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Maxine Waters Connects the Dots on tRump, Deutsche Bank, and Russia
Mueller’s bank subpoenas could shed light on tRump associates’ ties to Russian money-laundering.
Representative Maxine Waters, the California Democrat who is the ranking member on the House Committee on Financial Services, has been pushing since March to connect dots that could link Donald tRump, his associates, Germany’s Deutsche Bank, and Russian oligarchs. Now, it appears, she’s getting some help from Robert Mueller, the Russiagate special counsel, whose office has issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank over accounts linked to various associates of the president.
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To understand why this might be important, consider two facts: First, Deutsche Bank was caught red-handed in a money-laundering scheme that involved $10 billion in dirty money from Russian oligarchs, and in 2017 it was forced to pay fines totaling $671 million to New York’s Department of Financial Services, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority, and the US Federal Reserve. Second, since the 1990s the German financial colossus has been Donald tRump’s personal, go-to piggybank, which has supplied tRump and his companies with a staggering $3.5 billion in loans and loan-guarantee agreements since 1998.
For Waters, and perhaps for Mueller, too, the question is: Are these two things related? Did tRump, Kushner, and their partners—along with others in tRump World, including Paul Manafort, Gen. Michael Flynn, and Wilbur Ross, the billionaire who serves as tRump’s commerce secretary—benefit from illegal Russian money that flowed through Deutsche Bank? If so, does rResident tRump have a hidden obligation to Russia or to Russian oligarchs? And why did the official US investigation of Deutsche Bank’s illegal transactions, conducted under the auspices of Jeff Sessions’s Justice Department, go “dormant” earlier this year?
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Mueller, who’s methodically examining the question of tRump-Russia collusion, has now entered the Deutsche Bank picture, and he—unlike Waters, who’s been unable to get her committee chairman to demand documents—has subpoena power. According to reporting by Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, Mueller has demanded that Deutsche Bank hand over information about transactions involving “people or entities affiliated with President Donald tRump.” Two subsequent reports from the Journal added that among the records sought by Mueller are those linked to Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort. - The Nation
Representative Maxine Waters, the California Democrat who is the ranking member on the House Committee on Financial Services, has been pushing since March to connect dots that could link Donald tRump, his associates, Germany’s Deutsche Bank, and Russian oligarchs. Now, it appears, she’s getting some help from Robert Mueller, the Russiagate special counsel, whose office has issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank over accounts linked to various associates of the president.
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To understand why this might be important, consider two facts: First, Deutsche Bank was caught red-handed in a money-laundering scheme that involved $10 billion in dirty money from Russian oligarchs, and in 2017 it was forced to pay fines totaling $671 million to New York’s Department of Financial Services, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority, and the US Federal Reserve. Second, since the 1990s the German financial colossus has been Donald tRump’s personal, go-to piggybank, which has supplied tRump and his companies with a staggering $3.5 billion in loans and loan-guarantee agreements since 1998.
For Waters, and perhaps for Mueller, too, the question is: Are these two things related? Did tRump, Kushner, and their partners—along with others in tRump World, including Paul Manafort, Gen. Michael Flynn, and Wilbur Ross, the billionaire who serves as tRump’s commerce secretary—benefit from illegal Russian money that flowed through Deutsche Bank? If so, does rResident tRump have a hidden obligation to Russia or to Russian oligarchs? And why did the official US investigation of Deutsche Bank’s illegal transactions, conducted under the auspices of Jeff Sessions’s Justice Department, go “dormant” earlier this year?
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Mueller, who’s methodically examining the question of tRump-Russia collusion, has now entered the Deutsche Bank picture, and he—unlike Waters, who’s been unable to get her committee chairman to demand documents—has subpoena power. According to reporting by Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, Mueller has demanded that Deutsche Bank hand over information about transactions involving “people or entities affiliated with President Donald tRump.” Two subsequent reports from the Journal added that among the records sought by Mueller are those linked to Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort. - The Nation
Juicy!
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...James Brown wore his hair like her!
Everyone working at the White House, Repugnant Representatives and Senators, the folks at Faux News, etc. Of course, if these folks don't much like Maxine, that means she's awesome!
Go over the little shits' heads, straight to Mueller! 
If we ever in our history needed wisdom, it's now.
We love ya, Maxine!
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