Trump Inaugural Committee Got Foreign Money, Plea Deal Shows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused why you are blaming Trump, or his campaign for this. The article says “a US citizen that was not named.” That could be anyone.

This thread isn't "blaming Trump", it's just showing one of the ways Russian and pro-Russian foreign interests secured access to Trump before and after the election.

There are many other threads discussing how Trump catered to those interests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused why you are blaming Trump, or his campaign for this. The article says “a US citizen that was not named.” That could be anyone.

This thread isn't "blaming Trump", it's just showing one of the ways Russian and pro-Russian foreign interests secured access to Trump before and after the election.

There are many other threads discussing how Trump catered to those interests.

Read the thread. Poster here ARE blaming Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused why you are blaming Trump, or his campaign for this. The article says “a US citizen that was not named.” That could be anyone.

This thread isn't "blaming Trump", it's just showing one of the ways Russian and pro-Russian foreign interests secured access to Trump before and after the election.

There are many other threads discussing how Trump catered to those interests.

Read the thread. Poster here ARE blaming Trump.

It was for his inauguration. Who else is in charge?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused why you are blaming Trump, or his campaign for this. The article says “a US citizen that was not named.” That could be anyone.

This thread isn't "blaming Trump", it's just showing one of the ways Russian and pro-Russian foreign interests secured access to Trump before and after the election.

There are many other threads discussing how Trump catered to those interests.

Read the thread. Poster here ARE blaming Trump.

I am the OP. And what I said is that it'll sure be a crazy thing if it turns out Trump and/or his children didn't know that this money laundering and campaign finance violations were taking place. But Trump is president, so we know crazy things can happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/obama-donor-pleads-guilty-in-foreign-donation-scheme-226147


Obama donor pleads guilty in foreign donation scheme
Illegal payments totaling $80,000 got an Albanian prime minister hopeful an audience with the president.

A Florida man pled guilty Monday to participating in and covering up a bizarre scheme that wound up getting a man hoping to to become prime minister of Albania into to one of President Barack Obama's fundraising events in October 2012, weeks before Obama's re-election.

Appearing in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, businessman William Argeros, 57, admitted to felony charges of aiding and abetting and illegal foreign political donation and making a false statement to a grand jury, court filings show.

Argeros gave $75,800 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2012 and subsequently donated $100,000 to the committee funding Obama's re-inauguration in 2013, federal records show.

In a plea deal with federal prosecutors, Argeros admitted to teaming up with New Jersey limousine driver Bilal Shehu to receive $80,000 "from a foreign source" and route it to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee supporting Obama's reelection bid and other Democratic candidates.

The funds were used to get Albanian politician Edi Rama into an Obama fundraiser in San Francisco. Rama later used a photo with Obama to suggest Obama supported Rama's bid for prime minister, a post he won following a parliamentary election in June 2013.

Soon after the photo of Obama and Rama emerged, Rep, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) called on U.S. authorities to investigate the donation that led to Rama's attendance at the event.

Albanian prosecutors are reportedly investigating Rama for illegal donations in the U.S., but no charges against him have been filed in Albania.

oh, and look "Soon after the photo of Obama and Rama emerged, Rep, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) called on U.S. authorities to investigate the donation that led to Rama's attendance at the event. "..... so the investigation happened and the guy went to jail. Did Obama try to kill the investigation? Did he threaten to fire the investigator? Nope. Unlike Trump and the rest of the sycophant Rs.

Obama didn’t even poop tweet about it!

[Anonymous]

What is missing here is the basic difference between Democrats and the Tribe. Democrats are willing to be criticized and, if one of us does something stupid or illegal, we call it out. Obama let the investigation run its course. Democrats jumped all over Bill for lying about a consensual extramarital affair, though they did not think it warranted impeachment. Democrats forced Franken to resign from the Senate for questionable behavior. But the tribe does no wrong. What Trump does is not his fault. The tribe is all concerned about law and order when it involves illegal immigrants, but not when it involves Trump or his people. They do no wrong.