can Trump be impeached for prior crimes (if they find any?) and isn't there a statue of limitations? how far back do they go? I'd think that if there really was prosecutable evidence against Trump this would have come out during the campaign. If Trump is a total criminal (like anyone else including comey, lynch, clintons), he should be held accountable but to go decades back will only come across as a witch hunt.
Meanwhile, the Elizabeth Carlisle email to Comey's advisor regarding the talking points of the tarmac mtg is prima facie evidence of collusion and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
it proves
obscuring identity of federal official (fraud)
collusion with FBI in suppressing evidence
collusion with Media to suppress evidence
fraud by public official in regards to FIOA requests
impropriety in regard to Clinton email investigation
I really don't see a need for any more investigations, this one email proves all of the above federal crimes by anyone on that email string plus Comey and Bill Clinton.
getting impeached itself is easy enough, they just need votes, i.e. clinton got impeached for diddling his secretary. The important question is whether or not they can remove him from office, and "sold a condo to a russia mobster 10 years ago" isn't very compelling
no, the background checks you get from real estate just check if you're good for the money as a private businessman trump had no reason or need to know if any of his customers were russian mobsters or oligarchs and even if he did know there's no particular reason he should care, if trump owns the real estate whether it's in russia or florida he can legally sell it to anyone who can pay him and isn't obligated to know anything about who they are or what they do with it. They're just trying to tie him to russians i.e. some russian mobster or member of the russian government bought a condo from him and was a good customer so they met once and trump shook his hand or some shit = conspiracy! money laundering! collusion! they have blackmail on him! etc. it's mostly a political smear unless he coordinated directly with the kremlin or someone they funded it's not collusion and even then if they just gave his campaign information that's not illegal in of itself but there's no evidence of any of that yet so far as I've seen
no, the background checks you get from real estate just check if you're good for the money as a private businessman trump had no reason or need to know if any of his customers were russian mobsters or oligarchs and even if he did know there's no particular reason he should care,
I don't think this is true. High end real estate transactions have to be done in accordance with the anti-money laundering conditions of the Bank Secrecy Act which would require you to understand if the transaction involved money from illegal activity.
To avoid violating money laundering statues, real estate professionals have to do due diligence to "know your customer." I know these requirements have gotten more stringent recently, so I don't know what would be required in 2008.
the laws also differ in russia, but regardless the overarching point here is: what does this have to do with the 2016 election? if trump laundered money in the last 10 or 20 years and russians were involved, so what?
Infringing on Trumps right to sell his property seems to me a violation of commerce laws, but I'm not a lawyer. the desperation to pin shit on Trump just makes them seem even more crazy than Trump ever could be. Even msnbc is going to have a tough time selling this "crime" to the brainwashed mainstream
it's also not his responsibility who his customers are or what they do; i.e. if a serial killer went into a deli and got a sandwich did they deli worker who made the sandwich do anything wrong? it doesn't matter if trump sold condos or property to russian mobsters or oligarchs because stopping their criminal or otherwise activities is someone elses responsibily; i.e. theoretically say trump sold a US property to a member of the russian government and they used it for espionage it's the intelligence agencies and law enforcement who didn't stop it as long as their money was good trump as a private businessman doesn't have to know or care. It's similar to their nonsense about holding gun shops responsible for gun crime
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2impendingdoom ago
can Trump be impeached for prior crimes (if they find any?) and isn't there a statue of limitations? how far back do they go? I'd think that if there really was prosecutable evidence against Trump this would have come out during the campaign. If Trump is a total criminal (like anyone else including comey, lynch, clintons), he should be held accountable but to go decades back will only come across as a witch hunt.
Meanwhile, the Elizabeth Carlisle email to Comey's advisor regarding the talking points of the tarmac mtg is prima facie evidence of collusion and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
it proves
obscuring identity of federal official (fraud)
collusion with FBI in suppressing evidence
collusion with Media to suppress evidence
fraud by public official in regards to FIOA requests
impropriety in regard to Clinton email investigation
I really don't see a need for any more investigations, this one email proves all of the above federal crimes by anyone on that email string plus Comey and Bill Clinton.
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
getting impeached itself is easy enough, they just need votes, i.e. clinton got impeached for diddling his secretary. The important question is whether or not they can remove him from office, and "sold a condo to a russia mobster 10 years ago" isn't very compelling
2impendingdoom ago
is it even a crime to sell a house to a foreign person?
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
no, the background checks you get from real estate just check if you're good for the money as a private businessman trump had no reason or need to know if any of his customers were russian mobsters or oligarchs and even if he did know there's no particular reason he should care, if trump owns the real estate whether it's in russia or florida he can legally sell it to anyone who can pay him and isn't obligated to know anything about who they are or what they do with it. They're just trying to tie him to russians i.e. some russian mobster or member of the russian government bought a condo from him and was a good customer so they met once and trump shook his hand or some shit = conspiracy! money laundering! collusion! they have blackmail on him! etc. it's mostly a political smear unless he coordinated directly with the kremlin or someone they funded it's not collusion and even then if they just gave his campaign information that's not illegal in of itself but there's no evidence of any of that yet so far as I've seen
Are_we__sure ago
I don't think this is true. High end real estate transactions have to be done in accordance with the anti-money laundering conditions of the Bank Secrecy Act which would require you to understand if the transaction involved money from illegal activity.
To avoid violating money laundering statues, real estate professionals have to do due diligence to "know your customer." I know these requirements have gotten more stringent recently, so I don't know what would be required in 2008.
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
the laws also differ in russia, but regardless the overarching point here is: what does this have to do with the 2016 election? if trump laundered money in the last 10 or 20 years and russians were involved, so what?
2impendingdoom ago
Infringing on Trumps right to sell his property seems to me a violation of commerce laws, but I'm not a lawyer. the desperation to pin shit on Trump just makes them seem even more crazy than Trump ever could be. Even msnbc is going to have a tough time selling this "crime" to the brainwashed mainstream
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
it's also not his responsibility who his customers are or what they do; i.e. if a serial killer went into a deli and got a sandwich did they deli worker who made the sandwich do anything wrong? it doesn't matter if trump sold condos or property to russian mobsters or oligarchs because stopping their criminal or otherwise activities is someone elses responsibily; i.e. theoretically say trump sold a US property to a member of the russian government and they used it for espionage it's the intelligence agencies and law enforcement who didn't stop it as long as their money was good trump as a private businessman doesn't have to know or care. It's similar to their nonsense about holding gun shops responsible for gun crime
2impendingdoom ago
I know, crazytalk. can't wait to see the media try to sell this garbage