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    John Bolton Took Money From Clinton Foundation Donor, Banks Tied To Cartels, Terrorists, Iran

    On June 12, 2018 The Washington Post ran an overlooked story where they disclosed that National Security Advisor John Bolton had accepted money from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Deutsche Bank and HSBC to return for his participation in speeches and panel discussions. These three entities have been linked to various kinds of corruption including sanctions evasion for Iran, money laundering on behalf of drug cartels, provision of banking services to backers of Islamic terror organizations and controversial donations to the Clinton Foundation.
    The financial ties between Bolton and these institutions highlight serious ethical concerns about his suitability for the position of National Security Advisor.
    I. Victor Pinchuk Foundation
    John Bolton accepted $115,000 from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation to speak at multiple events hosted by the Foundation including one in September 2017 where Bolton assured his audience that President Donald Trump would not radically change US foreign policy despite his explicit campaign promises to do so.
    The Victor Pinchuk Foundation was blasted in 2016 over their donation of $10 to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation between 1994 and 2005. The donations lead to accusations of influence peddling after it emerged that Victor Pinchuk had been invited to Hillary Clinton's home during the final year of her tenure as Secretary of State.
    Even more damning was Victor Pinchuk's participation in activities that constituted evasions of sanctions levied against Iran by the American government. A 2015 exposé by Newsweek highlighted the fact that Pinchuk owned Interpipe Group, a Cyprus-incorporated manufacturer of seamless pipes used in oil and gas sectors. A now-removed statement on Interpipe's website showed that they were doing business in Iran despite US sanctions aimed to prevent this kind of activity.
    Why John Bolton, a notorious war hawk who has called for a hardline approach to Iran, would take money from an entity who was evading sanctions against the country is not clear. It does however, raise serious questions about whether or not Bolton should be employed by Donald Trump, who made attacks on the Clinton Foundation's questionable donations a cornerstone of his 2016 campaign.
    II. HSBC Group
    British bank HSBC paid Bolton $46,500 in June and August 2017 to speak at two gatherings of hedge fund managers and investors.
    HSBC is notorious for its extensive ties to criminal and terror organizations for whom it has provided illegal financial services. Clients that HSBC have laundered money for include Colombian drug traffickers and Mexican cartels who have terrorized the country and recently raised murder rates to the highest levels in Mexico's history. They have also offered banking services to Chinese individuals who sourced chemicals and other materials used by cartels to produce methamphetamine and heroin that is then sold in the United States. China's Triads have helped open financial markets in Asia to cartels seeking to launder their profits derived from the drug trade.
    In 2012, HSBC was blasted by the US Senate for for allowing money from Russian and Latin American criminal networks as well as Middle Eastern terror groups to enter the US. The banking group ultimately agreed to pay a $1.9 billion fine for this misconduct as well as their involvement in processing sanctions-prohibited transactions on behalf of Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma.
    Some of the terror groups assisted by HSBC include the notorious Al Qaeda. During the 2012 scrutiny of HSBC, outlets such as Le Monde, Business Insider and the New York Times revealed that HSBC had maintained ties to Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank. Al Rajhi Bank was one of Osama Bin Ladin's "Golden Chain" of Al Qaeda's most important financiers. Even though HSBC's own internal compliance offices asked for the bank to terminate their relationship with Al Rajhi Bank, it continued until 2010.
    More recently in 2018, reports have claimed that HSBC was used for illicit transactions between Iran and Chinese technology conglomerate Huawei. The US is currently seeking to extradite Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou after bringing charges against Huawei related to sanctions evasion and theft of intellectual property. The company has been described as a "backdoor" for elements of the Chinese government by certain US authorities.
    Bolton's decision to accept money from HSBC given their well-known reputation is deeply hypocritical. HSBC's connection to terror organizations such as Al Qaeda in particular is damning for Bolton due to the fact that he formerly served as the chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a New York-based advocacy group that purports to oppose terrorism. These financial ties are absolutely improper for an individual acting as National Security Advisor.
    III. Deutsche Bank
    John Bolton accepted $72,000 from German Deutsche Bank to speak at an event in May 2017.
    Deutsche Bank has for decades engaged in questionable behavior. During World War II, they provided financial services to the Nazi Gestapo and financed construction of the infamous Auschwitz as well as an adjacent plant for chemical company IG Farben.
    Like HSBC, Deutsche Bank has provided illicit services to international criminal organizations. In 2014 court filings showed that Deutsche Bank, Citi and Bank of America had all acted as channels for drug money sent to Colombian security currency brokerages suspected of acting on behalf of traffickers. In 2017, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay a $630 million fine after working with a Danish bank in Estonia to launder over $10 billion through London and Moscow on behalf of Russian entities. The UK's financial regulatory watchdog has said that Deutsche Bank is failing to prevent its accounts from being used to launder money, circumvent sanctions and finance terrorism. In November 2018, Deutsche Bank's headquarters was raided by German authorities as part of an investigation sparked by 2016 revelations in the "Panama Papers" leak from Panama's Mossack Fonseca.
    Two weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, the Bush administration signed an executive order linking a company owned by German national Mamoun Darkazanli to Al Qaeda. In 1995, Darkazanli co-signed the opening of a Deutsche Bank account for Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. Salim was identified by the CIA as the chief of bin Laden's computer operations and weapons procurement. He was ultimately arrested in Munich, extradited to the United States and charged with participation in the 1998 US embassy bombings.
    In 2017, the Office of the New York State Comptroller opened an investigation into accounts that Deutsche Bank was operating on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP is defined by both the United States and the European Union as a terrorist organization. It is ironic that Bolton, who is a past recipient of the "Guardian of Zion Award" would accept money from an entity who provided services to Palestinian groups that Israel considers to be terror related.
    IV. Clinton-esque Financial Ties Unbecoming To Trump Administration
    Bolton's engagement in paid speeches, in some cases with well-known donors to the Clinton Foundation, paints the Trump administration in a very bad light. Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton during his 2016 Presidential campaign for speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs that were labeled by her detractors as "pay to play" behavior. John Bolton's acceptance of money from similar entities, especially the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, are exactly the same kind of activity and are an embarrassment for a President who claims to be against corruption.
    More broadly, John Bolton's work for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, HSBC and Deutsche Bank shows that while he preaches hardline foreign policy approaches towards nations such as Iran and North Korea he has no issue tying himself to those who openly flaunt American sanctions and diplomatic attempts to pressure these states. For an individual who is the President's National Security Advisor to have taken money from banks who provide financial services to terror groups who have murdered thousands of Americans is totally unacceptable.
    It is embarrassing enough that Donald Trump hired Bolton in the first place. The next best remedy is to let him go as soon as possible.


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    Victor Pinchuk also gave money to Trump.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trum...ry?id=43728278

    A Ukrainian steel magnate, Victor Pinchuk, paid $150,000 to Donald Trump’s charity to book the then-presidential candidate to speak via satellite at a conference held in Kiev in the early days of the presidential campaign.

    Victor is a very, very special man. A special entrepreneur,” Trump told the gathering.
    Trump also has close ties with Deutsche Bank.They loaned him money when nobody else would.

    http://fortune.com/2019/03/19/deutsc...d-trump-loans/

    Deutsche Bank Loaned Trump Billions: Report

    In the midst of the New York attorney general’s and two different Congressional committees’ simultaneous investigations into President Donald Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank AG, the New York Times reported Monday that Trump received more than $2 billion in loans over the course of two decades.

    The Times interviewed 20 Deutsche board members and executives who said that the bank lent to Trump despite of multiple “red flags” waved by other financial institutions as well its own internal investigations between the late 1990s and 2016.

    According to the Times, Trump also tried to woo Deutsche bankers with private helicopter rides and promises of free weekend trips to play golf at his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago—which many now refer to as the “winter White House” due to the president’s high-frequency, highly scrutinized visits.

    But his promises didn’t always hold up, according to an anonymous Deutsche executive.

    The executive told the Times that Trump tried to rescind a Mar-a-Lago invitation he’d promised a group of the bank’s salesmen in 2003, after they’d successfully managed to sell hundreds of millions of dollars of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts bonds in 2003. Although Trump ended up flying the salesmen to Mar-a-Lago, the executive said, his casino ended up defaulting on those very bonds the next year, costing the bank significant amounts of money. While that specific bank division stopped working with Trump, others continued.

    Even though a senior investment-banking executive told the Times that he warned management that Trump worked with people who were tied to organized crime and should be avoided, the bank lent him $500 million in 2005, according to the report.

    Years later, Deutsche continued lending to Trump even though two former executives told the Times he was found to have inflated his real estate assets by 70%.

    Deutsche finally denied Trump a loan he requested in 2016, during his presidential run. The bank reportedly feared that if Trump won and defaulted on the loan, it would have to decide between seizing the assets of a sitting U.S. president and not collecting his debt.
    From the OP:

    For an individual who is the President's National Security Advisor to have taken money from banks who provide financial services to terror groups who have murdered thousands of Americans is totally unacceptable.

    It is embarrassing enough that Donald Trump hired Bolton in the first place. The next best remedy is to let him go as soon as possibl
    Actually, he seems to fit right in since Trump dealt with those people and banks himself. Should Trump be fired for the same reasons presented in the OP (He also gave money to the Clinton Foundation) along with Bolton?
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 04-10-2019 at 11:45 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Victor Pinchuk also gave money to Trump.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trum...ry?id=43728278



    Trump also has close ties with Deutsche Bank.They loaned him money when nobody else would.

    http://fortune.com/2019/03/19/deutsc...d-trump-loans/



    From the OP:



    Actually, he seems to fit right in since Trump dealt with those people and banks himself. Should Trump be fired for the same reasons presented in the OP (He also gave money to the Clinton Foundation) along with Bolton?
    Trump puts America First and rejects money from special interest, can you say same about neocons puppet Bolton?

    Trump should be applauded as the first self-funded POTUS / non-puppet of lobbies





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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Trump puts America First and rejects money from special interest, can you say same about neocons puppet Bolton?

    Trump should be applauded as the first self-funded POTUS / non-puppet of lobbies




    Yes this^^^ I thank my lucky stars every day for such unbridled and bold White House leadership. Could you imagine how terrible it would be if President Trump were not there to keep an eye on Bolton. I'm pretty sure we would be at war right now with Iran and Venezuela. Hillary bad...Orange man good!!!
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    Not surprising one bit.
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    Please do NOT ask me what it means that the Dutch government (Postcode Loterij) is the biggest foreign donor to the Clinton Foundation...


    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Trump also has close ties with Deutsche Bank.They loaned him money when nobody else would.

    http://fortune.com/2019/03/19/deutsc...d-trump-loans/

    (...)

    Actually, he seems to fit right in since Trump dealt with those people and banks himself. Should Trump be fired for the same reasons presented in the OP (He also gave money to the Clinton Foundation) along with Bolton?
    In 2004, George Soros and Deutsche Bank invested more than $800 million for the construction of Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004 ... management


    In October 2016, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, “loaned” another $285 million from Deutsche Bank to refinance an existing “loan” on the old New York Times building, which Kushner had “bought” the previous year from Lev Leviev.

    In 2015, George Soros financed Cadre of the brothers Kushner with $250 million and Yuri Milner “invested” $850,000. The complete group of investors included Peter Thiel, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Blackstone
    Kushner “forgot” to disclose that he is indebted for more than 1 billion dollar from 20 investors, including Blackstone Group, Bank of America, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland: http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/1365 ... r-facebook

    The man currently in charge of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, interim US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, worked for more than 10 years at Rudy Giuliani’s law firm, Greenberg Traurig.
    Berman selected Robert Khuzami to be his Deputy US Attorney, who had been General Counsel to Deutsche Bank-Americas from 2002 to 2009. Deutsche Bank was Trump’s major lender for decades with billions of dollars and also financed his wife Melania, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner: http://wallstreetonparade.com/2018/04/w ... ps-lawyer/

    Wilbur Ross (Trump’s Secretary of commerce), who worked decades at NM Rothschild & Sons, and Trump go back to at least the early 1990s when Ross, together with Carl Icahn, arranged the deal that allowed Trump to keep “his” casinos.

    Until 2012, the CEO of Deutsche Bank was Josef Ackermann.
    In the spring of 2014, Wilbur Ross became vice chairman of the Bank of Cyprus. Later that year Ackermann was brought in to help direct the Bank of Cyprus: https://www.justsecurity.org/39409/mone ... -dealings/

    But maybe the topic of this thread should be John Bolton...
    According to the NBC, Gatestone Institute has promoted misleading, false anti-Muslim news that was amplified by a Russian troll factory. At the time Gatestone was headed by Fox News contributor John R. Bolton. CNN reported that the John Bolton Super Pac had a 2014 contract with Cambridge Analytica to provide micro targeting: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6694624

    In 2017, John Bolton (before he became Trump’s NSA) was awarded “The Guardian of Zion Award” by Ingeborg Rennert.
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    John Bolton accepted $72,000 from German Deutsche Bank to speak at an event in May 2017.
    Deutsche Bank has for decades engaged in questionable behavior. During World War II, they provided financial services to the Nazi Gestapo and financed construction of the infamous Auschwitz as well as an adjacent plant for chemical company IG Farben.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cap View Post
    Yes this^^^ I thank my lucky stars every day for such unbridled and bold White House leadership. Could you imagine how terrible it would be if President Trump were not there to keep an eye on Bolton. I'm pretty sure we would be at war right now with Iran and Venezuela. Hillary bad...Orange man good!!!
    Well said.
    Only thing would add that besides Hillary, democrats are also bad.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Cap View Post
    Yes this^^^ I thank my lucky stars every day for such unbridled and bold White House leadership. Could you imagine how terrible it would be if President Trump were not there to keep an eye on Bolton. I'm pretty sure we would be at war right now with Iran and Venezuela. Hillary bad...Orange man good!!!
    You can always tell who the technologically and psionically disadvantaged are.
    they mimic the ones crushing them, in some vain hope of defeating an enemy with advanced weaponry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Victor Pinchuk also gave money to Trump.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trum...ry?id=43728278



    Trump also has close ties with Deutsche Bank.They loaned him money when nobody else would.

    http://fortune.com/2019/03/19/deutsc...d-trump-loans/



    From the OP:



    Actually, he seems to fit right in since Trump dealt with those people and banks himself. Should Trump be fired for the same reasons presented in the OP (He also gave money to the Clinton Foundation) along with Bolton?
    Embarrassing the Donald "RP on steroid" Trump should a bannable offence on this forum. Not just that you embarrassed him but you did it with evidence. Shame on you Zippy and this is why your red bar will never come off.

    Imagine all the people who planned on voting for Trump come 2020 who will see your post and now reconsider their vote.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cap View Post
    Yes this^^^ I thank my lucky stars every day for such unbridled and bold White House leadership. Could you imagine how terrible it would be if President Trump were not there to keep an eye on Bolton. I'm pretty sure we would be at war right now with Iran and Venezuela. Hillary bad...Orange man good!!!
    Well the only way you can fool the neocons is to fill your admin with them this way they will act like naive children who don't demand results and just shut up. Just the mere fact that Trump invited all their top men to his admin is enough to throw them off. The only reason some of you people can disagree with this logic is if your TDS is acting up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswin View Post
    Well the only way you can fool the neocons is to fill your admin with them this way they will act like naive children who don't demand results and just shut up. Just the mere fact that Trump invited all their top men to his admin is enough to throw them off. The only reason some of you people can disagree with this logic is if your TDS is acting up.

    Neocons are not perfect but reasonable minds would agree that there is some TDS at play also behind some of the more mean attacks on neocons.



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