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Vinnie From Indy

(10,820 posts) Fri Jul 10, 2020, 09:23 AM Jul 2020

Democrats in Congress should look into pressuring Angela Merkel and German regulators...

to investigate Deutsche Bank's relationship with Trump and Russian oligarchs. If SCOTUS won't allow transparency, maybe the Germans could force it on their end.

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Democrats in Congress should look into pressuring Angela Merkel and German regulators... (Original Post) Vinnie From Indy Jul 2020 OP

Making other countries responsible for the wrongdoing of our elected president is pretty lame. Squinch Jul 2020 #1

The EU has its own problems with DB... Wounded Bear Jul 2020 #2

Squinch

(50,935 posts)

1. Making other countries responsible for the wrongdoing of our elected president is pretty lame.

Reply to Vinnie From Indy (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2020, 10:12 AM

Jul 2020

If they decided to do it, I wouldn't look that gift horse in the mouth, but I'm horrified it has come to the point where we can't police ourselves.

Wounded Bear

(58,634 posts)

2. The EU has its own problems with DB...

Reply to Vinnie From Indy (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2020, 10:15 AM

Jul 2020

and one of the prime reasons for Trump to break the bonds between the US and Europe is to prevent the kind of international law enforcement cooperation needed to do what you are asking for.

Our pre-Trump relations with Europe would have made such cooperation much easier.

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