Donald Trump

mfc2006

What in the actual FUCK is going on with this shitshow??? Unreal.

Halifax2TheMax

mfc2006 said:

What in the actual FUCK is going on with this shitshow??? Unreal.

There are no adults left in the room.

rgambs

What's happening?

Halifax2TheMax

rgambs said:

What's happening?

There’s a whole lot of loving going on, let’s get it on, between whole lotta love Diane Feinstein, DACA and Donald “Fat bottomed girls make the immigration go around, The Wall” Meatloaf Trump. Love is in the air! Brilliant brilliance at its brilliancy! It’s only January 9th, 2018!

Go Beavers

trump owes Deutsche Bank $130 to $300 million. Issues them a three year exemption on their punishment for manipulating interest rates. 

Dude, try to lay low. 

Halifax2TheMax

Go Beavers said:

trump owes Deutsche Bank $130 to $300 million. Issues them a three exemption on their punishment for manipulating interest rates. 

Dude, try to lay low. 

But he’s been under the heat his whole life. The government made him do it.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Go Beavers said:

trump owes Deutsche Bank $130 to $300 million. Issues them a three exemption on their punishment for manipulating interest rates. 

Dude, try to lay low. 

What?

Never mind. He's teflon.

It doesn't matter what he does. His supporters are whooping and hollering regardless.

It's ludicrous.

Halifax2TheMax

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Go Beavers said:

trump owes Deutsche Bank $130 to $300 million. Issues them a three exemption on their punishment for manipulating interest rates. 

Dude, try to lay low. 

What?

Never mind. He's teflon.

It doesn't matter what he does. His supporters are whooping and hollering regardless.

It's ludicrous.

It’s going to matter to a one Team Mueller.

BS44325

Go Beavers said:

Conservatives hold deeply rooted beliefs that everything is going to shit and we’re all doomed. They’ll formulate a world virlew to maintain that and it’s really hard to crack it. 

Yeah. Only conservatives do this. Now what were you all saying about climate change? Sorry buddy but the element on the periodic table that will kill you is uranium not carbon.

Halifax2TheMax

BS44325 said:

Go Beavers said:

Conservatives hold deeply rooted beliefs that everything is going to shit and we’re all doomed. They’ll formulate a world virlew to maintain that and it’s really hard to crack it. 

Yeah. Only conservatives do this. Now what were you all saying about climate change? Sorry buddy but the element on the periodic table that will kill you is uranium not carbon.

Don’t let the smoking gun be in the form of a mushroom cloud, heh Professor? Keeping with the 9/11 theme you seem to cling to, desire, wish for and link to. Got tabloid?

BS44325

mfc2006 said:

What in the actual FUCK is going on with this shitshow??? Unreal.

The shitshow is dealing with immigration.

https://youtu.be/Cc4X6juZFxk

Pretty amazing to watch crazy, mental, deranged, can’t read Hitler run a meeting. You might want to watch the entire thing to full diagnose this maniac!

https://youtu.be/fc5tIKFDy1s

Halifax2TheMax

BS44325 said:

mfc2006 said:

What in the actual FUCK is going on with this shitshow??? Unreal.

The shitshow is dealing with immigration.

https://youtu.be/Cc4X6juZFxk

Pretty amazing to watch crazy, mental, deranged, can’t read Hitler run a meeting. You might want to watch the entire thing to full diagnose this maniac!

https://youtu.be/fc5tIKFDy1s

Love, Diane Feinstein style. Game, set, match, delusion, retirement. Only you and sloppy Steve groveling Bannon and 35% without degrees approve. 

BS44325

josevolution said:

If anyone here watched the footage of trump during the bipartisan meeting today and you come here and tell me this bafoon is sane I have no respect for you as a Pearl Jam fan ...

Sorry Jose but that was the most normal meeting of the two parties that most of us have ever seen. It is exactly what people always claim to be asking for...a President to bring the two parties together to work on difficult problems. Trump was that President today. To deny otherwise illustrates your own unwillingness to throw your hatred down.

Halifax2TheMax

BS44325 said:

josevolution said:

If anyone here watched the footage of trump during the bipartisan meeting today and you come here and tell me this bafoon is sane I have no respect for you as a Pearl Jam fan ...

Sorry Jose but that was the most normal meeting of the two parties that most of us have ever seen. It is exactly what people always claim to be asking for...a President to bring the two parties together to work on difficult problems. Trump was that President today. To deny otherwise illustrates your own unwillingness to throw your hatred down.

Working on your comedy routine? And you claim patriotism, brilliance and knowing why? You’re hilarious.

Halifax2TheMax

In case you’re blinded by the brilliance, there’s not a deep bench, rats are fleeing and indictments are coming. So, if you’re looking to relocate, you know, further the cause, put your money where your mouth is, come on down and quit the bs, BS, sign on, gitter done. Kellyanne needs a respite.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/09/politics/president-donald-trump-staffing/index.html

josevolution

BS44325 said:

josevolution said:

If anyone here watched the footage of trump during the bipartisan meeting today and you come here and tell me this bafoon is sane I have no respect for you as a Pearl Jam fan ...

Sorry Jose but that was the most normal meeting of the two parties that most of us have ever seen. It is exactly what people always claim to be asking for...a President to bring the two parties together to work on difficult problems. Trump was that President today. To deny otherwise illustrates your own unwillingness to throw your hatred down.

Like I said I have no respect for anybody who holds your train of thought or supports an idiot, good luck where are you building your bomb shelter ? 

The Juggler

BS44325 said:

josevolution said:

If anyone here watched the footage of trump during the bipartisan meeting today and you come here and tell me this bafoon is sane I have no respect for you as a Pearl Jam fan ...

Sorry Jose but that was the most normal meeting of the two parties that most of us have ever seen. It is exactly what people always claim to be asking for...a President to bring the two parties together to work on difficult problems. Trump was that President today. To deny otherwise illustrates your own unwillingness to throw your hatred down.

Someone watched a three hour block of Tucker/Hannity/Ingraham last night. 

Sure it it was good that he brought the two parties together. It was a valiant attempt to prove to the world that he’s not as illiterate as he seems...but then he proceeded to contradict himself  numerous times, often seeming to forget his own strong stance on immigration. Multiple republicans came away saying they were confused by his position. 

Probably the the best part was Feinstein forcing him to basically admit that he doesn’t know what a clean bill is. They didn’t show you that on your Fox block last night. They just made fun of the “fake news’s” headlines of this very real ccurrence. 

This President is in WAY over his head. Rational people (about 65% of us) recognize this on a daily basis. 

The Juggler

#TheSwampOverfloweth

 http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-administration-waives-punishment-convicted-banks-including-deutsche-which?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

Trump Administration Waives Punishment For Convicted Banks, Including Deutsche — Which Trump Owes Millions

BY DAVID SIROTA AND JOSH KEEFE ON 01/09/18 AT 6:03 PM 

The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his business empire, and has also been fined for its role in a Russian money laundering scheme.

The waivers were issued in a little-noticed announcement published in the Federal Register during the Christmas holiday week. They come less than two years after then-candidate Trump promised “I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder.”

Under laws designed to protect retirement savings, financial firms whose affiliates have been convicted of violating securities statutes are effectively barred from the lucrative business of managing those savings. However, that punishment can be avoided if the firms manage to secure a special exemption from the U.S. Department of Labor, allowing them to keep their status as “qualified professional asset managers.”

In late 2016, the Obama administration extended temporary one-year waivers to five banks — Citigroup, JPMorgan, Barclays, UBS and Deutsche Bank. Late last month, the Trump administration issued new, longer waivers for those same banks, granting Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Barclays five-year exemptions. UBS and Deutsche Bank received three-year exemptions.

In the year leading up to the new waiver for Deustche Bank, Trump’s financial relationship with the firm has prompted allegations of a conflict of interest. The bank has not only sought the Labor Department waiver from the administration, it has also faced Justice Department scrutiny and five separate government-appointed independent monitors. Meanwhile, the New York Timesrecently reported that federal prosecutors subpoenaed Deutsche for “bank records about entities associated with the family company of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser.”

All of these interactions with the Trump administration and the federal government are transpiring as Deutsche serves as a key creditor for the president’s businesses.

Trump owes the German bank at least $130 million in loans, according to the president’s most recent financial disclosure form. Sources have told the Financial Times the total amount of money Trump owes Deutsche is likely around $300 million. The president’s relationship with the bank dates back to the late 1990s, when it was the one major Wall Street bank willing to extend him credit after a series of bankruptcies. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported Trump and his companies have received at least $2.5 billion in loans from Deutsche Bank and co-lenders since 1998.

The relationship has had problems. After the financial crash, Trump defaulted on a $640 million loan from the bank. Deutsche brought Trump to court, and the famously litigious real estate mogul countersued for $3 billion in damages, claiming the financial crisis was a “force majeure” event that Deutsche Bank helped create. But the rift was short-lived: the parties settled, the loan was repaid, and Deutsche was soon lending to Trump again.

In December, Bloomberg and others reportedthe bank had turned over financial records to special prosecutor Robert Mueller after his office subpoenaed the records as part of his investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Trump’s lawyers have called that reporting inaccurate.

“We have confirmed that the news reports that the Special Counsel had subpoenaed financial records relating to the President are false,” Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement. “No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources.”

Less than three weeks later, the New York Times reported federal prosecutors had subpoenaed Deutsche Bank records related to White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Kushner and his vast business holdings. There is no evidence those subpoenas were related to Mueller’s investigation.

The subpoenas come less than a year after Deutsche Bank was fined $425 million by New York State for laundering $10 billion out of Russia.

All five of the banks granted waivers from the Obama and Trump administration were fined for their involvement in the LIBOR  scandal that led to $9 billion worth of fines from regulators around the world. Deutsche Bank has paid $3.5 billion for its role in the scandal, more than any other bank. The scandal involved illegally manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate or LIBOR, which is used to set the cost of borrowing for a variety of financial transactions.

BS44325

The Juggler said:

BS44325 said:

josevolution said:

If anyone here watched the footage of trump during the bipartisan meeting today and you come here and tell me this bafoon is sane I have no respect for you as a Pearl Jam fan ...

Sorry Jose but that was the most normal meeting of the two parties that most of us have ever seen. It is exactly what people always claim to be asking for...a President to bring the two parties together to work on difficult problems. Trump was that President today. To deny otherwise illustrates your own unwillingness to throw your hatred down.

Someone watched a three hour block of Tucker/Hannity/Ingraham last night. 

Sure it it was good that he brought the two parties together. It was a valiant attempt to prove to the world that he’s not as illiterate as he seems...but then he proceeded to contradict himself  numerous times, often seeming to forget his own strong stance on immigration. Multiple republicans came away saying they were confused by his position. 

Probably the the best part was Feinstein forcing him to basically admit that he doesn’t know what a clean bill is. They didn’t show you that on your Fox block last night. They just made fun of the “fake news’s” headlines of this very real ccurrence. 

This President is in WAY over his head. Rational people (about 65% of us) recognize this on a daily basis. 

This is pure willful blindness. That meeting was deal making 101. He let all sides be heard. He didn’t tie himself down to any specifc position when in the end it will have to be congress that produces the bill. Finally he looked completely rational and reasonable on a very difficult issue where everybody knows in the end it will require a compromise between security and some degree of legalization. That meeting moved the ball forward and will be an excellent springboard to a final deal. It was no accident either...his first year of immigration results gives him the capital to confront his right flank when the time comes. 

Halifax2TheMax

The Juggler said:

#TheSwampOverfloweth

 http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-administration-waives-punishment-convicted-banks-including-deutsche-which?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

Trump Administration Waives Punishment For Convicted Banks, Including Deutsche — Which Trump Owes Millions

BY DAVID SIROTA AND JOSH KEEFE ON 01/09/18 AT 6:03 PM 

The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his business empire, and has also been fined for its role in a Russian money laundering scheme.

The waivers were issued in a little-noticed announcement published in the Federal Register during the Christmas holiday week. They come less than two years after then-candidate Trump promised “I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder.”

Under laws designed to protect retirement savings, financial firms whose affiliates have been convicted of violating securities statutes are effectively barred from the lucrative business of managing those savings. However, that punishment can be avoided if the firms manage to secure a special exemption from the U.S. Department of Labor, allowing them to keep their status as “qualified professional asset managers.”

In late 2016, the Obama administration extended temporary one-year waivers to five banks — Citigroup, JPMorgan, Barclays, UBS and Deutsche Bank. Late last month, the Trump administration issued new, longer waivers for those same banks, granting Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Barclays five-year exemptions. UBS and Deutsche Bank received three-year exemptions.

In the year leading up to the new waiver for Deustche Bank, Trump’s financial relationship with the firm has prompted allegations of a conflict of interest. The bank has not only sought the Labor Department waiver from the administration, it has also faced Justice Department scrutiny and five separate government-appointed independent monitors. Meanwhile, the New York Timesrecently reported that federal prosecutors subpoenaed Deutsche for “bank records about entities associated with the family company of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser.”

All of these interactions with the Trump administration and the federal government are transpiring as Deutsche serves as a key creditor for the president’s businesses.

Trump owes the German bank at least $130 million in loans, according to the president’s most recent financial disclosure form. Sources have told the Financial Times the total amount of money Trump owes Deutsche is likely around $300 million. The president’s relationship with the bank dates back to the late 1990s, when it was the one major Wall Street bank willing to extend him credit after a series of bankruptcies. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported Trump and his companies have received at least $2.5 billion in loans from Deutsche Bank and co-lenders since 1998.

The relationship has had problems. After the financial crash, Trump defaulted on a $640 million loan from the bank. Deutsche brought Trump to court, and the famously litigious real estate mogul countersued for $3 billion in damages, claiming the financial crisis was a “force majeure” event that Deutsche Bank helped create. But the rift was short-lived: the parties settled, the loan was repaid, and Deutsche was soon lending to Trump again.

In December, Bloomberg and others reportedthe bank had turned over financial records to special prosecutor Robert Mueller after his office subpoenaed the records as part of his investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Trump’s lawyers have called that reporting inaccurate.

“We have confirmed that the news reports that the Special Counsel had subpoenaed financial records relating to the President are false,” Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement. “No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources.”

Less than three weeks later, the New York Times reported federal prosecutors had subpoenaed Deutsche Bank records related to White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Kushner and his vast business holdings. There is no evidence those subpoenas were related to Mueller’s investigation.

The subpoenas come less than a year after Deutsche Bank was fined $425 million by New York State for laundering $10 billion out of Russia.

All five of the banks granted waivers from the Obama and Trump administration were fined for their involvement in the LIBOR  scandal that led to $9 billion worth of fines from regulators around the world. Deutsche Bank has paid $3.5 billion for its role in the scandal, more than any other bank. The scandal involved illegally manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate or LIBOR, which is used to set the cost of borrowing for a variety of financial transactions.

Makes Hillary look like a Girl Scout.