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Did Trump obstruct justice? Brookings has just published an extensive report supporting the argument.

brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
‘even more strongly supports that the president obstructed justice under ordinary application of the relevant criminal law. It is no wonder the president’s lawyers reportedly do not want him to undergo live questioning about obstruction by Mueller’ 2/3
From: ‘Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump’

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1. Let’s see what Mnuchin is up to... Oh, he sent the market into a tailspin by calling an unnecessary emergency meeting Christmas Eve.

But there is more here than meets the eye. Let me explain.

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2. Mnuchin Blames Volcker Rule for market volatility, which makes no sense, since the rule was in place during Obama and no volatilty.

The Volker rule essentially prevents banks from speculating that might be harmful to customers.

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Hillary Clinton wanted to strengthen the Volker rule and was also going to propose a high-frequency trading tax.

Which would make Hedge Fund companies (like Mercer’s) a little miserable.

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‘Trump administration is weighing Afghan troop withdrawal’

•Mattis leaving
•US pulling out of Syria

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Putin is following the ‘Foundations of Geopolitics.’ In the book, Dugin calls for ‘strategic control of the United States’ and calls Russia the ‘staging area of an anti-American revolution.’ Dugin called for the weakening of ‘liberal values.’

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For this plan to work: ‘Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook believes in a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services’
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1. This secret grand jury case is possibly Mueller’s and the court documents make reference to it being a company ‘owned by Country A.’ This limits which company it might be. Vnesheconombank (VEB) is a Russian government-owned bank.

talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/appe…
As per the New York Times (2017) VEB is ‘intertwined with Russian intelligence.’

It’s also the Bank that met secretly with Kushner and helped finance Trump’s Toronto hotel.

businessinsider.com/russian-vneshe…
Deutsche Bank and Alfa Bank are not state-owned. Cambridge Analytica and it’s related entities (SCL, AIQ) are located in other countries, but not state-owned.

This is also the case where the entire floor was cleared.

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Exclusive: Brookings has a Huawei problem. Between July 2016 and June 2018, Huawei gave at least $300,000 to Brookings, via FutureWei Technologies, Inc., a U.S.-based subsidiary of the company. (thread).
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/…
In October 2017, Brookings published a report entitled Benefits and Best Practices
of Safe City Innovation. The report praised Huawei technology -- and was funded by Huawei.
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The Brookings Vice President who wrote the report, Darrell M. West, has spoken at several Huawei events. Right after the report came out, he presented its findings at a Huawei conference. www-file.huawei.com/-/media/corpor…
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More thoughts on the Bennhold piece on bitter East German men and the rise of Germany's hard right: this piece has a lot of resonance with what's going on here. (Am I trying to do something besides worry about tonight? Why, yes) 1/ nytimes.com/2018/11/05/wor…
The US also has a lot of stranded men in declining regions. Austin, Glaeser and Summers had a very interesting piece on this, showing high rates of prime-age men not working in Greater Appalachia 2/ brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
These are also areas that went for Trump, bigly. So there are commonalities with German experience. Meanwhile, the concentration of high-end economic activity in places that are already doing well continues 3/ nytimes.com/2018/11/05/tec…
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Without diving into this particular case, this type of attorney letter is a stall tactic when you think you're going to lose on the merits
The latter. Assume this were a run-of-the-mill Title VII case; typically Plaintiff's attorneys strike at the point they have maximum leverage, which Ford had. You delay when you hope some external event will turn up useful info instead

She may very well be telling the truth. But the FBI is not going to investigate, because even if we assume she's telling the 100% truth, there's no *federal* crime that took place. It's a dodge.

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"#Macroprudential policies could be increased to enhance the resilience of the financial system" brookings.edu/research/finan… in "Financial conditions and GDP growth-at-risk" Adrian, Liang, et al. @BrookingsInst @IMFNews
GaR: "growth at risk" and general equilibrium models with macrofinancial linkages brookings.edu/wp-content/upl… @BrookingsInst @IMFNews @MacroFinanceSoc Liang, Adrian, et al
"A structural model would be needed to evaluate how #macroprudential policies could be used to affect GaR. In aspiration, #macroprudential policies could aim to tighten financial conditions when conditional expected growth and GaR are relatively high ... " brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
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1) And the buzzword of the day from the left is 'Obstruction!' Wait, haven't they tried this one before?
2) Oh, yep, they have. washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
3) Repeatedly politico.com/magazine/story…
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1/3 The President's lawyer apparently argues that a president cannot obstruct justice. That is quite simply wrong as a matter of law, as @NormEisen, @BarryBerke, & I explained in great detail. brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
2/3 Whether a president can be prosecuted criminally while in office is an open question, as we acknowledge. We argue that he likely can be, but that is not fully resolved.
3/3 But there is no real question that a president can be guilty of obstruction of justice & can face consequences for it. In fact, obstruction of justice was a basis for articles of impeachment against both Presidents Nixon & Clinton.
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