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babylonsister

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Fri May 11, 2018, 11:11 AM May 2018

On Elliott Broidy and the RNC

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2018/5/10/16429/9026

On Elliott Broidy and the RNC
by BooMan
Thu May 10th, 2018 at 04:04:29 PM EST


Reading Ken Klippenstein’s piece on Elliott Broidy is quite an experience. The criminal and unethical and, frankly, frightening behavior pours forth from the page at a relentless clip. While you’re looking at the article, please remember that until very recently, Elliott Broidy was a deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.

He got that job because he was effective in raising money for Donald Trump’s campaign at a time when most bigwig Republican bundlers were keeping Trump at arm’s length. But this is a guy who was convicted in 2009 for “bribing a New York government official in a case involving state pension funds.” That was an indication that he wasn’t the kind of person you should employ or entrust with positions of responsibility.

The Klippenstein piece focuses on how Broidy’s company, Virginia-based Circinus LLC, has people armed with AR-15’s running around in Florida serving as private security forces without any permits. But that barely scratches the surface of what should concern us. Here’s one example:

In March, The Wall Street Journal reported that Broidy at one point discussed a deal in which he would seek to help get the Justice Department to drop its investigation into a Malaysian government-owned investment fund’s multibillion-dollar graft scandal. Broidy potentially stood to gain tens of millions of dollars in fees from one of the figures at the scandal’s center if he got the investigation dropped.


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You can choose what to be most worried about, whether it’s private armies operating domestically without permits or corrupting the Justice Department to cover up foreign financial crimes or corrupting politicians and directing the foreign policy legislation they introduce or bribing state officials in New York or selling access to the president and vice-president or having connections to a creep like George Nader and his nefarious wheelings and dealings, or potentially faking his paternity of a child in order to cover for the president’s infidelity and involvement in an abortion.


Again, until a few moments ago, this guy was a deputy finance chairman for the Republican National Committee. The same is true of Michael Cohen.

The swamp has never been more expansive or rancid.


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Trump Fundraiser Elliott Broidy’s Security Firm Operated Illegally In U.S.
In TYT Investigates by TYT Investigates
May 10, 2018
By Ken Klippenstein
https://tytnetwork.com/2018/05/10/trump-fundraiser-elliott-broidys-security-firm-operated-illegally-in-u-s/
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On Elliott Broidy and the RNC (Original Post) babylonsister May 2018 OP
Umm Clarity2 May 2018 #1
Thank you for this post. Frustratedlady May 2018 #2
If you have followed various Wellstone ruled May 2018 #3

Clarity2

(1,009 posts)
1. Umm
Fri May 11, 2018, 11:46 AM
May 2018

This company is providing “intelligence” services to the DOD/army in VA? (Click contract link then additional details tab)

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
2. Thank you for this post.
Fri May 11, 2018, 11:58 AM
May 2018

I have been curious why few comments were made about Broidy's payoff to the Playboy model. No divorce in the works? To quote Trump from another vein..."Do you really think I'd go after her? I mean, look at her." Wasn't that what he said about the gal he abused on a flight? Anyway, "Do you really believe I'd end up pregnant by him (Broidy)?" Oh, boy. That's pushing the envelope.

To think he was covering for Trump makes sense. I could swallow that one.

We have to realize this is SO MUCH BIGGER than will eventually be exposed that many are going to get away with their crimes. (I almost said "murder" but then, the investigation isn't over.)

I believe the swamp is turning into quick sand...maybe that's not a bad thing.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. If you have followed various
Fri May 11, 2018, 12:39 PM
May 2018

people protests around the Country,this Company name pops up in stories of Police Brutality.

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