FYI: To keep the thread on track, I moved the discussion about the World Tarot card to the section devoted to Tarot readings: https://www.jeannemayell.com/community/reading-the-amazing-tarot/my-card-reading-for-donald-trump/ :-)
Feel free to continue it there!
Regarding Lawrence O'Donnell, my heart sank when I heard his original report. Not because I doubt its veracity, necessarily, but because I knew he was overstepping journalistic standards—to say nothing of MSNBC's reporting policies—in order to take a half-calculated risk. Maybe he was rushing ahead in order to be the first to report news we're all waiting for. After all, journalism lives or dies on the power of the scoop. But I don't think that was it.
To me, the greater incentive for O'Donnell to risk reporting the unverified account of only one unnamed source is this: He's a pugilist who despises a bully, a liar, and a racist—and in all his years of reporting, America has never seen worse. (After Drumpf's gone, may we never see the likes of him again.) So, I think O'Donnell's number one intention was just to scare the living daylights out of the president and his eldest children. And given the legal warnings, I KNOW he accomplished it.
Unfortunately, he's made the fight so personal that, in the short term, he will have lost some measure of credibility for himself and his colleagues at MSNBC. Which of course, the right wing is just loving... For now.
The Thing Is (and please forgive my caps lock for emphasis):
The man's tax returns have replaced the Mueller report as the lone bastion of the "right fight." And I think that's a mistake. I believe the returns will be released, but they aren't accurate or honest, and they are far too complex to describe in an easy soundbite. Besides, way back when he was a candidate debating Hillary Clinton on stage, Drumpf told the world he believes that cheating on his taxes makes him "smart."
We don't need to see the names of two Russian (or Saudi or any other) oligarchs as co-signors on the man's loans. WE ALREADY KNOW everything we need to know to bring him down. It's just a matter of willingness.
Drumpf isn't a businessman; he's a con artist with a boner for the mobster class. He doesn't create businesses to build wealth. He does it, again and again and again, to attract other peoples' wealth so he can GUT the business (e.g., in bankruptcy court), and then walk away scot-free, having already funneled its resources far away with the use of tax shelters and other schemes.
Beyond that, THE MAN IS A MONEY LAUNDERER.
Since 2006, he's paid for properties entirely in CASH—golf courses, Scottish estates, a freaking winery in Charlottesville, VA! WaPo says the dollar figure for Drumpf's cash property purchases comes to something like 400 million dollars. You don't need a business degree or a dozen Russian co-signors to know that's bald face corruption.
And there is s o m u c h m o r e.
For fun, here's just a drop-in-the-bucket list:
He sold five condos in Trump Tower to his dear pal, a big time Russian mobster, who then used those purchases to launder money and hide assets.
He sold a Palm Beach mansion to a Russian oligarch for $95 million, a $54M mark-up on a property the guy never even occupied.
He sent Ivanka to Azerbaijan to build a fake hotel (in an obviously unnecessary place for a hotel) in partnership with Azerbaijani oligarchs tied to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. For crying out loud!
As a matter of record, the man has been in bed with more dirty dealers than you can shake a pee tape at. Casino crooks in Vietnam, racketeers in India, smurfs in Kazakhstan. And on and on.
Plus, how many of his own advisors did Robert Mueller help indict and convict? Right.
From inauguration campaign corruption to clear and mounting breaches of the emoluments clause. From "catch and release" to the Steele Dossier. From Danske Bank, Deutsche Bank, to the Panama Papers. Seriously, you could get carpal tunnel just trying to type .001% of this man's known crimes in a single post.
So, I'll stop. Point being, the question isn't when or if his tax documents will get released. It's whether and when Congress is going to act to remove a known multiple felon from the White House.
Some great reading and Information from people on here. I'm a simple person and don't even live in America but have become intrigued by how Corrupt Trump and his administration is , its one of those times in history like Hitler you know will look back on.
It’s frustrating when everyone like O'Donnell have apologized, but it's ok for Trump to lie and break laws every day and never apologize or is held accountable.
It really shows how divided America still is, and he calls other countries shit holes.
I believe, as frustrating and slow as it has been, that Nancy and the Dems are going about it the right way. Also the more that gets uncovered, the more you will see Trump mentally lose control, which he already is showing.
Karma will prevail and I hope all the other corrupt Republicans like Barr and McConnell go down as well.
What do people see for the likes of Barr and Trumps other enablers. Will they do time?
I'm not Lawrence O'D, so I can't say for sure, but I don't think his report was just about standing up to a bully. On the very day he made the report, Deutsche Bank had filed a report with the court stating that they had some of IQ45's income tax returns, and that of some of his children.
In May the courts ruled that Congress could obtain financial records from the bank in their probe of Rumpus. Being who he is, and what he's trying to hide, Drumpf filed an appeal to keep the records from Congress, saying they had no rights to make such requests.
I find the timing interesting .On the day that the courts get notification that these records do indeed contain some tax returns, Lawrence drops this bombshell. I think it may have been intended to let the public and Congress know so that there's more pressure on the courts to do the right thing, and make these records available to Congress for their investigation.
@VestraLux and @Cindy. I certainly agree with all you've said. I don't think we have heard the end of it, infact I think this is the big beginning.
On another note, someone on twitter stated that the hurricane is headed on a course to Mar Logo. If it hits and does substancial damage with out fatality I will renew my faith in God.
On a lighter note. Dump, Jr was inPikeville Ky last night holding a rally for Americs most hated Governor, Ky's Matt Bevin. To say the crowd was Sad is an understatement. One observer said the rally could have been held in Hardees! Less than 200 people in a predominate Republican county. Boo Hoo!
I will say that normally I would be quite agitated with regards to what looked like a breakthrough being walked back. But, for the past couple of days, I've still felt calm. What I believe this is telling me is that the information is accurate, the information will come out, just not as soon as we would have liked.
In my opinion, Trump's team flipped out on this, not because it was false, but rather it was true and they truly think they can keep this under wraps. They would threaten to sue, because they feel MSNBC won't be able to provide a document proving otherwise (because Trump's team thinks they will be successful in keeping this document hidden from public view).
Holy cow. Even as an avid member of the Twitterati, I missed this. There were multiple posts this week speculating that something was wrong (seems like such an inadequate term after 900+ days of insanity) with the orange one: someone noticed he went silent for 72 hours and the tweets couldn’t possibly be his because of the big words and compound sentence structures; others posted new video of him using slow, halting speech. And of course, I ignore his voice and only watch his hands now.
His left ear, too. If you look closely his left earlobe is twice the size of the right and has some weird fleshy growth on it.