PYLON OF SLEAZE UPON A CROOKED FOUNDATION

WEEKEND WROUND-UP

Such a strong stench, so many vapors from so many centers of rot and putrescence.
As is often the case in any structure under stress, the foundation is both base, and basic.  Looking at the Trump Foundation does not bode well for the Trump Regime.  The New York State Attorney General staff is, in fact, looking at the Trump Foundation, and what they find may be crucial in the political history of this nation.
New York is looking into potential tax violations as well, click here for that story. 

The President cannot fire the New York State Attorney General nor pardon anybody convicted of a state crime.
In describing the investigation, the New York A.G. office, which filed a lawsuit last spring, said there were possible illegal actions “including unlawful political coordination with Trump’s presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit personal and business interests, and violations of basic legal obligations for non-profit foundations.”

Trump needs to establish legal residence somewhere that will not extradite him to New York.  Seychelles, anyone?

FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS

So far all charges, pleads, verdicts and immunities have been in federal cases.  Now some major figures can no longer take the Fifth Amendment and no longer face prosecution: these include the long-time accountant and Chief Financial Officer of various Trump organizations (May I say, for “organized” crime, it is all badly organized.); Michael Cohen, a  long-time personal lawyer and bag-man for Donald Trump; David Pecker who bought  a sleazy publication empire including the National Enquirer which both men used to legitimize and promote Trump’s public image; and even Pecker’s lead editorial manager.  None of this can be good news for the Trump Family.

Pecker and his paper became megaphones for The Donald.  Here’s a former employee there talking of Pecker’s penchant for promoting Trump and how they bought sordid stories about Trump and then locked them away in a safe.

Here is link to one of the possible exposes locked away in that safe for three years.

THE MONEY MAN ALWAYS KNOWS

CFO Allen Weisselberg whose relationship with Trump dates back decades, is also the treasurer of Trump’s charity, helped prepared Trump’s tax returns and is the only non-family member to serve as trustee of the trust that holds the President’s interest in his own companies. This sentence comes from this report on Allen. 

Tax returns!  Immunity!
Click here for analysis of why Weisselberg is such an important informant.

How much debt is beneath the Trump organizations?  More than, say, Manafort’s paltry millions…debts poor Paul could not re-pay, getting sued even by a Russian oligarch?  Does Trump really own any of the properties with his name on them?  Within Allen’s mind and the records he has access to lie many fine threads that could entwine the White House.  As far as we know no Trump Organization records have been seized.  Has Mueller reviewed Donald’s IRS records?  Donald, Junior’s?

TRUMP AND TAXES

Not paying taxes makes me smart said the Republican presidential candidate, and millions of white people must have agreed.  It doesn’t make you smart it makes you simply crooked and totally self-centered, but rational people knew that already.  Cohen and Manafort were also tax avoiders, looking smart…until they looked really stupid and guilty.  Now the sentient world can see that Trump could have remained a showboating self-promoter, liar extraordinaire and real estate con man until he died…but then he decided to run for President.  Now Rupert Murdoch, Faux News, Howard Stern and “National Enquirer” cannot save him.  Hey, Donald, not even Narcissus would want all this much attention.  Your attention deficit filled yet?  Got enough eyes watching?  Enough words dedicated to your evisceration? 

How grand a scale does the current regime reach with its corruption?  Here’s a scorecard, comparisons with previous corrupt gangs.  BTW, forty Nixonians ended up convicted of crimes…Trump now stands at only five.  Sad, sad….

Don’t laugh, Wilbur Ross, you could be next.

JUST ANOTHER WHITE COLLAR CRIME…using federal dollars for Republican campaigning. We taxpayers are paying for Trump campaign trips, isn’t that nice of us?
So where the hell is the lawsuit from the Democrats asking for an injunction against such trips?  Wimps!

SESSIONS’ FATE,  click here for one look.  
Could Trump get a new A.G. approved, could he appoint a temporary one to fire Rosenstein, Mueller and the entire New York district office?  We may find out if Donald, Jr. gets indicted…or if he decides to flip on his papa.

MOB MENTALITY

Click here to hear former prosecutor explain how mob mentality works…when one gangster turns state’s evidence, the others feel compelled to save their own skin…

We all need to go back and review the “Godfather” or “The Sopranos”.  It is time to once again acquaint ourselves with Mafia-speak.  Hush money…flip…immunity…tax evasion…henchmen…the con…fixer…snitch…mouthpiece…bag-man…enforcer…

IN SUMMARY

The self-proclaimed king of debt in the White House has lived a life of chicanery, sleaze, adultery, lies, unpaid bills, lawsuits and settlements, hush money, bankruptcy to avoid paying debts and likely tax fraud. Cohen has now added “campaign finance crime.” No American bank would lend Trump money so he borrowed from Russian Mafia.  We are now in the Age of Putin & Trump.  Even Putin was wise enough to know that another appearance with Trump would just hurt the Republicans.  Yet I cannot help but wonder if Putin has now realized that the best thing he can do to hamper American democracy is to help elect enough Democrats to cause an impeachment and then use social media to promulgate plenty of lies and conspiracy theories (turning the US government over to the hated UN, or inviting a Mullah to be our Secty. of State, shariah law in your town, blah, blah) to incite violence among the white supremacists who may still be worried about the black helicopters of the Trilateral Commission. Goad those militia types to occupy some Alabama court houses, or seize a Coast Guard base, or… Trump and his mouthpiece, Rudy, are already threatening mob violence if the President is impeached. Could they deliver?  How many of my fellow citizens are so deep into the cult that they think Trump is the one true American. We shall find out.

That could keep the U.S. government from reacting if Putin decides he wants Latvia or part of Bulgaria…where are those places anyway?

And next…

Things that no longer matter…Bob Woodward’s book on the White House coming out next month…the alleged video of Trump saying the n-word…Avenatti’s two more women who claim to have had sex with Trump…how many illegitimate kids Donald has…any Omarosa recordings or video that do not pertain to money shenanigans…

Things that matter more…the many on-going investigations, esp. in New York State, immune from Donald’s meddling…Manafort’s second trial next month… Sept. 10, on that day Avenatti goes to court in the Stormy Daniels case, to seek deposition of Cohen and Trump in the payoff…what’s in Weisselberg’s mind and Donald’s tax records? We see how desperate Manafort got as his finances crashed, how about the Trump Organization…

Tags: Allen Weisselberg, Avenatti, David Pecker, Donald Trump Junior, enquirer, Fifth Amendment, guilty, immunity, Manafort, Michael Cohen, mob mentality, Mueller, New York State, Putin, Russia, Seychelles, Trump Foundation