https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ligarchs-co-signed-trumps-deutsche-bank-loans MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell says he has a source who told him Russian oligarchs signed off loans given to President Trump by Deutsche Bank. Lawyers for the German lender told a federal appeals court Tuesday that the bank has documents sought by Democrat-led House committees, which subpoenaed Deutsche Bank and Capital One for financial records related to Trump, his family, and businesses, but declined to reveal if they have Trump's tax returns. While the New York Times reports Deutsche Bank, which has done business with Trump for two decades, does have some of Trump's personal and corporate tax returns, O'Donnell told colleague Rachel Maddow in the hand-off between their shows Tuesday evening he can go a bit further. "This single source close to Deutsche Bank has told me that the Trump — Donald Trump's loan documents there show that he has co-signers. That's how he was able to obtain those loans. And that the co-signers are Russian oligarchs," he said. A shocked Maddow replied, "What? Really?" "That would explain, it seems to me, every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin, if true, and I stress the 'if true' part of this," O'Donnell added. O'Donnell later said this source told him that Trump's tax returns reveal "he pays little to no income tax in some years." He added that his source said Trump, a longtime real estate businessman, would not have been able to obtain his loans with Deutsche Bank without these co-signers he described as "Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin." "If true," O'Donnell said, "that would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin. If true. If true, that would be a significant factor in Vladimir Putin's publicly stated preference for presidential candidate Donald Trump over presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
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Really? Don’t you think for one second, if there was a shred of credible evidence showing Trump linked to Russia, it would have surfaced long long ago. Specially with the massive amount of money and man hours blown by Mueller and Co. This is just another feeble attempt to steer today’s talking points back to Orange Man bad.
This is what bothers me about this and all media today. They cite a "single source" about something really major but then it never goes any further, no actual evidenced is produced, the single source is never identified and backs up what they said. Single source "close" to DB.... And then the media runs with it for days as though it is 100% factually true. Probably will have it posted under BREAKING NEWS tag. Investigative reporting used to be you investigate and you don't report until you can corraberate and back up and prove. Now a single source can say whatever they want and it gets run all over like a full fact and talked about for hours.
He was careful to stress "single source" repeatedly so it is not as though he sought to exaggerate the claim. Take it for what it is. In any event, someone will be embarrassed in the end, and lose some credibility. Let's see who. P.S. Trump is getting far better treatment from the media than he deserves.
O’Donnell is dumb as hell for pulling this. It won’t matter one way or the other to Trump supporters, they’ll either deny if it is true or willfully ignore it. Where this kind of roughshod journalism hurts is if it is wrong that should had been determined with some shoe leather journalism not in the eye of the public. And, yes, I know O’Donnell is not a journalist, like Sean Hannity, so he is free to say whatever he wants but the network should be responsible for what he puts out there.
Not sure that Biden is feeling peppy about all these efforts to connect the candidates and family to oligarchs/bad actors supporting their business deals. Think Joe and Ukraine/China. Everyone knows that Joe and his son and brother are corruptocrats or will before it is over. Go after Trump if you tards must. It's what's you do. But it will only make trump allies lean into Joe's dealings all the more. AND IT AIN'T PRETTY ALREADY. Not to forget that there is Clinton Foundation/Secretary of State connection investigation in progress, just in time for election season. Yeh. baby! Laissez les bon temps rouler.