They know what to do and will find everything.

Who stood to profit, who gains and who loses?

Who owns who?

I've always felt that Putin owns Trump & his family. Have seen nothing to diminish that feeling. In fact, the evidence is piling up that they're on Putin's payroll.

Ain't no filing bankruptcy on those guys.

But they might postpone Putting you in the ground if you sell out your country. Then you are fucked.

Or Goodfellas.

Senate investigation? "Fuck you, pay me"

FBI investigation? "Fuck you, pay me"

And the mobsters no longer feel that they're getting their moneys worth through the sell out of our country. Can the Secret Service actually protect fit and jk from the mobsters

Steve Bannon wants Kushner out.

Another episode in "Game of Thrones for Morons" (as described by Foreign Policy magazine )

I was shocked reading that Schweizer, a proud member of Palin's posse when we first saw him attacking Congress - a few Republican already tarnished by corruption allegations and many many Democrats, including some who had followed every rule in the book and had their money in genuine blind trusts, of conflict of interest. He seriously labeled any Congress person or Senator who bought health stocks in 2003 or 2009 and then sold the following year as guilty of insider trading - because in 2003, the drug bill passed and in early 2010 ACA passed. After all. who, outside Congress, could have guessed a bill that they were working on could pass and what the basic outline would be?

Then I read the OP comment - and realized that Mercer/Bannon are fighting people they call "globalists" including Kushner.

The question this article asks is not really new. There have been hundreds of stories about Kushner's not all that wise gamble in buying that building for probably twice what he should have. (Aside - great deal maker there - yet Trump thinks he can design a deal in the Middle East!) Every MSNBC show has made the point that the bank he visited was Putin's, under sanctions and not a likely diplomatic conduit. I think making those points back to back - yet not connecting them was to prevent being sued, but to get the idea out there.

I am beginning to see something that owes something to the Producers. I wonder if Trump "sold" himself to BOTH the Russians and to the Mercers. Now, there are places where those interests intersect, but where it will get interesting is where they diverge.

The story of the intent to lift the Ukraine based sanctions as well as the election tampering ones is interesting in that they apparently were stopped. That coming out at the point when there was movement to return their US retreats - without getting anything in return AND Putin playing with the media saying that "patriotic" Russians might have woken up and decided to hack the election at the same time suggests that there is a tug of war on that too - likely with mainstream Republicans.

It is hard to believe that the US has come to this and that Congress is not yet moving towards impeachment.

It sometimes feels that way.

perspective. When it comes to business, they want national borders, and regulations, to be erased. If the White Nationalist morons have construed "globalist" to mean something else, I'm not aware of it.

Stephen Bannon reportedly called Jared Kushner a ‘globalist.’ Here’s why the term makes some Jews uneasy.

What, exactly, makes Jared Kushner a “globalist”?

Stephen Bannon, the chief strategist for President Donald Trump, reportedly applied the term to Kushner, the president’s increasingly busy senior adviser, who is Jewish. The Daily Beast reported on the name-calling in an article on the latest White House palace intrigue, which has seen Bannon’s stock fall while Kushner’s has been rising.

“Globalist” is one of Bannon’s favorite insults, and he uses it in opposition to “nationalist,” the outlook he claims to represent.

“They’re corporatist, globalist media that are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like Donald Trump has,” he complained in an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February.

The term “globalist” has also been used as an anti-Semitic dog whistle and echoes pernicious anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

“‘Globalist cabal’ is an anti-Semitic dog whistle of the first order,” Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens complained in October after a Fox News Channel contributor used the phrase. “Fox News should act.”

https://www.jta.org/2017/04/06/news-opinion/politics/stephen-bannon-called-jared-kushner-a-globalist-heres-why-the-term-makes-some-jews-uneasy

Just something to consider.

nationalist/globalist, we are definitely on the globalist side.

I also think this code word with its hints of conspiracy theory is a demonization of anyone against the Breitbart view of the world. Trump's speech was a terrifying example of their view of the world. At once dysfunctional, dishonest and more nationalistic than anything in the US in my lifetime and I am 67.

David Brooks wrote an interesting Oped that tried to explain Steve Bannon that sheds some light on what they are speaking of - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/opinion/bannon-versus-trump.html

Note that his definition would NOT include ALL Democrats (or all Jews). You could argue that many progressives are just as against the trade deals, DAVOS, etc. (an earlier oped he wrote, speaks of how the parties may realign in the future because factions may not share common interests - written when he thought Trump would lose - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/opinion/time-for-a-realignment.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fdavid-brooks&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=61&pgtype=collection )

Brooks is one of the few Republican writers I can stomach. I usually disagree, but his columns are informative. The Bannon one is scary to me - as it shows his terrible ideology as Bannon himself likely sees it.

For what that is worth.

so he can stick his claws more fully into 45?

have naturally thrown their sworn enemy under the bus.

Gonna get crowded under there soon!

On Joe Scar this morning they were talking about Bannon being the chief leaker to get rid of everyone Drumpf trusts (especially Jared who Bannon hates) except himself so he's the only voice that will be followed. This seems to be possible validation of that theory. Getting revenge against enemies looks like it applies to both Bannon and the orange assface.

hmmmm...................

It's all Flynn and Jared, his top 2 rivals.

This is all a variant of a Ponzi scheme, where capital is not only financial but also spectacular.

A large debt is usually reason to reject a person for a federal security clearance in my job. But hey Kushner lied about it, and if I had done that I'd be out on my ass before the end of the day!