Thread by @SethAbramson

BREAKING NEWS: Don Hankey, the Insurance Carrier CEO Apparently Behind the $175 Million Trump Bond, Is a Trump Mega-Donor Who Has Already Been Written Up As Connected to a Shady Trump-Adjacent Financial Operation rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

1/ Hankey is a major investor in Axos, a shady “internet bank” that has bailed out Trump before *under extremely suspicious circumstances* and whose wealth is... from unknown sources, it seems.

2/ ROLLING STONE: “Axos is an unusual lender, steeped in controversy. Its CEO and top investors have strong financial ties to the GOP. And Axos appears to be solidifying its position as the Trump-family banker, having previously stepped in as a financier for the Kushner Company.”

3/ The New York Times-bestselling Proof Trilogy previously established, in Proof of Conspiracy (Macmillan, 2019), that there’s a history of hostile foreign nations seeming to try to get money to Trump through Kushner.

That there’s an Axos connection to this bond is *terrifying*.

4/ The fact that Hankey is connected to an obscure, dodgy, politically connected online bank that manages to participate in *huge* Trump-salvation projects despite having an *under $3 billion market cap* is raising red flags everywhere. This is less than Trump claims to be worth.

5/ While the bond is said to be underwritten by a different Hankey entity, you probably feel, as I do, that if the money behind one Hankey-linked entity is opaque there’s plenty of reason to wonder whether the money behind—or being pumped into—another Hankey joint is also opaque.

6/ Something stinks to high heaven about Axos, which is a Hankey-funded lending operation just like Knight insurance is. This is from ROLLING STONE:

7/ Here’s what ROLLING STONE says about Trump's new lender (and savior): “SEC documents show Hankey is the largest non-institutional investor in Axos; Hankey made his fortune with subprime auto loans, charging exorbitant interest to financially strapped customers who need a car.”

8/ Every Trump biographer is getting foreign-money vibes right now, I promise you. ROLLING STONE on Trump’s new lender’s internet bank:

9/ Those vibes are only increasing. Garrabrants is another GOP megadonor who’s Hankey’s business associate and runs Axos. Where’s all this funny cash coming from—and why did Hankey tell ROLLING STONE that he supported Garrabrants 100% as he saved Trump and received such odd sums?

10/ Here we go: ROLLING STONE reports that a whistleblower complaint regarding Trump’s lender’s online bank involved concerns about “money laundering.”

*Jesus Christ*.

It certainly looks, now, like Trump did *not* have that $175 million himself, like he swore to America he did.

11/ MAJOR BREAKING NEWS (🚨): ROLLING STONE previously reported that Trump’s lender’s online bank is involved with major money launderers—including “foreign officials from major oil-producing countries and war zones.”

Which certainly sounds like it would include Russia.

*JFC!*

12/ Wondering why the SEC investigation into this shady operation suddenly disappeared?

Well, guess when the SEC suddenly closed it? 2017—under President Trump.

Scandal sure seems to be incoming, folks. If major media isn’t all over this, it should simply close up shop forever.

13/ Trump mega-donor Don Hankey now says Trump gave sufficient “cash and bond” to get coverage. Do you believe him? Do you think all the money came from Trump, rather than the *other* sort of people Hankey’s operations are alleged to have dealt with often? abcnews.go.com/Business/wireS…

14/ Remember, America, the March 8 bond Trump got—for $91.63 million—was gotten by him with just hours to spare (though he’d known he’d need it for half a year). This bond is almost *twice* as big.

How was Trump—now in a *worse* spot financially than in March—able to get a bond?

15/ I will continue researching this possible budding international scandal through the night tonight, and then have a report up at PROOF tomorrow—hopefully in the AM.

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Stay tuned, America. sethabramson.substack.com