More: The bombshells keep landing on Don Veto and his outfit! Today the Justice Department released an indictment charging banker Stephen Calk with bribery of Paul Manafort to obtain a senior cabinet position within the regime. His bank, the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, made $16 millions in high-risk loans to the former campaign chairman, and according to the indictment sought to leverage his control of those loans to obtain an appointment as Treasury Secretary, Defense Secretary or Secretary of the Army. His wish list also included a number of ambassadorships in western nations. Calk directed his bank to make loans in excess of the bank's limits to Manafort. Shortly after directing a $9.5 million loan to Manafort, he made his ask for a cabinet job. When the Office of the Comptroller asked him about the loans he lied about his job request. Manafort was not able to land a job for his creditor, but Calk was interviewed for the Army Secretary position. He was put on the campaign's economic advisory committee. Manafort also sent Jared Kushner, son-in-law and head of the transition team, an email recommending that Calk join the regime. Calk faces a maximum of thirty years in prison for "financial institution bribery".
Update: A federal judge ruled that he would not enjoin Deutsche Bank from turning over financial records of its business with Individual I to comply with House subpoenas. Since 1998, the bank has lent Don Veto a total of more than $2 billion, at a time when no other major bank would make him loans. Judge Ramos found it unlikely that the regime's arguments against release would win at trial. The ruling came on the same day that the New York state legislature passed a bill allowing Congress to obtain Trump's state tax returns. Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to sign the bill. Don Veto will no doubt appeal the ruling, the second one to pierce his wall of silence. A man without compunction, he is now striking back against Democrats by refusing to negotiate with the opposition over pressing national legislation such as repairing infrastructure, disaster relief, and immigration reform--another clear abuse of presidential power. He "doesn't do coverups"? Just ask Stormy Daniels or Karen McDougal.
It is over time for real reality, not fake TV reality, to catch up with the narcissistic, looser plutocrat sometimes known as Donald 'the Genius' Trump. Impeachment now, for the good of the country!
{21.05.19} How long will Nancy Pelosi hold back her Democratic colleagues who are being stonewalled into submission by the arrogant King of Debt who occupies the Very White House? That is the question of the moment. More investigation will get not get very far if the House is forced to litigate every step of the way. This is the scorched earth strategy of the gang of Trump, who is himself a master of legal confrontation. More investigation ignores the probable cause for impeachment proceedings already laid out in the redacted Mueller report. His gang has repeatedly defied congressional subpoenas, which is yet another legitimate basis for impeachment. Impeachment hearings would serve another laudable purpose: focus a distracted and deluded ring-wing voting base on the venality of their leader.
Former White House counsel Don McGahn announced he would defy another subpoena to appear before the House Judiciary Committee today, at the order of the clown dictator, Don Veto Trumpilini. Some Democrats are beginning to express impatience with Pelosi's overly cautious aversion to defending the Constitution in the face of an unstable president who considers himself above the law. Some lawmakers are saying impeachment is "inevitable". US Person agrees it must be, if the Constitution is to survive as a viable foundation of representative government. There has been no crisis like this since Richard Nixon, who infamously declared he was not a crook, but even he disclosed his tax returns. If Speaker Pelosi is looking for a 'smoking gun' to indict Don Veto, the only way it will be found is if the House unleashes its full investigatory powers in the process of drafting Articles of Impeachment by the Judiciary Committee for which there is probable cause already in the public record. Let the Repugnants charge the federal guns at their own peril. Praise God, save the Republic, and pass the ammunition!
Attorney McGahn is no longer working for the White House. He is a private citizen under legal compulsion to testify, unless of course he decides his testimony would be self-incriminating. McGahn has already testified to the Special Counsel about his boss' obstruction with the consent of Don Veto, his client; executive privilege has therefore been waived. McGahn is cited 157 times as a witness in Mueller's report. Chairman Nadler is correct to characterize Don Veto "omerta" order as witness intimidation, another federal crime, absurd claims of blanket executive immunity from legal process aside*. How many crimes does the hot-headed "kook" have to commit before he is stopped? (hipsters call it an 'intervention') The imitation gangster has already shot the innocent bystander--the Constitution --on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight. Now, he is making the anonymous phone call to the cops to brag that he will kill again.
*The Justice Department wrote a memo after the Don ordered "omerta", addressed to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, arguing
that Congress inherently does not have the power to make the former
White House Counsel talk to them about his work for the boss. The memo also said the president had the power to order McGahn
not to testify and that Congress did not have the power to punish
him––criminally or civilly––for following such an order: “The
immunity of the President’s immediate advisers from compelled
congressional testimony on matters related to their official
responsibilities has long been recognized and arises from the
fundamental workings of the separation of powers,” reads the memo,
signed by Office of Legal Counsel chief Steven Engel, a Trump appointee. Engle obviously lives in Trumpland where history is not real. Thank you, President Buchanan.
McGahn refusal to appear is not all out of loyalty to Don Veto, apparently. His law firm, Jones Day, is entwined with the Repugnant Party, so he could loose a lot of business if he crossed the loyalty line. How much business? One commentator notes the firm did $2million worth of business with the Republican National Committee.