Smoke Level: FIRE

[Soph0571]

Rotten to the core. Absolutely rotten.
Far right majority on SCOTUS very clearly bought and paid for... how can this stand?

[Celerity]

1. This needs to be explored at granular level. Potentially the biggest scandal in SCOTUS history.

[Joinfortmill]

15. Totally agree.

[Busterscruggs]

2. They probably celebrated

The deal in Trump towers with hookers pissing all over them. Elite corruption at the highest levels and nobody takes it seriously.

[Emile]

3. Corruption at the highest level, don't look for justice here.

[rockfordfile]

11. I agree

[Demovictory9]

4. so much corruption

[SergeStorms]

5. One remedy....

make the Kennedy family personally responsible for the "loan" when it goes into default - which with Trump at the helm is almost a certainty - and have every asset at their disposal become collateral. 😉

[gab13by13]

7. I read somewhere

that another reason the loan was approved was because Putin's VTB bank covered the loan.

[SergeStorms]

20. So each member of the Trump family....

can be expecting a polonium sandwich if the loan goes into default? 😊 Sounds like a plan I could get behind.

No wonder all of Trump's meetings with Putin were in private, using only a Russian interpreter.

[nebby70]

6. am I not quite awake yet?

I seem to remember this information being available at the time of appointment....
does anyone else remember knowing the connection between the bank loan and the justice???

[Walleye]

8. Sure we heard about it at the time. Taxes cut, citizens united, awash with money

[GoCubsGo]

12. Yeah, this is not news.

I have no doubt that Moscow Mitch and the rest of the GOP were also aware of this when they shoved Boof Douche down our throats.

[johnthewoodworker]

9. I don't mean to be rude but we've become a fascist state and we're fucked. Enjoy the show.

[The Jungle 1]

19. Chin up.

We kicked fascist ass during the Civil war, WWI, WWII, and on 1/6.
They want it again, then let um bring it. We will kick their ass again.
They will not take my America!

[NanananaFatman]

22. IMO- the war is over.

We missed the fight.

[The Jungle 1]

23. IMO You are way off base

The right already failed. They lost the election and trump could not get the military to support his coup. Thank you Milley.
All they can do is try and control the message as the whole truth gets exposed.
*****We will be able to call repukes the party of treason for the next 100 years.*****

[DFW]

10. I found this investigative article extremely interesting. Many details and explanations

https://forensicnews.net/trump-deutsche-bank-loans-underwritten-by-russian-state-owned-bank-whistleblower-told-fbi/

Justin Kennedy may have thought his ass was covered by Vneshtorg Bank. Or maybe, he just wanted to think that. A bank can keep a loan it thinks is solid--"performing" as they put it-- on their books as an asset. It is a black mark on a bank officer if he authorizes a risky loan, and it reveals itself to be one the bank will never collect on. In that case, it is CYA time. No bank wants to delete a billion in assets from its books.

What is vital here is to find out WHAT VTB told Kennedy, and to what extent they were willing to put muscle behind their words. If VTB only said, "sure, that's OK, you can go ahead with that," and gave no further assurances and no guarantees, then Kennedy's ass (and Trump's) should be in the process of being sliced up and served to the Feds on a silver platter. If his father knew of this, and retired for this reason alone, it should be a father and son affair at the FBI.

[Lonestarblue]

17. Most interesting article. The corruption is on display for all to see.

Given that this Val Broeksmit reported this information to the FBI in 2019, we can assume that Barr buried it. It’s now 2022 with a new AG, who has his hands full with the small matter of an insurrection against the US government, I wonder whether anything will ever be done with this part of Trump’s corruption. I’m sure Trump was careful not to threaten Anthony Kennedy in writing to force him to retire, but surely someone witnessed the threat.

[2naSalit]

21. +1

[Joinfortmill]

14. Yup, time for this to be The Big Story of the day.

[Scrivener7]

16. The time for that was when it was happening before our eyes three years ago.

This number on the loan is shocking, but we knew the loan existed three years ago.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. "Say hello to your boy. Special guy."

A billion dollars? I’ll say.



“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

[dalton99a]

26. +1

[live love laugh]

24. W.O.W. Once again where is the media?