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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you keep fucking with Mr. Trump we know where you live.
How I Got The Facts The FBI Really Didnt Want Me To Have
A lawyer reported getting a threatening call: If you keep fucking with Mr. Trump we know where you live. But who made the call? And why? The FBIs files blacked out all the good details. That was just the beginning of the hunt.
May 1, 2017, Jason Leopold, BuzzFeed News Reporter
Before last Novembers presidential election, a half-dozen former FBI agents told me that Donald Trump was questioned by the FBI about his business dealings on numerous occasions since the early 1980s. But the agents couldnt recall the details.
So together with MIT doctoral student Ryan Shapiro, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all FBI records on the Trump Organization, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Trump University, and the Trump Foundation. When the FBI failed to respond we sued, and the bureau turned over dozens of pages of documents.
One set stood out. It was heavily redacted but it contained bits and pieces of a wild story about a person who told the FBI that he got a menacing phone call from a man with a thick New York accent who threatened his family......
So together with MIT doctoral student Ryan Shapiro, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all FBI records on the Trump Organization, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Trump University, and the Trump Foundation. When the FBI failed to respond we sued, and the bureau turned over dozens of pages of documents.
One set stood out. It was heavily redacted but it contained bits and pieces of a wild story about a person who told the FBI that he got a menacing phone call from a man with a thick New York accent who threatened his family......
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If you keep fucking with Mr. Trump we know where you live. (Original Post)
L. Coyote
May 2017
OP
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. republican 'family values' role model doing his ReThug Thingee
Less blingy
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)4. That graphic needs to go away.
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)2. Another call from Carmine Barron???
I wonder who Trump pretends to be when he calls Putie or XiXi??
dembotoz
(16,799 posts)5. i do not believe i am the only one here who has gotten a death threat
one merited a call to the police. blocked phone number, nothing they could do....yada yada
i am more aware of my surroundings and that is generally a good thing i guess.
i have talked to other dems in my very red area who have gotten more of them than i have....take it as a sign we are doing good things
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)6. I got stabbed nine times while investigating illegal aid to Contras while
in Central America. Locals acted quickly and saved my life. Assailants took my notes with names of all my Central America contacts, and my pen, damn it!
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)7. Jesus! That's crazy man!