Once you and the MSM take out Trump, then the Trumpsters and MSM unite to take out Rubio , then the Trumpsters, MSM and the Rubios take out the Cruzers, who ya gonna have left, huh?
Posted on 02/08/2016 1:40:52 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump knew a man he named as a senior business adviser in 2010 had been convicted in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme, according to Associated Press interviews and a review of court records.
Trump had worked with Felix Sater previously during the man's stint as an executive at Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate development firm that partnered with Trump on numerous projects after renting office space from the Trump Organization. But Sater's past was not widely known at the time because he was working as a government cooperator on mob cases and the judge overseeing Sater's own case kept the proceedings secret. After Sater's criminal history and past ties to organized crime came to light in 2007, Trump distanced himself from Sater.
Less than three years later, however, Trump tapped Sater for a business development role that came with the title of senior adviser to Donald Trump. Sater received Trump Organization business cards and was given an office within the Trump Organization's headquarters, on the same floor as Trump's own.
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The FBI has "partnerships" (their word) with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Human Rights Campaign, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, among others.
I'm not too impressed with what the FBI considers trustworthy.
I don't care for any of them.
Trump is a slimy recovering '80s era coke head and former lib who swears he's all reformed now. He reminds me a little of Arnold Schwarzenegger who we now know was owned by the dems from the day he took office and who effectively destroyed the Republican Party in CA. He has no experience in dealing with Congress. The Washington bureaucracy will have him for lunch.
Cruz is a first term senator and almost as slimy as Trump. You'd think we'd have learned our lesson about first term senators after Obama.
Rubio is, like Cruz, a first term senator but more malleable and easier for the establishment to control.
Christi is an east coast gun grabber who swears he's all reformed now. Sure.
John Kasich describes himself as being between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on the political spectrum. Who am I to disagree.
Jeb Bush... One word: Owned.
Ben Carson, no political experience and none of the guile of Trump. Also, probably too intelligent for the job. Think back to Jimmy Carter, Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson. Intelligence by itself doesn't make a leader.
Carly Fiorina is the only one of the bunch I've ever met - when she was CFO of HP. Watched her run a great company nearly into ground while outsourcing and offshoring the jobs of a lot of my friends. No way.
Jim Gilmore, who? Another east coast lib. At least he doesn't lie about it.
I'll hold my nose and vote for any one of them before Clinton and Sanders but as far as the nomination, I really don't care. I guess you'd have to say that I support a brokered convention that would nominate Jeff Sessions or someone of his kind.
Hedge fund CEO Robert Mercer is all in for the conservative Texas Republican Ted Cruz, and the billionaire will have unusually substantial influence in how his contributions get spent.
But the billionaire also has some baggage—like, the avoiding billions in taxes kind of baggage.
His alleged failure to pay those taxes led to substantial congressional scrutiny in 2014—and it’s not clear the investigation is over.
“Renaissance profited from this tax treatment by insisting on the fiction that it didn’t really own the stocks it traded—that the banks that Renaissance dealt with, did,†said Sen. John McCain during a hearing on the issue, per Mother Jones. “But, the fact is that Renaissance did all the trading, maintained full control over the account…and reaped all of the profits.â€
Look at Cruz don't listen to his lies
“He was trying to restart his life,†Garten said. “I believe he was regretful of things that happened in the past.â€
“After his 1998 racketeering conviction, Sater spent more than a decade as an informant on the Mafia and on national security-related matters. Federal prosecutors kept even the existence of Sater’s racketeering case out of publicly available court records for 14 years.”
So a guy gets a second chance to reset his life, works for Trump and Trump hires criminals.
If Cruz gave a guy a second chance he would be a “good Christian”.
Nice try on Murdocks part and Trump haters but it’s a non-starter.
“Look at Cruz don’t listen to his lies”
I don’t listen to Cruz’ lies.
Go Trump
Well, I guess you are correct if you feel it is dirty tricks.
Let’s make him a deal he can’t refuse.
I can see why you like Trump.
Once you and the MSM take out Trump, then the Trumpsters and MSM unite to take out Rubio , then the Trumpsters, MSM and the Rubios take out the Cruzers, who ya gonna have left, huh?
Yeah, they could take care of ISIS, and make quite a few mullahs “disappear”. Make jokes about them, if you will. There are reasons the CIA and FBI and others have used their “services” from time to time.
Take a look at Cruz’s top advisers and get back to me
This guy served his time. Frankly I prefer a mobbed up man to the crap that the establishment and the left have to offer
Trump should spend all his time investigating life career history of all his 10,000 employees and associates. But my question is why are the people with serious crimes not in prison?
How dumb are we to elect all career politicians? They do not worry about ordinary Americans with few dollars. Their first duty is to service their ultra rich donors.
Despite Cruz^s attacks on his party^s donor class and establishment, the Texas senator Ted Cruz^s insurgent GOP campaign has received $37 million from just four donors the Wilks family of Cisco, Texas (the No. 1 donor on POLITICO^s list), New York hedge fund tycoon Bob Mercer (No. 2), Texas energy investor Toby Neugebauer (No. 4) and Illinois manufacturing moguls Dick and Liz Uihlein.
I guess the cheap labor express is here to stay. Deal with it!
He was working for the government. Did not see that it had anything to do with retirement.
These are normal business financials, not the sleazy margin loan by Cruz that was hidden on his SEC filing.
It’s ok, it’s politics. I just think that a guy who purports to be a “purer” candidate (and I’d expect as much from Carson) engages in such. Trump, Yeb, Rubio . . . no, I’d expect it from them.
Not at all. Trump is a mega billionaire developer with solid assets and a great track record. Get over it.
It was his wife’s retirement account.
What margin loan?
It was a loan against a 401K worth multiples of the loan amount.
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