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turbinetree

(24,688 posts)
Fri May 11, 2018, 04:40 PM May 2018

New filing reveals Trump had damning information on investigator overseeing Trump University case

Trump had inside information when he posted a cryptic tweet about Schneiderman in 2013.
AARON RUPAR MAY 11, 2018, 3:18 PM

A court filing indicates President Trump had blackmail material on former New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman while Schneiderman’s office conducted a years-long investigation into allegations that Trump University was defrauding students.

Scheiderman’s investigation into Trump’s now-defunct “university” — which was not an accredited school, but instead offered expensive real estate workshops and seminars — began in 2013 and ended just last month.

A New York attorney named Peter Gleason claims that two women contacted him “some years ago” to report that Schneiderman had been “sexually inappropriate with them,” followed by a third woman in 2013.

Gleason writes that he advised the third woman against reporting the incident to the Manhattan District Attorney Office “based on my past experience in reporting prima facie political corruption that was ignored by the office, some of which were ultimately prosecuted elsewhere.”

https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-eric-schneiderman-blackmail-material-michael-cohen-peter-gleason-5fe7fcbdd319/


I just gotta ask, if you have information that accuses someone of crime, are you not suppose to go to law enforcement and say something, and is "blackmail" against the law....................

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New filing reveals Trump had damning information on investigator overseeing Trump University case (Original Post) turbinetree May 2018 OP
So maybe we should reopen the case..... Historic NY May 2018 #1
Nobody likes a blackmailer. Turbineguy May 2018 #2
I don't see the blackmail. dixiegrrrrl May 2018 #3
I see blackmail turbinetree May 2018 #4
Criminal case exboyfil May 2018 #8
I'm betting he has info on every ReTHUG as well n/t malaise May 2018 #5
Isn't this one of our "leader's arts?" MyOwnPeace May 2018 #6
Speaking of the Trump U case... Marie Marie May 2018 #7
Trumps freely spends campaign funds, foundation money, dixiegrrrrl May 2018 #9

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. I don't see the blackmail.
Fri May 11, 2018, 05:00 PM
May 2018

Trump said he had info.
He still lost the case.

Apparently the info was never made public.

Am I missing something?

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
8. Criminal case
Fri May 11, 2018, 06:01 PM
May 2018

He lost a civil suit. That when you also consider he illegally contributed to the Florida AG using his charity should be enough to disqualify anyone but him from any elective office.

MyOwnPeace

(16,923 posts)
6. Isn't this one of our "leader's arts?"
Fri May 11, 2018, 05:38 PM
May 2018

Didn't we just hear that he (IQ45) tried to dig up dirt on the people responsible for the deal with Iran (yeah, the one he just blew up)?

What a slime-ball!

OK, I'm with all of this - it has been the same thing for the past 18 months already!

GAWD, we're getting so NUMB to it all - we keep wondering WHO IS GOING TO GIVE A F^^K!?!?!

Not McTurtle!

Not Lyin' Ryan!

Not the Republican-led Senate!

Not the Republican-led House of Representatives!

It has to be US!

Get Out The Vote!!!!!!



Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
7. Speaking of the Trump U case...
Fri May 11, 2018, 05:44 PM
May 2018

Does any one here know where the funds came from to pay that huge fine? I mean I doubt that Trump paid that out of his own pocket so just wondering if this was paid by some "slush fund". Just curious if this has been looked into.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
9. Trumps freely spends campaign funds, foundation money,
Sat May 12, 2018, 01:27 AM
May 2018

any money except his own. He is infamous for never spending his own money if he can help it.
Not even a penny.

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