Is Trumpโ€™s GOP A Criminal Enterprise?

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Ever since Trump was elected U.S. President in November 2016, many Americans have wrestled with the question as to whether he is being unduly influenced by Russiaโ€™s President Vladimir Putin. The question of Russiaโ€™s influence over Trump grew into a crescendo prompting the launching of a formal investigation (Mueller probe) to look into whether Trumpโ€™s campaign colluded with Russia in 2016.

Even though the official finding of the Mueller probe was that there was not enough evidence to prove that TeamTrump colluded with Russia, questions about Trumpโ€™s ties to Russia have persisted, partly because Mueller never completely shut that door. Remember, Mueller never concluded that TeamTrump never colluded with Russia. What he said was that he never collected enough evidence to prove it. One of the key witnesses he had relied on to prove his case, Paul Manafort, totally stonewalled his investigation.

Beyond Trumpโ€™s strange ties to Russia, a lot of Americans have also been confounded by the extreme measures congressional Republicans have taken and continue to take, all in an effort to shield President Trump from any congressional oversight. This has led a lot of people to validly speculate that congressional Republicans are privy to some wrongdoings (potentially criminal) by Trump, and have made a conscious decision to hide this from the publicโ€“which has given rise to this notion that Trumpโ€™s GOP is a criminal enterprise.

Yours Truly raised this very question way back in August 2018 in a blog post titled Proof That Congressional Republicans Have Become A Criminal Enterprise, a post which you probably summarily dismissed as โ€œyet another conspiracy theoryโ€ pushed by โ€œradical liberal @Emolclause.โ€ The blog post was based on an August 27, 2018 piece by Jonathan Chait of the Intelligencer, which made the bombshell revelation that congressional Republicans had essentially sworn to shield from any oversight, a list of things they figured would be harmful to Trumpโ€™s presidency. Some of the items in GOPโ€™s shield-at-all-costs list included surprise surprise, Trumpโ€™s tax returns, Trumpโ€™s family business, White house clearances, and shockingly, issues dealing with election security/Russians hacking our elections.

Any reasonable person reading this bombshell Intelligencer piece would have concluded as Yours Truly did, that congressional Republicans had not only become a criminal enterprise, but that they were certainly not working in the interests of the American people.

A lot has transpired since August 2018 and what many of you summarily dismissed as โ€œwild conspiracy theories by radical @Emolclauseโ€ is now playing out right in front of our very eyes. It has become impossible to continue assuming that congressional Republicans are just naively defending Trump. Many are now starting to to state publicly that Trumpโ€™s GOP has indeed become a criminal enterprise.

There are many reasons as to why people have become more comfortable in publicly calling Trumpโ€™s GOP a criminal enterprise but the best reason by far is the shocking conduct we witnessed during the recent impeachment hearings, when Republican members of congress, in an effort to defend Trump, kept repeating a debunked conspiracy theory pushed by Russian intelligence officials, that it was Ukraine who interfered with our 2016 elections. This shocking behavior by congressional Republicans drew sharp rebuke from Trumpโ€™s former adviser on Russia, Dr Fiona Hill, who castigated them to their faces, telling them they were doing Putinโ€™s work.

Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris(CA) is no longer biting her tongue either regarding this topic and recently called Republicans a โ€œcriminal enterpriseโ€ on CBSโ€™ Steven Colbert show, an assertion she gladly repeated on her Twitter account.

For the record, neither the Intelligencer nor Yours Truly were the first to start labelling Trumpโ€™s GOP a criminal enterprise. Shining lights like Author Sarah Kendzior were already warning about this right after Trump won the electionโ€“an assertion many in the mainstream media dismissed. Just today the aforementioned Sarah Kendzior stopped by MSNBCโ€™s AMJoy show where she dropped this bombshell totally in keeping with her previous warnings.

Bottom line folks, we cannot keep kicking the can down the road over the very serious queston as to whether sitting Republican members of congress are engaged in some kind of criminal conspiracy with a hostile foreign power(Russia). Thereโ€™s enough smoke at this juncture for Democrats and indeed the mainstream media to start publicly asking the question Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently posed to President Trump and that is, why all Trumpโ€™s/GOPโ€™s roads seem to lead to Russia, and more importantly, what is so rotten with their Russia dealings that they are terrified of the public finding out?

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Signs Of Russian Money Laundering In Trumpโ€™s Inauguration

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An interesting Rachel Maddow segment points out that a guilty plea by GOP Lobbyist Samuel Patten in the ongoing TrumpRussia investigation raises new troubling questions about the mysterious money flow surrounding Trumpโ€™s 2017 inauguration.

Maddow has previously reported extensively on the strange money flow surrounding Trumpโ€™s inauguration but the latest guilty plea by the said GOP operative provides specific details that take allegations of Russian money laundering at Trumpโ€™s inauguration way beyond the speculative level. As a matter of fact, details of Pattenโ€™s plea deal speak to a slam-dunk Russian money laundering scheme.

Hereโ€™s how the Russian money funneling scheme played out. GOP operative Sam Patten has a shell company in DC. Patten got a yet unnamed U.S. citizen to โ€œdonateโ€ $50,000 to Trumpโ€™s inaugural committee. Pattenโ€™s shell company then reimbursed the unnamed U.S. citizen the $50,000. A Ukrainian with ties to a prominent Russian oligarch and who is also at the center of the ongoing Manafort case then reimbursed Sam Patten with a $50,000 drawn from a Cypriot bank. Cyprus is a well known haven of Russian money laundering meaning the said $50,000 that flowed into Trumpโ€™s inauguration could well have been laundered money.

There have been a lot of questions especially by Maddow about the whereabouts of the monies raised for Trumpโ€™s inaugurationโ€“an estimated $107 million. Maddow for example questioned why Trumpโ€™s inaugural committee never gave a detailed accounting of how the $107 million came in and what it was spent onโ€“very odd.

With Sam Pattenโ€™s plea deal pointing heavily towards money laundering, expect Natasha Bertrand(Yours Trulyโ€™s MSM fave) and other journalists whoโ€™ve been excellent at TrumpRussia reporting to dig into Trumpโ€™s inaugural committee for answers to serious questions that still linger. For example How many other Patten-like โ€œdonationsโ€  were made to Trumpโ€™s inauguration? Did this money find its way into GOP/RNC coffersโ€“including to GOP members of congress? If so, did GOP/RNC know the source of the funds? As you can see there are numerous questions that need to be answered regarding the mysterious Trump inauguration funds.

Yours Truly recently wrote about how Trumpโ€™s GOP has degenerated into a criminal enterprise and stories like Sam Pattenโ€™s only work to support that argument. Bottom line Dems and the mainstream media must dig into this story to find out how much laundered Russian money has landed into GOP coffers.  Simply put House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell and GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel must be questioned about dirty Russian money flowing into GOP coffers.

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