A Trump Family Thanksgiving: Pass the Affidavits! The Stuffing Is Bugged!
Look at these turkeys.
By Charles P. Pierce Nov 17, 2017 249
Young America’s Fun Couple—and the grand marshals of this year’s Homecoming Parade in Stepford, Connecticut—Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are both in a spot of trouble at the moment. This at least will give them something to talk about when the whole family, and everybody’s lawyers, get together for Thanksgiving dinner next week. The way things are going in and around the First Family, you’re going to need to swear out an affidavit to get somebody to pass the cranberry sauce, which may well be wired by the FBI.
First, it seems that Jared may have had one of his periodic memory lapses when the Senate Judiciary Committee asked him for some emails he’d gotten from WikiLeaks and others that concerned a “backdoor Russian overture” to him and to the Trump campaign. According to Politico, [ https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/16/jared-kushner-wikileaks-emails-245197 ] the two ranking members of the SJC pretty clearly have in hand at least copies of the documents that Kushner forgot on top of the washing machine when the committee asked to see them. They wrote to Kushner:
As for the Tsarina, Reuters, working with NBC News, has some interesting details about the Trump Ocean Club in Panama, which, because this was a Trump Organization project, and this is the way they do things, involved Ivanka Trump meeting with shady financiers and Russian gangsters.
Alexandre Nogueira was the Brazilian swindler with whom Ivanka Trump apparently was so impressed that she brought him in on the development of the Ocean Club, and all the other international grifters followed after. Nogueira also as we have seen took it on the arches, leaving a battalion of angry people whom he’d stiffed behind. This also is an essential part of the Trump Organization business plan, as we have seen.
It was not his job to check the source of money that investors used to buy units in the Trump Ocean Club, Nogueira said. “I didn’t know the money was coming from anything illegal. As long as they were doing wire transfers and not cash, I wasn’t worried about the source of it.” Nogueira said that no one asked him about the source of funds. “Nobody ever asked me. The banks didn’t ask. The developers didn’t ask. The Trump Organization didn’t ask me. Nobody asked me: ‘Who are the customers? Where did the money come from?’” It is unclear how much, if any, laundered money went into the Trump project.
“Mr. Nogueira? There’s a whole lot of cocaine flaking off this stack of $20s.”
“Pay that no mind. Put ‘em on spin cycle and forget about it.”
I don’t know how Robert Mueller keeps up. I truly don’t.
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