Thread by @OnlyDBestSpooks

With no Trump Hospitality properties in China, the hospitality LLC (Trump Hotels) made $17.5 million in 2017.

https://twitter.com/_jo_di/status/1318704291201339393

“The charge that Biden has secret ties to China, and ... is helping him win, is intended to offset the no-longer-secret relationship between Trump and Russia... we see the accusation serves a second purpose: It obscures Trump’s own undisclosed financial relationship with China.”

“The returns obtained by the (NYT) do not show how much of that money came from China. The Trump Organization refuses to say. But the dealings it found suggest a massive conflict of interest between his foreign policy and his wallet.”

“And while Trump postures angrily against Beijing, threatening to “make them pay” for allowing the coronavirus to infect their country and then the world, somehow, nobody believes he has any way to do this.” -NYmag

“In 2017, the company reported an unusually large spike in revenue — some $17.5 million, more than the previous five years’ combined. It was accompanied by a $15.1 million withdrawal by Mr. Trump from the company’s capital account.” Nothing dormant about that.

“in this vast ocean of corruption, our president* is a very small fish swimming with predators who are much smarter and much richer than he is.”

“Gov’t docs “originally obtained by BuzzFeed News from the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network” and now in custody of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) are “plowing through a vast trove of leaked documents”

“These documents demonstrate that, in terms of financial ethics, the difference between the way international finance and international drug cartels operate is not vast—and that, more than occasionally, it's the same thing.”

“international finance is pretty much a laundromat for horrible people the world over—cartels, terrorists, dictators who looted the wealth of their country before bailing... — JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon —“

“U.S. agencies responsible for enforcing money laundering laws rarely prosecute megabanks that break the law, and the actions authorities do take barely ripple the flood of plundered money that washes through the international financial system.”

Recent example: Manifort, (former campaign mgr. for Trump) received $50 million over a decade, from Ukrainian mob to US accounts. $6.9M of that in the ~year after resigning from the campaign.

“(Trump) has dragged this nation into the deep water with him, with god alone knows what consequences we'll find out about later on.

A secret fcking Chinese bank account?

Lord save us.” -Esquire