Posted on 04/16/2011 10:23:21 PM PDT by Red Steel
During a two-part interview on Fox News Channel′s Sean Hannity Show, Donald Trump continued his scorn for President Barack Obama. In addition to raising the unresolved questions about Obama′s birth certificate and college records, Trump returned to another unresolved mystery, Obama′s connections with convicted felon Tony Rezko. Antoin ′Tony′ Rezko, a Syrian immigrant, was a Chicago businessman and prominent fundraiser for Illinois politicians, including both Barack Obama and former governor, Rod Blagojevich. A federal investigation, known as Operation Board Games, headed by maverick Justice Department attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, unraveled a syndicate of Illinois politicians and businessman in one of the largest ever cases of political corruption. Rezko was a key player in the group known as the Illinois Combine, which sought to milk the Illinois state teachers pension fund, which at the time had some $40 Billion dollars in surplus. The fund now is some $36 Billion in the red.
Early in 2008, a freelance journalist, Evelyn Pringle, a Democrat and admitted supporter of Hillary Clinton, wrote a 5-part series of articles called ′Curtain Time for Barack Obama′ (see link below), as well as others Barack Obama – The Wizard of Oz and Barack Obama – Operation Board Games For Slumlords. Pringle detailed the long and sorted history of the Illinois Combine, including Rezko′s and Obama′s roles in it. The Combine began to unravel after the administrator of a hospital in Huntley, IL was approached by one Stuart Levine concerning an expansion program for the hospital. Levine demanded that a particular construction company be used, which investigators later learned had promised kickbacks to Levine and other politicians. Feeling threatened, the administrator went to the FBI late in 2003, and wore a wire at her next meeting with Levine. Levine was arrested in 2004. He was the first of some 27 people convicted by Operation Board Games, including Rezko and Blagojevich.
During his interview with Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, Donald Trump resurrected the ties between Antoin ′Tony′ Rezko and President Barack Obama. Trump focused mostly on the shady property deal concerning Obama′s home in Chicago, but if Trump were to dig deeper, he would find that Obama was appointed to head the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee by Rod Blagojevich. This committee is the one that appointed Stuart Levine to a post on the state′s health care planning board which approved the expansion program for the hospital in Huntley, IL. Rezko was the middle man in all of this, including raising campaign funds for both Obama and Blagojevich from a wide range of characters, including Nadhmi Auchi, former financial adviser to Saddam Hussein. Say what you want about Donald Trump, he is raising the issues about Obama that the Media and professional journalists either ignored or covered up.
Watch out about Trump — he has an incredible liberal past. He said Pelosi and Obama were great, accused Bush of being the “worst” president ever and a liar about the Iraq War. Now he is telling conservatives exactly what they want to hear. He may be too good to be true: he may be an Obama plant or a Perot.
Check his past record every inch as you would check Obama’s. Ask why the big conversion to conservatism? Otherwise, it’s just another TV personality manipulating the people.
Obama is a Marxist cypher...and you accuse Trump of what?
I agree. Trump is for Trump.
We know all this.
Are we to believe that the Donald discovered it?
What we do know is that the lame stream and liberal media buried the connection between Rezko and Obama.
Bush was the worst President ( well ,tied with Carter ) until Obozo came along .
I am skeptical that the Donald will be the man to point out another mans crooked real estate deals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Plaza_%28Atlantic_City%29
The enemy of my enemy is ... kicking the crap out of Obama. It’s all well and good to be suspicious, but let’s enjoy the hellish political damage and nightmarish PR assaults Trump is unleashing upon Obama. He might not have pure motives, but the results are a thing of beauty.
Well, what about Franklin Diablo Roosevelt, author of "Das Kapital for America"?
Which Bush?
That Bill Clinton sure was a hoot!
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I don’t feel comfortable as of now in having him POTUS.
As I have said, I think he just wants to be the man who brings down the biggest fraud in American history. I don’t think he ever intended to run.
Whatever Trump is, he is already weakening Obama in the eyes of the American people.
He’s brought the bc issue to life, he’s brought the Resko (sp?) issue back to life.
I accuse him of being an opportunist selling a sack of empty.
No thanks
Au contraire, Trump made it a point during the Hannity interview that he would bring up Rezko Rezko Rezko at every turn when they criticize him to the lame media and to Obama.
Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy"About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition."
Rezko was one of the slumlords 0baMao helped get taxpayer money for to build these ratholes that they refused to maintain.
“and you accuse Trump of what?”
Being a liberal... or having a very liberal past to the extent of saying Obama and Pelsoi are great, Bush is the “worst” president ever and a liar concerning the Iraq war, Americans should have the health care Canadians have.
Well Bush didn’t lie about the Iraq war and kept America safe (while defeating and humiliating Al Qaeda in Iraq... so much so that Iraq now has a chance at freedom and self governance and is a friend of the US while sitting strategically on Iran’s border.)
As Trump suggested, Obama should be incarcerated, not President. Rezko gave Obama value real estate—a pay off to an elected official.
He just did.
Some people seem to be desperate to drown out what he's saying.
I agree it is payback time of sorts, but I’m curious about what happened to the old liberal Donald. I can imagine him saying that Bush was the “worst” and a “liar” to keep the liberal media happy and still have a foot in entertainment industry. Maybe it is good business sense, but I think he has to account for his past; otherwise, we might have another Obama saying stuff people like but doing worse than squat.
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