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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 09:31 PM Jul 2019

His charity exposed and closed, now he decries wider probes

Updated July 2, 2019 8:08 PM

... Trump complained that the state attorney general, Letitia James, "is harassing all of my New York businesses in search of anything at all they can find to make me look as bad as possible" ...

Why did he raise this now, right after his Asia trip? Was it a response to some fresh line of questioning or subpoena that has yet to become public? Officials weren't saying ...

In December, his Donald J. Trump Foundation agreed to dissolve and give away its remaining assets under court supervision as part of the attorney general's investigation. The office had said the foundation was "functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests.”

The entity was accused of engaging in “a shocking pattern of illegality” that included unlawfully coordinating with Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Even former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, now in prison, had told Congress about its sketchy dealings ...

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/columnists/dan-janison/trump-cuomo-james-1.33304802

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His charity exposed and closed, now he decries wider probes (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2019 OP
The walls are closing in on traitortrump empedocles Jul 2019 #1
They can't close fast enough n/t malaise Jul 2019 #2
I know that feeling well enough. However, I try to imagine FDR, in 1940 with all empedocles Jul 2019 #3

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
3. I know that feeling well enough. However, I try to imagine FDR, in 1940 with all
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 10:04 PM
Jul 2019

the Nazi and Japanese terrible threats and atrocities, holding off pulling the trigger; knowing the Lincoln genius of gauging 'public sentiment'. Really hard for FDR, but in retrospect, he was wise in his strategy.

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