In an Odd Move, Trump Shifts His Banking Business to a Small Firm in Florida

[dawp]

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...-banking-business-to-a-small-firm-in-florida/
no, there is nothing suspicious here, at all.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Heh, that's too little too late.

 

[dawp]

Heh, that's too little too late.

just another bank to send a subpoena to. if he didn't want the scrutiny he should have never run.

 

[dank69]

just another bank to send a subpoena to. if he didn't want the scrutiny he should have never run.

This can't be echoed enough. Nobody made him run for President.

 

[cytg111]

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/23/ce...llions-in-2018-then-got-federal-reserve-post/


CEO of small Florida bank loaned Trump millions in 2018, then got Federal Reserve post


Nothing to see here, pass the street.

 

[HomerJS]

Trump has already lapped Nixon as the most corrupt President in history. He has now lapped Nixon and himself.

queue up the Trumpette excuse list
fake news
coincidence
he didn't mean it
others have done worse
you didn't understand it

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

It looks like Trump is going to be a cake divided between states.

Trump not safe from Montana.

 

[interchange]

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/23/ce...llions-in-2018-then-got-federal-reserve-post/


CEO of small Florida bank loaned Trump millions in 2018, then got Federal Reserve post


Nothing to see here, pass the street.

As usual, stark contrast with Obama who refused to refinance his own home while President much less elevate someone he did banking with to a federally appointed position.

 

[dank69]

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/23/ce...llions-in-2018-then-got-federal-reserve-post/


CEO of small Florida bank loaned Trump millions in 2018, then got Federal Reserve post


Nothing to see here, pass the street.

To be doing this shit when you know you are under intense scrutiny. Utterly mind-boggling, except for the fact that he knows conservatives and Republicans don't give a single fuck about corruption among their ranks.

 

[cytg111]

To be doing this shit when you know you are under intense scrutiny. Utterly mind-boggling, except for the fact that he knows conservatives and Republicans don't give a single fuck about corruption among their ranks.

And whatever the alternative is : worse.

 

[IronWing]

How do Florida’s banking regulations compare to other states?

 

[soundforbjt]

To be doing this shit when you know you are under intense scrutiny. Utterly mind-boggling, except for the fact that he knows conservatives and Republicans don't give a single fuck about corruption among their ranks.

He's just doing what they've always done, he's just doing it out in the open.

 

[soulcougher73]

To be doing this shit when you know you are under intense scrutiny. Utterly mind-boggling, except for the fact that he knows conservatives and Republicans don't give a single fuck about corruption among their ranks.

They are like sports fans who dont mind that their team used PEDs, Its all about winning, even if it involves cheating. They dont care. No morals from the party who thinks they are the moral authority in the country. Laughingly sad.

 

[UNCjigga]

Speaking of small-time bankers doing favors for Trump/his cronies (is there a pattern here? At least the Administration rejected this guy):

Chicago bank CEO charged with trying to trade loans for Trump post

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politi...hen-calk-charged-chicago-bank-ceo-loans-trump

NEW YORK — A banker who prosecutors say tried to buy himself a senior post in President Donald Trump’s administration by making risky loans to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was arrested Thursday on a financial institution bribery charge.

Stephen M. Calk, 54, was scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court in the afternoon. A message was left with his attorney for comment.
Authorities said Calk committed the crime while serving as CEO of The Federal Savings Bank based in Chicago.

Federal prosecutors described the charge in a release, saying Calk abused his bank position by approving $16 million in high risk loans that were ultimately downgraded.
William F. Sweeney Jr., head of New York’s FBI office, said Calk “went to great lengths to avoid banking violations in an attempt to secure a senior position in a presidential administration.”

”His attempt at petitioning for political favors was unsuccessful in more ways than one — he didn’t get the job he wanted, and he compromised the one he had,” Sweeney Jr. added.
Manafort lobbied Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to consider Calk for Secretary of the Army, according to emails from the weeks leading up to the 2016 election shown to jurors at Manafort’s tax evasion and bank fraud trial last year.

Prosecutors said that while Manafort’s loans were pending approval, Calk gave Manafort a ranked list of government positions he wanted, starting with Secretary of the Treasury, followed by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Defense, as well as 19 ambassadorships similarly ranked and starting with the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy.

According to trial evidence, Manafort passed along Calk’s resume to Kushner in a Nov. 30, 2016, email, along with two other names of people he said “should be a part of the Trump administration.”

Manafort wrote that the individuals would be “totally reliable and responsive to the Trump White House.
He also said Calk was “strong in defense issues, management and finance.”

Kushner responded, “On it!”

Calk was formally interviewed for the position of under secretary of the Army in early January 2017 at the Presidential Transition Team’s Manhattan offices, prosecutors noted.
But Calk never got an administration post, though he did approve Manafort’s loans.

 

[IronWing]

If he had just donated money to Trump's campaign, it would have been a perfectly legal method to bribe his way into official position.

 

[ivwshane]

Speaking of small-time bankers doing favors for Trump/his cronies (is there a pattern here? At least the Administration rejected this guy):

Chicago bank CEO charged with trying to trade loans for Trump post

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politi...hen-calk-charged-chicago-bank-ceo-loans-trump

NEW YORK — A banker who prosecutors say tried to buy himself a senior post in President Donald Trump’s administration by making risky loans to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was arrested Thursday on a financial institution bribery charge.

Stephen M. Calk, 54, was scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court in the afternoon. A message was left with his attorney for comment.
Authorities said Calk committed the crime while serving as CEO of The Federal Savings Bank based in Chicago.

Federal prosecutors described the charge in a release, saying Calk abused his bank position by approving $16 million in high risk loans that were ultimately downgraded.
William F. Sweeney Jr., head of New York’s FBI office, said Calk “went to great lengths to avoid banking violations in an attempt to secure a senior position in a presidential administration.”

”His attempt at petitioning for political favors was unsuccessful in more ways than one — he didn’t get the job he wanted, and he compromised the one he had,” Sweeney Jr. added.
Manafort lobbied Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to consider Calk for Secretary of the Army, according to emails from the weeks leading up to the 2016 election shown to jurors at Manafort’s tax evasion and bank fraud trial last year.

Prosecutors said that while Manafort’s loans were pending approval, Calk gave Manafort a ranked list of government positions he wanted, starting with Secretary of the Treasury, followed by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Defense, as well as 19 ambassadorships similarly ranked and starting with the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy.

According to trial evidence, Manafort passed along Calk’s resume to Kushner in a Nov. 30, 2016, email, along with two other names of people he said “should be a part of the Trump administration.”

Manafort wrote that the individuals would be “totally reliable and responsive to the Trump White House.
He also said Calk was “strong in defense issues, management and finance.”

Kushner responded, “On it!”

Calk was formally interviewed for the position of under secretary of the Army in early January 2017 at the Presidential Transition Team’s Manhattan offices, prosecutors noted.
But Calk never got an administration post, though he did approve Manafort’s loans.

I'm sure this is just an isolated case and that most of trumps appointments were chosen based on their knowledge and skills.

The fact that Kushner replied, "on it", as if he's done this before can be explained away by the fact that this guy was arrested. Clearly he was arrested because kushner reported it.

You guys are just out to get trump. If you go looking for corruption, of course you are going to find it, its a witch hunt, the same thing happens to Hillary and look at all the corruption they found.



/s

 

[HomerJS]

As usual, stark contrast with Obama who refused to refinance his own home while President much less elevate someone he did banking with to a federally appointed position.

You think some of them secretly long to have the ethical, moral black man back?

 

[dainthomas]

butter emails and Benghazi. Checkmate libtards.

 

[soundforbjt]

Bigly Nothingberder, all completely normal behavior...if you've got something to hide.

 

[tweaker2]

Arrogant right to the very end. A true charlatan/thespian desperately wanting to gain the respect of his fellow wealthy aristocrats and failing so miserably at it.

So much to hide and not enough time and hiding spaces to stuff them in. What will Trump ever do, what will he ever do?

The only question in my mind now is when will Trump's kids get the same treatment their dad is now going batshit insane over.

Pelosi is mentally torturing the guy crazier than he was a week ago. Something's gotta give sooner than later.

 

[soundforbjt]

Pelosi is mentally torturing the guy crazier than he was a week ago. Something's gotta give sooner than later.

I see this:

 

[UNCjigga]

You think some of them secretly long to have the ethical, moral black man back?

If I were a smarter, more technically proficient person with time to spare, I'd write a simple chrome extension that would do the following:
- Scrape article content for any news posted on mainstream media websites [exception: Fox News]
- Change the date of the article to coincide with same month/day/year during Obama's first term
- Replace all mentions of 'Donald Trump' with 'Barack Obama'
- Replace all mentions of Trump Administration officials or appointees with corresponding Obama official serving in the same capacity
- Randomly replace any mentions of 'Russia' with 'China' or 'Iran', and replace any names with Russian surnames with randomly generated Chinese/Iranian names.
- Replace any photos associated with the article (i.e. photos of Trump) with randomly selected file photos of Obama during his first term.

I'd then go visit a solid red county in NC, pay a bunch of volunteers for a "research study", and then sit them in a room and ask them to rate articles they read on mainstream media outlets. The volunteers would be monitored with cameras and sensors (heart rate, respiratory rate, facial expressions etc.) to judge their reactions to all these articles. The test group would have browsers with the extension installed, and the control group would have browsers without the extension. Curious to see how many in the test group carry any water for Obama.

 

[DarthKyrie]

Speaking of small-time bankers doing favors for Trump/his cronies (is there a pattern here? At least the Administration rejected this guy):

Chicago bank CEO charged with trying to trade loans for Trump post

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politi...hen-calk-charged-chicago-bank-ceo-loans-trump

NEW YORK — A banker who prosecutors say tried to buy himself a senior post in President Donald Trump’s administration by making risky loans to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was arrested Thursday on a financial institution bribery charge.

Stephen M. Calk, 54, was scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court in the afternoon. A message was left with his attorney for comment.
Authorities said Calk committed the crime while serving as CEO of The Federal Savings Bank based in Chicago.

Federal prosecutors described the charge in a release, saying Calk abused his bank position by approving $16 million in high risk loans that were ultimately downgraded.
William F. Sweeney Jr., head of New York’s FBI office, said Calk “went to great lengths to avoid banking violations in an attempt to secure a senior position in a presidential administration.”

”His attempt at petitioning for political favors was unsuccessful in more ways than one — he didn’t get the job he wanted, and he compromised the one he had,” Sweeney Jr. added.
Manafort lobbied Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to consider Calk for Secretary of the Army, according to emails from the weeks leading up to the 2016 election shown to jurors at Manafort’s tax evasion and bank fraud trial last year.

Prosecutors said that while Manafort’s loans were pending approval, Calk gave Manafort a ranked list of government positions he wanted, starting with Secretary of the Treasury, followed by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Defense, as well as 19 ambassadorships similarly ranked and starting with the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy.

According to trial evidence, Manafort passed along Calk’s resume to Kushner in a Nov. 30, 2016, email, along with two other names of people he said “should be a part of the Trump administration.”

Manafort wrote that the individuals would be “totally reliable and responsive to the Trump White House.
He also said Calk was “strong in defense issues, management and finance.”

Kushner responded, “On it!”

Calk was formally interviewed for the position of under secretary of the Army in early January 2017 at the Presidential Transition Team’s Manhattan offices, prosecutors noted.
But Calk never got an administration post, though he did approve Manafort’s loans.

Why are loans considered to be high-risk if he has so much money? Those damn Demonrats are out to get the God-Emporer any way they can, now they are going after innocent bankers from small time banks. There was no quid pro quo happening here because Manafort still got the loan even thou the banker didn't get any of the jobs he wanted from Trump.

Did I do that right?

 

[DarthKyrie]

If I were a smarter, more technically proficient person with time to spare, I'd write a simple chrome extension that would do the following:
- Scrape article content for any news posted on mainstream media websites [exception: Fox News]
- Change the date of the article to coincide with same month/day/year during Obama's first term
- Replace all mentions of 'Donald Trump' with 'Barack Obama'
- Replace all mentions of Trump Administration officials or appointees with corresponding Obama official serving in the same capacity
- Randomly replace any mentions of 'Russia' with 'China' or 'Iran', and replace any names with Russian surnames with randomly generated Chinese/Iranian names.
- Replace any photos associated with the article (i.e. photos of Trump) with randomly selected file photos of Obama during his first term.

I'd then go visit a red county in NC, pay a bunch of volunteers for a "research study", and then sit them in a room and ask them to rate articles they read on mainstream media outlets. The browser provided would have the extension installed, and the volunteers would be monitored with cameras and sensors (heart rate, respiratory rate, facial expressions etc.) to judge their reactions to all these negative articles about Obama and see if they carry any water for the black President.

Now that would be something for PPV.

 

[IJTSSG]

Ohmyfuckinggawd, Trump switched banks in 2016!

You girls have got him now. LOL.