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| credit: R. Bolling BC Idonwanna sez: Flying monkeys bad medicine! |
Deutsch Bank has a history of shady dealings; it was fined a mere $630 million by the Justice Department in 2017 for laundering money out of Russia. US Person thinks that Individual I is implicated in the documented history of widespread laundering of dirty money from the collapse of the Soviet Union. This involvement is the raison d'etre for Don Veto's Russian connection, and explains in part the Kremlin's willingness to help 'their man' win the 2016 election over a hostile and uncooperative Hillary Clinton.
A massive investigation of Don Veto's business dealings, conducted by New York Times revealed that he routinely inflated his assets in loan documentation. In order to prove he had the means to buy the NFL football team, Don Veto submitted a financial statement stating he was worth $8.7 billion! To offset his known propensity for lying, the bank regularly reduced his reported figures by 70%. After being sued by Trump over his Chicago tower project in 2008, the bank settled his $500 million default, and yet made two more loans to him. He still owes the bank $340 million. Providing false information on loan applications is illegal in New York, but the state Attorney General's investigation is only a civil one. One more reason the nation needs impeachment¹.
Impeachment is a political process as well as a fact-finding one. The investigating House committees should lay a factual ground work, begun by a cautious and partisan Special Counsel investigation, to bring a bill of particulars before the House of Representatives for a vote. The additional fact-finding will also serve to justify Trump's impeachment to the public at large. Even after Special Prosecutor Leon Jarworski laid bare the facts of Nixon's obstruction of justice and his eventual resignation to avoid a Senate trial, the public did not support impeachment of the President². An impeachment is an indictment not a trial; whether partisans in the Senate would vote not to convict is a question that can only be answered in the event. But to do nothing and allow the unAmerican imposter's removal from office to be decided by the result of a rigged election, or not enforce the Constitution for fear of partisan nullification, would be to destroy what remains of the rule of law in this nation. If Senate partisans attempt to fall on their puny swords in a last ditch defense of Hair Further, the public will ensure their political demise. Senators are, thanks to an amendment to that tattered document, elected by direct popular vote.
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| credit: M Streeter, Savannah Morning News Wackydoiodle sez: His hands were in his pockets at the time! |
²“Nobody jumped to conclusions about impeachment with Richard Nixon,” U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said of the former president who resigned in 1974. “The whole world was educated about what Nixon was doing, and it got to the point where they didn’t need to impeach, because when the world found out what he was doing, he decided the jig was up." A similar scenario could play out for Don Veto, but he is such a sociopath he could end up like Little Caesar, who said with his dying breath, "No copper will ever put the cuffs on me--is this the end of Little Caesar?" US Person sees some value in detailing the "high crimes and misdemeanors": illegal emoluments and campaign finance payments, abetting a foreign power to influence a federal election, tax fraud, conspiracy to launder money, and obstruction of justice, but not if it means dragging the fact-finding out until the next election! The toxicity resides in the Very White House, but it is a symptom NOT a cause. The cause lies in the failure to recognize the flaws (Electoral College) in the foundation documents and the political unwillingness to enforce their strengths (Separation of Powers).