BULLSHIT! TRUMP AND HIS PARASITE CHILDREN HAVE SCREWED EVERY
CONTRACTOR AND PERSON THEY’VE DONE BUSINESS WITH FROM DAY ONE!
Eric Trump on paying contractors: We pay ‘people when they do
great jobs’
The Trump Organization has been criticized for stiffing
contractors. Contractors have filed hundreds of complaints, which date
back to the 1980s, alleging that the real estate company did not pay them.
“We believe in paying people when they do great jobs. And we get
people paid incredibly quickly. And we pay contractors,” said Eric Trump,
executive vice president of The Trump Organization at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit, adding that the organization
only refuses to pay contractors who fail to complete a job.
“Yeah, well, they [the unpaid contractors] didn't finish a job.
And they didn't do a good job. And they flaked out. And they were two months
behind schedule. And so you had to let go of them. And you had to bring
somebody else in to do the job that they otherwise would have. And it's called
the real world,” he said, referring to the allegations. “People like to take
cheap shots at us.”
Eric Trump’s defense echoes his father’s status quo response.
During the 2016 presidential debate, President Donald Trump said
something very similar. “Maybe he didn’t do a good job and I was unsatisfied
with his work,” he said in response to nonpayment accusations.
Eric Trump also noted to Yahoo Finance that The Trump
Organization has developed institutional knowledge about getting the best deals
with contractors. “In New York, we know what contractors are going to be
incredible, what contractors are going to — I won't use a word, but — take
advantage of you,” he said. “And, you know, you have that institutional
knowledge. You know your way around. You know the language. You know the laws.
You know how things are built. You know what kind of foundations work in the
ground.”
A Blockade Against Impeachment Is Crumbling as Witnesses Agree to
Talk
Michael D. Shear and Nicholas Fandos
,WASHINGTON — The White House’s
trenchant declaration to House impeachment investigators last week was
unequivocal: No more witnesses or documents for a “totally compromised kangaroo
court.”
But just a week later, it has become clear that President Donald
Trump’s attempts to stonewall the Democrat-led inquiry that has imperiled his
presidency and ensnared much of his inner circle are crumbling.
One by one, a parade of Trump administration career diplomats
and senior officials has offered a cascade of revelations. Those accounts have
corroborated and expanded upon key aspects of the whistleblower complaint that
spawned the impeachment inquiry into whether the president abused his power to
enlist Ukraine to help him in the 2020 presidential election.
The latest disclosures came Wednesday, when a former top aide to
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo offered an inside account of what he said was a
demoralized State Department, where career diplomats were sidelined and others
apparently were pressed to use their posts “to advance domestic political
objectives.” In six hours of voluntary testimony, the former aide, Michael
McKinley, told impeachment investigators that he quit his post as Pompeo’s
senior adviser amid mounting frustrations over the Trump administration’s
treatment of diplomats and its failure to support them in the face of the
impeachment inquiry, according to a copy of his opening remarks.
On Thursday, Democrats are set to hear from Gordon D. Sondland,
the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, a central figure in the president’s
pressure campaign on Ukraine. He is expected to testify that he learned that
Trump did not intend to invite President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine to a
meeting in the Oval Office until Zelenskiy pledged to open an investigation
that could benefit Trump’s political fortunes — bolstering a central allegation
in the inquiry that the president steered foreign policy for political gain.
And Democratic lawmakers have directed William B. Taylor Jr.,
one of the top American diplomats in Ukraine, to appear before their committees
next Tuesday, according to an official familiar with the investigation. Text
messages produced as part of the inquiry suggest that Taylor was deeply uneasy
about what he saw as an effort by Trump aides to use a $391 million package of
security assistance as leverage over Ukraine for political favors, calling the
notion “crazy.”
All three are examples of what can happen when Congress secures
cooperation from government witnesses in a rapidly moving investigation aimed
at the president.
The White House has had more success blocking the release of
documents tied to the case. But the president and his lawyers had hoped to use
the power of his office to muzzle current and former diplomats and White House
aides, arguing in presidential tweets and a lengthy letter to Democratic
lawmakers Oct. 8 that their subpoenas are invalid and unenforceable.
“President Trump cannot permit his administration to participate
in this partisan inquiry under these circumstances,” wrote Pat Cipollone, the
White House counsel.
And yet the president has been unable to prevent it.
Just since Trump declared war on the impeachment effort, three
current and former senior State Department officials and a former top White
House aide have testified for nearly 36 total hours, delivering to lawmakers a
consistent narrative of how they were effectively pushed aside by allies of the
president operating outside America’s usual foreign policy channels.
“It’s partly because this shadow foreign policy that the president
was running was so deeply offensive to people in his own administration who
took pride in overseeing a professionally run and arguably exemplary policy in
support of Ukraine,” said Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., a former State
Department official involved in the inquiry. Referring to Trump’s personal
lawyer, he added, “And then to see the official policy undermined by this
clownishly corrupt effort led by Rudy Giuliani on behalf of the president was
just more than many people apparently could bear.”
Republicans who control the Senate view the fast-building case
as serious enough to begin preparing for the trial in their chamber that would
follow impeachment by the House. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the majority
leader, briefed fellow lawmakers over lunch Wednesday about how a trial would
work, expressing his hope of conducting it speedily and completing it by the
end of the year, people familiar with his remarks said.
Facing accusations of secrecy from Republicans, Rep Adam B.
Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the Intelligence Committee, informed colleagues
Wednesday that he planned to open the inquiry to the public soon. He wrote that
he planned to release transcripts of all the interviews as the investigation
proceeded and pledged to soon hold public hearings “so that the full Congress
and the American people can hear their testimony firsthand.”
For Trump, who is famous for demanding fierce loyalty from those
around him, the daily — or even hourly — crush of damaging headlines is an
infuriating departure from previous successes in controlling disclosures to
Congress from people in his orbit.
During the congressional investigation into Russia’s election
meddling, Trump blocked a deposition of Donald F. McGahn II, his former White
House counsel, and dramatically limited testimony from some of his closest
aides, including Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director,
and Corey Lewandowski, his former campaign manager.
But this is different. Many administration officials targeted
for depositions by Democrats are diplomatic veterans who have expressed anger
and frustration about what they described as the hijacking of U.S. foreign
policy. They have no particular loyalty to Trump nor are they subject to the
same presidential powers to block them from testifying.
So they have turned up at the secure suite of the House
Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, disappearing behind doors with a red
“RESTRICTED AREA” sign to tell their stories.
Under alternating hourlong question-and-answer sessions by Democratic
and Republican staff lawyers, Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to
Ukraine, said she had been ousted at Trump’s direction on the basis of
“unfounded and false claims.” Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council
aide, said John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, was so alarmed
by the activities of Giuliani, Sondland and others that he instructed her to
alert White House lawyers. She said she reported Sondland to intelligence
officials as a possible national security risk as well.
The decision by Yovanovitch, Hill and others to testify is a
demonstration of the limits of presidential power and the legal constraints
Trump is under as he and his lawyers try to devise a strategy for keeping him
in office.
Although the White House has struggled to keep former officials
from agreeing to testify, Trump has more leverage with current administration
employees, who may fear for their jobs if they defy the blockade. But it is not
clear what the political repercussions would be if the president retaliated
against them in the middle of a political scandal.
McKinley told investigators Wednesday that State Department
officials were discouraging people from testifying and were not supporting
diplomats who had received subpoenas and requests to appear before the House,
according to a person familiar with his testimony.
Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill expressed frustration this week
about the depositions, saying White House lawyers should be present and
accusing Democrats of selectively leaking from the testimony. Others were
simply baffled by the cooperation of the witnesses.
“I really don’t understand it,” said Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah,
a member of the Intelligence Committee. “I can’t wrap my head around why some
and why not others.”
Veterans of past legal struggles between the White House and
Congress said Trump was confronting the reality that he had limited ability to
force former or even current government employees to ignore a legally binding
subpoena. It is even difficult — though not impossible — to shield top White
House aides from appearing, they said.
“Particularly if there’s a subpoena, everybody has to appear or
risk being held in contempt,” said W. Neil Eggleston, who served as President
Barack Obama’s White House counsel. “It is just not easy to simply refuse to
appear.”
Eggleston said that defying a subpoena was sometimes possible
for high-profile figures but was especially difficult for functionaries and
other career employees.
Trump’s lawyers have had more success in blocking access to
emails, text messages, memos and other documents in the government’s
possession.
The administration has rejected Democratic subpoenas or requests
for documents at the Office of Management and Budget, the State Department, the
Defense Department and the office of Vice President Mike Pence. Giuliani has
also said he will ignore a subpoena for his records, citing the White House’s
stance.
Democrats have said the refusal to hand over documents will be
considered obstruction of Congress and may be added to the impeachment charges
brought against the president.
The White House has also attempted to limit the questions
witnesses can answer.
In the case of Hill, White House lawyers conceded early Monday
that they could not stop her from arriving on Capitol Hill for a deposition by
the committee later that day, but they demanded that she refrain from speaking
about classified material, conversations with the president and other matters.
Even that proved difficult to enforce, as Hill vividly described
a dramatic confrontation inside the White House between Bolton and Sondland.
Schiff, the Intelligence Committee chairman, said Tuesday that
the sessions with witnesses have been fruitful despite the efforts to block
them.
“It’s a way of trying to chill them from cooperating,” Schiff
said. “It’s not working, but I think that’s the goal.
“It goes to show the legally insupportable position of the White
House,” he added.
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat
and Republican alike,
has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with
third-world hell-holes.
This is the
way a great country is raided by its
elite.” --- Karen
McQuillan
Scarborough then launched
into his own conspiracy theory:
But I think we all will be absolutely fascinated when we finally
figure out what Vladimir Putin has on Donald Trump and why Donald Trump has surrendered the Middle East,
helped ISIS, helped Iran, helped Russia, helped Turkey, helped all of our
enemies and betrayed all of our allies. You know, a lot of people think that it’s – he has
compromising pictures or something happened in a hotel in Russia years ago. No.
It goes back to money. It’s always about money.
GET THIS BOOK!
Peter Schweizer, author
of “Secret Empires: How the
American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,”
BULLSHIT! TRUMP AND HIS PARASITE
CHILDREN
HAVE SCREWED EVERY CONTRACTOR AND
PERSON
THEY’VE DONE BUSINESS WITH FROM DAY ONE!
Eric
Trump on paying contractors: We
pay
‘people when they do great jobs’
The Trump Organization has been criticized for stiffing
contractors. Contractors have filed hundreds of
complaints, which date back to the 1980s, alleging that the real estate company
did not pay them.
“We
believe in paying people when they do great jobs. And we get people paid
incredibly quickly. And we pay contractors,” said Eric Trump, executive vice
president of The Trump Organization at Yahoo Finance’s All Market
Summit, adding that the organization only refuses to pay contractors
who fail to complete a job.
“Yeah,
well, they [the unpaid contractors] didn't finish a job. And they didn't do a
good job. And they flaked out. And they were two months behind schedule. And so
you had to let go of them. And you had to bring somebody else in to do the job
that they otherwise would have. And it's called the real world,” he said,
referring to the allegations. “People like to take cheap shots at us.”
Eric Trump’s defense echoes his father’s status quo response.
During the
2016 presidential debate,
President Donald Trump said something very similar. “Maybe he didn’t do a good
job and I was unsatisfied with his work,” he said in response to nonpayment
accusations.
Eric Trump
also noted to Yahoo Finance that The Trump Organization has developed
institutional knowledge about getting the best deals with contractors. “In New
York, we know what contractors are going to be incredible, what contractors are
going to — I won't use a word, but — take advantage of you,” he said. “And, you
know, you have that institutional knowledge. You know your way around. You know
the language. You know the laws. You know how things are built. You know what
kind of foundations work in the ground.”
ANN COULTER
TRUMP’S PARASITIC FAMILY
Jared’s BFF, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman (MBS), and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Muhammad bin Zayed (MBZ),
refer to Jared as “the clown prince.” Bone-cutter MBS assured those around him
that he had Jared “in my pocket.”
Following meetings at the White House and also with the Kushners over
their 666 Fifth Avenue property, former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin
Jassim reported back to the emir that “the people atop the new administration
were heavily motivated by personal financial interest.”
“Truthfully, It Is Tough To Ignore Some Of The Gross
Immoral Behavior By The President” WASHINGTON POST
Trump's sister quits as a federal judge 10
days into formal probe of her possible role in massive family tax scam that
could have ended in her impeachment
· Trump's older sister resigned as an appellate court judge shortly
after a probe opened into her involvement in a family tax scheme
·
· 10 days ago an investigation into whether Maryanne Trump Barry violated
judicial conduct rules launched
·
· The case was closed after Barry resigned because retired judges are not
subject to the rules
·
· Barry had not heard a case in two years after transitioning to inactive
shortly after Trump's inauguration
·
· The Trump siblings were probed after an investigation found they were
involved in a tax scheme related to the transfer of their father's real estate
empire
President Donald Trump’s older sister
Maryanne Trump Barry, 82, retired as a federal judge just days after an
investigation opened into her possible role in family tax fraud scheme.
Barry was a federal appellate judge in the third district, which
includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, and the investigation could
have led to her impeachment.
She had not presided over a case in more than two years, but was still
listed as an inactive senior judge in the third district – usually the step
taken before full retirement.
Barry did not give any reasons for her retirement.
The probe into the Trumps was first opened last fall, after a New York
Times investigation found the Trump siblings engaged in tax schemes in the
1990s, including fraud, that increased their inherited wealth.
+4
Maryanne Trump Barry resigned as a federal appellate judge 10 days into
an investigation into whether she violated judicial conduct rules
An investigation into the Trump siblings opened after the New York Times
reported that they transferred their father's real estate assets improperly in
the 1990s
PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES DONALD TRUMP: Pathological liar,
swindler, con man, huckster, golfing cheat, charity foundation fraudster, tax
evader, adulterer, porn whore chaser and servant of the Saudis dictators
THE TRUMP FAMILY FOUNDATION SLUSH FUND…. Will they see jail?
VISUALIZE REVOLUTION!.... We know where they live!
“Underwood is a Democrat and is seeking millions of dollars in
penalties. She wants Trump and his eldest children barred from running other
charities.”
WHO IS
FINANCING ALL THE TRUMP AND SON-IN-LAW’S REFINANCING SCAMS???
FOLLOW THE
MONEY!
"I
doubt that Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message he's sending.
Wealthy Saudis, including members of the extended royal family, have been his
patrons for years, buying his distressed properties when he needed money. In
the early 1990s, a Saudi prince purchased Trump's flashy yacht so that the
then-struggling businessman could come up with cash to stave off personal
bankruptcy, and later, the prince bought a share of the Plaza Hotel, one of
Trump's many business deals gone bad. Trump also sold an entire floor of his
landmark Trump Tower condominium to the Saudi government in 2001."
“The Wahhabis
finance thousands of madrassahs
throughout the
world where young boys are
brainwashed
into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers
for the petrodollar-flush
Saudis and other emirs of
the Persian
Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
I recommend that Ignatius read Raymond Ibrahim's outstanding
book Sword and Scimitar, which
contains accounts of dynastic succession in the Muslim monarchies of the Middle
East, where standard operating procedure for a new monarch on the death of his
father was to strangle all his brothers. Yes, it's
awful. But it has been happening for a very long
time. And it's not going to change quickly, no matter how outraged
we pretend to be. MONICA SHOWALTER
WHAT WILL TRUMP AND HIS PARASITIC FAMILY DO FOR MONEY???
JUST ASK THE SAUDIS!
JOHN DEAN: Not so far. This has been right by the letter
of the special counsel’s charter. He’s released the document. What I’m
looking for is relief and understanding that there’s no witting or unwitting
likelihood that the President is an agent of Russia. That’s when I’ll feel
comfortable, and no evidence even hints at that. We don’t have that yet. We’re
still in the process of unfolding the report to look at it. And its, as I say,
if [Attornery General William Barr] honors his word, we’ll know more soon.
Morning Joe: Trump Is ‘Owned by Putin,’ Head of ‘Criminal
Organization’
Listen to
the Article!
Following a discussion of President
Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, on Thursday, MSNBC’s Morning
Joe went far beyond standard criticism of the controversial foreign
policy move and wildly claimed it was proof that Trump was “owned by Putin” and
heading up a “criminal organization” that had been “laundering money” for the
Russian autocrat for decades.
As the 6:00 a.m. ET hour segment about
Syria was wrapping up and co-host Mika Brzezinski was starting to go to a
commercial break, left-wing pundit Donny Deutsch interrupted to squeeze in an
unfounded conspiratorial rant in which he accused the President of multiple
crimes: “Let’s not forget it. This is all about failed casinos. He is
owned by Putin because he’s been laundering money, Russian money for the last
20, 30 years. He’s owned by him. That’s what this is.”
Brzezinski voiced her agreement with
irresponsible and unsubstantiated attack: “Oh, my lord....Yeah.”
Deutsch continued his tirade
unchallenged:
You talk to any banker in New York,
any business person in New York, any real estate person in New York, we
have a president that’s selling out our military, that’s costing lives because he
is owned by our geopolitical enemy because he’s been laundering money for him
as a criminal organization for the last 30 years. That will come out in time.
Co-host Joe Scarborough seemed to
offer a small dose of sanity in response: “That is – that is speculation and
only speculation right now.” However, he quickly added: “I will say that it is
speculation among New York bankers who have loaned Donald Trump money in the
past and who have been following his business career for 30, 40 years.”
Brzezinski chimed in: “Who know a lot.”
Scarborough then launched into his
own conspiracy theory:
But I think we all will be absolutely
fascinated when we finally figure out what Vladimir Putin has on Donald Trump and why Donald Trump has
surrendered the Middle East, helped ISIS, helped Iran, helped Russia, helped
Turkey, helped all of our enemies and betrayed all of our allies. You
know, a lot of people think that it’s – he has compromising pictures or
something happened in a hotel in Russia years ago. No. It goes back to money.
It’s always about money.
He concluded the unhinged discussion
by asserting: “And this president is selling not only America, but its
most important allies, down the river for money he wants to make either while
in office or when he leaves office, period, end of story.”
It’s never enough for the liberal
media to simply express a policy disagreement with Trump and say that the U.S.
abandoning its Kurdish allies in northern Syria would have a negative outcome.
Instead, journalists and pundits must always try to outdo each other to make
the most outrageous declarations imaginable to prove their bona fides as
members of the resistance.
Here is a full transcript of the
October 24 exchange:
6:48 AM ET
DONNY DEUTSCH: Make no mistake,
because it’s easy to forget. Let’s not forget it. This is all about failed
casinos. He is owned by Putin...
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