Trump/DoJ/GOP corruption XI

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 5:21am |

Added GOP to the lede - they griftedd long & hard

GOP is not even trying to hide their corruption anymore. They admitted to placing fake ballot box drops.

Make sure you are dropping your ballot off in an official ballot box. I beg you.

PLEASE READ: California orders GOP to remove unofficial ballot boxes https://t.co/oXZPHeFXL6
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) October 13, 2020

Lie to voters, cheat the system, smear opponents and suppress the vote. It's the GOP's blueprint. They are anti-democracy.https://t.co/QccoXzbwih
— Nathan Max (@natemax) October 13, 2020

People in GA waited in line 11 hrs today to vote. The GOP don’t want ppl to vote. The majority of US isn't in line with their views. But the jokes on them. There was a 41% increase in turnout compared to the first day of early voting in GA in 2016 #VoteThemAllOut #BidenHarris2020 pic.twitter.com/ECFFZ3YVrl
— Helen Armstrong (@HelenArmstrong5) October 13, 2020

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Barrett's other stolen seat in Indiana If you haven't heard Myra Selby's name before, she is a former Indiana Supreme Court Justice and Obama's nominee to fill the 7th Circuit seat that Amy Coney Barrett eventually took. Obama nominated her in January 2016 and McConnell's Republican Senate never acted on it. pic.twitter.com/0BlKfdZkGA
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 10, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 5:23am

Trump's Secret Service boondoggle

There's no question that Trump's children should have Secret Service protection.
But ethics experts ask: Why charge the agents who're protecting you? That turns a publicly-funded benefit into a source of private revenue.https://t.co/gDyPSuW5zw
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 12, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 6:11am

U.S. Supreme Court ends Democratic lawmakers' anti-corruption lawsuit against Trump https://t.co/IZXrj1TQaD
— J. W. (@wolfjon4) October 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 10:37am

Wow2, DoJ sues Melania's asst?!

The whole govt is Trump's personal plaything

https://digbysblog.net/2020/10/your-tax-dollars-at-work-3/

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 1:08am

$250m dark money in courts

Sen. Whitehouse explains:

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/10/13/senator-whitehouse-calls-out-dar...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 6:15pm

Rudy as Russian disinfo ally

(who gave him a private hard drive, if they did?

Another convenient active duty FBI agent?

Have seen this Netflix series - not terribly believable,

but has its audience)

Here's my breakdown of the NY Post story that Isaac's actions led to.https://t.co/712nUhM0fz
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 14, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 11:04pm

Match set game:

White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump
By Shane Harris, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Josh Dawseyhttps://t.co/Ba0gqrRuLM
— digby (@digby56) October 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 12:16am

with a cherry on top!

“If being the daughter of a polarizing mayor ... has taught me anything, it is that corruption starts with “yes-men” and women, the cronies who create an echo chamber of lies and subservience to maintain their proximity to power.” https://t.co/12YvH2fiCO
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) October 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 12:19am

Somehow The Deep State got to her. Even Rudy's circle is not safe! What's a Qanon to do? Kidnap some governors?

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 1:10am

If we could stop 2nd Amendmenting our own feet for a New York second, maybe...

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 1:54am

Trump's 2016 Egypt Bank xfer (thread)

Last minute cash for a broke campaign.

When will we ever see Trump's it his campaign's taxes?

That bought-and-paid for Supreme Court hasn't helped.

We have learned in a recent story from the @nytimes that trump was OUT of money in the month ahead of the 2016 election and not even Deutsche Bank would give him a loan, but he engineered a mystery payment of $21M 2/ https://t.co/XDAulUjQcn
— Mueller, She Wrote Podcast (@MuellerSheWrote) October 14, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 11:16pm

"John Kelly" currently going viral on twitter

Ouch! CNN reporting that Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff John Kelly called Trump a pathetic liar and “the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.” #VoteHimOut pic.twitter.com/ERn39itTmb
— Dean Wallace (@deanofdublin) October 16, 2020

Former WH COS John Kelly has told friends, about Trump: “The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life." pic.twitter.com/IUdT2KgSGr
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 16, 2020

I gotta tell ya, John Kelly's strategic leaks of his statements of conscience--to CNN and before to The Atlantic--do not exude strength of character. The stakes are high. Time to speak out on the record. https://t.co/mKOsuI0Qdu
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) October 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 4:04pm

Far from falling for his spin, NYT adding $100 million due the IRS to the the $421 million personally guaranteed:

NEW: It's the world's most expensive "peanut" –– @realDonaldTrump and his companies owe more than $620 million, according to a @nytimes tally from his federal tax returns.

Most, as you know, is owed to @DeutscheBank. with @russbuettner @susannecraig https://t.co/uvbgsW0ky0
— David Enrich (@davidenrich) October 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 7:48pm

Forbes sez: Donald Trump Has At Least $1 Billion In Debt, More Than Twice The Amount He Suggested

By Dan Alexander, Senior editor at Forbes, covering Donald Trump's business., Oct. 16

They be faux media now > this article could be more devastating to Drumpf than any Lincoln Project ridicule.

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 8:53pm

Let's add Javanka's, since they work as a family team. Much of 666 and Toronto from the UAE (and prolly Saudis as well)?

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/17/2020 - 12:17am

NEW--John Bolton repeatedly told his staff to actively remove themselves from conversations and meetings with Rudy Giuliani, fearing he was being used by Russia to disrupt US politicshttps://t.co/eSU9c7khlr

Via @ErinBanco @attackerman @swin24
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 17, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 8:27pm

Once again we get these leaks that hint that things are so much worse than we've imagined. But none of these shits will go on the record with the whole unvarnished truth. I hope they all go down in history as the cowardly slime they are.

by ocean-kat on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 9:17pm

Federal Judge Signals It’s Clear That Trump Tweet Intended to Declassify All Mueller Documents, Orders DOJ to Find Out

By Matt Naham @ LawandCrime.com, Oct. 16

The world is turned upside down: the press says President Donald Trump was telling the truth when he said on Twitter that he declassified all “Russia Hoax” documents, while the Department of Justice argues in court that the president of the United States lied about that. On Friday, Senior U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said during a hearing that the president’s intent on the subject of complete declassification of Russia documents seemed crystal clear [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 3:35am

Ghislaine's turn in the barrel

When/what comes out on Trump, or will Barr make sure she's suicides after slow boating this case?

BREAKING: Second Circuit AFFIRMS a lower court's order to unseal documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell's civil case, including her allegedly incriminating deposition.

Background, @CourthouseNews https://t.co/o5kqkzPPwY pic.twitter.com/hWXHQ9cISW
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) October 19, 2020

Prosecutors excerpted this passage from Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition from April 2016 in their indictment, in support of their perjury charge. https://t.co/1pIM5lzZZl pic.twitter.com/7SbeabzBQV
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) October 19, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 2:50am

Lev Parnas:

FULL CIRCLE: A little more than one year ago, I was in Ukraine meeting with President Zelensky’s First Assistant, Sergey Shefir, passing on @realDonaldTrump and @RudyGiuliani’s message to make a public announcement investigating @JoeBiden in exchange for the release of aid. https://t.co/gZ9ihNRVqJ
— Lev Parnas (@levparnas) October 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 9:48pm

Donald Trump paid $188,561 in taxes in China in 2013-2015, while he essentially stiffed the U.S.

China can have him. https://t.co/GN8gShOvn2
— Lynn Comella (@LynnComella) October 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 10:17pm

So has MAGA Twitter declared the Chinese Communist Party our strongest ally to whom all Americans should pay a tithe yet?
— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) October 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 10:26pm

Mark Meadows raking it in

The purchase include gourmet cupcakes, a cell phone bill, grocery purchases, lavish meals, lodging at the Trump International Hotel and thousands of dollars at a Washington jeweler
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) October 21, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/21/2020 - 3:00pm

Other stories and personal anecdotals just made me realize that this kind of cheating, whatever you want to call it, is going to be running rampant until we get covid under control.

A lot of the usual gatekeepers are not working at the office and they are not working full time. The IRS, for example, is in chaos.

Many who realize are taking advantage--why bother worrying what your books look like for 2019 or 2020 when the authorities are never ever going to have the staff to look at those years much less audit them. When they finally get back up to speed, they are just going to write off these years and move forward.

Those who enforce "the rules" are working at half speed at best, allover the world actually.

Comes to mind Trump's IRS case may have truly been on hold--his excuses are probably not a lie now anymore--there'd be nobody working on that case right now if NYTimes didn't.

Same here with Mark Meadows.

Office "staff" whose job is police this sort of thing are currently working at home, and have to deal with things like their kids around all day trying to learn remotely or depression or newly developed alchoholism, etc.

Another example of what is happening, at the other end of the income scale is graft of welfare or entitlement services, as I am sure the employees are swamped, give a damn if someone is cheating or breaking the rules and just rubber stamp everything (if you are a claimant and lucky.)

When government employees get back to full speed, especially state and local, the priority will surely be set by their bosses to: get money wherever you can. A prison sentence for a perp won't help the broken budgets.

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/21/2020 - 4:24pm

Iran disinfo?

(yeah, almost every story can be filed under GOP corruption now)

1/ Even as Israelis tried to figure out why Iran would hack Netanyahu's rival, accusations flew that Netanyahu—Trump's friend, and currently under indictment—had not only orchestrated the revelation of the hack but was intent on *spreading its fruits*. https://t.co/xGuPYWpPav
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 22, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/22/2020 - 4:58am

FinCEN plays partisan

In comparison, when the Senate Intelligence Committee requested suspicious activity reports on individuals & entities related to Trump & his campaign as part of their Russia probe FinCEN in some instances did not turn over any SARs or made the committee wait.

2/
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) October 22, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/22/2020 - 11:31am

Fed Society SC self-dealing

Then @Dahlialithwick and I followed up in this @Slate piece showing same people providing financial backing to get three former Bush lawyers from Bush v. Gore on Supreme Court are pushing legal theories going to SCOTUS aimed at suppressing the vote. /3 https://t.co/TZ8jBHVj2F
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) October 23, 2020

And now comes this expose from @CREWcrew @RobertMaguire_ which shows that in addition to Leo's despicable political conduct, it looks like Leo and a lot of people are getting rich while obscuring that through a series of organizations and corporations. /5 https://t.co/E9sa8bzQ5W
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) October 23, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/23/2020 - 1:38pm

And what did they stack the court with?

Plantation-era nostalgia

This @AdamSerwer piece in @TheAtlantic on the Roberts Court’s assault on voting rights is a must read: https://t.co/gxnLUAz4pt pic.twitter.com/SUSJZXEfEl
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 23, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/23/2020 - 1:51pm

Judge Sullivan: "Time's up!"

I really look forward to the certification for this document which ... was altered, and not via the same means as the others. pic.twitter.com/QkkuiCIYq6
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 23, 2020

3) DOJ will have to either lie abt the date of the January 5, 2017 @petestrzok notes (even though they've submitted multiple exhibits proving they know the date), or admit they lied already abt not knowing the date.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 23, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/23/2020 - 2:21pm

DoJ blows Sullivan response

The govt refuses to authenticate this doc even though it has a govt Bates stamp on it. https://t.co/91PNNPSnC3
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 27, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 4:25am

Shorter DOJ: We Made Shit Up ... Please Free Mike Flynnhttps://t.co/lkO5yrHdPy

DOJ made a shit-ton of new errors and admitted more false statements in their authentication of the documents in the docket -- and I'm still working on them all!
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 27, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 9:59am

DOJ emailed McCabe's lawyer at 4PM on Sunday, asking them to let them know if there were errors.

McCabe pointedly declined to respond.

But DOJ claimed he had.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 27, 2020

Beyond acknowledging adding altered, incorrect dates to my notes, this DOJ filing also states,

"the government reiterates, however, that the content of those exhibits was not altered in any way, as confirmed by attorneys for both former FBI employees."

This is not true. https://t.co/4vKbk2cVdm
— Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) October 27, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 12:01pm

Some things don't line up here -- literally.

But PLEASE CHECK MY WORK!!! pic.twitter.com/JPu8V2YFPZ
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 28, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 8:36am

Judge: Trump assholishness not binding

Trump's Promise To Declassify Russia Documents Wasn't Binding, A Judge Ruled In A BuzzFeed News Lawsuit https://t.co/fb9gsN6UlL via @Richard_AHolmes
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 22, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 12:05pm

BREAKING NEWS: Trump Lied to US Voters When He Said in the Third Presidential Debate That His Secret Chinese Bank Account Was Closed in 2015, the Year He Announced His Presidential Run—In Fact, the Account Is Open Now and Has Been Throughout His Presidency https://t.co/2sCzRbAH6m
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 24, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 6:38pm

chart:

Donald Trump’s debt totals at least $1.1bn. Should he win re-election, about $900m of it will come due during his second term https://t.co/nxwa0GhbtN pic.twitter.com/EK9MiVUiAn
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) October 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 4:57am

Streisand Effect sighted

(seems Javanka not ready for Broadway)

OMG, this is brilliant.https://t.co/absLAKFkEs
— Nathan Max (@natemax) October 25, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 8:48am

Office of Special Counsel Investigating Mike Pompeo Over RNC Speech, Rushed Release of Hillary Clinton Emails https://t.co/pjMwLomfi6 pic.twitter.com/oGefyAUVeL
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) October 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 7:55pm

More Law&Crime

weird times

Impeachment Lawyer Who Defended Trump Over Ukraine Was Involved in Hunter Biden Email Story https://t.co/W4PJTJgG4o pic.twitter.com/jce0aktA67
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) October 27, 2020

Jacob Wohl, While Representing Himself in Civil Court, Likely Says Incriminating Things as Criminal Case Looms https://t.co/0Aw1GQ8dD9 pic.twitter.com/MZij4l80IA
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) October 27, 2020

Activist Who Calls Herself ‘Trump in a Dress’ Allegedly Recruited ‘Posse’ to ‘Arrest’ Ohio Governor, Sentence Him to ‘Exile’ or ‘Execution’ https://t.co/7v8rk4pAHh pic.twitter.com/9Cf9rEbG7H
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) October 27, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 4:44am

Judge just called Jacob Wohl a terrorist. Seriously:

A federal judge says Jacob Wohl is causing "electoral terror" and compares the robocalls to the KKK in a thundering opinion and restraining order.

Judge Marrero is in characteristically blistering form, via @colinkalmbacher on @lawcrimenews.https://t.co/PWkXCD8zNP pic.twitter.com/yD6QKELPFe
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) October 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 5:10pm

NEW: @realDonaldTrump's tax records show that big banks and hedge funds gave him hundreds of millions of dollars of financial breaks.

Trump managed to avoid paying taxes on almost all of it.

Latest in @nytimes tax series. by me, @russbuettner, etc. https://t.co/Cp9x0wSCYn
— David Enrich (@davidenrich) October 27, 2020

NOTE it is a thread where he tweets excerpts from his article and some docs, too.

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 5:26pm

Someone paid off about $1.5mill of Kavanaugh's bills. No one seemed to investugate

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/29/2020 - 12:03am

Keeping it simple:

I’ve decided to vote for the guy that doesn’t put campaign donations in his own bank account. Oh! And doesn’t use campaign funds to pay off pornstars while his wife has a newborn, that’s my line.
— Titus (@TitusNation) October 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 2:40am

Emptywheel's big Russiagate reveal to FBI

(Interesting real life cloak 'n dagger stuff)

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/10/26/part-of-what-i-shared-with-the-fbi/

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/29/2020 - 12:05am

Those "Iranian" emails...

(PS) The way I look at it is this: there is still substantial reason to doubt whether this was Iranian election interference or the Saudis again interfering in key elections using an Iranian signature. That Ratcliffe was goosing the intel only underscores those reasonable doubts.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 29, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/29/2020 - 12:25am

Exclusive: Wilbur Ross served on the board of a Chinese joint venture until 2019. In other words, while helping run the Trade War, the Commerce Secretary was partnered with a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Thread on this massive conflict of interest. https://t.co/Dbza7INy4Q
— Isaac Stone Fish (@isaacstonefish) October 29, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/30/2020 - 3:07am

Something to keep in mind as you go about your day...

Unless this schedule has changed, Sean Hannity will spend half his day today, under threat of perjury, having to tell the truth about his role in the Seth Rich hoax. https://t.co/Il3ogPhDYU
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 30, 2020

Remember - the full-court press on Hillary was 10x as tough as Joe's. Used to uninspire liberals and conservatives alike. 4 years later, still dribbling out clues and evidence.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/30/2020 - 5:22am

found retweeted by a British lady who is tops in her field of journalism regarding the international art market:

As good an ad about Trump as I've seen. I hope you'll retweet it. pic.twitter.com/G5e5L0HyRu
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 29, 2020

so she knows these kinda guys--just probably never expected to see one that was such a crass criminal in excess leading the U.S.

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/30/2020 - 10:16pm

Dick Cheney/Erik Prince corrupt

Reup, just for @mtaibbi and @ggreenwald, what they've been missing while they've been making stuff up.

Child Rapist George Nader Introduced Dick Cheney and Ahmad Chalabihttps://t.co/kHS07yaQqV
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 31, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/31/2020 - 3:28pm

As I have noted, the "star witness" in the Jensen investigation, Bill Barnett, allegedly sent PRO-Trump texts on his cell phone. His testimony to Jensen also materially differs with things he did as part of the Mike Flynn investigation.https://t.co/ahftSjp0mN
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 1, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/01/2020 - 7:27am

Here's @PressSec violating the Hatch Act because Henry Kerner (Trump appointee at @US_OSC) told her it'd be fine to be a spokesperson fo the White House AND the campaign. She talks about her candidate, then talks official business. What a disaster, Henry.https://t.co/exOn4820j2
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 2, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 2:13pm

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