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kpete's JournalTrump assigned Barr & Manchin to deal w Erdogan's pleas to avoid charges against 1 of Turkey's banks
Trump assigned his AG and Treasury sec to deal with Erdogan’s pleas to avoid charges against one of Turkey’s largest banks.
President Donald Trump assigned his attorney general and Treasury secretary to deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s repeated pleas to avoid charges against one of Turkey’s largest banks, according to two people familiar with the matter.
In an April phone call, Trump told Erdogan that William Barr and Steven Mnuchin would handle the issue, the people said. In the months that followed, no action was taken against Halkbank for its alleged involvement in a massive scheme to evade sanctions on Iran. That changed when an undated indictment was unveiled Tuesday -- a day after Trump imposed sanctions over Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/trump-erdogan-call-led-to-lengthy-push-to-avoid-halkbank-trial
We know this is a lie, because Trump is NEVER "measured, factual, and decisive."
PressSec’s description of Trump’s Syria meeting with Dems offers a different view. Blames leadership for choosing to “storm out and get in front of the cameras to whine.”
https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1184582851213307904
This woman speaks at least two languages. Neither of them allowed her to understand Babyfingers.
Welcome to the Splash Zone, Italian Translator.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1184583701876879361
At WH - Pelosi To Donald's Face: "All roads with you lead to Putin"
per senior Democratic aide, the Speaker told the President at the WH his policy had given Russia the “foothold in the Middle East” that Moscow has always wanted
Pelosi to Trump directly: “All roads with you lead to Putin”
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1184592684926849031
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Per Dem aide:
Schumer to Trump: "Is your plan to rely on the Syrians and the Turks?"
Trump: "Our plan is to keep the American people safe."
Pelosi: "That's not a plan. That's a goal."
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1184598942765453312
https://twitter.com/DavidLauter/status/1184601583457316864
Trump: "We were the ones that got ISIS. We're the ones that took care of it, specifically ME"
Over 10,000 SDF fighters died in the fight against ISIS, painstakingly clearing town after town. The US-led coalition backed them, but the SDF did the bulk of the fighting.
https://twitter.com/Elizabeth_McLau/status/1184542833476358145
The FBI believes Rudy Giuliani may pose a national security threat to the United States.
THREAD. What does it mean that the FBI reportedly has a counterintelligence investigation on Giuliani?1. First and foremost, it means that the FBI believes he may pose a national security threat to the United States.
2. CI investigations aren’t predicated on a suspicion that someone has broken the law. Rather, they typically begin because some has had contact with people linked to foreign intelligence and/or is furthering the interests of a foreign power in the U.S.
3. Sometimes people may be targeted unwittingly. For this reason, and bc CI investigations have broader threshold to open (and are secret), they have to be closed after 6 months if no actual threat exists or it can be neutralized in that time
4. Based on reports that the FBI was questioning people about Giuliano’s counterintelligence related issues as far back as Feb/Mar, an ongoing investigation would mean that this is a “Full” rather than “Preliminary” Investigation (former can be open indefinitely)
5. Given that Giuliani is an USPER, the bar to have a Full Investigation on him would be higher than for nonUSPERs. Also, in my experience, people who are being “unwittingly” targeted are neutralized pretty quickly (usually with a warning/heads up that they are targets)
6. (I should also note that the bar would be especially high since Giuliani is POTUS’ lawyer and, well...honestly wth would the FBI go through this movie all over again if there not some serious red flags???)
7. So basically, the FBI thinks something bad — and likely not “unwitting” — is up: That Giuliani is a conduit for pushing the agendas of foreign intelligence and/or foreign interests. Which we really don’t want happening, especially in the Oval Office
8. A couple of things: First, a CI investigation is not mutually exclusive with a criminal investigation. They can happen on different tracks. Given that SDNY has public corruption unit involved, there appears to be a separate criminal investigation on G as well
9. Second, there can be criminal violations on the CI side: Those are espionage (not likely here) or FARA violations (more likely, given what G’s associates were up to). But CI investigations don’t have to — and often don’t — result in criminal prosecutions
10. And bc CI cases don’t often cross over into criminal prosecutions, they would stay within FBI, and not bleed into SDNY unless and until that happened. (It’s not clear to me how much Main Justice would be involved, and how much power Barr would have over it)
From this Xlnt thread:
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1184540825155489793
On CNN, @AshaRangappa_ says the counterintelligence probe means they think maybe Giuliani is a threat to our national security.
https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/1184536927317479429
David Correia 1 of 4 people indicted in scheme to funnel foreign $ taken into custody at JFK airport
JUST IN: David Correia, 1 of the 4 people indicted in an alleged scheme to funnel foreign money and violate FEC laws was taken into custody at New York's JFK airport this morning; the case includes Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman - @Tom_Winter
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1184484580876849153
Fox & Friends Diner Guest:"in 60s&70s-if you were a millionaire-your taxes were high-nobody bitched"
A Fox & Friends diner guest tells Pete Hegseth that the wealth gap "is just deplorable," and that "back in the 60s and 70s, if you were a millionaire, your taxes were awfully high ... nobody bitched about it then."
Great Video:
https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1184440326154575873
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