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_Res Ipsa
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Just keep pulling on those loose threads. I suspect we'll find Graham and McConnell attached to some of them.
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Pompeo's senior advisor just resigned.
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I just want to know why Trump’s private lawyer is conducting State Department business, and who in the “F” is paying him for his services and financing his activities?

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If this were a TV show, the stereotypical seediness would be way over the top:

https://Twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/sta ... 6600374272
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-foreig ... _lead_pos1

“I don’t know those gentlemen,” Mr. Trump said Thursday when asked about the new charges, adding he hadn’t discussed them with Mr. Giuliani.

However, Messrs. Parnas and Fruman had dinner with Mr. Trump at the White House in early May 2018, shortly before they donated to the pro-Trump super PAC, according to since-deleted Facebook posts captured in a report published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a nonprofit U.S.-based media organization.

Mr. Giuliani said Thursday that Messrs. Parnas and Fruman were headed to Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday evening for reasons related to their business. He said the two men had also left the country about two weeks ago and had traveled to Vienna between three and six times in the last two months. He said he had been scheduled to meet with the two when they were to return to Washington within days.

A law firm run by Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, two lawyers close to the president, hired Mr. Parnas in July to serve as an interpreter related to their representation of Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch, who was detained in Vienna in 2014 on corruption charges filed in the U.S. Mr. Parnas wasn’t set to travel to Vienna on Wednesday in connection to that case, Mr. DiGenova said.


Victoria Toensing is the wife of Joe DiGenova, and these two have been on FOX News dozens of times this year pushing ridiculous conspiracy theories about Biden and apparently they have Trump and Giuliani's ears. DiGenova was the guy who recently causes a civil war at FOX when on Tucker Carlson, he called Judge Napolitano a "fool" for saying Trump committed impeachable crimes.

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Hey, here's one of those Ukrainian corruption connections that Trump (and subgenius) says he was looking for. Whooda think that the stink was in his own house? ; )

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“I don’t know those gentlemen,” ...

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former Deutsche Bank executive who reviewed President Donald Trump's tax returns reportedly said it is "not normal" that the institution no longer holds copies of those records.

Trump for many years relied on Deutsche Bank for loans to sustain his real estate business when many other institutions would not lend to him because of his rocky financial history.

The president is accused by some, including his former attorney Michael Cohen, of manipulating the value of his assets to either secure finance or reduce his tax bill.

He has broken with recent precedent for presidents and refused to release publicly all of his recent tax returns, despite pressure to do so.

Congress is investigating Trump's finances and attempting to get hold of his tax returns from Deutsche. But the bank told the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals that it did not hold them.

David Enrich, finance editor at The New York Times, posted to Twitter a screenshot of his conversation with the unnamed executive in which they expressed surprise that Deutsche told a federal appeals court it did not have the president's tax returns anymore.

"Holy f**k," the executive wrote, per the screenshot. "The circumstance could be that they returned any physical copies or destroyed any physical copies under an agreement with a client and cleansed their servers. Not normal though."

Deutsche Bank did not respond immediately to Newsweek's request for comment.
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Just updating the stats:

This is Trump's 237th day at a Trump golf club and 310th day at a Trump property while President.
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canpakes wrote:“I don’t know those gentlemen,” ...

Turns out Trump has met with them a number of times throughout the years. Saw a photo of Trump together with one of the Russian bagmen, earlier today, taken back in 2014.
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