Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tony Stark, Jul 20, 2017.

  1. Tom B

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    #121     Jul 25, 2017
  2. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Well, a cartoon depicts a life long Republican and war hero as a Dem, must be true.

    LMFAO.

    Some of the lawyers that Mueller hired gave money to Dems, a big total of 54000 between them. Trump has given over 300000 to Dems, that's unfair and Trump should fire himself.
     
    #122     Jul 25, 2017
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  3. exGOPer

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    #123     Jul 25, 2017
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  4. jem

    jem

    there you go lying about the argument now to cover up your lies.

    I said she criminally destroyed evidence you lying sack of shit.

    you were the one who tried to excuse here behavior by pointing out the regulation.

    I told you she broke the regulation too.



     
    #124     Jul 26, 2017
  5. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Here we go again with another peer reviewed liar.

    Republican FBI director says that no laws were violated but the resident clown who relies on Kim Dotcom for Seth Rich conspiracy says that laws were broken when nobody was even accused of any crimes - but he would go on and on about unreasonable searches when it comes to Trump's crimes being investigated by his own DOJ.

    Name the statute of this 'criminally' you keep harping about
     
    #125     Jul 26, 2017
  6. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    Senator Grassley sends letter to DOJ regarding DNC, Clinton campaign and Ukraine.

    Annndddd......not it begins. This is going to blow up in liberals faces.

    More at the link:

    https://www.grassley.senate.gov/new...ther-concerns-over-foreign-agent-registration

    VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION
    The Honorable Rod J. Rosenstein
    Deputy Attorney General
    U.S. Department of Justice
    950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
    Washington, D.C. 20530

    Dear Mr. Rosenstein,

    According to news reports, during the 2016 presidential election, “Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump” and did so by “disseminat[ing] documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter…”[1] Ukrainian officials also reportedly “helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.”[2] At the center of this plan was Alexandra Chalupa, described by reports as a Ukrainian-American operative “who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee” and reportedly met with Ukrainian officials during the presidential election for the express purpose of exposing alleged ties between then-candidate Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, and Russia.[3] Politico also reported on a Financial Times story that quoted a Ukrainian legislator, Serhiy Leschenko, saying that Trump’s candidacy caused “Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a U.S. election.”[4]

    Reporting indicates that the Democratic National Committee encouraged Chalupa to interface with Ukrainian embassy staff to “arrange an interview in which Poroshenko [the president of Ukraine] might discuss Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych.”[5] Chalupa also met with Valeriy Chaly, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., and Oksana Shulyar, a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador in March 2016 and shared her alleged concerns about Manafort. Reports state that the purpose of their initial meeting was to “organize a June reception at the embassy to promote Ukraine.” However, another Ukrainian embassy official, Andrii Telizhenko, told Politico that Shulyar instructed him to assist Chalupa with research to connect Trump, Manafort, and the Russians. He reportedly said, “[t]hey were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa” and that “Oksana [Shulyar] was keeping it all quiet…the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa.[6]

    Chalupa’s actions appear to show that she was simultaneously working on behalf of a foreign government, Ukraine, and on behalf of the DNC and Clinton campaign, in an effort to influence not only the U.S voting population but U.S. government officials. Indeed, Telizhenko recalled that Chalupa told him and Shulyar, “f we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trump’s involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.”[7] Later, Chalupa did reportedly meet with staff in the office of Democratic representative Marcy Kaptur to discuss a congressional investigation. Such a public investigation would not only benefit the Hillary Clinton campaign, but it would benefit the Ukrainian government, which, at the time, was working against the Trump campaign. When Politico attempted to ask Rep. Kaptur’s office about the meeting, the office called it a “touchy subject.”

    Aside from the apparent evidence of collusion between the DNC, Clinton campaign, and Ukrainian government, Chalupa’s actions implicate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). As you know, the Committee is planning a hearing on FARA enforcement. Given the public reporting of these activities in support of a foreign government, it is imperative that the Justice Department explain why she has not been required to register under FARA.

    FARA requires individuals to register with the Justice Department if they act, even through an intermediary, “as an agent, representative, employee, or servant” or “in any other capacity” at the behest of a foreign principal, including a foreign political party, for purposes of engagement with a United States official.[8] The registration applies to anyone who attempts to influence a U.S. government official on behalf of a foreign principal in an effort to “formulat[e], adopt[], or chang[e] the domestic or foreign policies of the United States.”[9] As such, the focus of FARA is to require registration for individuals engaged in political or quasi-political activity on behalf of a foreign government. Likewise, an individual whose activities are subject to registration under FARA and who sends informational material “for or in the interest of [a] foreign principal” with the intent or belief that such material will be circulated among at least two persons must transmit the material to the Attorney General no later than 48 hours after actual transmission.[10] Notably, an ongoing failure to register is an ongoing offense.[11]

    According to documents provided to the Committee, the Justice Department required the Podesta Group and Mercury LLC to register under FARA for working on behalf of the Ukrainian government.[12] Their registration was required even though the client, the European Centre for the Modern Ukraine (ECFMU), wrote a letter saying it was not directly or indirectly controlled by the Ukrainian government. That did not matter to the Justice Department because their lobbying activity was not to “benefit commercial interests” of the ECFMU but instead to promote the “political or public interests of a foreign government or foreign political party.” The Justice Department made clear that an individual acting in the political or public interests of a foreign government must register under FARA. As such, because Podesta and Mercury were effectively working on behalf of Ukrainian government interests, they were required to register.

    Unlike that situation where the Podesta Group and Mercury LLC worked for the middleman (EFCMU) and not the Ukrainian government, here Chalupa reportedly worked directly with Ukrainian government officials to benefit Ukraine, lobbying Congress on behalf of Ukraine, and worked to undermine the Trump campaign on behalf of Ukraine and the Clinton campaign. Accordingly, these facts appear to be exactly the type of activity Congress intended to reach with FARA. Please answer the following:
     
    #126     Jul 26, 2017
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  7. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    Hillary Clinton is not in office nor is she a leading candidate for office.Liberals don't care if the Clinton's are investigated again.
     
    #127     Jul 26, 2017
  8. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    Uh...okay. It does also involve the DNC. Do democrats care about the DNC?
     
    #128     Jul 26, 2017
  9. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    The possibility of people working for The DNC being investigated does not bother liberals.The DNC will not go to jail nor will it be our candidate in 2020.Liberals previously worried about Hillary's investigations because we knew she was likely our candidate for 2016,that is no longer the case.Have fun with your investigation.
     
    #129     Jul 26, 2017
  10. Cuddles

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    #130     Jul 26, 2017
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