Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Human Rights Abuse or Corruption

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Public Law 114-328) (the “Act”), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)) (INA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, such as those committed or directed by persons listed in the Annex to this order, have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons.

I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

(ii) any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General:

(A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse;

(B) to be a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in:

(1) corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery; or

(2) the transfer or the facilitation of the transfer of the proceeds of corruption;

(1) an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section relating to the leader’s or official’s tenure; or

(2) an entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order as a result of activities related to the leader’s or official’s tenure; or

(D) to have attempted to engage in any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section; and

(iii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General:

(A) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of:

(1) any activity described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section that is conducted by a foreign person;

(2) any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(3) any entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section, where the activity is conducted by a foreign person;

(B) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted before the effective date of this order.

Sec. 2. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens determined to meet one or more of the criteria in section 1 of this order would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and the entry of such persons into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is hereby suspended. Such persons shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).

Sec. 3. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the types of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.

(a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; and

(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

(b) the term “entity” means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and

This makes me think of the dozens of people that were arrested in Saudi Arabia two months ago including billionaire princes. I am certain this is related.

Deep background: the Saudis used to be able to affect the market price of oil all by their lonesome. They took a gamble a few years back, that by cranking up their spigots, they could drive the US frackers out of business. Obama and Hillary would help.

But the underestimated US resourcefulness, because the frackers adapted.

Then Trump got elected.

The current Crown Prince saw the writing on the wall: Saudi Arabia is doomed unless they can diversify their economy: and rich rulers do poorly when the economy tanks and they are surrounded by, well, by highly motivated people.

Hence the "Palace Revolution" (and the attempted assassination in Las Vegas, which was barely thwarted in time and turned into a mass shooting).

So during the revolution, one of the Saudi billionaires was supposedly hung upside down by his ankles and beaten with baseball bats or somesuch.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he talked...

#35 and Enterprise:
Re “Have elements of the media been involved in criminal activity to assist other criminal activity in the Democrat Party”?

Members of the “media” both print and visual, have, in the past, aided communist disinformation programs by publishing/voicing Soviet/No. Vietnamese, Cuban, Venezuelan, Grenadian, Red Chinese, No. Korean, So. African Communist Party officials in the S A government, Nicaraguan and Bolivian Marxist propaganda.

A lot of their “proclamations, press releases, etc” have been picked up by members of the Democrat Party and used in speeches, put into the Congressional Record (old examples, Bella Abzug (reportedly a covert member of the CPUSA; Ron Dellums (open Marxist with covert ties to the communist dictatorship of Maurice Bishop in Grenada through his aide Carliotta Scott and other aide, now Rep. Barbara Lee); Ted Kennedy (See Paul Kengor’s revelations about Kennedy’s attempts to aid the Soviets in undermining Reagan’s military and foreign policies; Chris Dodd, Kennedy, John Kerry and Harkin re undermining U.S. foreign policies against the communist dictatorship in Nicaragua (See; S. Steven Powell, “Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies”, 1985 or 87); Rep. Don Fraser (D-Minn) trying to get US Ambassador to South Vietnam to reveal classified information in an open public hearing - I was there and saw Fraser’s head literally explode when the Ambassador refused to do so); Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass) violated House rules by illegally going into his own file in the House Internal Security Committee. Another Massachusetts red congressman, Michael Harrington tried to do the same thing;

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), the last top Soviet asset in the US Congress, tried to illegally get the HISC files destroyed or locked out to the public for 50-75 years instead of the legal 25 years. Only a lawsuit against him prevented the destruction or locking away of these very important files about members of Congress and the Communist Party USA and Soviet KGB fronts including the World Peace Council).

Mafia ties by a few New York/New Jersey members of Congress, often covered up by the media.

The media’s use of communist “stringers” in Havana Cuba,(Lionel Martin, CBS I believe); Abdullah Schlieffer in Jerusalem (Progressive Labor Party); ABC used Soviet disinformation asset Charles R. Allen to attack the US alliance with W. Germany/NATO by claiming that leading Nazi War Criminals were involved in the W. German government/organizations while it was demonstratively proven by the International Association of Free Jurists (who had captured Nazi Party files), that many Nazi War Criminals were in the East German Government including the Deputy Commandant of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps, Ernest Grossman (A cabinet minister). And there were others.

The goal of these “journalists” were to get Soviet propaganda into the American press/media and on TV, which they did successfully with the Charles R. Allen/ABC “documentary” about Nazi war criminals the US supposedly let get away or get hired by the government. He wrote for the CPUSA front publication, “Jewish Currents” on Nazi war criminals in hopes that the mainstream media and congresspeople would pick the stories up and use them.

Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY) was a guest speaker at the Jewish Currents “Annual Dinner on the 25th Anniversary of the State of Israel”, NYC, May 20, 1973, as printed on the back of “25 Israel Independence Day: Special Anniversary Issues”, May 1973. Abzug used a lot of communist propaganda in her insertions/speeches in the Congressional Record and in the House Foreign Affairs/International Relations Committee hearings on Vietnam between 1973-75.

With about 80 members of the Marxist “Democratic Progressive Caucus” in Congress today, you know that a lot of what they are saying re foreign affairs, the supposed rise of a “new” wave of far-right anti-Semitism, and Trump’s “Russian Collusion” (if they have said anything), is straight out communist disinformation and attacks on the President.

Treason is a Criminal Conspiracy charge in America and as we shall see in UraniumOneGate, IranMoneyGate, ServerGate, DNC IT infiltration, and “Dossiergate” investigations, a lot of illegal money, much of which came from Putin’s Russia, will be exposed in both a “pay to play” Clinton Foundation scam; as payment for getting control of 20% of America’s domestic uranium production by Putin, for giving money to Iran and Hezbollah terrorists to be used against Americans/Israelis, etc., and the Loral/Lockheed satellite and guidance system programs to Red China with Red Chinese donations to Clinton/Al Gore in the 1990’s.

Criminal conspiracies to betray the US. Thy name is TREASON, and the media, in its coverup activities for the Clintons/Gore/Obama/Holder/Lynch and Comey’s Crooked Crew, are as much a part of it as bark is to cover up a tree.

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