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I fucking love this President. My 2 faves during my lifetime are Trump and Nixon. They share a lot of similarities and were besieged by the same groups of assholes. No I’m not trolling. Y’all, the lef

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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of.  And which,

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If you're not sure how many you have in custody, it's probably safe to say that you're not really sure how they're being cared for.

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Other potentially separated migrant children could still be identified. The government has reviewed the files of 4,108 children out of 50,000 so far.

Sabraw gave the Trump administration six months to complete the task of combing through nearly 50,000 records to locate additional separated children.

 

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As long as McConnell can hold the party line in the Senate, Trump is Teflon Don. The only solution is to vote him out, With 23 (or more, I lost count) Dems running, they are going to have trouble focusing on the goal. At least R's are starting to crumble in the House.

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9 hours ago, Junior Miller said:

We're the real villians. Just unleashing hell on millions/billions of people from of a selfish, bully culture. 

What, you think we’re so innocent?

You betcha, Junior, this is American exceptionalism. 

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1 hour ago, brown water said:

Given the overwhelming support of this admin by evangelicals, one could argue quite the opposite. 

They're as far away from the idea of Jesus as you can get. Jesus might have actually slashed their throats for imprisoning refugee children in cages. 

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Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be reported to a federal financial-crimes watchdog.

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The transactions, some of which involved Mr. Trump’s now-defunct foundation, set off alerts in a computer system designed to detect illicit activity, according to five current and former bank employees. Compliance staff members who then reviewed the transactions prepared so-called suspicious activity reports that they believed should be sent to a unit of the Treasury Department that polices financial crimes.

 

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But executives at Deutsche Bank, which has lent billions of dollars to the Trump and Kushner companies, rejected their employees’ advice. The reports were never filed with the government.

The nature of the transactions was not clear. At least some of them involved money flowing back and forth with overseas entities or individuals, which bank employees considered suspicious.

 

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Real estate developers like Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner sometimes do large, all-cash deals, including with people outside the United States, any of which can prompt anti-money laundering reviews. The red flags raised by employees do not necessarily mean the transactions were improper. Banks sometimes opt not to file suspicious activity reports if they conclude their employees’ concerns are unwarranted.

But former Deutsche Bank employees said the decision not to report the Trump and Kushner transactions reflected the bank’s generally lax approach to money laundering laws. The employees — most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve their ability to work in the industry — said it was part of a pattern of the bank’s executives rejecting valid reports to protect relationships with lucrative clients.

“You present them with everything, and you give them a recommendation, and nothing happens,” said Tammy McFadden, a former Deutsche Bank anti-money laundering specialist who reviewed some of the transactions. “It’s the D.B. way. They are prone to discounting everything.”

Ms. McFadden said she was terminated last year after she raised concerns about the bank’s practices. Since then, she has filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators about the bank’s anti-money-laundering enforcement.

Kerrie McHugh, a Deutsche Bank spokeswoman, said the company had intensified its efforts to combat financial crime. An effective anti-money laundering program, she said, “requires sophisticated transaction screening technology as well as a trained group of individuals who can analyze the alerts generated by that technology both thoroughly and efficiently.”

“At no time was an investigator prevented from escalating activity identified as potentially suspicious,” she added. “Furthermore, the suggestion that anyone was reassigned or fired in an effort to quash concerns relating to any client is categorically false.”

Amanda Miller, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, the umbrella company for the Trump family’s many business interests, said: “We have no knowledge of any ‘flagged’ transactions with Deutsche Bank.” She said the Trump Organization currently has “no operating accounts with Deutsche Bank.” She did not respond when asked if other Trump entities had accounts.

Karen Zabarsky, a spokeswoman for Kushner Companies, said: “Any allegations regarding Deutsche Bank’s relationship with Kushner Companies which involved money laundering is completely made up and totally false. The New York Times continues to create dots that just don’t connect.”

Deutsche Bank’s decision not to report the transactions is the latest twist in Mr. Trump’s long, complicated relationship with the German bank — the only mainstream financial institution consistently willing to do business with the real estate developer.

Congressional and state authorities are investigating that relationship and have demanded the bank’s records related to the president, his family and their companies. Subpoenas from two House committees seek, among other things, documents related to any suspicious activities detected in Mr. Trump’s personal and business bank accounts since 2010, according to a copy of a subpoena included in a federal court filing.

Mr. Trump and his family sued Deutsche Bank in April, seeking to block it from complying with the congressional subpoenas. The president’s lawyers described the subpoenas as politically motivated.

Suspicious activity reports are at the heart of the federal government’s efforts to identify criminal activity like money laundering and sanctions violations. But government regulations give banks leeway in selecting which transactions to report to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

Lenders typically use a layered approach to detect improper activity. The first step is filtering thousands of transactions using computer programs, which send the ones considered potentially suspicious to midlevel employees for a detailed review. Those employees can decide whether to draft a suspicious activity report, but a final ruling on whether to submit it to the Treasury Department is often made by more senior managers.

In the summer of 2016, Deutsche Bank’s software flagged a series of transactions involving the real estate company of Mr. Kushner, now a senior White House adviser.

Ms. McFadden, a longtime anti-money laundering specialist in Deutsche Bank’s Jacksonville office, said she had reviewed the transactions and found that money had moved from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals. She concluded that the transactions should be reported to the government — in part because federal regulators had ordered Deutsche Bank, which had been caught laundering billions of dollars for Russians, to toughen its scrutiny of potentially illegal transactions.

Ms. McFadden drafted a suspicious activity report and compiled a small bundle of documents to back up her decision.

Typically, such a report would be reviewed by a team of anti-money laundering experts who are independent of the business line in which the transactions originated — in this case, the private-banking division — according to Ms. McFadden and two former Deutsche Bank managers.

That did not happen with this report. It went to managers in New York who were part of the private bank, which caters to the ultrawealthy. They felt Ms. McFadden’s concerns were unfounded and opted not to submit the report to the government, the employees said.

Ms. McFadden and some of her colleagues said they believed the report had been killed to maintain the private-banking division’s strong relationship with Mr. Kushner.

After Mr. Trump became president, transactions involving him and his companies were reviewed by an anti-financial crime team at the bank called the Special Investigations Unit. That team, based in Jacksonville, produced multiple suspicious activity reports involving different entities that Mr. Trump owned or controlled, according to three former Deutsche Bank employees who saw the reports in an internal computer system.

Some of those reports involved Mr. Trump’s limited liability companies. At least one was related to transactions involving the Donald J. Trump Foundation, two employees said.

Deutsche Bank ultimately chose not to file those suspicious activity reports with the Treasury Department, either, according to three former employees. They said it was unusual for the bank to reject a series of reports involving the same high-profile client.

Mr. Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank spans two decades. During a period when most Wall Street banks had stopped doing business with him after his repeated defaults, Deutsche Bank lent Mr. Trump and his companies a total of more than $2.5 billion. Projects financed through the private-banking division include Mr. Trump’s Doral golf resort near Miami and his transformation of Washington’s Old Post Office Building into a luxury hotel.

When he became president, he owed Deutsche Bank well over $300 million. That made the German institution Mr. Trump’s biggest creditor — and put the bank in a bind.

Senior executives worried that if they took a tough stance with Mr. Trump’s accounts — for example, by demanding payment of a delinquent loan — they could provoke the president’s wrath. On the other hand, if they didn’t do anything, the bank could be perceived as cutting a lucrative break for Mr. Trump, whose administration wields regulatory and law enforcement power over the bank.

In the past few years, United States and European authorities have punished Deutsche Bank for helping clients, including wealthy Russians, launder funds and for moving money into countries like Iran in violation of American sanctions. The bank has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and is operating under a Federal Reserve order that requires it to do more to stop illicit activities.

On two palm-tree-lined campuses in Jacksonville, Deutsche Bank has thousands of employees who vet customers and transactions. Six current and former bank employees there said the operations were deeply troubled.

Anti-money laundering workers were pressured to quickly sift through transactions to assess whether they were suspicious, the employees said. As a result, they often erred on the side of not flagging transactions.

Two former employees said that they had raised concerns about transactions involving companies linked to prominent Russians, but that managers had told them not to file suspicious activity reports. The employees were under the impression that the bank did not want to upset important clients.

Several employees said they had complained about the bank’s anti-money laundering processes to Joshua Blazer, the head of Deutsche Bank’s financial crimes investigations division in Jacksonville, and had then been criticized for having a negative attitude. One employee said she resigned last summer over concerns about the bank’s ethics.

Mr. Blazer, hired by Deutsche Bank in 2017 to strengthen the bank’s financial crime-fighting apparatus, declined to comment.

Ms. McFadden’s job at Deutsche Bank was to inspect clients and transactions in the company’s private-banking division — the unit that lent money to Mr. Trump. She joined the bank in 2008, after working for Bank of America, also in Jacksonville.

Ms. McFadden had left Bank of America in 2005, and later sued for racial discrimination and wrongful termination. According to court records, her lawsuit was settled on confidential terms the same year she joined Deutsche Bank, where she went on to win multiple performance awards.

Around the time she flagged the Kushner Companies’ transactions, Ms. McFadden said, she also complained about how the bank was scrutinizing the accounts of high-profile customers, such as those in public office. Those customers — known as politically exposed persons — are regarded as at heightened risk of being involved in corruption. As a result, their accounts are subject to extra vetting.

Ms. McFadden said she had told her superiors that dozens of politically exposed clients of the private-banking division, including Mr. Trump and members of his family, were not receiving that added attention. Her superiors told her to stop raising questions, according to Ms. McFadden and the two former managers.

After taking her complaint to the human resources department, Ms. McFadden was transferred to another division. She was terminated in April 2018. The bank told her that she was not processing enough transactions.

Ms. McFadden disputed that. She said her superiors had reduced the number of transactions she was assigned to review after she voiced her concerns. She and the two former managers said they perceived her termination as an act of retaliation.

“They attempted to try to silence me,” she said. “I’m at peace because I know that I did the right thing.”

 

 

 

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Wow, what the fuck 

Not only is that guy not to be punished...he’s lionized by the Trumpist masses. They’re not uncomfortable with a man in uniform who guns down civilian girls....THEY FUCKING LOVE IT. It’s raghead killing time! Git some!

Again...this isn’t about sympathy for a soldier who went wrong. It’s hero-worship of someone they think did something RIGHT. Chew on that for a bit. Our POTUS thinks war criminals are heroes, and the people cheer him.
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23 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

in regards to hw, i think that was more of a ross perot problem. the % breakdown that year was highly unusual, if i recall correctly. 

i still maintain ghwb was underrated. 

Not looking for an argument, but do you think he was a better choice than Clinton?

HW does deserve some credit for not being totally beholden to the right's hate engine, but he is the electoral product of Lee Atwater and the wickedness of Stone and Manafort. He was right about limiting the first Gulf War even though I thought he was wrong at the time.

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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Not only is that guy not to be punished...he’s lionized by the Trumpist masses. They’re not uncomfortable with a man in uniform who guns down civilian girls....THEY FUCKING LOVE IT. It’s raghead killing time! Git some!

Again...this isn’t about sympathy for a soldier who went wrong. It’s hero-worship of someone they think did something RIGHT. Chew on that for a bit. Our POTUS thinks war criminals are heroes, and the people cheer him.

Trumpkins wish they could do this themselves, which is why they cheer on this pardon. 

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50 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

This thread isn't being given enough attention. 

 

Did they get video of the locals showering him with flowers and chocolates and hailing him as a liberator?

 

He's the one who is lionized instead of the 7 SEALs on his team who tried within the command structure to stop Gallagher and finally had to go outside the structure which threatened them. 

I am hesitant to question the actions of a combat soldier.

Our president and many of us have decided that seven professionals (again SEALs) appalled by and ashamed of their connection to this war criminal are not the model we want. We want the "badass" who lives our video game fantasies in real life. 

We're the ones who blow up weddings. We're the ones who don't feel bad about collateral damage because we didn't mean to kill anybody but bad guys (my favorite bit of evidence of how simplistically we view the world. bad guys. wtf?). We trained the death squads. We covered up Abu Ghraib. We backed Saddam until we didn't. We put in the Shah. We put in Pinochet. We backed the Contras.

Tell me again about bad guys and good guys.

This country is Donald Trump. 

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27 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Not looking for an argument, but do you think he was a better choice than Clinton?

HW does deserve some credit for not being totally beholden to the right's hate engine, but he is the electoral product of Lee Atwater and the wickedness of Stone and Manafort. He was right about limiting the first Gulf War even though I thought he was wrong at the time.

nope, and i'm not either.

ghwb was the first president i was old enough to really remember while he was president, and i figured all republican presidents would be like that.  i think he can be retroactively graded against some of the shit we've seen since, and it puts him in a pretty positive light, all things considered.

my original post on the matter was just in response to polling numbers and getting/not getting a 2nd term.  i was really just pointing out the unusual nature of the 1992 election results.

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