Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Ho Ho Ho

Bloomberg reported early on Tuesday that Deutsche Bank, the German bank that serves as Trump’s biggest lender, had been forced to submit documents about its client relationship with the president after Mueller issued the bank with a subpoena for information.

  Guardian
You remember Duetsche Bank. The money launderer.
The new revelation makes it clear that Mueller and his team are investigating the president’s financial transactions. It is not clear whether Mueller is interested in the bank accounts because they are connected to the Russia probe or if he is investigating another matter.
Or both. And they could be intertwined.
Mueller’s investigators have, according to previous media reports, examined Russian purchases of Trump-owned apartments, the president’s involvement with Russian associates in a development in SoHo, New York, and the president’s 2008 sale of his Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev.

[...]

The news could also elicit a strong reaction from the president, who has previously said that any attempt to investigate his personal business dealings would go beyond Mueller’s investigative mandate and would represent a “violation”.
Which it wouldn't, since the charging documents that set up the special prosecution explicitly said he was allowed to go into any illegal activity he might find while investigating the Russia connection. But I expect we'll see some screaming tweets all right.  He can't believe Mueller wasn't scared off by the threats.
[T]he development nevertheless represents a significant blow to the president personally and indicates that Mueller is not limiting his probe to Trump campaign officials

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Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser in the White House; her husband, Jared Kushner, who is also a presidential adviser; and Kushner’s mother, Seryl Stadtmauer, are all clients of Deutsche Bank.
I guess Mueller will be issuing lots of subpoenas to the bank. Unless he put them all in one.
Trump owes the bank about $300m in loans that were extended to him before he became president.
And for some reason, they kept loaning him money when no one else would.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Indeed, it appears the subpoena was for the whole stinking family.



UPDATE: This  MAY not be for his personal records.

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