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Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 10:53 PM Oct 2021

Deutsche Bank Bids 'Auf Wiedersehen' To The Least Illustrious German-American In History

Deutsche Bank dumped Donnie immediately upon losing the Presidency in 2020. Gut context on the Unstable Moron and his loan officers.



Deutsche Bank Bids ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ To The Least Illustrious German-American In History

JON SHAZAR
DealBreaker, January 12, 2021

On Oct. 7, 1885, a 16-year-old boy from Kallstadt, a small wine-growing village in what was then Bavaria, boarded ship in Bremen, bound for New York. Like his future grandson, Friedrich Drumpf was doing what it took to avoid military service. Striking out for the West Coast, the man now calling himself Frederick Trump earned a small fortune in hooch, whoring and hotels before returning to his native land to take a wife. He resumed his innkeeping back in New York shortly thereafter, but his wife was not taken in by the charms of der Große Apfel, and they moved back to Germany. Unfortunately for the couple and the world, the erstwhile Drump’s draft-dodging had not gone unnoticed, and Fred and the pregnant Elizabeth were chased out of the country and back to this one.

That, however, was not the end of the relationship between the family Trump and the German nation. For the child carried by Elizabeth back across the Atlantic was the future Fred Trump, and when the heir to his empire of outer borough slums sought to expand the Manhattan holdings he’d so flamboyantly built up after taking the reins from dear old dad, he turned to the old country for financing, specifically to Deutsche Bank.

More than 20 years and more than $2 billion later, Deutsche Bank is calling a halt to the ties that bind the Trumps to their ancestral homeland. Apparently, having helped finance one coup is enough for any global bank.

Deutsche Bank, which has been Mr. Trump’s primary lender for two decades, has decided not to do business with Mr. Trump or his company in the future, according to a person familiar with the bank’s thinking. Mr. Trump currently owes Deutsche Bank more than $300 million, which is due in the next few years.

The bank has concluded that, short of forgiving the debt, it has no way to extricate itself from the Trump relationship before the loans come due.


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https://dealbreaker.com/2021/01/deutsche-signature-banks-fire-trump

Would Deutsche Bank have offered an extension if Trump had stolen the election or gotten the insurrection to “reinstate” him?
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Deutsche Bank Bids 'Auf Wiedersehen' To The Least Illustrious German-American In History (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 OP
Deutsche Bank financed hitler and the holocaust. nt msongs Oct 2021 #1
I would be surprised if there were any German banks of the era which did not... That's the way RockRaven Oct 2021 #2
"having helped finance one coup is enough for any global bank" Justice matters. Oct 2021 #3
Like Willie Sutton, Deutsche Bank goes where the money is. Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #9
Wrong currency in the photo. eppur_se_muova Oct 2021 #4
In TFG's case... jmowreader Oct 2021 #6
Oh, I thought you were gonna say wooden nickels ! Good enough, though ! nt eppur_se_muova Oct 2021 #8
Good catch! Thing's a Laundry Tower turning rubles to dollars, euros, Swiss francs. Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #10
It sucks to be a Republican loser Champp Oct 2021 #5
One thing lower is "Republican Loser Child Sex Trafficker." Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #11
Kick. tanyev Oct 2021 #7
Trump / Deutsche Bank goes to US Supreme Court. Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #12

RockRaven

(14,782 posts)
2. I would be surprised if there were any German banks of the era which did not... That's the way
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 11:36 PM
Oct 2021

things tend to work with banks and governments and the things that governments do.

Justice matters.

(6,873 posts)
3. "having helped finance one coup is enough for any global bank"
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 11:46 PM
Oct 2021
That's what the author meant with that line. Financing the Reichstag-fire's coup once is enough...

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
9. Like Willie Sutton, Deutsche Bank goes where the money is.
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 05:56 PM
Oct 2021
Deutsche Bank, Trump, Russia, Saudi Arabia

What’s the Connection?




From WhoWhatWhy.org, a primer:

Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American and Russian, Part 1 (1/08/2018)
International banking colossus Deutsche Bank has a track record of deploying illegal financial trading, money laundering, and shady offshore tax shelters in the service of the global elite. Should anyone be surprised that Deutsche is on Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation radar?

Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American and Russian, Part 2 (1/15/2018)
What do President Donald Trump and a number of Russian oligarchs have in common? Answer: Deutsche Bank. We pick up where we left off by examining how Trump first became involved with the international colossus — a bank catering to clients who understood that sometimes the line between profit and illegality blurs.

Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American and Russian, Part 3 (2/01/2018)
Not only is President Donald Trump personally tied up with Deutsche Bank to the tune of $300 million, but his son-in-law Jared Kushner has his own history with the global banking giant. Part 3 looks closely at these relationships, and asks just how far President Trump’s Justice Department will be willing to go in probing potential illegality on the part of Deutsche.

Deutsche Bank: Where the Dots of Russiagate Connect (1/24/2018)
Martin Sheil, a retired branch chief of the IRS Criminal Division, discusses his WhoWhatWhy series on Deutsche Bank and how nearly all the main figures involved in Russiagate also have ties to the financial institution.

House GOP Leads Russia Probe… Away From Deutsche Bank (2/27/2018)
House Republicans who are supposed to be investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election say there is no need to look at Deutsche Bank. Here is why they are wrong.

Source: https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/05/01/deutsche-bank-trump-russia-saudi-arabia-whats-the-connection/

Weird how many of Hitler’s business cronies’ connections are still around to claim a piece of the action and take.

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
10. Good catch! Thing's a Laundry Tower turning rubles to dollars, euros, Swiss francs.
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 06:01 PM
Oct 2021

What Craig Unger found when Putindent Trump was new:



Trump’s Russian Laundromat

How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.


By CRAIG UNGER
The New Republic, July , 2017

Excerpt...

Trump made his first trip to Russia in 1987, only a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Invited by Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, Trump was flown to Moscow and Leningrad—all expenses paid—to talk business with high-ups in the Soviet command. In The Art of the Deal, Trump recounted the lunch meeting with Dubinin that led to the trip. “One thing led to another,” he wrote, “and now I’m talking about building a large luxury hotel, across the street from the Kremlin, in partnership with the Soviet government.”

Over the years, Trump and his sons would try and fail five times to build a new Trump Tower in Moscow. But for Trump, what mattered most were the lucrative connections he had begun to make with the Kremlin—and with the wealthy Russians who would buy so many of his properties in the years to come. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. boasted at a real estate conference in 2008. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

The money, illicit and otherwise, began to rain in earnest after the Soviet Union fell in 1991. President Boris Yeltsin’s shift to a market economy was so abrupt that cash-rich gangsters and corrupt government officials were able to privatize and loot state-held assets in oil, coal, minerals, and banking. Yeltsin himself, in fact, would later describe Russia as “the biggest mafia state in the world.” After Vladimir Putin succeeded Yeltsin as president, Russian intelligence effectively joined forces with the country’s mobsters and oligarchs, allowing them to operate freely as long as they strengthen Putin’s power and serve his personal financial interests. According to James Henry, a former chief economist at McKinsey & Company who consulted on the Panama Papers, some $1.3 trillion in illicit capital has poured out of Russia since the 1990s.

At the top of the sprawling criminal enterprise was Semion Mogilevich. Beginning in the early 1980s, according to the FBI, the short, squat Ukrainian was the key money-laundering contact for the Solntsevskaya Bratva, or Brotherhood, one of the richest criminal syndicates in the world. Before long, he was running a multibillion-dollar worldwide racket of his own. Mogilevich wasn’t feared because he was the most violent gangster, but because he was reputedly the smartest. The FBI has credited the “brainy don,” who holds a degree in economics from Lviv University, with a staggering range of crimes. He ran drug trafficking and prostitution rings on an international scale; in one characteristic deal, he bought a bankrupt airline to ship heroin from Southeast Asia into Europe. He used a jewelry business in Moscow and Budapest as a front for art that Russian gangsters stole from museums, churches, and synagogues all over Europe. He has also been accused of selling some $20 million in stolen weapons, including ground-to-air missiles and armored troop carriers, to Iran. “He uses this wealth and power to not only further his criminal enterprises,” the FBI says, “but to influence governments and their economies.”

In Russia, Mogilevich’s influence reportedly reaches all the way to the top. In 2005, Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian intelligence agent who defected to London, recorded an interview with investigators detailing his inside knowledge of the Kremlin’s ties to organized crime. “Mogilevich,” he said in broken English, “have good relationship with Putin since 1994 or 1993.” A year later Litvinenko was dead, apparently poisoned by agents of the Kremlin.

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https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

Why do you suppose no one followed up on the story at DoJ?

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
11. One thing lower is "Republican Loser Child Sex Trafficker."
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 06:20 PM
Oct 2021

Ask college dropout Jeffrey Epstein’s first boss, coincidentally AG Bill Barr’s daddy, Donald.





The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump

Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019

During Attorney General, William Barr’s confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse’s (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, “he was something of a Robin Williams–in–Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs.” Epstein’s mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns’ chairman, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.

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https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107



Small world. And very, very bad.

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
12. Trump / Deutsche Bank goes to US Supreme Court.
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 06:28 PM
Oct 2021

“Say hello to your boy,” Trump said, “Special guy.”

“Your kids have been very nice to him,” Kennedy replied.

“Well,” Trump said, “they love him, and they love him in New York.”

Source: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-supreme-court-236925



Deutsche Bank Hires Longtime Friend of Bill Barr to Help Clear ‘Log-Jam’ of DOJ Investigations: Report

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/deutsche-bank-hires-longtime-friend-of-bill-barr-to-help-clear-log-jam-of-doj-investigations-report/

Why Bill Barr Got Rid of Geoffrey Berman

This is how an authoritarian works to subvert justice.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/why-bill-barr-got-rid-geoffrey-berman/613339/

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