Bought for $40 million, sold for $95 million during the housing crash of 2008. Stupid Commies! Don’t even know how to price a home!
Great. So, we’re on the same page that there have since been more subpoenas. I’ll keep my goalpost in the same place even after the win on the question the first time:
The new owner divided the property into three lots and just sold one for $34.5M. Apparently it was at least worth the $95M.
But not in 2008.
Regardless, that’s a horrible return on a 9 year investment. $5m on $95m spent? Somebody oughtta get fired.
Did you happen to notice that the “something” being financed was a Trump International Hotel and Tower? If investigators dig deep enough, I think it might turn out that Trump was involved.
Trump doesn’t have a financial stake in that hotel. It’s just a name-licensing deal.
Let me spell it out for you:
- Trump’s one-time-business-partner SELLS something to the Russian bank (as in “a separate asset sale”).
- That one-time-business-partner then uses the money to build Trump International tower in Toronto
- Trump has no financial stake in that building. He licenses his name to it.
This is not even “thrice removed”. That is un-connected.
You (plural) are grasping at straws.
Heck, almost every single person my grandma ever knew is dead.:eek:
and Carter Page really is the Kato Kaelin of this fiasco.
Rosenstein just appointed a Special Counsel - to run the Russia investigation. Robert Mueller, former FBI Director.
You know who also thinks that Trump is on Putin’s payroll? Apparently, House Majority leader, Kevin McCarthy.
*A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016 exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.*
EDIT: nevermind. ninja’d by Fiveyearlurker
But it was just a joke! Paul Ryan often swears people to secrecy after they tell a joke!
The GOP has officially become the Corleone Family.
That’s what I love: he makes it very clear to his colleagues that when their nation may face a threat, their loyalty must be to their party. NO LEAKS!
I also love, that the Republicans were asked to comment on the story, and they were quick to yell “Fake news!” until they learned that it was on tape, and then, “It was a joke!”
Turns out, the Trump team know Flynn was under investigation for being a secret lobbyist for Turkey back in November.
:smack:
Doesn’t that throw the Pence timeline into serious question? Can I make the bold prediction that our next president is Orrin Hatch?
I long ago gave up hope of keeping all the players straight in my mind. So, apologies for what’s probably a dumb question. Did we know Flynn was working for the Turks too, or is this a new twist? I get that the part about him telling the admin that he was under investigation, and them choosing him anyway, is rather a sticky wicket. But the fact that he was a lobbyist for the Turks to begin with – I don’t think I knew that.
Consider it made. Want to put a date on that? 
That nugget of insanity came out last month:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/us/politics/michael-flynn-turkey.html
Which is an eternity ago in the Wapo/NYT dumpster-fire-reporting badminton match.
Ah, thanks. I fondly remember those halcyon days of March, when things seemed so much simpler. Life seemed slower then.
I can’t figure out how to share it, but just a bit ago, Pro Publica’s Facebook page posted a picture of the “I Love Lucy” candy factory episode with the caption (paraphrasing): “Live shot from the NYT and Washington Post news rooms.”