While DU was off line ( seven hours)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Last edited Thu May 18, 2017, 12:21 AM - Edit history (1)

- A special counselor was appointed
- It was revealed Chump knew Flynn was under investigation when he made him National Security Adviser
- It was revealed Flynn received $500,000.00 from the Erdogan government for ninety days work
- It was revealed Jared Kushner received a nearly billion dollar loan from a Russian bank to build a Toronto hotel*




*https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/17/report-russian-bank-whose-ceo-met-secretly-with-jared-kushner-h/22095774/

[GP6971]

1. Hadn't heard about

Kushner's loan. The others, yes.

[Stallion]

2. Also-Flynn Negated Susan Rice's (Obama) Initiative to Support the Kurds

in military campaign which was against the interests of his undisclosed client Turkey who had paid him $500,000 as Turkey's foreign agent

Serious problem for Flynn as Obama was still President-Hatch Act

[retrowire]

3. THANK YOU.

I was like... where the fuck do I get my democratic news without DU? What am I missing?

[George II]

4. And the "trump hotel and tower" was already in financial trouble back in 2015

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferwang/2017/03/20/canadian-chaos-from-lawsuits-to-foreclosure-trump-hotel-torontos-troubled-history/#30b90a241253

Canadian Chaos: From Lawsuits To Foreclosure, Trump Hotel Toronto's Troubled History

Joo Kim Tiah wouldn't be the only Trump partner in Canada to regret joining forces with America's 45th president. Alex Shnaider, the developer behind Trump International Hotel & Tower in Toronto, reportedly made moves to take the Trump name off the building in 2015, after Donald Trump started running for president. The case reportedly went through mediation, and Trump's name remains on the building, but the entire project has gone poorly.

There were multiple construction delays after its 2007 groundbreaking, and profitability was lower than expected. In 2012 some investors sued Shnaider and Trump. As of January 2017, Shnaider is still on the hook for over 80% of the hotel residences and 60% of the condos. The legal case is ongoing.

[lostnfound]

5. Slow news night. Plus, tape of McCarthy telling Ryan that Rohrbacher & Trump are paid by Putin

In July 2016.
And the newspaper asked them, they denied it.
Then the newspaper said "we have a tape"
And they said "it was just an attempt at humor."

And Ryan saying "we don't talk about that, it doesn't leave this room, that's how we know what e are family."

Like the fricking mob.

[countryjake]

10. And their conversation was the day after Russia hacked DNC.

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

[orleans]

12. thanks for the link. what a bunch of criminals! n/t

[elmac]

11. yep, they are a mob

and should see RICO charges.

[klook]

6. Ho-hum.

Another several lurches of the earth off its axis -- in other words, just another day in Trumpworld!

[TalenaGor]

7. this hack made me get a Twitter acct....I had resisted!

I'm gonna regret that lol

[question everything]

8. Got to catch Rachel repeat.

Dan Rather was there and then I got a phone call that I had to take..

[progree]

9. "Flynn received $500,000.00 from the Erdogan government for ninety days work" and earned it

at least from Erdogan's perspective

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{blockquote}
One of the Trump administration’s first decisions about the fight against the Islamic State was made by Michael Flynn weeks before he was fired – and it conformed to the wishes of Turkey, whose interests, unbeknownst to anyone in Washington, he’d been paid more than $500,000 to represent.

The decision came 10 days before Donald Trump had been sworn in as president, in a conversation with President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, who had explained the Pentagon’s plan to retake the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa with Syrian Kurdish forces whom the Pentagon considered the U.S.’s most effective military partners. Obama’s national security team had decided to ask for Trump’s sign-off, since the plan would all but certainly be executed after Trump had become president.

Flynn didn’t hesitate. According to timelines distributed by members of Congress in the weeks since, Flynn told Rice to hold off, a move that would delay the military operation for months.

MORE: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141777586
{/blockquote}

[dreamland]

13. Was that all?!