End Their Crooked Ways: Surely Not By The Trump
DOJ (oops)
This story, among a lot of other Trump-related stories, should grab the entire nation by the throat as a call for action.
(The article
below in part is a collaboration between ProPublica,
WNYC, and The New Yorker (and not subject to our Creative Commons license):
The Lead Headline from WNYC:
Background: New York prosecutors were preparing
a case against Don Jr. and Ivanka.
Then the Manhattan DA, Cyrus Vance, Jr. overruled his own staff after a visit from President Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz (who we now also know gave at least two campaign contributions to that same DA).
History of the Case: In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s
two eldest children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., found themselves in a
precarious legal position.
For two years, prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had been building a criminal case against them for misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development that was failing to sell.
Despite the
best efforts of their defense team, the case had not gone away. An indictment
seemed like a real possibility.
The evidence
included emails from the Trumps making
clear that they were aware they were using inflated figures about how well the
condos were selling to lure buyers.
For example:
In one
email, according to four people who have seen it, the Trumps discussed how to
coordinate false information they had given to prospective buyers.
In another,
according to a person who read the emails, they worried that a reporter might
be onto them.
In yet
another, Donald Jr. spoke reassuringly to a broker who was concerned about the
false statements, saying that nobody would ever find out, because only people
on the email chain or in the Trump Organization knew about the deception,
according to a person who saw the email.
To listen to the audio radio report of this story on
WNYC radio click
here and hit the blue button (top left) … the report is about 16
minutes. Most-informative:
Logical conclusion from a person who read the emails: “There was no doubt that the Trump
children approved, knew of, agreed to, and intentionally inflated the numbers
to make more sales, and they knew it was wrong.”
My ending now that we the
public has found out amount to this in my view:
The obvious facts were brushed aside for what now
appears been due to “hush money to the DA office for his reelection” and that closed
the case and again now with tons of excuses and lawyer layer of clever slickness.
So, is there a there there? Bet your ass there is and
was. So, why has no higher authority looked into the bribe aspect – for surely
that was for one clear reason: “To close the case?”
But, in this order of things, so what, right? Call it
another Donald Trump con WTF moment.
Our history is now stuck on stupid with this
presidency. The Trumps have planted a huge irreversible stain on the country and
on our entire social and justice and political systems perhaps forever.
From the story above –
this final chapter, I guess:
1. Ivanka Trump
is now an adviser to the president, with an office in the West Wing.
2. Donald Jr.
is running much of the family empire.
3. Their father
is in the White House as president.
4. Marc Kasowitz
attained national prominence when he was retained to represent the president in
the Russia investigation, only to be supplanted as lead counsel.
5. Manhattan DA Vance is running unopposed for
reelection in November.
6. The Trump
SoHo project went into foreclosure in 2014 and was taken over by a creditor.
7. Only 128 of
the 391 units in the building have sold. That comes out to around 33 percent.
Good business people now running the country, um?
Seems this crooked crap runs in the Trump DNA – and that means forever,
until???? Who knows, really?
Where do we go now? Who really knows? We appear to be stuck
in second gear that is marked national stupidity – at least in my foxhole view.
Still, thanks for stopping by.
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