There is an actual “mob” aside from 45*’s projection about angry women and Democrats being a “mob”… remember that the informal economy ranges from the stuff that falls off trucks to the massive arms deals that POTUS* thinks are more important than morality.
Unlike our hope that a Valkyrie-like event will rid us of the scourge of fascist gangsterism, the likely outcome will be the syphilitic Alphonse Capone languishing behind bars.
There may not be as much obstruction except the pit Trump will stupidly stumble into, whereas the real crimes are a feature, made more critical to US democracy by the ties to various global oligarchic enterprises that have concurrent ideological needs upon which to profit.
It begins as Donald Trump was born into a front organization of the Genovese crime family.
The Times’s findings raise new questions about Mr. Trump’s refusal to release his income tax returns, breaking with decades of practice by past presidents. According to tax experts, it is unlikely that Mr. Trump would be vulnerable to criminal prosecution for helping his parents evade taxes, because the acts happened too long ago and are past the statute of limitations. There is no time limit, however, on civil fines for tax fraud.
1/ Trump, Kushner, Manafort, Cohen, Putin, Mogilevich…they are all mobsters. All mob. All of them. MOB.
To paraphrase Tupac: We’re not the mob…THEY’RE the motherfcking mob.
2/ This is not the quaint mob of Vito Corleone and Tony Soprano. This is next-gen Russian OC, the thieves-in-law. This is not Goodfellas, it’s SPECTRE. But it’s still mob.
3/ Mob seeks to monetize the world to the max, by any means necessary: nuclear weapons, arms, opioids, blood diamonds, human trafficking, sex slaves, gambling, market manipulation, prostitution, child pornography, etc. ANYTHING to make a kopek.
4/ Mob only cares about mob. Ethnicity, sexual preference, country of origin, religion, none of it matters, long as they all make money. Money is all…money and power, which are basically one and the same, after all.
5/ Mobsters don’t want to pay taxes, because they are greedy, and also, they don’t believe in the common good. They are parasites. They contribute NOTHING to society. Nothing. Trump and Kushner think tax evasion is a con game. They take and take and take and leave nothing.
6/ It’s all about the money with these people. About the dirty rubles. The oligarchs, too, who are all just mobsters with the patina of respectability conferred on them by owning these huge companies. Companies they stole from the Russian people. Oligarchs are mobsters.
7/ MBS, the Saudi prince, is a mobster. He’s moving his money around, he’s killing folks that get in his way. He talks a good game, like he’s for reform, and it’s all a lie, like when Al Capone gave out turkeys on Thanksgiving.
We should call him MoBS.
8/ Mob are rapists, pedophiles, murderers, thieves, pimps, drug runners. They prey on our good nature, our capacity for forgiveness, our inability to imagine living as they do, by the mobster code.
9/ Trump demands loyalty. He shits on everyone he can, but when he meets his boss? Oh how he kisses the ring. See him with Putin. Watch him kowtow. He knows the drill, his father was mob also.
10/ Kushner is second generation mobster. Read about Charles Kushner, how he broke the law to buy political power. Mob. Kushner and MBS, Millennial mobsters, devoid of empathy. Monsters.
11/ Kanye: “Everybody knows I’m a motherfcking monster!”
He was off by one letter.
12/
Trump: MOB
Kushner: MOB
Manafort: MOB
Cohen: MOB
Sater: MOB
Putin: MOB
Mogilevich: MOB
13/ In America, we have an affinity for the charming criminal. These mobsters are not charming. Locking children in cages, stealing from the US taxpayers, making sure there are plenty of AR-15s so the rest of us shoot each other down.
14/ Remember in The Godfather, when Vito refused to deal narcotics? That’s pure fantasy now. Mobsters will do ANYTHING for a buck.
15/ How to defeat them? Identify them. Call them by what they really are. And when the time comes, take EVERY LAST KOPEK they’ve accumulated through their criminal enterprise. They are not patriots. They are mobsters.
- Black Manafort Stone Atwater was a prominent consulting firm which worked to rebrand dictators and terrorists.
- Paul Manafort was brought onto the Trump campaign by Roger Stone.
- Donald Trump Jr. received his first email from Rob Goldstone about the infamous Trump Tower meeting on June 3, 2016.
- That meeting occurred on June 9, 2016, but what happened in between June 3–9? Well, Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone exchanged emails, and likely had at least one phone conversation. Also, on June 5, 2016, Alex Castellanos begins work on a new super PAC supporting Trump, Rebuilding America Now, which spends roughly $22 million on Trump’s campaign.
- Along with Lee Atwater and Arthur Finkelstein, Rebuilding America Now’s Alex Castellanos also worked for Senators Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond. In fact, Alex Castellanos in discussing attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2014, says, “I served my apprenticeship in politics working for mad-genius GOP pollster and strategist Arthur Finkelstein.”
Jarvanka and the Trump spawn will forever bee seen as a familial criminal enterprise preying on the hapless rubes of deplorable-land. Trump’s problems have always been with what he’s called “rats” and our problem is that he’s really been a canary his whole life.
Over the past decade, Jared Kushner’s family company has spent billions of dollars buying real estate. His personal stock investments have soared. His net worth has quintupled to almost $324 million.
And yet, for several years running, Mr. Kushner — President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser — appears to have paid almost no federal income taxes, according to confidential financial documents reviewed by The New York Times.
His low tax bills are the result of a common tax-minimizing maneuver that, year after year, generated millions of dollars in losses for Mr. Kushner, according to the documents. But the losses were only on paper — Mr. Kushner and his company did not appear to actually lose any money. The losses were driven by depreciation, a tax benefit that lets real estate investors deduct a portion of the cost of their buildings from their taxable income every year.
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When the New York Times exposed decades of tax cheating and “outright fraud” by the sitting president, it prompted people to ask important questions about the corrupt practices of the Trump family. The answers are central to the future of America.
Where was the Internal Revenue Service? How did the Trumps get away with decades of schemes the Times said allowed them to evade close to a half-billion dollars of income and gift taxes? Is Donald Trump continuing these practices? Is that why he refuses to make his own tax returns public? Can anything be done about it?
Whatever the outcome or our expectations, Mueller putting Agent Orange in the Big House may be so much false hope. Tax evasion may always be the real bombshell, and Trump, the self-identified “king of debt” has simply been trying for decades to outrun the explosion.
The conversation is not about the bomb under table
That brings us to Mueller not asking about obstruction in his written questions. It is curious thing when there is an “O” bomb in plain sight but no one in the room seems to be focusing on it. Trump’s testimony is far more important on obstruction than collusion; his intent would be vital to making even a marginal obstruction case. However, Mueller is asking nary a word about obstruction in these questions.
It certainly is possible that Mueller either wants an interview on obstruction or nothing at all. In that case, the “Boom!” comes with a subpoena to the president to sit down for an interview. Existing law would favor Mueller in demanding such an interview, but he has not requested it. He has reportedly asked witnesses about obstruction but, if he were serious about an actual charge (either during or after Trump’s presidency), he would demand answers from Trump. Otherwise, obstruction issues would become just part of the narrative in a report.
For all the hype, the Mueller investigation has not been particularly surprising. Indeed, any surprises are largely contrived with common plea agreements and charges in federal investigations. As I wrote after Mueller’s appointment, it was more likely that we would see charges of false statements under 18 U.S.C. 1001 as opposed to obstruction or collusion charges. That is almost the full extent of charges brought against former Trump associates; the remaining charges against people such as Paul Manafort are entirely unrelated to the campaign. Mueller has charged a variety of Russians with hacking and interfering with the election, but these filings notably do not implicate Trump and actually exonerate Trump campaign officials who “unwittingly” had contact with these individuals.
Does this mean Mueller’s investigation is a bomb? Of course not; he has done a thorough, commendable job of identifying and indicting Russian agents behind the effort to interfere with our election. He may also have other criminal acts to allege.
If, however, you are waiting for the “O” explosion, you may end up with little more than the suspense of a Hitchcockian bomb that fails to go off.
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The conclusion will be more like Hitchcock’s Sabotage
The next day, the canaries are delivered to Verloc – a present for Stevie – and the bomb is located within their cage. Detective Spencer shows up with Stevie and tells Mrs. Verloc of Scotland Yard's suspicions that he is involved in sabotage. Verloc sees his wife and Spencer talking, and becomes nervous. Before Spencer comes to question Verloc, he tells Stevie to deliver a film canister to the cloak room under Piccadilly Circus, but Stevie is unknowingly carrying the time bomb for Verloc. Stevie is delayed by several events, including The Lord Mayor's Show procession. Stevie manages to talk himself aboard a bus, even though it is forbidden to transport flammable nitrocellulose film on public vehicles. The bomb explodes while Stevie is still aboard the bus.
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