1. I'm going to repeat some earlier posts of mine.
The case Trump filed in NY to stop the NYC grand jury was clearly filed in a panic. I don't think they knew about the grand jury until two subpoenas were issued for Trump org and Masars. Case number is a 2018 number so the
2. grand jury has been investigating Trump for at least eight months & started before Barr was confirmed so Mueller could have given them everything under 6(e). The NYC prosecutors had to know Trump would try to stop them so they kept it secret. But they could get Deutchebank's
3. Trump tax returns in secret. I presume they want the one Masars has because it's the one the IRS got. I'm a long time fraud hunting Bankruptcy attorney and I'm betting the returns won't match and will prove Trumps committed bank fraud in addition to false business records.
4. Because NY regulates @DeutscheBankAG if they don't call Trump's note and foreclose on any mortgages they may be exposed to regulatory action.
The hearing on the 25th to me is the single biggest thing so far in all this. And the judge is Clinton appointed born in Puerto Rico
5. who should just throw Trump out on his ear and sanction him. But in any event, dismiss the action as an Anti-Injunction Act violation.
But now Trump knows about the grand jury under their practice he can demand to be a witness. When he doesn't as is likely I think they will
6. indict his organization, his kids and, I'm giving it 50/50, @POTUS is indicted.
And I won't be shocked if 2nd Cir rules against Trump on his tax returns in the week of Sept 30. Then there will be a dance of stay application with the 2nd Cir and then SCOTUS.
7. We need to make sure Roberts if he blocks any of this we're giving him four new liberal roomies in our 2021 #CourtPacking plan. If they give up the #OrangeMenace they may skate by with their majority.
8. Here is something that the MSM spun up with their marching orders to post propaganda to obscure Trump's Ukraine Biden shakedown missed. That's you @kenvogel. One of the subjects of the two subpoena's that Trump is si desperate to block deals with another act of extortion.
9. Remember this little act of extortion against one of the US' richest persons?
1. Congress should consider passing an emergency amendment to the Trading With the Enemy Act that gives @POTUS the power to impose the Act during times like this without going to a full declared state of war. It would allow the complete and permanent seizure of all Russian
2. national property in the US including all intellectual property. The party impacted never gets it back absent buying it from the person to whom the US custodian sells it. I have some knowledge of this power due to my my extended family having been subject to it twice in
3. WWI and WWII. Only recently have they re-acquired their US trademarks. It took over 70 years. All Russian citizens bank and stock holdings would be wiped out in a single moment. They would never get it back. That money becomes our money. Having that power will give us the
1. I predicted Putin would bite off Donbas when his play didn't work. He already had control but now he's going to steal what ever hasn't already been stolen and extract the coal. It's theft.
Putin calls Macron and Scholtz first. I surmised they told him this was the offramp.
2. If not, I'm watching for some comment from them denouncing it. If we were not in the decision making on this there should be hell to pay.
3. If we knew they had discussed this and were not surprised by it then this joint call might make sense in a "job well-done" context. If they pitched this or discussed it and we didn't know that's entire other matter and at a min we need to know what they got for staying quiet.
1. He walks away makes a threat towards @ZelenskyyUa and thinks he'll dodge being sanctioned. If he gets away with it he nets part of #Ukraine and all of #Belarus. Official Recognition to be wrapped up. Lawyers dwell on small details while he move forces into #Donbas.
2. He many think he can bait Zelensky into attacking so he can get Germany and France to say it was not an invasion. Even if he sits still, DNR and LNR are not well-manned. Putin has to put forces in or the mob may run. We can stop it by showing the UN our SAR work product.
3. My uncle Tunk drove Jack Kennedy around western Mass when he ran for the Senate. Said he never bought a drink. My parents didn't support JFK. They were Adlai Stevenson liberals. Thought the Kennedy's were shifty. I remember Stevenson's UNSC "Till hell freezes over" moment.
1. Though I've seen enough tanks with sun shades to credibly support that Russia will invade Ukraine, that will trigger sanctions that will destroy the Russian economy and degrade the military. Soon Russia's submarines, planes and radars will begin to fail.
2. It will be 1989 all over again. By only recognizing DNR LNR independence, he kills Minsk but it was dead already. Putin's oligarchs don't want the sanctions. They will be forced to leave the countries that support the sanctions and perhaps could stay in fringe countries
3. but the good times will be over. Putin may be powerful enough to bully these folks, but the oligarchs control the mafia and they can get to Putin. He won't risk war with them.
1. Video posted this morning near Belgorod reservoir shows Russian tanks and other heavy fighting equipment about 8 miles from the border NE of Kharkiv. They have now installed sun shades on the tanks the lack of which I reported evidenced they were not ready to attack.
3. I used to observe webcams on this border during the first invasion. There is a railroad crossing that I think a possible crossing point. Here's my old map. You can see one crossing is rail and the other is vehicular. That used to have a web cam I've watched many times.
1. As I have predicted all along, Putin doesn't want to attack. Macron again offers Putin an off ramp and based on Russian media reports he has apparently agreed to resume Minks Normandy format meetings. The question will be whether Zelensky will play along. He likely will.
2. A quick survey of the Russian state controlled media. From official Tass the same contrived claim of Russia being under threat.
3. Izvestia has stopped the bloodthirsty rhetoric and is also focused on talks.