Not much to add, simply more data points documenting the madness.
Apr 6, 2024 - MeidasTouch
Did Trump accept a life line loan of $8 million dollars from a Russia -owned Caribbean bank that makes its money from adult entertainment transactions, and what did the bank’s owner living in Florida —a close relative of someone in Putin’s inner circle— get in return. Michael Popok explores the secretive Bank supporting porn, and how it has DOUBLED ITS MONEY saving Trump’s bacon.
2018
By John Feffer | July 25, 2018
… This is the premise of the Netflix series Ozark. It’s the perfect series for the Trump era.
Every administration offers the country a crash course in something. …
And now, to understand the rise and (inevitable) fall of Donald J. Trump, it’s imperative to learn the ins and outs of money laundering.
Sure, the TV show Breaking Bad provided an introduction to the subject, but money laundering was only ancillary to the main action of producing and distributing methamphetamine. Ozark goes into the gory details of finding investments, cooking the books, churning the loot, parking it overseas, and making the final product available from ATMs the world over. …
Is Trump a (Money) Launderer?
Before he became president, Donald Trump was basically an unsuccessful businessman who managed, time and again, to fail upward. He filed for bankruptcy six times — five times for his casinos and once for the Plaza Hotel.
He’s been involved in several high-profile and very expensive investments that ultimately didn’t go forward: the West Side Yardsin New York City, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Dubai, Trump Towers Rio, Trump Ocean Resort in Baja, Mexico, and several shady real-estate deals in Florida.
An astounding number of his other business ventures have gone belly up too, including Trump Airlines, Trump University, and Trump Magazine. …
Why Russia?
“… Vladimir Putin didn’t create post-Soviet corruption or the oligarch system that perpetuates it. Rather, he adapted the system to his own purposes — and for the financial benefit of his circle of friends. …”
Now
What Trump says he would do in a second term
Stephen Collinson, - March 6, 2024
Trump’s threat to democratic institutions and the rule of law is not a matter of conjecture. The former president is telling the country exactly what he’d do if he becomes only the second former commander in chief – after Grover Cleveland in 1892 – to win a second, non-consecutive term.
Simply put, Trump is running on the most extreme platform in modern history. He has called for the termination of the Constitution. He wants the Supreme Court to grant unchecked power to the presidency, which he plans to use in a personal quest for “retribution” against his enemies. He is pledging to gut the civil service in government departments and to fill posts with political operatives. He’s signaled he’d use the Justice Department not as a quasi-independent arbiter of the rule of law but as a personal political enforcement machine. Many of Trump’s former officials fear he’d pull out of NATO, trash the post-World War II international system and side with dictators.
He says undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country and vows mass deportations and detention camps. He’s drawn allusions to 1930s dictators by calling his opponents “vermin.” On Tuesday night, an ex-president who has already incited violence to achieve his ends warned supporters that if he didn’t win in November, “We’re not going to have a country.”
It was once fashionable for Trump apologists to chide those who took his threats literally.
And why do regular Americans love him? Because they are so filled with hatred for their neighbors? Because they see themselves as superior humans who should have special laws enshrining their superiority for eternity? Or something like that.
Carry on, …