Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

'Something smells': Tax crime investigator suspects Trump campaign laundering money through Mar-A-Lago




Donald Trump’s re-election campaign appears to be laundering payments through Mar-A-Lago, according to a veteran tax fraud investigator.

The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold tweeted out evidence that the Trump campaign pumped $380,000 into the president’s private property in 43 separate payments for an early March “donor retreat,” broken into payments just under the Treasury Department’s reporting requirement for receipt of cash payments, reported The Daily Beast.

“The Trump Organization’s record of the payment raises many questions I’m familiar with from my 30-year career as an investigator at the IRS,” wrote retired tax crimes investigator Martin Sheil. “Is the $380,000 income? If so, what was delivered in exchange for it? Were these payments for past services rendered or for future expected returns? Who were the donors? Why didn’t the Trump Organization just report the entire $380,000 in total? Why break that down into separate transactions? Why was each payment identically described as ‘Facility Rental/ Catering Services’? Is something being disguised here?”

@Fahrenthold: In just two days, @realdonaldtrump’s campaign pumped $380K into Trump’s private business, in 43 separate payments. Trump Org says this was for a weeklong “donor retreat,” held in early March at Mar-a-Lago.
Campaign donations turned into private revenue for POTUS



The payments each fall just below the reporting requirement for receipt of cash payments in a trade or business to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which the Trump Organization insisted was necessary because Mar-A-Lago cannot process credit card transactions of more than $10,000.

“There are criminal penalties for structuring, or breaking a bigger payment into small chunks to evade reporting requirements, including a statutory maximum prison sentence of up to five years and/or a monetary fine of up to $250,000,” Sheil wrote, adding that the evidence he’s seen suggests the possibility of money laundering, as well.Prosecutors aren’t required to prove a defendant knew structuring is illegal, but instead must only prove they knew the relevant reporting requirements, Sheil wrote, and the Trump Organization’s prior history of suspect conduct could count against the president.

“FinCEN imposed a $10 million civil penalty against the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort on March 6, 2015, for willful and repeated violations of the BSA,” Sheil wrote. “The Taj has a history of prior, repeated BSA violations cited by examiners dating back to 2003. Additionally, in 1998, FinCEN assessed a $477,700 civil money penalty against the Taj for currency transaction reporting violations.”

The president was in charge of Trump Organization and the Trump casinos at the time those penalties were imposed, and the company’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, has worked there for more than 30 years.

“Something smells in Mar-a-Lago,” Sheil wrote, “and there certainly exists enough smoke here to justify a thorough search for the fire.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/something-smells-tax-crime-investigator-suspects-trump-campaign-laundering-money-through-mar-a-lago/

[Rick Plant]

Kellyanne Conway and Kayleigh McEnany called out as ‘Ministers of Propaganda’ in new ad against Trump





Bestselling author Don Winslow on Friday released a new video against Donald Trump and his supporters.

The video calls out press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway as “ministers of propaganda” for their comments on the coronavirus pandemic.

The video also blasts Dr. Deborah Birx.

“You have corrupted everything you’ve touched since becoming president,” the narrator says, speaking directly to the president. “You have been documented lying over 20,000 times.

“On November 3rd, Amera admits its greatest mistake,” the narrator continues. “On November 3rd, America evicts the most disgusting family ever to live in the White House.”

“On November 3rd, America fires Donald Trump.

Don Winslow Films - #AmericasGreatestMistake

[Paul May]

‘All your most paranoid questions’ about Trump refusing to leave office if he loses answered by political journalist
Brad Reed

President Donald Trump is once again refusing to say if he will accept the results of the 2020 election if he loses, and veteran journalist Ben Jacobs has talked with several experts to figure out what, if anything, Trump can do to stay in power despite losing.

Writing in Medium, Jacobs outlines several scenarios in which Trump loses the election and tries desperately to remain in the White House.

If the election is a blowout loss, Jacobs writes, there is likely very little Trump will be able to do short of organizing a coup with the help of the same career civil servants he has spent years attacking and disparaging.

Things can get trickier if Trump is only narrowly defeated, however — particularly if the president only decisively loses after all absentee ballots are counted.

“This creates a potential scenario where, on election night, Trump is ahead in states that have the 270 or more electoral votes needed to claim victory, while Biden wins in the final tally days or weeks later, once all the votes are counted,” he writes.

All the same, Jacobs rates the likelihood of this happening as rather slim.

“It requires a very specific set of circumstances where Trump loses, challenges the validity of the election, and then still has enough allies in state legislatures and Washington, D.C., to be able to formally overturn the Electoral College results — to say nothing of the popular vote — under color of law,” he writes. “That said, the convoluted and arcane nature of the American electoral system still presents a number of choke points that create openings for a sore and resourceful loser to attempt to force a different result.”

[Joffrey van de Wiel]

I have two questions for my American fellow members:

1) Will there be a debate between President Trump and Vice President Biden, or perhaps a few? CNN is silent about this.
2) Who is Biden's candidate for the Vice Presidency?

[Paul May]

I have two questions for my American fellow members:

1) Will there be a debate between President Trump and Vice President Biden, or perhaps a few? CNN is silent about this.
2) Who is Biden's candidate for the Vice Presidency?

There will likely be multiple debates. Biden is expected to announce his VP choice within the next couple of weeks.

[Paul May]

Royell Storing, after  “counseling” with those providing him with “insider” information now apparently is realizing all hope is lost and his side, not unlike POTUS himself does everyday lies, lies and lies again. He wouldn’t listen to us, rather just spouting the party line each day. His fav line was “you don’t know what you don’t know”. I believe it’s finally time for all of us to say thanks for the entertainment Storing and best of luck in Barber College!

[Paul May]

Trump’s campaign in complete disarray as aides admit re-election prospects look ‘bleak’: report

Tom Boggioni

According to a report from the Daily Beast, all the grand plans Donald Trump and his campaign had for a triumphant re-election in November now is in tatters as the coronavirus pandemic rages on and an attempt at a law and order campaign has blown up in the president’s face.

As the report notes, the president and his advisers had planned to run on a strong economy to assure his second term, but missteps on the COVID-19 crisis sent unemployment soaring as businesses shut down, employees were let go or furloughed and the death toll continued to climb.

Now, as one White House aide admitted, the chances of the president winning in November look “bleak.”

“The planned rebirth would build upon a message crafted in the early months of this year, when Trump was gearing up to campaign on issues such as a strong economy and even criminal-justice reform,” the report states before adding, “But just one month into the summer, it all came crashing down, with the president admitting to the American people and the press corps that he was throwing in the towel in more ways than one.”

Trump has had to backtrack on his denial about wearing masks, he was forced to cancel the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville after moving it from North Carolina and he has been denied the ability to hold rallies over health concerns — all of which has left his campaign staff wondering how to dig him out as his polling numbers go in the tank.

“Three people working on the president’s re-election effort told The Daily Beast on Friday that the reason for all of these cancellations and suspensions of Trump’s summer plans is simple: The situation with the virus, which has a U.S. body count upwards of 140,000 dead, is so dire still that even some of Trump’s most diehard advisers no longer think it wise to press on,” the Beast report states. “One reason several of Trump’s top aides wanted to get him back on the trail was to help alleviate his worsening mood, as he grew increasingly impatient with month after month of being mostly holed up in the White House.”

The report continues, “With his presidency imperiled by widespread voter disapproval to his response to the pandemic, the tanked U.S. economy, and protest movements in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, his senior aides and campaign officials have largely resorted to tactics specifically designed to make Trump feel better about himself.”

Now, with the economy still reeling, COVID-19 infections jumping upward, schools likely not opening despite presidential promises, attacks on presumptive Democratic presidential opponent Joe Biden falling flat, sources close to the president admit his prospects don’t look good.

“It’s bleak,” explained a senior White House official. “The president has done such damage to himself that a lot of us are just waiting for him to stop being handed so many of those kinds of opportunities.”

[Mark A. Oblazney]

Trump’s campaign in complete disarray as aides admit re-election prospects look ‘bleak’: report

Tom Boggioni

According to a report from the Daily Beast, all the grand plans Donald Trump and his campaign had for a triumphant re-election in November now is in tatters as the coronavirus pandemic rages on and an attempt at a law and order campaign has blown up in the president’s face.

As the report notes, the president and his advisers had planned to run on a strong economy to assure his second term, but missteps on the COVID-19 crisis sent unemployment soaring as businesses shut down, employees were let go or furloughed and the death toll continued to climb.

Now, as one White House aide admitted, the chances of the president winning in November look “bleak.”

“The planned rebirth would build upon a message crafted in the early months of this year, when Trump was gearing up to campaign on issues such as a strong economy and even criminal-justice reform,” the report states before adding, “But just one month into the summer, it all came crashing down, with the president admitting to the American people and the press corps that he was throwing in the towel in more ways than one.”

Trump has had to backtrack on his denial about wearing masks, he was forced to cancel the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville after moving it from North Carolina and he has been denied the ability to hold rallies over health concerns — all of which has left his campaign staff wondering how to dig him out as his polling numbers go in the tank.

“Three people working on the president’s re-election effort told The Daily Beast on Friday that the reason for all of these cancellations and suspensions of Trump’s summer plans is simple: The situation with the virus, which has a U.S. body count upwards of 140,000 dead, is so dire still that even some of Trump’s most diehard advisers no longer think it wise to press on,” the Beast report states. “One reason several of Trump’s top aides wanted to get him back on the trail was to help alleviate his worsening mood, as he grew increasingly impatient with month after month of being mostly holed up in the White House.”

The report continues, “With his presidency imperiled by widespread voter disapproval to his response to the pandemic, the tanked U.S. economy, and protest movements in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, his senior aides and campaign officials have largely resorted to tactics specifically designed to make Trump feel better about himself.”

Now, with the economy still reeling, COVID-19 infections jumping upward, schools likely not opening despite presidential promises, attacks on presumptive Democratic presidential opponent Joe Biden falling flat, sources close to the president admit his prospects don’t look good.

“It’s bleak,” explained a senior White House official. “The president has done such damage to himself that a lot of us are just waiting for him to stop being handed so many of those kinds of opportunities.”

Bleak, huh?