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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsANOTHER RACHEL BOMBSHELL TONIGHT.
Potentially the biggest bombshell of them all.
Trump financially in cahoots with terrorists. A complicated story. Huge blackmail potential.
WATCH IT as soon as it is posted. Please.
And call/write MSNBC to request that NBC provide Rachel with security.
Update: The New Yorker reporter who investigated this mess? He needs protection too.
flamingdem
(39,321 posts).. haha I know it's not easy to do with Rachel
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)drm604
(16,230 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)for a building which was not gonna be completed...
I think it was to transfer $$$$$$$ back to daddy.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)Trump had a hotel deal in Azerbaijan that puts him in connection with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and it's extremely illegal under US law to do what he potentially did. Leads to major jail time and $100s of millions in fines.
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)got on him about plans to build a hotel in Cuba. But this one got built!
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Things are getting good!!!
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)I'm tired of being let down.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)calimary
(81,467 posts)I saw George's Post 39 up-thread a little, and thought the same thing as that post did - regarding that rather ominous quote from an unnamed senior insider ("he will die in jail" .
Here's the backgrounder:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/he-will-die-in-jail-intelligence-community-ready-to-go-nuclear-on-trump-senior-source-says/
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Building deals that make no sense.
Trump business not doing due diligence.
Breaking laws prohibiting deals with terrorists/criminals.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)to be used as a money laundering outlet for the Iranian Guard so they can give money to terrorist organizations.
The Azerbaijan Trump Tower is built miles away from the tourist center and in the worst part of the city and there is no way to get there via car. It's the way the Iranian Guard launders money so it looks legitimate.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/he-was-in-business-with-the-cartoon-caricature-of-corruption-maddow-breaks-down-trump-azerbaijan-report/
Rachel got the story and did some of her own digging from this article in the New Yorker. She interviewed the man who wrote the article during the course of her story.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)to Twitler's roll out his #MuslimBan2.0
blue sky at night
(3,242 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)....like him. Tawdry. Thanks for the link.
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)All of them.
I had started calling Ivanka "The Czarina"
Maybe I need a new name for her.
klook
(12,166 posts)mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)Binders Keepers
(369 posts)But what are the chances Mnuchin's going to respond to Sherrod Brown's letter?
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)And asked her to support Brown.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)you MUST read the story at the link in the thread..as well as see comments # 16 and #17..links to explosive story Rachel is talking about..
Pass along to others ..
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)for him. Done! Finito!
Binders Keepers
(369 posts)stay off of small aircraft, Rachel, please.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)She made a statement that apparently someone from Congress is looking into this? I suspect Republicans will try to bury this story too?
brettdale
(12,384 posts)Because no one has picked it on the other msm sites?
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)That was the plot revealed at the end of the movie "The Holcroft Covenant"
All the terrorist organizations banded together by money
In the movie, Nazi money, sheltered since WWII
Robert Ludlum was a great author
"His depictions of terrorism in books such as The Holcroft Covenant and The Matarese Circle reflected the theory that terrorists, rather than being merely isolated bands of ideologically motivated extremists, are actually pawns of governments or private organizations who are using them to facilitate the establishment of authoritarian rule."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum
2naSalit
(86,780 posts)as fiction. I was smelling hints of this some time ago but never dared mention it for fear of a lot of flaming and CT accusations.
JustAnotherGen
(31,893 posts)He had a theory or two about Al-Qaeda. IE if he could play war games for the U.S. in Central and South America in the 60s and 70s - what's to say his old opponents weren't in the mid east in the 80s and 90s.
erronis
(15,331 posts)Not that I am conspiratorial, but there seems to be a lot of threads that only make sense if these threads are linked.
How many boogeymen have been stood up to further global dominance, only to be "offed" in faraway places with no independent confirmation? Not just the US, USSR/RuSSiR/Israel/NORK/Iran. All part of the Axes of Evil.
JustAnotherGen
(31,893 posts)When you think Green Beret in the 60's and 70's what do you think?
He was saying back in 1982 - that this was a third crusades and couldn't be won.
He also smirked at the Berlin Wall falling. Germany was unified and that's it. The Russians - are and were still the Russians.
I think in 15 or 20 years we'll find out he was right. I wouldn't be suprised if some of the funding and MESSAGING for these 'radical islamists' (the rwnj term - not mine) turns out to have come from Russia.
That is one manipulative group of s.o.b.s
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Also, for sure she is being investigated big time by Bannon/45 et al. They'd love to embarrass her, "smear" her and distract from her message and cred.
They'd love to intimidate her.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 7, 2017, 12:28 AM - Edit history (1)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
watoos
(7,142 posts)than read the New Yorker.
This is a big story. How many other Trump buildings are corrupt. Rachel mentioned that the Towers in Turkey were suspect.
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)She knows how to walk viewers through a story in a way that's easy to understand. A master storyteller.
uncle ray
(3,157 posts)time after time, we read that she is "breaking" something, that turns out to be coverage of someone elses investigative journalism. don't get me wrong, her coverage is a good thing, but her supporters should try to do a better job of crediting and driving traffic to the sources of these stories.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Such good journalism right now. So exciting to see...
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,893 posts)It's also a requirement for any business or individual engaging in global trade to complete these searches. Agreements, Payments, Encrypted data etc etc
It's simple - if you have only a few customers or vendors abroad - simply run it at site.
If you are talking thousands of vendors and millions of customers - contract with Lexis Nexis, eSolutions, CSI and run weekly and monthly.
It's not hard. Someone at Trump Co made a bad bad.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,893 posts)But OFAC and BIS are OFAC and BIS. Those folks were already on the watch list. If Trump did business with them - at minimum he should lose his export privileges for a few years and pay a hefty fine.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)On FB!
Yeah...she didn't even talk about the lies of Ivanka about the view from trump's monstrosity there. Enough criminality with the Azerbaijan fraud!
grandpamike1
(193 posts)grandpamike1
(193 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I'm so out of the tv habit, I forget she's out there!
Kindnesscostszero
(29 posts)radical noodle
(8,013 posts)At least it is here.
triron
(22,020 posts)meadowlander
(4,402 posts)Totally hooked on her show every night.
Rhiannon12866
(206,016 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016180153
Vinca
(50,304 posts)There is the potential for Ivanka, among others, to end up in the big house and I don't mean Mar-a-Lago.
nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)You know, before suddenly she is shuffled off air?
MSNBC has a habit of getting rid of anyone who might possibly be speaking truth. I honestly miss the days when the line was Olbermann, Maddow and O'Donnell - they all fired each other up in their own ways.
And I miss Bashir, Melissa Harris-Perry, Alex Wagner etc (you know people of color who had real opinions)
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)calimary
(81,467 posts)Especially after I saw this:
https://twitter.com/20committee
John Schindler
@20committee
Learned fm very reliable IC sources that Trump WH, w/help fm Russian intel, is targeting US journalists. Rough road ahead. Get ready, peeps
9:53 PM - 6 Mar 2017
1,639 1,639 Retweets
1,748 1,748 likes
Link to tweet
triron
(22,020 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)ancianita
(36,133 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)But that's me being paranoid.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)about trump's donating/investing/borrowing millions to multiple countries on the terrorist no-no list?
So since no one seemed to give a shit before, what's changed I wonder? I don't know, I guess I'm jaded, because I swear this damning info was reported on during the campaign. Repeatedly, without any repercussion.
I suppose new damning evidence is great, I mean don't get me wrong. Like I said, I might be a little jaded at this point. I really hope that all of these apparent mountains of crimes and wrongdoings can actually be pursued.
It's just that he's so cartoonishly evil, with ridiculous levels of apparently publicly known crimes, and yet why can't we get him out of power? And his cronies? Ugh.
I hope we find out more, though as always... will check out if there's new info on this story! Looking forward to it.