Apollo is a huge asset management company. They take investment money from customers that are looking for a higher return in exchange for more risk and less regulation. Then they invest that money by loaning it out for large real estate and corporate restructuring deals, Romney’s Bain Capital is a similar firm. But Apollo is over 3 times as large as Bain.
Bain has 75 billion of its clients money to invest. Apollo has close to 250 billion. And I heard some analysis that the Kushner deal for the Chicago building isn’t even particularly risky as the building has a good long term tenant ( AT&T). Now if they had loaned money for 666 5th in NYC, which is the albatross in the Kushner portfolio — now THAT would be a story.
Yet I think most people had never heard of Apollo until today. And that’s because they want it that way.
There’s something odd in those pictures. In the first one Sessions is his short self, but on dinner table he’s taller than others. Does he sit on a baby high chair ?
If Speaker Ryan had any spine whatsoever (hah!) we would disband the House Intelligence Committee and start over. They’re entirely dysfunctional and completely devoid of any credibility.
I’m 5’6" and my husband is 6’3" but when we sit our heads are almost level. So maybe the Keebler Elf has a much longer torso than the other guys. constant Ass Torsion probably lengthened his trunk.
Notably, the GOP leak of those emails about Mark Warner came at same time that Julian Assange was offering dirt on Mark Warner to Sean Hannity. Be nice to know where Assange got them, huh?
When republicans were discussing who was being bribed by Russia, Paul Ryan said to keep it quiet and ‘not leak’ that info. So Ryan is complicit. He doesn’t lack a spine, he knows what is happening and wants to help cover up the investigation.
This politics and partisan crap is interesting in it’s own right. But my takeaway so far is that these motherfuckers (on the left AND the right) have been leveraging economic and political clout in this Global Economy bullshit on an unprecedented scale for nothing but personal gain since forever. Now the game’s finally gotten really big. Excessive greed and financial turmoil now makes it hard to go unnoticed. They are finally getting caught up due to their own greed and stupidity. Too much cloak-and-dagger, collusion and line-crossing has led to microscopic analysis they obvioulsy cannot handle.
Please continue focusing the spotlight on your political target of choice - it is quite entertaining!
If I was president, I don’t think I’d be upset over my Attorney General having dinner with his deputy. Maybe I’d want them to bring me a doggie bag but it wouldn’t upset me unless I asked to go and got turned away.
