US Politics Mega-thread - Page 1468

On May 19 2019 08:57 Introvert wrote:
And I told you Amash is not a neutral person. In fact his kind basically doesnt exist outside the US at all, at least if the European posters here are to be believed.

On May 19 2019 10:18 Simberto wrote:
Libertarians i guess?

On May 19 2019 08:32 KwarK wrote:

Orwell would be proud of this amazing new world.

For those who aren't keeping track, non-crime means crime now.

On May 19 2019 09:03 Introvert wrote:


Yes, he's been anti Trump since the primary. I didnt say he was a bad Republican (yet), it's a big tent. But this event in no way portends anything else. maybe if he ran for president as a libertarian (as is a rumor) he'd win a few percent more in his own district than the nation at large.

On May 19 2019 15:09 RvB wrote:

That's because the people from Europe who post here are mostly from the left. They also think Sanders would be centre left in Europe (something which I would disagree with). There are plenty of libertarians / classical liberals in Europe but it's a minority ( like in the US I guess).

On May 19 2019 15:09 RvB wrote:

That's because the people from Europe who post here are mostly from the left. They also think Sanders would be centre left in Europe (something which I would disagree with). There are plenty of libertarians / classical liberals in Europe but it's a minority ( like in the US I guess).

On May 19 2019 16:44 Nebuchad wrote:


"Classical liberal" is one of those weasel terms that the right in America is fond of. Most people in Europe are liberals and that definitely means something else than it does in the US, but that also means something else than what Americans mean when they say classical liberal, which is basically "dishonest conservative". The framing is that the US is shifting to the left so hard that what we call conservative now would be what we called liberal xx years ago, and that's, quite simply, a lie. Liberal tradition comes from Smith and Locke, conservative tradition comes from Burke. Burke was already saying that while capitalism wasn't the best system it could be used and/or abused to maintain the systems of power that conservatives want maintained, so in a sense by pretending to be liberals when they're not the classical liberals are in full burkean tradition.

Libertarianism, I can't recall ever meeting someone who fits that definition in Europe. As co-opted by the rightwing, it's an incoherent position. So, good. Glad that we don't see a lot of those.

Sanders himself... I don't think he would be center left in Europe. Sanders' policies as they are now would be center left, but I tend to think he's further to the left than what he says and he tones it down because of the political climate of the US. He wouldn't have to do that in Europe. But typically when people say that Sanders would be center left in Europe they mean his policies and his policies as expressed today are very milquetoast socdem.

On May 19 2019 10:27 Introvert wrote:


Yes.

On May 19 2019 15:09 RvB wrote:

That's because the people from Europe who post here are mostly from the left. They also think Sanders would be centre left in Europe (something which I would disagree with). There are plenty of libertarians / classical liberals in Europe but it's a minority ( like in the US I guess).

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be reported to a federal financial-crimes watchdog.

The transactions, some of which involved Mr. Trump’s now-defunct foundation, set off alerts in a computer system designed to detect illicit activity, according to five current and former bank employees. Compliance staff members who then reviewed the transactions prepared so-called suspicious activity reports that they believed should be sent to a unit of the Treasury Department that polices financial crimes.

But executives at Deutsche Bank, which has lent billions of dollars to the Trump and Kushner companies, rejected their employees’ advice. The reports were never filed with the government.

In the summer of 2016, Deutsche Bank’s software flagged a series of transactions involving the real estate company of Mr. Kushner, now a senior White House adviser.

Ms. McFadden, a longtime anti-money laundering specialist in Deutsche Bank’s Jacksonville office, said she had reviewed the transactions and found that money had moved from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals. She concluded that the transactions should be reported to the government — in part because federal regulators had ordered Deutsche Bank, which had been caught laundering billions of dollars for Russians, to toughen its scrutiny of potentially illegal transactions.

After Mr. Trump became president, transactions involving him and his companies were reviewed by an anti-financial crime team at the bank called the Special Investigations Unit. That team, based in Jacksonville, produced multiple suspicious activity reports involving different entities that Mr. Trump owned or controlled, according to three former Deutsche Bank employees who saw the reports in an internal computer system.

Some of those reports involved Mr. Trump’s limited liability companies. At least one was related to transactions involving the Donald J. Trump Foundation, two employees said.

Deutsche Bank ultimately chose not to file those suspicious activity reports with the Treasury Department, either, according to three former employees. They said it was unusual for the bank to reject a series of reports involving the same high-profile client.

On May 20 2019 02:08 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
While looking for money laundering, Deutsche Bank personnel reported suspicious activity on Kushner's and Trump's transactions . But the higher-ups did nothing with the reports. The person reporting got side-lined and let go.





NYT

Just waiting for the Trump confirm-the-story-but-also-call-it-fake-news tweet. And maybe a 'joking' racial smear since the person most quoted in the article is POC.

On May 20 2019 02:40 GreenHorizons wrote:


I mean knowingly and intentionally doing business with Deutsche Bank, even if 100% legal, is still pretty despicable from my perspective (and always has been practically speaking). That Deutsche Bank continues to exist today is an indictment of capitalism imo.

On the campaign trail, rivals assailed Mr. Trump’s financial history. In response, he pointed to Deutsche Bank-funded successes like the Old Post Office project, now a gleaming hotel a few blocks from the White House.

In early 2016, Mr. Trump asked Ms. Vrablic for one final loan, for his golf course in Turnberry, Scotland.

Ms. Vrablic said yes, but a fight soon erupted.

Jacques Brand, who was in charge of Deutsche Bank’s American businesses, angrily objected, partly because of Mr. Trump’s divisive rhetoric.

Ms. Vrablic appealed the decision. Senior executives in Frankfurt, including Christian Sewing, who would become chief executive in 2018, were shocked that the private bank would consider lending Mr. Trump money during the campaign, bank officials said.

The bank’s reputational risk committee killed the transaction in March 2016.

That same month, as The Times was preparing an article about Mr. Trump’s excommunication from Wall Street, he cited his warm relationship with Deutsche Bank.

“They are totally happy with me,” he said to The Times. “Why don’t you call the head of Deutsche Bank? Her name is Rosemary Vrablic. She is the boss.”