"Trump granted clemency to private-equity CEO David Gentile—who had just begun serving a seven-year sentence for orchestrating a $1.6bn fraud that diverted investor money to luxury personal expenses—"

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-sunday-evening-news-update

Important Sunday Evening News Update

Good evening everyone.

The Parnas Perspective

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"freeing him less than two weeks after he reported to prison, despite regulators’ findings that thousands of investors lost their savings and ongoing questions about any ties between Gentile and Trump."

#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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Robert Reich features a statement made by former federal judge Mark L. Wolf explaining why he resigned from the federal bench in early November. Wolf states,

"The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable. ...

What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/winner-of-this-weeks-joseph-welch

Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award

For standing up to tyranny. In honor of attorney Joseph Welch, who represented the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of June 1954.

Robert Reich

"After Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, his Department of Justice disbanded its cryptocurrency-enforcement unit. The top 220 buyers of Trump’s cryptocurrency were invited to a dinner with Trump. Sixty-seven of them had invested more than $1 million. The top spender, Justin Sun, who was born in China and is a foreign national, reportedly spent more than $10 million."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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$TRUMP?
STRUMP!!!!
As in STRUMPET?!?!?!?