House Democrats vow "MRI" of Trump's money

[babylonsister]

https://www.axios.com/house-democrats-investigation-trump-organization-money-cbe06ada-f27c-4a8a-9849-fc68b33b28b5.html


Jonathan Swan2 hours ago
House Democrats vow "MRI" of Trump's money

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Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, a senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, laid down the marker to Axios last night after the committee deliberated behind closed doors earlier in the day.

"We are going to take an MRI to any Russian financing that the Trump Organization and the president may have had," Swalwell said.
"But we are not going to be so naive to assume that he's faithful to the Russians. There may have been other countries who have tried to financially influence him."

Between the lines: Of particular interest to the committee is an extraordinary series of cash purchases Trump made in the decade before his presidential campaign.

The Washington Post revealed, in May: "Trump’s company spent more than $400 million in cash on new properties — including 14 transactions paid for in full, without borrowing from banks — during a buying binge that defied real estate industry practices and Trump’s own history as the self-described 'King of Debt.'"

Eric Trump told the Post, then, that the Trump Organization made the purchases like that because Trump "had incredible cash flow and built incredible wealth ... He didn’t need to think about borrowing for every transaction. We invested in ourselves."

The Post offered no evidence of money laundering, but Democrats plan to investigate where the money came from to make these purchases.

Swalwell told me: "Without knowing whether Mueller is investigating money laundering through the Trump Organization, we do have the ability to look at whether that has occurred or is ongoing, and we are going to fulfill that responsibility."

[dalton99a]

1. Yes, follow the money.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Give that asshole a colonoscopy while you're at it.

[think4yourself]

3. Yes!

With 10 feet of concertina wire!

[PeeJ52]

4. Yeah, and use one of those old VHS style video cameras too!!!

[meow2u3]

5. Maybe the House Dems will find Trump's brain

Ooooh...a Trump brain scan is in order here.

[trusty elf]

6. .....

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. LOL! I love that!

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[Scarsdale]

13. Nice photo of

Don the Con. He looks as though he has a fart caught crosswise!! Lots of chins, too. Those "great genes" that are responsible for his tan (yeah, right) seem to only apply to his face. His body (ugh) is lily white.

[MyOwnPeace]

15. Really?

I have WAY too much respect for Mr. Mueller to make him do that. Besides, hasn't he sacrificed enough for our country?
Let's have Mitch do it - he likes to disappear into dark places for long lengths of time!

[Scurrilous]

8. K&R

[yaesu]

10. Turkey, Saudi Arabia (remember the globe incident) I think he is beholding to many countries

but not the US.

[not fooled]

11. Yes

anyone from anywhere with large wads of cash.

Flopsweat time, dirty donnie. And for your grownass adult offspring--they are NOT "kids"--who participated in your schemes.

[TNNurse]

12. Go, Eric Swalwell.

He is impressive.

[watoos]

14. MRI his brain while you are at it,

I think his syphilis is spreading.

No one bankrupts casinos unless it was to launder money.

Check out the Trump tower in Baku, Azerbaijan, that was built in the bad side of town, never had an access road built to it, never opened for business, but it did launder money some of which went to the Iranian military. By the bye, Ivanka's name is on that project. Rachel Maddow showed a video of Ivanka promoting the tower but Ivanka shot the video from another hotel. They are all grifters, Ivanka is maybe the worse child.

[MyOwnPeace]

16. Here's quite the detailed accounting

of that particular "transaction" by our "leadership gang" -

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

[niyad]

17. had not really thought of this, but. . . . .

"But we are not going to be so naive to assume that he's faithful to the Russians. There may have been other countries who have tried to financially influence him."

[murielm99]

18. He won't cooperate.

None of them will cooperate. You know they won't.

What will we do then?

[mgardener]

19. If he had so much money

Why was he allowed to go bankrupt 4+ times???

They should also look at Jared's and Ivanka's money issues too.
He holds a sensitive position in our government. He also apparently should not have gotten a security clearance, one wonders why?

[MoonRiver]

20. Get it on!

[akraven]

21. You put a favorite name in my eyes (Swalwell) so I put a heart on you!

What an excellent meme: An MRI on the money! The sTrump is now running scared so he'll try to start a war or something as diversion but now it won't work - Nancy won't let him.

Saving this one, babylonsister.