Trump Org Reportedly Seeking Debt Help From Deutsche As Bank Is Probed By DOJ

[edhopper]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deutsche-bank-trump-debt-help-coronavirus-conflict-of-interest_n_5e87ee89c5b6cc1e47758499

In another tangled ethics situation for Donald Trump, the president’s Trump Organization is reportedly asking to postpone its loan payments to Deutsche Bank — which is being investigated by the Department of Justice to determine if it complied with anti-money laundering regulations.

The situation highlights the unique power of Trump as president to maneuver a deal for his business hurt by the COVID-19 crisis, particularly with a bank under investigation by his own administration.

Trump did not divest from his businesses when he moved into the White House as other presidents have done to avoid conflicts of interest. The current scenario is the “absolute nightmare that someone (ahem) warned about” when Trump took office, tweeted Walter Shaub, the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics under both Barack Obama and Trump.

[Varaddem]

1. Probably looking

For what needs to disappear

[rurallib]

5. Barr needs to be ready to provide cover.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. There's another standby

The Russian mob. Kinda hard to pull off with everybody watching tho.

[edhopper]

3. Who is watching?

Not the DOJ.

[NCjack]

4. Maybe Trump will resign, turn on the Russian mob, and go into Fed Witness protection

in Leavenworth.

[Chainfire]

6. Trump has surrounded himself

with a circle protection that can only be broken if he is voted out of office and if the Democrats make gains in the Senate. The Justice Department, the Defense Dept, the Intelligence Depts and the Federal Courts are all filled by people who will defend Trump over the Constitution. Are we going to vote him out of office? I doubt it, no matter the results of a vote, the election, for one reason or another, will end up in the hands of the Conservative Supreme Court, and the will of the people will be damned. Trump will not allow a free and fair election, because he knows what the outcome will be.... Of course, it will all be for our own good.....

I know that this is a very pessimistic view, but it is not beyond the realm of possibility. Trump may have to "lead" the country into an even worse crisis than this one to lose power. History shows us what failed Fascism looks like and we are well on the road to a "Ten Thousand Year Reich" of our own making.

If you want to see what the end game looks like, google up some photos of Berlin in the Summer of 1945. That is liable to be the lasting Republican/Trump legacy.

What is really interesting about the rise and fall of the Third Reich, is those who survived the collapse and prospered after millions of Germans died, and their Cities were burnt to the ground. Krupp, Bayer, Siemens, BASF, and many other corporate giants lived and still live on. It should give us some comfort that if our society is destroyed, the Krupps of the world will still be fine.......The rats and cockroaches are invulnerable. History repeats.

[edhopper]

7. pessimistic?

or realistic?