When a defense attorney is hired they tell their client to shut up and then look to get all the evidence that the Government has. They then try to create a “theory of the case” that explains the facts that they can’t refute to explain the defendant’s conduct in a plausible story that can raise reasonable doubt.
But Trump just seems to be rambling, making up facts, contradicted in the same interview. How could that happen if he is being represented by competent counsel? The answer is simple, he’s not.
When we hear comments about “White House Counsel” they are not talking about Donald Trump’s attorneys. They are referring to attorneys who represent the “Presidency” not the “President” as an individual. So people like Don McGahan are not going to sit with Donald Trump like a defense counsel would, to help him work out his “theory of the case.”
Trump is notorious for stiffing his attorneys so he likely has had a hard time getting a large firm to sign on for the full ride with him especially where it appears that Trump may be subject to asset forfeitures. So what is Trump doing?
In my view he is making up all of this on his own. Perhaps with the counsel of insiders like his family or perhaps Bannon. But though I’m not a Bannon fan, I think he is too smart to get into the obvious obstruction of justice that Trump has committed in the past two days.
So Donald Trump’s strategy is to declare war on the FBI after having already declared war on the CIA. Good luck with that Donald.
Reports the FBI is serving warrant at GOP fund raising firm in Annapolis MD today. Here is the link to the firm and its principals. Dennis Whitfield, Kelley Rogers and Chip O’Neil The Strategic Campaign Group
In 2014 VA AG Ken Cuccinelli (Cooch) sued them and accused them along with Scott Mackenzie (don’t know who he is) of running a fund raising scam. Here is a report. Cucccinellii Claims ‘Scam PAC’ Rolled Him
Perhaps by the 16th Trump will also see transcripts of his recorded conversations. Here is a link to an article about the intercepted tape. The Erdogan tapes
The President has near absolute immunity for actions that can pass the giggle test of official acts. Many scholars miss the fact that his businesses do not share any immunity and can be targeted by persons injured by the businesses owner’s actions even if that action is covered by immunity.
Trump has lied more than any politician in history. It would not take a legal genius to craft a Civil RICO complaint that uses his false statements a Wire Fraud predicates. The element of “financial gain” can easily be alleged based on Trump’s need to pump up his businesses and brand generally. Add the money laundering allegations and Trump’s tax returns become relevant and clearly discoverable.
When civil litigation attorneys wake up to this gold mine that will allow them to reach Trump’s family his partners like the Russian govt ie Oligarchs with piles of money to pay to keep the case quiet, the avalanche of litigation will consume the Trump Kushner clan that will likely spend the rest of their lives trying to survive the Trump presidency. Resign now Donald. Do it for your family.
PS: For Mrs. Trump, here is a phase to remember: “Innocent Spouse.”
The narrator in this German video says Abu Matal would free the Yazidis buy purchasing them from ISIS online. ISIS would direct him to travel to Gaziantep Turkey and meet the ISIS accountant and pay him in cash in ISIS’s Gaziantep office.
Another shot is video filming ISIS middle man receiving the money for the purchase.
Reporter also says all of this purchase/money transfer could not be done without the blessing of MIT Turkish intelligence.
The reporter says Slave No. 12 was purchased for $18,000 US. This payment was made in cash to ISIS in Gaziantep. The video also shows ISIS using a cash counting machine.
Last year, before Erdogan’s fascist crackdown on the Turkish press turned the Turkish press into propaganda arms of the Salafi Jihadist government in Ankara, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet published a story regarding what appears to be a governement directed cover-up in a case seeking to examine the Gaziantep Yazidis slave market.
NSA and CIA likely have the evidence on Erdogan and the MIT’s complicity with ISIS at a minimum.
Someday this evidence will be released. Anyone who has assisted in the acts of genocide will be held accountable. Based on my interpretation of US and international law I conclude that former US presidents, their staffs and foreign leaders and intelligence officers are all subject to prosecution for genocide under both US and International law. There is no statute of limitations.
Never again means never again. We must hunt this barbarian filth to the last man. Seize their assets even if the assets belong to Arab royal families and punish as the law proscribes: At a minimum, life in prison without hope. Never Again.
Here is a shot of Tabqa Dam. Not sure of the date but presumably before Daesh seized it.
Somewhere in there are 8 electricity generating turbines. My guess is the are housed in a blue water tank but that’s just a guess. I can’t confirm the structure at the lower left is a residential facility that was reported recently in action reports.
According to Wikipedia, Tabqa Dam has has eight 103 MW Kapplan turbines.
Bonneville Dam in Oregon has 20 62 MW Kapplan turbines. This photo purports to be Bonneville Dam’s turbines. I’m not sure of that. However, I think these may be how Kapplan turbines appear.
Here is what I believe is photo of the Second Powerhouse with 8 turbines like Tabqa Dam according to Wikipedia. Something like that may have been there in 2013, except, if my math is right, the Dabqa turbines would be about 40% larger.
In addition to the turbines Tabqa likely has a control room perhaps like the Bonneville dam control room with period electronics.
I’d be happy to received and post any actual photos, descriptions or updates of battle for Tabqa Dam.
Was U.S. company, Laureate International Universities, owner of Turkey’s Bilgi University, a victim of extortion centered in in Ankara?
The link to the Turkish story is below but the best I can surmise the allegations go like this:
Erdogan regime pressures Bilgi University. First by restricting enrollment. Second, as student numbers decline the Erdogan regime cancels all of Bilgi’s graduate programs.
Third and final straw comes when the regime issued the university a $28 Million fine.
Message sent?
According to news web site Super Haber TV, Bilgi university gave $2 million to Can Paker (a pro Erdogan businessman) to set up a meeting with President Erdogan to fix the “problems.” Parker, as the story states, is or was, George Soros’ man in Turkey.
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