On Friday, November 30, 2018 at 11:42:23 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote:
On 30/11/2018 15:39, trader_4 wrote:
On Friday, November 30, 2018 at 4:26:50 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote:
Why is Trump being referred to as *indivual one* and not his name?
'Individual 1': Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../i...-11e8-80d0-f7e...
8 hours ago - Trump, identified as €śIndividual 1€ť in Cohen's guilty
plea, was said to have received direct updates from Cohen as he pursued
a Moscow Trump ...
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Bod
I think that's normal in some indictments, plea deals, etc. The prosecution
doesn't want to formally disclose more than necessary because they are still
working on the investigation. It's been in many of these plea dealing,
with people only called one, two, three, etc.
Note the timing of this latest plea, lying about the Trump tower Moscow
dealings. It came just after Trump submitted his written answers to
Mueller. You can bet that on that list are questions about the Trump tower
deal. During the campaign Trump denied having any business dealings with
Russia, except for selling one house to a Russian years ago and hosting
his beauty contest there once. What did he say in the answers to Mueller,
which were under oath? It's going to be hard to say that he can't remember,
when that dealing was either still going on or had just ended, while Trump
was running around in 2016 denying any dealing. If Trump didn't tell the
truth, Mueller has him on a lying charge.
Indeed.
Do you think all this Cohen stuff is enough to force the disclosure
of Trump's tax returns?
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Bod
Interesting question. The new Democrat controlled House can pretty
much subpoena anything they want. This new disclosure, that Trump was
working on a business deal with Russians right before the convention
is certainly more justification for them wanting his tax returns, to
see where his income is really coming from. Obviously he's a major
liar.
But more problematic for Trump than that is that the feds have apparently
got Trump's long time CFO telling them what he knows. He apparently was
snared up in the conspiracy to pay Stormy Daniels. If he's cooperating
then he would know a lot more than you'd find on tax returns.
Another interesting development that got very little news coverage,
the same day Cohen plead guilty, 120 fed agents raided 6 Deutsch Bank
locations. DB has plead guilty to major Russian money laundering,
taking money from Russians, making it clean, in their private banking
side of the business. Trump obtained major money from DB, including,
incredibly, when the same bank was suing him for default on a huge
mortgage loan. While Trump was slugging it out like a shyster does,
accusing DB of causing the 2008/09 recession and filing in court that
DB should pay him a billion, the private banking side of DB loaned Trump
more money to pay off that loan from the commercial side of the bank.
Has anyone ever heard of anything like that?
There are no reports that the raid has anything to do with Trump, only
that it involves money laundering, again. But even if it's money laundering
for some other people, if DB and it's employees are in trouble again
and they know anything about Trump, they could volunteer that up to
bail themselves out. I would not be surprised if that's one intention
of raiding DB.