The Omnibus P01135809 Criminal Investigation Thread

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  1. tafkats

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    To avoid what they KNOW will happen ... violent, lunatic Trump supporters threatening the agents and their families.

    At this point, it's pretty clear that's what Trump and his associates want.
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    I'd nominate giving him the Napoleon Bonaparte treatment and send him to St Helena, but I'm sure they don't want him.
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    I hear St. Helena is lovely this time of year.... :chris:
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    LOL @ both y’all.

    I initially went with St. Helena but he doesn’t deserve the comparison.

    Also, Diego Garcia already has the infrastructure to handle a SP company to ‘protect’ their Guest. Not to mention only military flights in and out.
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  5. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    He won't be exiled, he'll be imprisoned. But he may flee to Russia, where he will survive as a propaganda tool for Putin for a few years until he annoys someone with power who throws him down a flight of stairs.

    The real question is whether his accounts will be seized prior to that point.

    Latetia James seems to think she can get the death penalty on the Trump Corporation on his other criming, which would wipe out all his assets...
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  6. MikeH92467

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    Reminds me of a gag my old man pulled on one of our Air Force friends: "Ronnie" was a Doctor who had been the Flight Surgeon when were stationed at Elmendorf. After retiring to an orthopedic practice in Sioux Falls he was making real money for the first time in his life (he had a football scholarship but had to work his way through med school while trying to feed a family and you don't get rich in the military). Anyway, a few years after that my folks and some other friends from Alaska were celebrating "Happy Hour" and after a few drinks they decided to prank Ronnie. Dad realized that the worst thing that could happen to Ronnie at this point was to be recalled to active duty. So Dad got on the horn and in his best Official Business voice asked for Colonel "Ronnie" and informed him that he was being called back to active service and was to report immediately to Diego Garcia. Ronnie's reaction (he was a few drinks into his own Happy Hour) was disrespectful, obscene and gloriously satisfying. :lol:

    Moving right along, there was a book about the WWE's widespread use of steroids called "Even the Bodies Were Fake". It turns out the financials involving Trump's involvement with WWE may have been fake as well.

    A couple weeks ago, WWE revealed that they are restating past financial statements due to “certain unrecorded expenses” made by ex-CEO Vince McMahon. These expenses totaled approximately 14.6 million dollars.

    Earlier this week, WWE uncovered two more of these payments made by McMahon. The payments occurred in 2007 and 2009, combining for a total of five million additional dollars.

    Many fans and analysts assumed this money was related to McMahon’s alleged hush money payments that are under investigation by a special committee of the WWE Board of Directors. But an interesting note in WWE’s SEC filing seemed to contradict that idea:

    “Since that time, the Company has determined that two additional payments totaling $5.0 million, unrelated to the allegations that led to the Special Committee investigation, that Mr. McMahon made in 2007 and 2009 should have been recorded in the Company’s consolidated financial statements.”

    If these two payments are “unrelated to the allegations” under investigation by the special committee, then what could they be related to?

    A new report from Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston concludes that “it seems more likely it’s connected to Donald Trump.”

    Looking through past IRS filings, Thurston points out the following:

    “The additional $5.0 million WWE found in payments made by Vince McMahon in 2007 and 2009, and which should’ve counted as company expenses, match the amount and years of payments WWE made to the Trump Foundation...”

    “...WWE was by far the biggest contributor to the Trump Foundation in 2007 and 2009, giving the organization $4 million and $1 million in those years, respectively, and in round numbers — which adds up to match the $5.0 million mentioned in the new WWE filing. Those were also years when the future U.S. president made rare appearances on WWE television programs.”

    “Despite the IRS filings listing WWE as the contributors to the Foundation in those years, a WWE spokesperson in October 2012 said the money came directly from Vince McMahon, as opposed to the company, or both Vince and Linda...Later, in 2016, a WWE spokesperson denied the Foundation contributions served as Trump’s appearance fees and that ‘WWE paid Donald Trump appearance fees separately.’ But this time WWE said both McMahons personally made the contributions to the Foundation.”

    If Trump was paid through his charity organization for his WrestleMania-related appearances in 2007 and Raw appearances in 2009, what would the motivation be? Thurston says it’s all about cheating the tax system:

    “As for the possible motivation of compensating Trump through his Foundation for performing on WWE television, doing so may have allowed Trump to avoid paying taxes, something he’s made an effort to do in other cases. Likewise, claiming a large charitable donation to the Trump Foundation might have eased the McMahons’ personal tax burden in those years. Whether any of that is legal is another question.”

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    We are truly in uncharted territory. IF Trump truly did attempt to or commit espionage against the US then he cannot be allowed to go free. He is a braggadocios moron but there has to be enough little nuggets rattling around in there that he would represent a serious counter-intelligence threat.

    On the other hand do we really want to lock up an ex-President.

    I really don’t know what the answer is but god damn this fat little orange piece of shit really is doing all he can to fuck us over every which way.
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    House arrest for life on one of his properties, with direct contact with anyone but his guards and the secret service strictly controlled? :chris:



    *Basically America's first dementia village. :async:
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    Um, yeah.
    :shrug:
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    I was listening to someone the other day who said something along the lines of “Look this is the United States. This isn’t France or Italy or Israel or Illinois or New Jersey or Louisiana. We just don’t lock up our old chief executives here. It’s not part of our political culture.”
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    Honestly, I hope he got caught selling nuclear secrets to Russia or the Saudis red handed.

    And then we execute the fat fuck.

    The GOP should be good with it, they are very pro death penalty. :D
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    I figure he'll be pardoned, or for some reason or another, there will be nothing beyond a conviction in the court of public opinion. Regardless, he won't serve time, and it will only make his sycophants more determined to believe that the whole system is set up against him. On the other hand, if they do find him guilty, and sentence him to prison, then that might open up the possibility of arresting former presidents for crimes committed against humanity.

    That said, I figure it will be the former, and it will be used to make certain he legally cannot run for President again.
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    Biden won't pardon him, I guarantee you that.
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    All of the grid power of Washington DC into him for 5 seconds.
    All of it.
    Just for the science experiment of it.
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    Fuck. Rumors on Far Right social media is that this is all BS because Trump had declassified all the files beforehand.


    Apparently someone got a pic of the cover of one the files.



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    The magical powers of Sharpies! Who knew they could legitimize treason AND control the paths of hurricanes!
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    CNN analyst says that the FBI's next move is to fingerprint each of the documents to see who exactly touched them.

    Anybody have some popcorn? I'm gonna need a bigger bowl.
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    :mos:

    That help?
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    Is it treason if he sells it to an ally, even one like Saudi Arabia, or just espionage? Execute the fucker if he sold it to Russia or China.
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    What they miss is ... that's because chief executives committing numerous crimes isn't part of our political culture.
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    Hey, remember when Trump refused to order the assassination of the leader of Al-Qaeda when he was president, then last month he took a shitload of money from the Saudis while publicly claiming not to know the truth about 9/11?

    Then a few days later Biden approved the assassination, and righties were asking why there was a sudden rush to take the guy out?

    Then a few days later the FBI seizes documents full of nuclear secrets that Trump was selling or trying to sell?

    :chris:
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    So....reverse-gools? :wtf:
    He was exactly the kid on the playground who made up rules, and we had to get gross prank revenge on.
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    It's my understanding that some classified documents (like nuke stuff?) can't just be declassified by the President and have to have involvement from the agencies that issue the documents. :chris:
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