ANOTHER RACHEL BOMBSHELL TONIGHT.

[kstewart33]

Potentially the biggest bombshell of them all.

Trump financially in cahoots with terrorists. A complicated story. Huge blackmail potential.

WATCH IT as soon as it is posted. Please.

And call/write MSNBC to request that NBC provide Rachel with security.

Update: The New Yorker reporter who investigated this mess? He needs protection too.

[flamingdem]

1. Can you summarize?

.. haha I know it's not easy to do with Rachel

[MelissaB]

3. I've read about this somewhere, but it's taking forever to find it.

[drm604]

42. In the New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

[dixiegrrrrl]

69. Why would Ivanka go to that construction site EVERY month?

for a building which was not gonna be completed...

I think it was to transfer $$$$$$$ back to daddy.

[OliverQ]

8. Azerbaijan

Trump had a hotel deal in Azerbaijan that puts him in connection with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and it's extremely illegal under US law to do what he potentially did. Leads to major jail time and $100s of millions in fines.

[flamingdem]

13. Hmm. That would be OFAC - the Treasury Dept - they also

got on him about plans to build a hotel in Cuba. But this one got built!

[colorado_ufo]

18. With Ivanka in charge of it.

[George II]

39. Report last week from a high level intelligence official - "he'll die in prison".

[Fantastic Anarchist]

50. Wow, that's a bold statement!!

Things are getting good!!!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

53. I really hope this is true.

I'm tired of being let down.

[Warren DeMontague]

47. Here we've been thinking we're in a Tom Clancy novel, it's really Arrested Development

[calimary]

62. Welcome to DU, OliverQ!

I saw George's Post 39 up-thread a little, and thought the same thing as that post did - regarding that rather ominous quote from an unnamed senior insider ("he will die in jail&quot .

Here's the backgrounder:

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/he-will-die-in-jail-intelligence-community-ready-to-go-nuclear-on-trump-senior-source-says/

[KittyWampus]

14. it' not complicated. Money laundering for terrorist organizations in Azerbaijan.

Building deals that make no sense.

Trump business not doing due diligence.

Breaking laws prohibiting deals with terrorists/criminals.

[Glimmer of Hope]

44. It is clear cut and easy to prove. I am digging this.

[Hekate]

31. Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028757901

[lunatica]

59. Trump built one of his towers in Azerbaijan

to be used as a money laundering outlet for the Iranian Guard so they can give money to terrorist organizations.

The Azerbaijan Trump Tower is built miles away from the tourist center and in the worst part of the city and there is no way to get there via car. It's the way the Iranian Guard launders money so it looks legitimate.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/he-was-in-business-with-the-cartoon-caricature-of-corruption-maddow-breaks-down-trump-azerbaijan-report/

Rachel got the story and did some of her own digging from this article in the New Yorker. She interviewed the man who wrote the article during the course of her story.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

[underthematrix]

2. I just watching it and it's perfect retort

to Twitler's roll out his #MuslimBan2.0

[blue sky at night]

4. this.........

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141721714

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Here is the root New Yorker magazine link "Donald Trump's Worst Deal"

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

[zentrum]

23. Wow, it looks

....like him. Tawdry. Thanks for the link.

[madaboutharry]

5. They're a mob family.

All of them.

I had started calling Ivanka "The Czarina"
Maybe I need a new name for her.

[klook]

65. The Goddaughter (n/t)

[mfcorey1]

6. I agree that she needs security. I worry about her!

[Binders Keepers]

7. Rachel bringin' it.

But what are the chances Mnuchin's going to respond to Sherrod Brown's letter?

[cilla4progress]

32. Just wrote to my Senator

And asked her to support Brown.

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. Here is the story from this morning..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141721714 -

you MUST read the story at the link in the thread..as well as see comments # 16 and #17..links to explosive story Rachel is talking about..

Pass along to others ..

[ecstatic]

10. If Skump or his goons touched a hair on her head, it would be game over

for him. Done! Finito!

[Binders Keepers]

16. But just to be safe....

stay off of small aircraft, Rachel, please.

[OliverQ]

11. Congress

She made a statement that apparently someone from Congress is looking into this? I suspect Republicans will try to bury this story too?

[brettdale]

12. Has the story aired yet?

Because no one has picked it on the other msm sites?

[KittyWampus]

15. it's in an article in the New Yorker

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown was looking into this, and was on her show.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. God

That was the plot revealed at the end of the movie "The Holcroft Covenant"

All the terrorist organizations banded together by money

In the movie, Nazi money, sheltered since WWII

Robert Ludlum was a great author

"His depictions of terrorism in books such as The Holcroft Covenant and The Matarese Circle reflected the theory that terrorists, rather than being merely isolated bands of ideologically motivated extremists, are actually pawns of governments or private organizations who are using them to facilitate the establishment of authoritarian rule."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum

[2naSalit]

26. I don't see that

as fiction. I was smelling hints of this some time ago but never dared mention it for fear of a lot of flaming and CT accusations.

[JustAnotherGen]

30. The Ghost of justanothergens father has arrived

He had a theory or two about Al-Qaeda. IE if he could play war games for the U.S. in Central and South America in the 60s and 70s - what's to say his old opponents weren't in the mid east in the 80s and 90s.

[erronis]

61. Please expound a bit. I think I know where this may go but a couple of leads would be nice.

Not that I am conspiratorial, but there seems to be a lot of threads that only make sense if these threads are linked.

How many boogeymen have been stood up to further global dominance, only to be "offed" in faraway places with no independent confirmation? Not just the US, USSR/RuSSiR/Israel/NORK/Iran. All part of the Axes of Evil.

[JustAnotherGen]

63. He died in 2011

When you think Green Beret in the 60's and 70's what do you think?


He was saying back in 1982 - that this was a third crusades and couldn't be won.

He also smirked at the Berlin Wall falling. Germany was unified and that's it. The Russians - are and were still the Russians.

I think in 15 or 20 years we'll find out he was right. I wouldn't be suprised if some of the funding and MESSAGING for these 'radical islamists' (the rwnj term - not mine) turns out to have come from Russia.

That is one manipulative group of s.o.b.s

[zentrum]

21. Huge yes on the protection.

Also, for sure she is being investigated big time by Bannon/45 et al. They'd love to embarrass her, "smear" her and distract from her message and cred.

They'd love to intimidate her.

[FailureToCommunicate]

22. Not to take away from Rachel Maddow, but she was reporting on a New Yorker 'bombshell'.

Last edited Tue Mar 7, 2017, 12:28 AM - Edit history (1)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

[watoos]

25. More people watch Rachel

than read the New Yorker.
This is a big story. How many other Trump buildings are corrupt. Rachel mentioned that the Towers in Turkey were suspect.

[kstewart33]

35. Rachel is a master at telling a story simply.

She knows how to walk viewers through a story in a way that's easy to understand. A master storyteller.

[oasis]

46. +1

[uncle ray]

49. if only her cheerleaders would learn to tell the whole story the way she does.

time after time, we read that she is "breaking" something, that turns out to be coverage of someone elses investigative journalism. don't get me wrong, her coverage is a good thing, but her supporters should try to do a better job of crediting and driving traffic to the sources of these stories.

[AgadorSparticus]

37. Damn! That's another one I have been contemplating on getting a subscription.

Such good journalism right now. So exciting to see...

[dewsgirl]

52. I love that she brought up, that her gf thought she was looking at dirty pics.

[SHRED]

24. Which governmental agency enforces this??

[Moostache]

27. Whichever one is getting its funding cut the most...(n/t)

[JustAnotherGen]

36. Treasury - Office Of Foreign Asset Control

It's also a requirement for any business or individual engaging in global trade to complete these searches. Agreements, Payments, Encrypted data etc etc

It's simple - if you have only a few customers or vendors abroad - simply run it at site.

If you are talking thousands of vendors and millions of customers - contract with Lexis Nexis, eSolutions, CSI and run weekly and monthly.

It's not hard. Someone at Trump Co made a bad bad.

[Amaryllis]

55. But look who got apppointed to treasury....

[JustAnotherGen]

64. Yes

But OFAC and BIS are OFAC and BIS. Those folks were already on the watch list. If Trump did business with them - at minimum he should lose his export privileges for a few years and pay a hefty fine.

[Glimmer of Hope]

66. I think it is DOJ. Feel free to report Trump yourself:

Report a FCPA Violation: [e-mail]

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/fcpa-guidance

[Hekate]

28. .kick

[cilla4progress]

29. Reich has already picked it up

On FB!

Yeah...she didn't even talk about the lies of Ivanka about the view from trump's monstrosity there. Enough criminality with the Azerbaijan fraud!

[grandpamike1]

33. Rachell

https://qz.com/925067/the-trump-organizations-azerbaijan-partner-supports-iranian-terrorists-says-the-new-yorker/

[grandpamike1]

34. Rachell 2

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. Thank you!!

I'm so out of the tv habit, I forget she's out there!

[Kindnesscostszero]

38. Sunshine is the best disinfectant... n/t

[radical noodle]

41. It will be on again at midnight Eastern time.

At least it is here.

[triron]

43. Potential jail time for violations of federal law related to Trump business agreements

[meadowlander]

45. Cometh the moment, cometh the Maddow.

Totally hooked on her show every night.

[Rhiannon12866]

48. This post?

A Trump hotel project seems to have involved a front for Iran's Revolutionary Guard
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016180153

[Vinca]

51. This story could end up being a major, major scandal.

There is the potential for Ivanka, among others, to end up in the big house and I don't mean Mar-a-Lago.

[nadine_mn]

54. How long do you think she is going to be allowed to be on tv?

You know, before suddenly she is shuffled off air?

MSNBC has a habit of getting rid of anyone who might possibly be speaking truth. I honestly miss the days when the line was Olbermann, Maddow and O'Donnell - they all fired each other up in their own ways.

And I miss Bashir, Melissa Harris-Perry, Alex Wagner etc (you know people of color who had real opinions)

[Amaryllis]

56. She's making them a ton of money. Driving ratings.

[calimary]

57. Yeah. I realized that last night, too.

Especially after I saw this:

https://twitter.com/20committee
John Schindler
‪@20committee
Learned fm very reliable IC sources that Trump WH, w/help fm Russian intel, is targeting US journalists. Rough road ahead. Get ready, peeps
9:53 PM - 6 Mar 2017
1,639 1,639 Retweets
1,748 1,748 likes

Link to tweet

[triron]

58. kick for visibility

[triron]

60. knr

[onecent]

67. K&R

[ancianita]

68. The upshot: Trump has broken the law by doing business with known criminals.

[mwooldri]

70. No small private planes either...

But that's me being paranoid.

[Kimchijeon]

71. I recall seeing something about this already last year

about trump's donating/investing/borrowing millions to multiple countries on the terrorist no-no list?

So since no one seemed to give a shit before, what's changed I wonder? I don't know, I guess I'm jaded, because I swear this damning info was reported on during the campaign. Repeatedly, without any repercussion.

I suppose new damning evidence is great, I mean don't get me wrong. Like I said, I might be a little jaded at this point. I really hope that all of these apparent mountains of crimes and wrongdoings can actually be pursued.

It's just that he's so cartoonishly evil, with ridiculous levels of apparently publicly known crimes, and yet why can't we get him out of power? And his cronies? Ugh.

I hope we find out more, though as always... will check out if there's new info on this story! Looking forward to it.