind to reality, is that when you shake the Trump administration tree, criminals rain down like wormy apples. You can go back to my earlier post (7/21/21) for a list if you’d like to check.

 

We started off today’s post with Parnas and Fruman, and mentioned Rudy Giuliani, who in April had his apartment raided by the feds. 

If this blogger had to bet, he’d bet that Rudy is going to be indicted at some point soon. (See also: 9/21/21.) 

 

FUN FACT WITH NUTS: Mike Lindell, MyPillow CEO and conspiracy nut, announced today that 100,000 votes, during the 2020 election, were “flipped” in Alabama and said the state’s voting machines were hacked. 

Lindell insisted he had the “data” to prove his claims. 

This was all part of some sinister plan, which would allow Joe Biden to lose the state by almost 600,000 votes. 

Indeed, this massive breach dramatically reduced Donald J. Trump’s vote from 62.1% in 2016 to – holy voter fraud – a mere 62.0% four years later. 

And this blogger has data to prove it. 

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE, 2/25/22: When I check the Heritage Foundation’s database, I see that the last person charged with voter fraud in Alabama was Elbert Melton in 2019. 

We should also note that Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, a Republican, said there was no way Lindell was right, and that the actual number of votes “flipped” in the 2020 election was…um…zero.