BREAKING: Trump Linked To Terrorist Money Laundering

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October 3, 2016
Ed Hanratty

Terrorist Blood Money Helps Fund Donald Trump

It looks like Cuba wasn’t the only hostile regime that GOP Nominee Donald Trump was willing to do business with. The businessman — who has been a vocal critic of the Iranian nuclear agreement throughout his campaign — had no problem with taking money from an Iranian bank linked to international terrorist activity and nuclear development. Furthermore, the banks’ clients were specifically singled out by the Bush Administration after the 9/11 attacks yet the professional relationship with Donald Trump continued.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists notes:

Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, according to public records reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity. The Trump Organization kept the bank on as a tenant for four more years after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Bank Melli in 1999 as being controlled by the Iranian government.

U.S. officials later alleged that Bank Melli had been used to obtain sensitive materials for Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump.

Trump can not have it both ways. Is he the “hands on” business leader he claims to be? Or was he completely ignorant of the fact that he was renting to the Iranian bank? Unfortunately for the nominee, it’s nearly impossible to claim one without disproving the other.

read more: http://reverbpress.com/politics/trump-link-terrorist-money-laundering/

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1. ProBably was introduced by Putin.

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2. Is the media reporting on this?

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5. so far the focus has been on his taxes, his losing nearly a billion dollars, and his demeaning

treatment of female Apprentice contestants

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3. It's not that Donald didn't notice

He just didn't care.

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4. Trump’s organization did business with Iranian bank later linked to terrorism

Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program.

Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, according to public records reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity. The Trump Organization kept the bank on as a tenant for four more years after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Bank Melli in 1999 as being controlled by the Iranian government.

U.S. officials later alleged that Bank Melli had been used to obtain sensitive materials for Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks
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The Trump campaign declined to answer any questions about Bank Melli for this story, but said Trump would take steps to avoid any conflicts of interest with his business dealings if he is elected president. — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump. - ICIJ

Money talks. Everything else walks in his book.

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6. Release the taxes Trump and the truth will be revealed. nt

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7. ...

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8. And more recently......

WASHINGTON — Six months before he entered the presidential race, Donald Trump announced a new real estate project in Baku, Azerbaijan. His partner was the son of a government minister suspected by U.S. diplomats of laundering money for Iran’s military and described as “notoriously corrupt.”

Eighteen months later, and only weeks after daughter Ivanka Trump released a publicity video of the nearly finished project, references to the Baku project have disappeared from Trump’s website. Trump’s general counsel, Alan Garten, told The Associated Press that it was on hold for economic reasons.

Trump often talks of hiring the best people and surrounding himself with people he can trust. In practice, however, he and his executives have at times appeared to overlook details about the background of people he has chosen as business partners, such as whether they had dubious associations, had been convicted of crimes, faced extradition or inflated their resumes.

The Trump camp’s screening skills are important as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee turns to selecting a running mate. They would only become more crucial if he won the White House. Then, Trump would have to name more than 3,600 political appointees to senior government positions, including critical jobs overseeing national security and the economy.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-okd-business-partner-with-alleged-iran-laundering-ties/

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9. Here is the original story:

TRUMP’S ORGANIZATION DID BUSINESS WITH IRANIAN BANK LATER LINKED TO TERRORISM




https://www.icij.org/blog/2016/09/trumps-organization-did-business-iranian-bank-later-linked-terrorism

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10. and NOTHING from the MSM

how is this story not getting coverage?