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“ROCKET MAN”
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My little rocket man did it again, again just last night Zero hour nine P.M. And I’m off the chain just like a high-flying kite
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I missed my birth but not by much, can’t get a wife to stay for life It’s lonely out here in chevy chase On such a timeless night – with Mueller on my case
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And I think Mueller’s sending me away for a very, very long time ‘Til my meltdown finally brings me down again as just another sign I’m not the man I think I am when I’m home all alone Oh, no, no, no. I’m in the docket, man Docket man – getting indicted on counts 1-10
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And I think i’m going away for a very, very long time ‘Til I leave witness protection to come round again to find I’m just not any kind of real man when I get outside my home Oh, no, no, no. I’m a locked-up man Locked-up man burning up w/o any clues up here in Leavenworth all alone
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I used to say – “Starz” ain’t the kind of place to dine w/your kids In fact it’s over-sold as hell And there’s no one there to serve the Bouillabaisse when u need
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And this guy Rience Priebus, I just don’t quite understand He’s really fucking up my job five days a week I’m a docket man, yes, I’m on the court docket again
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And I think I’m gonna be sent away for a very, very long time ‘Til Leavenworth springs me home again – if i promise to stay resigned I’m definitely the man they all think I am – either here or back at home Oh, no, no, no. I’m a docket man Docket man burning out w/o a clue + w/o my honey dear – up here all alone
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And I think it’s gonna be a very long, long time ‘Til Rush Limbaugh brings me ’round to be kind I’m not a man that thinks for starters – anywhere or certainly @ home Oh, no, no, no. I’m a Pocket man Pocket man, nothing to do but play pocket pool since i’m up here all alone
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“DONALD TRUMP NO LONGER PRESIDENT OF U.S.”
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The following is an article written by Robert Reich in the RAW STORY Blog Site – On 10-1-17
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Announcement: Donald Trump is no longer the president of the U.S.
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Oh sure, he has the title and the huge bully pulpit – from which he’s bullying everyone from NBA players to people protesting white supremacists to DACA kids.
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But he’s not actively governing the U.S. That work is happening elsewhere – in Congress, the courts, the Fed, the career civil service, lobbyists, and in the sates. Or it’s not happening at all.
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It’s not just that Trump lost the epic batle to repeal and replace the Affordble Care Act. Trump never understood the Affordable Care Act to begin with, and played no part in developing Republican alternatives.
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The budget Trump submitted to Congress in March was dead on arrival. House Republicans ignored Trump’s request for $54 billion in cuts to departments and agencies and decided instead to cut non-defense spending by just $5 billion, and explode the defense budget.
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The 9-page tax plan congressional Republicans and Trump unveiled last week only vaguely resembles Trump’s original tax proposal from April, and all the important decisions have been left to the tax-writing committees of Congress.
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Trump’s relations with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have become so strained they have no interest in looping him into policies before they have to.
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Meanwhile, Trump has run out of Obama executive orders he can declare void. Major regulations, such as the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, can’t just be repealed. They have to go through a legal process that could take years.
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Trump doesn’t seem to be aware of this. He told a cheering crowd in Alabama recently that he had ended the Clean Power Plan by executive order, “Did you see what I did to that? Boom, gone.”
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Nope. The EPA will soon reveal its strategy for reversing the Plan, but whatever it is, environmental groups are almost certain to appeal it in the courts. Big businesses and utilities, fearing that the courts may rule against the administration, are lobbying the EPA to come up with a replacement rather than try to eliminate the Plan altogether.
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Although General John Kelly has reduced White House chaos somewhat, the firings and shakeups are unremitting.
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Trump’s Cabinet secretaries don’t seem to have a clue. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos still wants to spend taxpayer money on for-profit schools and colleges that cheat their students. Won’t happen. The EPA’s Scott Pruitt is trying to strip the agency of scientists. Another brainless scheme.
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin still has no idea how to deal with Congress. He tried to persuade Republican House members to support Trump’s budget deal with the Democrats by asking them to do it “for me.”
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Health and Human Service Secretary Tom Price wasn’t fired for his ethical breaches. If ethics were the criteria, most of the Trump administration would be gone. Price broke Trump’s cardinal rule, which was never to get bad headlines for Trump.
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Top echelons of departments and agencies are still empty. Trump has said “in many cases, we don’t want to fill those jobs,” which means decisions are being made by career civil servants and industry lobbyists.
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By the start of September, more than a third of the leadership positions at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were still vacant. Not a good way to begin hurricane season. Puerto Rico, anyone?
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As of mid-September, out of 599 key government positions that require Senate confirmation, Trump had made only 159 nominations, according to The Washington Post. Trump had yet to submit nominations for 320 positions.
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Trump’s political clout is waning among Republicans. He couldn’t even get his pick elected to a Senate primary in Alabama, a state bulging with Trump voters.
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Business leaders have deserted him over his remarks over Charlottesville. NFL owners have turned on him over his remarks about players. Tom Brady, who once called Trump “a good friend,” now calls him “divisive” and “wrong.”
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Don’t get me wrong. Trump is still a dangerous showman and conman – tweeting condemnations of critics and ranting before friendly crowds at his never-ending campaign rallies. He continues to fuel bigotry and meanness. He has reduced America’s standing in the world. His outbursts could start a nuclear war.
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BUT, when it comes to the actual work of governing America, Trump is becoming utterly and completely irrelevant.
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Trump is — FUCKING — AWOL!
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Consequently — he will very shortly be — FUCKING — DOA! — courtesy of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.
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Pence goes too —-> he’s been “complicit” in everything that is related to — TRUMP!!!
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“STAR SPANGLED ‘BONER’ – ORIGIN OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM”
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Sept. 13/14 was the 203rd anniversary of the bombarding of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812’s Battle of Baltimore on Sept. 13 to Sept. 14, 1814. At dawn, Francis Scott Key was able to see the U.S. flag waving over the fort, as he noted in his opening lines.
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He returned to Baltimore on Sept. 14 and was so inspired by the U.S. pluckiness that he wrote a poem, “Defence of Fort M’Henry,” which he published on Sept. 20, 1814.
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Key wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner his poem to fit the beat and melody of British composer John Stafford Smith’s — “To Anacreon in Heaven”. This Song, in turn, was itself written for the benefit of an exclusive London gentlemen’s club – The Anacreontic Society – founded in 1766 by Jack Smith. The song itself was a song that celebrated love, sex and wine.
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It was in the form of a poem written in the style of the ancient Greek poet – Anacreon – the “convivial bard of Greece”, the celebrated Greek lyrical poet (560-478 B.C.E.), born at Teos in Ionia. Anacreon was known for his celebrations of love, sex and wine.
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Around 1780-1781 the song was first performed – by The Anacreontic Society – at the Crown And Anchor Tavern in The Strand section of London. The words of the song are generally attributed to Ralph Tomlinson Esq., late President of that Society.
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The Anacreontic Song — made explicit references to 2 Roman Gods — Venus – the Roman goddess of love, beauty, desire & sex & Bacchus – who was the Roman god of wine
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The Anacreontic Society itself came to an end after the Duchess of Devonshire attended one of its meetings. Because “some of the comic songs [were not] exactly calculated for the entertainment of ladies, the singers were restrained; which displeasing many of the members, they resigned one after another; and a general meeting being called, the society was dissolved.” It is not clear exactly when this incident occurred, but in October 1792 it was reported that “The Anacreontick Society meets no more; it has long been struggling with symptoms of internal decay“.
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The two (2) key words to keep in mind regarding this old English song – “To Anacreon In Heaven” – which is an ode to love and wine — are the words — “intwine” & “myrtle”. The word “intwine” itself means to wrap around, or coil around — as in — they had their hands “wrapped around” one another. “Myrtle” means a kind of leaf or vine. So, with that in mind — let’s go through 3 verses of this song .
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Now, for the 1st verse — To Anacreon in Heav’n, where he sat in full Glee, A few Sons of Harmony sent a Petition, That he their Inspirer and Patron would be; When this answer arriv’d from the Jolly Old Grecian “Voice, Fiddle, and Flute, no longer be mute “I’ll lend you my Name and inspire you to boot, “And, besides I’ll instruct you, like me, to intwine “The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine“
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Now for the 2nd verse — The news through Olympus immediately flew; When Old Thunder pretended to give himself Airs. “If these Mortals are suffer’d their Scheme to persue, “The Devil a Goddess will stay above Stairs. “Hark! already they cry, “In transports of Joy, “Away to the Sons of Anacreon we’ll fly, “And there, with good Fellows, we’ll learn to intwine “The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine.
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Now for the 3rd verse — Ye Sons of Anacreon, then join Hand in Hand; Preserve Unanimity, Friendship, and Love! ‘Tis your’s to support what’s so happily plann’d; You’ve the sanction of Gods, and the Fiat of Jove. While thus we agree, Our Toast let it be. May our Club flourish happy, united, and free! And long may the Sons of Anacreon intwine The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine.
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“SYMPATHY FOR PRESIDENT EVIL”
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Please allow me to introduce myself I’m a man of stealth and haste I’ve been around for 70-odd year Drove many a man’s soul to waste
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And I was ’round when Jeb Bush Had his moment of doubt and pain Made damn sure that Putin Washed his hands and sealed my fate
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Pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name But what’s puzzling you Is the nature of my game
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Hung around St. Petersburg When I saw it was time to make some cha-ching change Killed Bill Maher – God, I’m so sinister Hillary Clinton screamed in vain
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Rode a Russian tank Slept with a Moscow skank When the trolling raged And the voting staged
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Pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name, oh yeah Ah, what’s puzzling you Is the nature of my game, oh yeah (Woo woo, woo woo)
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I watched with glee While poor Hillary Fought me on the stage Against the bill of goods I made (Woo woo, woo woo)
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I shouted out, Who allowed such an obscenity? When after all Was my base & nazi tv (Who who, who who)
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Let me please introduce myself I’m a man of stealth and waste I ensnare FOX-TV carnivors Whose brains are baked before reaching Tampa Bay (Woo woo, who who)
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Pleased to meet you Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah (Who who) But what’s puzzling you Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, Trumperzzz (Who who, who who)
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Pleased to meet you Must confess my true aim, oh yeah I’m all about confusing you Cause, that’s just the nature of my game (Woo woo, who who)
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Just as the GOP is truly criminal And all my base are shits As heads is tails Just call me Crucifier ‘Cause, shit, I’m in need of real restraint (Who who, who who)
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So if you meet me Have some courtesy Have some sympathy, and some taste (Woo woo) Use all your earnest liberal politick Or I’ll turn your soul into utter waste, mm yeah (Woo woo, woo woo)
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Pleased to meet you Trust you know my fame, mm yeah (Who who) What’s that you’re all guzzling To blot out the existence of my name – get down (Woo woo, woo woo)
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Woo, who Oh yeah, get on down, Trumperzzz Oh yeah Oh yeah! Bump-bump-bump-bump-bump-bump — bump-bump-bump-bump-bump (Woo woo)
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Tell me Hillary, what’s my name Tell me Hillary, where’s my shame Tell me Hillary, what’s my game Tell me Hillary, who’s to blame
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Oh, who Woo, woo Woo, who Woo, woo Woo, who, who [x2] Oh, yeah
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What’s my name Tell me, Trumperzzz, where’s your shame Tell me, Gumperzzz, you’re all to blame.
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“HOW MUCH LONGER CAN ‘MEAT LOAF’ HANG ON?”
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Trump is reduced to twitter.
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That sums up his power.
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His former “guru”, Steve Bannon, has admitted that the Trump “Presidency” is OVER!
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Trump will now go through a series of “cameo” appearances.
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Signifying nothing and meaning little, if anything.
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Hell, life goes on — but NOT the Trump Presidency!
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Robert Mueller is in the wings waiting for just the right moment to –
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Swoop down and sweep the Trump presidency out of existence!
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Don’t assume that Mike Pence will pick up where “Meat Loaf” left off.
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Pence is in up to his eyeballs in complicity, duplicity & multiplicity!
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Baby Boy, Paul Ryan, is not ready for much of anything!
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No, this “hot potato” will probably land in the octagenerian’s lap — yep, you guessed it — The 80-year Mormon Senator from Utah that can barely stay awake while in the Senate – Senator Orrin Hatch!
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Trump & Pence Are Now The Designated INSANE CLOWN POSSE
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We’ll Now Call’em The JUGGALOS!
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They’re INSANE, THEY’RE CLOWNS & DEFINITELY & Walking-Talking CONSPIRACY — A Conspiracy Against The True Moral Fiber Of This Republic!
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Just Like Their Fucking Supporters!
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No Matter, Robert Mueller Will Make Quick Work Of These Bozos!
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Get Those Subpoenas Ready & Take Your Pardons & Shove’em Up Your A-Hole, Trump!
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“TRUMP CAN’T GET NO LEGISLATION” —-> 2 Different “Versions” For You BELOW
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I can’t get no —- legislation —- just get stuck with litigation But I try & I try & I try & I try I can’t get no, I can’t get no
When I’m drivin’ my golf cart & Paul Ryan comes on the radio Tellin’ me more and more, about some lameduck legislation Supposed to rile my imagination
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I can’t get no, —- no, no, no, — hey, hey, hey That’s what I say
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I can’t get no —- legislation, —- all I get is —- constipation But I try & I try & I try & I try I can’t get no, I can’t get no
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When I’m watchin’ FOX TV & Ms. Bimbo comes on shilling me How ORANGE my HAIR can be That I ain’t a real man ’cause i don’t snort Some smack like Sean Hannity
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I can’t get no, —- no, no, no, —- hey, hey, hey That’s what I say
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I can’t get no —- legislation, —- no hollywood access —- media retraction But I try & I try & I try & I try I can’t get no, I can’t get no
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When I’m flyin’ round the world & I’m doin’ this & I’m signin’ that Chasin’ down Comrade Putin, who tells me Trumpy better come back, maybe next week Can’t you see Little Trumpy, you’re on a losing streak!
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I can’t get no, —- no, no, no, —- hey, hey, hey That’s what I say —- I can’t get no —- I can’t get no I can’t get no —- legislation, —- only litigation & more constipation —- how ’bout some fluoridation
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fluoridation, fluoridation, no more taxation, i’ll sue for defamation, yeah, that’s it — defamation, defamation, hell, maybe time for —- liquidation! —- liquidation —- liquidation
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“MUELLER, MUELLER – HOPE YOU DON’T BECOME OLD YELLER”
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Like that 1957 Walt Disney Movie, “Old Yeller”, will we see history repeated with a force for good and decency (Robert Mueller) falling on the “sword” while standing between the rest of us and pure “evil” – (Trump)
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Mueller has at least 16 highly ranked prosecutorial-type legal professionals on his staff, the entire Criminal Investigations unit of the Internal Revenue Service and just recently the original draft letter that Trump wrote back in the Spring to justify the firing of James Comey as head of the FBI.
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Mueller also has the full reins to chase down all of the voluminous money trails that flow from Trump and lead all the way back to Mother Russia.
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With so much potential exposure how much longer can Trump remain on the sidelines without doing what he does best, firing folks! Mueller is going after Trump and his finances and his family connections as well. For Mueller, there is no red line, no line that is not to be crossed. His mandate is far-flung and wide. Anything that flows from the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion and/or which is conceivably derivative thereof is his working purview.
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The flashpoint will surely come from the recent disclosure that Bob Mueller now has in his possession the original “draft” letter Trump wrote to show the reasons that FBI Dir. James Comey needed to be fired. That letter must really be shocking for Trump’s White House lawyer, Don McGahn, to put the kibosh on who strenuously reminded Trump that he could not fire an FBI Director with that kind of a letter using that kind of language.
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That letter was, however, passed on to acting Deputy FBI Director, Rod Rosenstein, who then wrote a parallel letter justifying the removal of Comey. Rosenstein merely pinned the blame on the mishandling of Hillary’s emails by Comey as the real motivation behind the necessity for Comey’s removal. As a result, Rosenstein himself has been drawn into the conspiracy – the conspiracy to be a party to what, for all intents and purposes, is obstruction of justice. To have knowledge of any wrongdoing transacted at such a high level and yet look away or shunt it aside and then proceed to write a “sanitized” version for dismissing Comey draws Rosenstein full-on into Trump’s duplicity.
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Rosenstein may have rehabilitated himself by soon thereafter appointing Robert Mueller as Special Counsel when he saw the legitimate need to put in place a firewall to rein in Trump and ensure that the Russia probe would proceed as intended. However, now Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained a copy of the original “draft” letter written by Trump and has no doubt pieced together the scenario of events involving Trump, Trump’s White House Counsel, Don McGahn and Deputy FBI Director, Rod Rosenstein in the handling of James Comey’s dismissal.
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What Mueller makes of all of this must have Trump on edge and on a hair-trigger status.
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Ostensibly, Rosenstein has Mueller’s back. Or does he? Or does it even matter. At the moment, there is a new FBI Director, Christopher Wray, who during his confirmation hearing duly vowed to run the FBI independently of the White House. We shall see.
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It is now probably the case that Mueller needs to be able to “pass off” as much of his evidentiary findings as possible to some of the relevant state attorney generals who can then continue the Trump-Russia probe on a state level should Trump hand out pardons to folks like Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen & Felix Sater. While Trump can pardon folks on the federal level this power has no standing on the state level and thus states are free to pursue these matters without any interference from any such possible pardons.
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Will Mueller succumb in the end to the rabid wolf – Trump – like Old Yeller did in Disney’s 1957 movie classic. If so, hopefully, like Old Yeller, Mueller can amass enough damaging evidence against Trump before he himself finally gets “canned” & thereby lateral everything over to the states to go in for the final kill of Trump & his administration.
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“IT’S CLUSTERFUCK CITY NOW FOR TRUMP & RUSSIA”
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Ok, let’s just quickly mention Paul Manafort, Trump Campaign Mgr. in 2016. He’s got his hands in the Russian “till” and then some. He’s been on somebody’s payroll over in Russia & Ukraine for years now. At last count he’s up to north of $40-million in payments from these sources. Since 2000 he’s bought several properties in Trump Tower and one in Ft. Lauderdale for ALL-CASH! He Then turns around and places them in an LLC and then takes out a LOAN on the very properties that he paid for with ALL-CASH! Can you say Money Laundering, Boys & Girls!
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Let’s Now move right on to the Center Stage with Michael Cohen, Trump’s Personal Lawyer AND Felix Sater, Trump’s erstwhile business associate operating out of Trump Tower. To be very clear from the beginning, both of these gentlemen made their way to Trump’s doorstop CIRCA 2000/20001. Okay. They’ve been “associated” with the ORANGE ONE going on 17-years now, okay???
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NOW — Michael Cohen, like Paul Manafort, bought multiple properties in Trump Tower and other Trump New York highrises. Cohen was a solo operating personal injury lawyer and could still afford to buy high-priced condo units like these. He and his brother, also a lawyer, then joined a small boutique New York law firm as a partner – Phillips Nizer, but stayed for less than a year. What he brought to the firm other than personal injury expertise is hardly a reason to join or be asked to join such a legal firm.
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He purchased his first Trump apartment at Trump World Tower at 845 United Nations Plaza in 2001. He was so impressed he convinced his parents, his in-laws and a business partner to buy there, too. Cohen’s in-laws went on [to] purchase two more units there and one at Trump Grande in Sunny Isles, Fla.
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Cohen then bought at Trump Palace at 200 E. 69th St., and Trump Park Avenue, where he currently resides. He’s currently in the process of purchasing a two-bedroom unit at Trump Place on Riverside Boulevard – so, naturally, Cohen’s next step is to purchase something at Trump Plaza Jersey City. He’s now in negotiations for a two-bedroom unit there.
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Now, let’s privot on over to Felix Sater. In 2001, Sater joined Bayrock, a real estate development company run by FSU emigres in Trump Tower, and eventually began working directly with Donald Trump. Sater and Bayrock were supplying Trump with income during a period when his other investments had been suffering.
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The money spigot was apparent to all. In a 2008 deposition, Sater even testified that, upon Trump’s request, he accompanied Donald Jr. and Ivanka on business trips to the FSU. Donald Jr. would later declare that the region had become the family’s main source of investment.
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Now ——>
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While Sater was moving up in the Trump orbit, Cohen’s status as a mysterious Trump real estate mega-investor of uncertain wealth and an undistinguished legal practice changed, seemingly overnight.
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In 2006, the year before he went to work fulltime for Trump, Cohen suddenly went big-time, becoming, briefly, a partner at a prominent New York firm, Phillips Nizer, where, according to a profile, “he counted [Trump] as one of his many high-profile wealthy clients.”
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He was then offered a job by the developer. The reason? “I suspect,” Cohen said, “he was impressed with both my handling of matters as well as the results.”
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Now ——>
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Thus we see a fascinating pattern in which two childhood acquaintances began entering the Trump orbit at the same time, circa 2000-2001 (with Cohen making his extraordinary string of Trump property purchases and Sater moving into business in Trump Tower) and, by 2007, both were working near each other inside the Trump empire itself.
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Now ——>
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In September 2007, Trump, Sater and another partner – Felix Tevfik (another Russian-born individual, like Sater himself) – posed for a photo at the opening of their Trump SoHo Hotel in New York.
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The celebration would be brief. In December, the Times revealed that Sater had a criminal past.
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This potentially put Trump in a very difficult spot. If Trump were to admit that he knew Sater was a convicted felon but did business with him nonetheless, he, the Trump Organization, and anyone within the company who knew of it would be potentially liable for sky-high sums.
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Now ——>
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Bayrock unraveled. Trump SoHo went into foreclosure in 2013, after just three years of operation, leaving a slew of unoccupied units in the hands of a new developer. It was the firm’s final deal. As is now well known,Trump, who would later claim to barely know Sater, kept him on in the building and, if anything, he and Sater grew even closer. Indeed, Sater was soon working directly for Trump himself, with an office, business cards, phone number and email address all provided by the Trump Organization. The cards identified him as a “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump.”
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In this period, Trump Organization activities in the countries of the former Soviet Union appear to have accelerated.
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Republics of Kazakhstan and Georgia. It’s worth noting that Bayrock had earlier received large infusions of cash from the ultra-corrupt Kazakhstan, and other funds from Georgia, also awash in ill-gotten fortunes.
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In 2013, leading up to the Russian-hosted winter Olympics in Sochi, a close Putin ally reached out to Trump.
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Aras Agalarov, an Azerbaijani billionaire real estate developer with Russian citizenship who is known as the “Donald Trump of Russia,” paid Trump millions of dollars to bring Trump’s Miss Universe Pageant to Moscow.
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As Trump’s relationship to the former Soviet Union intensified, so, seemingly, did Russian interest in the American political system and the presidency.
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In 2014, we now know, US intelligence secretly identified what it determined was a Russian effort to sow doubt and chaos in the US elections system.
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By then, Trump was widely recognized for his long-standing presidential ambitions — he ran for the office as a Reform Party candidate in 2000, garnering more than 15,000 votes in the California primary before abruptly dropping out. The Russians understood that he also had mass appeal, and a personality, temperament and history associated with provoking strong and divisive reactions.
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By February, 2015, Trump had already recruited staff in early voting states; a month later, he formed a presidential exploratory committee and delayed the production of “The Apprentice,” the still-running reality television show that established Trump as a pop culture icon in the mid-2000s. Trump officially announced his candidacy for president on June 16, 2015.
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To sum up, Trump’s financial fortunes seem — both by appearance and by statements from the Trumps themselves — to have been heavily dependent on money from the former Soviet Union. Besides the Cohen retinue buying at least 11 apartments in Trump buildings, the money that came in through Felix Sater was also from the FSU.
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How much of the funds that kept Trump’s shaky financial empire afloat in those lean years had its origins in the part of the world dominated by the Kremlin? Well, how much did not? Even Donald Trump, Jr. declared in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
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As for Trump, he has repeatedly tweeted and declared that he has no loans “from Russia” and no “deals” in Russia. While that may be technically true, what’s more important is that money that originated in the FSU has played a crucial role in his business career. The “art of the deal” seems to be about knowing people who need to move money, and getting them to move it through you.
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Sater appears to have been an FBI asset for many years, including at least some of the years when Cohen was working with Trump.
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Sater denied to WhoWhatWhy that any of his reports to the FBI from Trump Tower concerned organized crime figures in Russia, and asserted that he had never even heard of Mogilevich, though his own father was said to be a Mogilevich underling.
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In any case, the FBI agents running Sater were extremely focused on the FSU underworld. It is likely that they would take an interest in the partner of Cohen’s in-law, and all the partner’s ties to organized crime. And they would surely have been interested in how Donald Trump fit into this underworld web all around him.
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Yet Cohen remained mostly out of the public eye, even as myriad Trump associates (including Manafort) ended up in the hot seat for their business dealings in the FSU.
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That changed with the report of the January 27, 2017, meeting between Cohen, Sater and Ukrainian politician Andrii V. Artemenko at a luxury hotel in New York.
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The three men discussed a proposed Russia-Ukraine peace agreement that would result in the lifting of economic sanctions against Russia. Artemenko told The New York Times that Cohen delivered the proposal to Michael Flynn, who was then Trump’s national security advisor. Cohen has told different stories about his role, but in one interview he confirmed that he delivered a bundle of documents containing the proposal to Flynn’s office while Flynn was still part of the Trump administration. Cohen has insisted he was not aware of any Kremlin involvement.
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In bragging about his role in getting such material into the White House, Artemenko comes across as clumsy and artless, seemingly oblivious to how devastating the revelation could have been to Trump had the media and, say, influential congressmen made more of it. But was he naive? Or was this actually a House of Cards-type scenario, where the Russians were deliberately publicizing another bit of incriminating material on Trump in order to gain yet more leverage over him and control over his fate?
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The Artemenko “peace plan” was — importantly — accompanied by documents that purported to reveal corruption on the part of Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, which could be used to weaken (and potentially topple) the Ukrainian regime led by an enemy of Putin.
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Although Felix Sater was present at the meeting as a supposed intermediary, he wouldn’t have been needed for that. Artemenko had known Cohen for years. Cohen’s brother’s father-in-law was, as mentioned earlier, tied to Artemenko through business. Artemenko was also closely tied to Topolov, the allegedly money-laundering Ukrainian politician in business with Oronov, Bryan Cohen’s father-in-law. (Oronov died March 2 after suffering from what Bryan Cohen described to WhoWhatWhy as an “incredibly aggressive” cancer diagnosed three months earlier.)
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Artemenko said that his Russia-Ukraine sanctions proposal had been discussed with Cohen and Sater back during the primaries in early 2016, just as Trump was emerging as the front-runner.
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Why would Cohen go to such a meeting? It seems crazy. But then the Trump team’s defining trait has been its reckless bravado, and a brash disregard for troubling appearances.
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As for Artemenko’s seemingly bumbling admission about the meeting, it is reminiscent of the “indiscretion” of Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US, who went to the Republican convention to meet with Manafort about softening the GOP’s stance toward Russia. Although Trump and Manafort vigorously denied it, Kislyak then went public with his own account of the meeting.
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In the complex game being played by Putin, with Russia’s (and Putin’s) future at stake, Trump seems to have been cornered into a precarious dependence on Russian “good will.” As we noted months ago, the FBI has long known much of this. What former FBI director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller will do about it remains to be seen.
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“WHO IS FELIX SATER? — TRUMP’S RUSSIAN MONEY MAN!”
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WHO Is Felix Sater? He was a very close business associate of Donald J. Trump. He was, until recently, a “principal” of an investment firm, Bayrock Capital, which was located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower, two floors below Donald Trump’s office – located on the 26th floor.
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Sater was, until recently, one of the FBI’s most coveted counter-intelligence assets who for years reported back to the FBI on a daily basis and provided that organization with critical foreign intelligence information, information that was in turn passed on to the CIA.
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WHAT Is Felix Sater? He is a financial/investment “facilitator” for Donald Trump. Felix’s father, Mikhail, was a lieutenant (or soldier) in the Simeon Mogilevich Russian crime family, the largest such criminal organization in the world. In addition, Felix Sater knows numerous individuals throughout Russia, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakistan, et al. who are from the criminal/underworld. There is money galore that needs to be spirited out of Mother Russia and sent overseas to be cleaned (or “laundered”).
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WHEN Did Felix Sater enter into the picture and become involved with Donald Trump in the first place? Felix Sater was convicted in 1999 for investor fraud but the court records were sealed and the actual sentencing was delayed for almost a decade. It was felt that Mr. Sater was of such high value to the United States government that he should be put in a special protected status. He was free to operate without any public record of a criminal past. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Sater – sometime between 2000-2002 – made the acquaintance of Donald J. Trump.
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WHY Was Felix Sater an associate of Donald Trump? It was common knowledge in the New York metropolitan area that Donald Trump would do business with virtually anyone, including those with dubious, suspect backgrounds, criminal or otherwise. Mr. Sater, as a New Yorker, was pretty much cognizant of this and because he was connected with Russian entities and individuals with mountains of Russian cash that needed to be “cleaned” – (laundered) – he knew that a man like Trump could be used to funnel all of these ill-gotten gains into Trump’s organization and get parked (or hidden) in real estate assets.
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HOW Did Felix Sater become an associate of Donald Trump? Felix Sater and his Bayrock business partner, another fellow Russian, Tevfik Arif, approached Trump early on and presented Trump with an offer that he could not refuse. The two Bayrock business partners offered to fund Trump’s investment organization with a billion dollars worth of capital to acquire investment properties. In exchange, Trump would not have to reciprocate back with anything, not even one thin dime. Not only that but any profits that ensued from these investments would provide Trump with a guaranteed 18% return.
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There you have it – Felix Sater – the man in the middle – the man that literally saved Trump financially and is now being “groomed” by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel team to possibly take the Trumpster down – down to the ground. Sater is facing prison time, now that the Feds have caught up to him and his role in Donald Trump’s business affairs. Sater will most likely not take the fall for Trump but will instead cut a deal for himself to “rat” out Trump and thereby save himself from a very long prison stint.
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Trump, you’ll have to resign and then pray to God that Mike Pence gives you a presidential pardon, just like Gerald Ford did to Richard Nixon!
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