RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT

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Someone post the pic today they took of trump. He looks dead! The Russian investigation is killing his soul. He looks dumb stressed out.

Let him die

 

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The return of the fairness doctrine needs to be up there with Net neutrality as FCC goals.

This is beyond essential for the country and a forgotten reason that Reagan may be the worst president we’ve had post world war two and pre trump. Repealing the FD is what let all these right wing propagandists on the air in the first place spewing the flagrantly untrue shyt they say.

Obama Does Not Support Return of Fairness Doctrine | Broadcasting & Cable

"Sen. Obama does not support reimposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters," press secretary Michael Ortiz said in an e-mail to B&C late Wednesday.

"He considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible," Ortiz added. "That is why Sen. Obama supports media-ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and print outlets."

 

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Obama Does Not Support Return of Fairness Doctrine | Broadcasting & Cable

"Sen. Obama does not support reimposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters," press secretary Michael Ortiz said in an e-mail to B&C late Wednesday.

"He considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible," Ortiz added. "That is why Sen. Obama supports media-ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and print outlets."

I...get it...but...

 

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it's a shame the general public is blind to a lot of the things going on right now... well in general

 

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UN Security Council to vote on resolution voiding Trump's Jerusalem announcement: report

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner sued over info on financial disclosure forms

 

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was this posted already?

 

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Yo y'all know when Mueller's investigation sacks Trump Republicans are going to spin this as a win for the party right?

In 5-10 years we'll be watching interviews of Republicans saying, "It was a Republican who had the temerity to stand up to a dangerous and corrupt regime, and protect our country from our enemies."

And white women and men are gonna sop that shyt up like gravy on a biscuit.

Word to always calling themselves the party of Lincoln.

 

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Since someone brought up the point about the FBI NY Office being under investigation soon for "falling asleep at the wheel" I went back and came across some interesting info that we/I/Nap overlooked.

Spoiler: Walk with me......

So I was reading this article (that I think someone posted), about Trump's cozy relationship with the NY FBI office:

Meet Donald Trump’s Top FBI Fanboy
Kallstrom, who served as a Marine before becoming an agent, didn’t mention that a charity he’d founded decades ago and that’s now called the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, was the single biggest beneficiary of Trump’s promise to raise millions for veterans when he boycotted the Iowa primary debate. A foundation official said that Trump’s million-dollar donation this May, atop $100,000 that he’d given in March, were the biggest individual grants it had ever received. The Trump Foundation had contributed another $230,000 in prior years and Trump won the organization’s top honor at its annual Waldorf Astoria gala in 2015.

When Trump owned casinos in Atlantic City, he allowed Kallstrom’s organization to hold fundraisers “pro bono” there. Trump became a major supporter of New York’s Police Athletic League, run for decades by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, all moves that endeared him to law enforcement officials in jurisdictions where he did business.

So I did a simple "New York FBI office trump" Google search and got this:

In ordinary times, New York-based Vornado Realty Trustwould be a natural candidate to take on a major construction project such as the long-awaited rebuilding of FBI headquarters.

As with so much about the Trump era, however, the ordinary rules don't apply.

A commercial real estate firm, Vornado is widely reported to be a finalist to build a new campus for the FBI somewhere in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. But its financial ties to President Trump are raising concerns about conflicts of interest.

"It puts a cloud over Vornado's otherwise perfectly sensible bid," says Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va.

Vornado's chairman, Steven Roth, is a Trump supporter whom the president has called "one of the greatest builders in America." Trump appointed Roth to serve on his advisory council on infrastructure.

"I'm honored to be involved in it. I think I can contribute. I am an adviser. I am not a line executive. I am not in any way an employee of the government. So this is something we do when asked," Roth said in a conference call with Wall Street analysts in February. He also said that infrastructure spending enjoyed bipartisan support.

But Roth is more than just Trump's adviser. Over the years, his company has served as Trump's business partner.

In the 1980s, the two were co-owners of the famed New York retailer Alexander's, which later went bankrupt. Today, Vornado, which did not return a request for comment for this story, is part owner with Trump in two major office buildings, in San Francisco and New York.

The firm is also an investor in 666 Fifth Avenue, the troubled Manhattan office building owned by the family of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

So I ran to this thread and searched for "Vornado Realty Trust" and got this post:

Spoiler

Jared Kushner’s Family Is Screwed, and It’s All Boy Wonder’s Fault
666 5th Ave
JARED KUSHNER’S FAMILY IS SCREWED, AND IT’S ALL BOY WONDER’S FAULT
His big real-estate deal has gone from bad to worse.
BY

• BESS LEVIN

OCTOBER 16, 2017 12:20 PM
He’s got this covered.
By Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images.


On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the president-elect made one of his trademark supremely confident, yet supremely ridiculous statements. Speaking at a black-tie dinner, Trump referenced the fact that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had been tasked with Middle Eastern diplomacy, telling Ivanka’s husband, “If you can’t produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can. All my life I‘ve been hearing that’s the toughest deal to make, but I have a feeling Jared is going to do a great job.”

In Trump’s eyes, Kushner is a genius businessman who will not only achieve a feat that has escaped U.S. presidents and career diplomats alike, but will also solve the opioid crisis, overhaul the government’s I.T. infrastructure, and “reinvent the entire government.” Given his track record, however, it’s unclear whether Kushner is even qualified to work as a White House intern—his only two professional achievements of note have been buying and running a newspaper into the ground and running his family’s real-estate business while his father was in prison, striking a deal that a decade later is still haunting his family.

That deal, of course, was to buy 666 5th Avenue for $1.8 billion on the eve of the financial crisis, which has become an ongoing albatross around Kushner Cos’ neck. With a 30 percent vacancy rate, an expected loss of $24 million this year, and a $1.2 billion mortgage that is due in February 2019, the Kushners want to raze the property and replace it with a glimmering Zaha Hadid-designed tower that would require borrowing even more money—including a $4 billion construction loan. Their Hail Mary plan is a problem not only because their attempts to raise funds have been rebuffed by everyone from the richest man in France, to Israeli insurance companies and banks, to South Korea’s sovereign-wealth fund, to China’s Anbang Insurance Group, but because, according to a new report from Bloomberg, even the family’s partner in the venture is actively trying to shut it down:

Their partner, Vornado Realty Trust, is telling brokers to plan for a much more mundane renovation that would leave the property as an office building, according to three people familiar with the matter. Vornado Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Roth was never enthusiastic about the Kushner plan although until now he hadn’t stood in its way. Putting an end to the Kushner effort—to salvage their overpriced investment by turning it into a Midtown jewel with expensive condos, a hotel and five-floor mall—could have profound ramifications for the family. Vornado, which owns 49.5 percent of 666 Fifth Ave., is unlikely to invest further in the property without first being reassured of its future, said three people familiar with Roth’s thinking. That means returning to the negotiating table with lenders—a battle that could result in Kushner Cos.’ losing control of the building, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing private deals.

In fact, Roth, who has said 666 Fifth “would be worth a lot more if it was just dirt,” is reportedly so disenchanted that he’s sending a message to anyone who might still be interested in the Kushners’ plan to “back off.”

As Bloomberg notes, while “the success of Trump’s campaign drew investors into discussions” for 666 5th, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest, heightened scrutiny plus “financial assumptions for the project that most found to be unrealistic” have resulted in no one wanting to come near the Kushners’ tower with a 100-foot pole.

And we all know how corrupt that 666 Fifth deal was. So I did some more googling. According to the graphic in this spoiler, Kushner refinanced the loan for 666 and added Vornado as a partner in 2011.

Spoiler: Kushner timeline

Spidey senses went off. 2011? That is also when Trump decided to run for President after Obama embarrassed him at the dinner.

Spoiler

So my questions:
1) If Mueller is going to nail Kushner over financial dealings, how liable is Steve Roth and Vornado?
2) What level of damage will be done if it turns out the "One of Government's Largest Landlords" had a direct hand in russian meddling
3) Should we be preparing ourselves for the possibility that Trump and team did not do this alone and in fact had the help of ex AND current fbi agents?
4) Is it out of reason to believe that a few FBI agents will be going to jail as a result of this investigation too?

If this investigation is about Trump's financial holdings, then information such as this has to already be under investigation, right?

Spoiler

As it vies for federal work and funds, Vornado Realty Trust pays the Trump Organization tens of millions of dollars each year for its stakes in two of the REIT’s office buildings.

The Trump Organization owns 30 percent stakes in 1290 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan and 555 California Street in San Francisco. Interest in the former is worth $428.9 million and generates $14.7 million in annual cash flow for the Trump Organization, the Wall Street Journal reported. The stake in the California property is worth $322.6 million and generates $8 million annually, the Journal claims.

Vornado decides how much Trump’s company receives each year, while at the same time competing for government contracts. The company is currently bidding on building a new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters. Vornado is also waiting on federal funding for the $1.6 billion overhaul of the James A. Farley Building.

Last month, Donald Trump tapped Vornado’s founder, Steven Roth, and Richard LeFrak to head up a council that will monitor national infrastructure spending.
Vornado pays Trump Organization millions each year

 

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Let me expand on that last post a bit:

Spoiler

If Vornado/Trump was in trouble of violating an ethics standard, wouldn't this have been the best possible result for both parties:
Federal government cancels costly, decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters
The federal government is canceling the search for a new FBI headquarters, according to officials familiar with the decision, putting a more than decade-long effort by the bureau to move out of the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building back at square one.
Federal government cancels costly, decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters

Also Nap this is fishy. Ukrainian wife? Went with Trump to Russia?:

Phil Ruffin

Trump has 20-odd business partners, but none is closer to him than Ruffin, 82, a Texas billionaire who has lent his ear and private jet. The president was best man at the 2008 wedding of Ruffin to his third wife, a 26-year-old model and former Miss Ukraine. Ruffin has a knack for showing up when Trump needs him most and remains a die-hard defender.
Twenty people Trump turns to for advice - Taipei Times

Phil Ruffin sits inside the DJT restaurant, named for Donald J. Trump, at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, and puts down a Trump-filled newspaper. "This stuff about him having financial investments all over Russia--that's just pure crap," he says. "I went to Russia with him. We took my airplane. We were having lunch with one of the oligarchs there. No business was discussed. Donald has no investment of any kind in Russia, nor has he borrowed any money from Russia. If he had a business deal there, he would have asked me to go join him."
Why The Next Big Trump Project Could Be A Las Vegas Casino

Phil Ruffin, Mr. Trump’s partner in the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Las Vegas, said he was happy to lend him his new Global 5000 private plane for the trip. He and his wife met Mr. Trump in Moscow, also checking into the Ritz-Carlton. Mr. Ruffin said he and Mr. Trump had lunch at the hotel with the Agalarovs.

The Agalarovs also reportedly hosted a dinner for Mr. Trump the night of the pageant, along with Herman Gref, a former Russian economy minister who serves as chief executive of the state-controlled Sberbank PJSC, according to Bloomberg News.
For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia

 

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Since someone brought up the point about the FBI NY Office being under investigation soon for "falling asleep at the wheel" I went back and came across some interesting info that we/I/Nap overlooked.

Spoiler: Walk with me......

So I was reading this article (that I think someone posted), about Trump's cozy relationship with the NY FBI office:


So I did a simple "New York FBI office trump" Google search and got this:


So I ran to this thread and searched for "Vornado Realty Trust" and got this post:

And we all know how corrupt that 666 Fifth deal was. So I did some more googling. According to the graphic in this spoiler, Kushner refinanced the loan for 666 and added Vornado as a partner in 2011.

Spoiler: Kushner timeline

Spidey senses went off. 2011? That is also when Trump decided to run for President after Obama embarrassed him at the dinner.

Spoiler

So my questions:
1) If Mueller is going to nail Kushner over financial dealings, how liable is Steve Roth and Vornado?
2) What level of damage will be done if it turns out the "One of Government's Largest Landlords" had a direct hand in russian meddling
3) Should we be preparing ourselves for the possibility that Trump and team did not do this alone and in fact had the help of ex AND current fbi agents?
4) Is it out of reason to believe that a few FBI agents will be going to jail as a result of this investigation too?

If this investigation is about Trump's financial holdings, then information such as this has to already be under investigation, right?

Spoiler

As it vies for federal work and funds, Vornado Realty Trust pays the Trump Organization tens of millions of dollars each year for its stakes in two of the REIT’s office buildings.

The Trump Organization owns 30 percent stakes in 1290 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan and 555 California Street in San Francisco. Interest in the former is worth $428.9 million and generates $14.7 million in annual cash flow for the Trump Organization, the Wall Street Journal reported. The stake in the California property is worth $322.6 million and generates $8 million annually, the Journal claims.

Vornado decides how much Trump’s company receives each year, while at the same time competing for government contracts. The company is currently bidding on building a new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters. Vornado is also waiting on federal funding for the $1.6 billion overhaul of the James A. Farley Building.

Last month, Donald Trump tapped Vornado’s founder, Steven Roth, and Richard LeFrak to head up a council that will monitor national infrastructure spending.
Vornado pays Trump Organization millions each year

Felix Sater is the connection here.

Remember, FBI agents tasked with watching him ended up working for the Trump organization.

http://www.whowhatwhy.org/2017/03/27/fbi-cant-tell-trump-russia/

 

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Yo y'all know when Mueller's investigation sacks Trump Republicans are going to spin this as a win for the party right?

In 5-10 years we'll be watching interviews of Republicans saying, "It was a Republican who had the temerity to stand up to a dangerous and corrupt regime, and protect our country from our enemies."

And white women and men are gonna sop that shyt up like gravy on a biscuit.

Word to always calling themselves the party of Lincoln.

i.e. Iran Contra.