MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Helluva quid-pro-quo if true.
Also strange that Trump didn't spend any money on his campaign in October until ponying up $10m the day after Chaffetz did this. Was that the same $10m, or Trump finally felt confident he might pull it off?
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Geez, Louise - doubles down on Trump hack / Russian money laundering. Makes that triple down. Heading for a showdown.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/23/2017 - 8:05pm
hmmm
http://www.sltrib.com/news/5204345-155/chaffetz-requests-trump-lawyer-explain-plan
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/23/2017 - 8:41pm
Et tu, Henry? Kissinger organized last April event - maybe so Trumpsters could meet Kislyak? Shame to let all that diplomatic experience & realpolitik go to waste...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 5:30am
Lotsa unnamed sources and wild speculation here, just saying...
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:00am
Not all of it unnamed, and not all so wild. We have a sense what these guys have been up to even if not always privy to the details. But yes, I did put a question mark in the title. Fortunately it looks like the FBI while moving slower will be able to fill us in eventually.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:31am
I don't know about you, but I am truly tired of waiting. For sure the FBI has enough evidence to act. No?
by CVille Dem on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:39am
Good to point that out. I thought I might about Mensch but then felt "what's the use, everyone can judge for themselves." now I will. In particular I've done some quick googling of some of her googling and I see evidence of confusing sloppy research, cherry picking without going deep into checking things out about shell companies and the like. For example, in checking this post of hers out about Hostkey and Russia, I saw suggestions that Ocean Way Capital, LLC formed in August 2016 might not have anything to do with the "Ocean Way Capital Corporation" dissolved in April 2016 in the Virgin Islands. The LLC was formed by a single principle, a lowly insurance broker who is also a registered Democrat. Yeah, his office is in Palm Beach, Fl, but there have been stranger coincidences in life. I didn't bother to go further after checking a few things out. Especially as I have recently learned more about LLC's and how everyone and his uncle can easily have one.
I am reminded of a quite literally crazy lady (she admitted she had been locked up in a loony bin for some time and would post against that conspiracy against her) who was a member at TPMCafe and who used to dump the results of Lexis/Nexis searches about supposed corporate links having to do with Bushies, and it was always a bunch of unsorted highly suggestive gobbledeygook.
One can see links everywhere if one Googles enough, it is the "six degrees" of separation thing, in the end we can all "prove" that we are all related to royalty...Suffice it to say I'm gonna take everything Mensch writes with heaping doses of salt from now on, though her posts might be fun sometimes. To even check out her train of thought on research is to wade into a lot of confusing threads that go nowhere.
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:52am
Note that this main piece is the Palmer Report, which comes across as easier to read, more straightforward links, references doubt where there's doubt, and isn't so Twitter driven.
Not sure I understood how she claimed that Ocean Way Capital in Bahamas was different than another Ocean Way Capital, but I think it's fairly usual to have same names on onshore & offshore basis.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:13am
PP, what is the Palmer Report's source for the explosive claim that Chaffetz “took $10mil donation from Trump the same day he leaked Comey letter.” It's a tweet by LM Garner who describes herself as a "Just an angry citizen on Twitter." She is responding to a post by Louise Mensch but it's not clear what she was referring to. Somewhere down that rabbit hole, someone had mentioned that Trump donated $10M to his own campaign the day after Chaffetz comment on the Comey letter. Somehow that got garbled with the Chaffetz brouhaha and ended up as a headline on Palmer.
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:41am
Alright, I changed the title to something more skeptical, and will focus more on things that seem verifiable or that we'll know soon one way or the other.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 11:14am
FWIW I never thought people should feel the need to comment on the "In the News" items they post, that that is how it is different from a blog entry. I just always preferred it to be for "this is something I found interesting to read, buyer beware." But then your comments are often the greatest, so that went out the window....
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 11:21am
Thanks - mostly I like to entertain, so if a bit of rude humor or other angle'll do it, game on.
Occasionally I toy with new ideas, like misspelling all the Titles or repeating the same words. I'm thinking I may start posting Alex Jones-like threads to give the place that Enquirer newsstand vibe I love so much, like "Elvis spawned my alien love child..."
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 11:45am
Ah, the Russians got to you, did they?
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 11:25am
I tried holding out for $10m, but it was more 10 rubles and some discontinued Yeltsin vodka. Trying to put the Pro in Kompromat....
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 11:28am
I just judged her by her twitter feed, which is full of conjectural accusations, as is that of Claude Taylor, cited by the Daily Kos piece as a well-connected insider because he was a low-level staffer in Bill Clinton's administration.
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:30am
I'd be very careful before using blogs written by this Palmer guy and others like him. Much of his over-the-top predictions have the frenzy of that nut Alex Jones. We shouldn't fall into those traps. Our work now is for 2018 and to win the house back, that is our only way out of the Trump mess, to govern and to do it well.
by tmccarthy0 on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:50am