Trump Group Did Business with Iranian Bank Linked To Terror
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fab4_gal — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 10:16 AM)
Trump Group Did Business With Iranian Bank Later Linked to Terror
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-group-did-business-iranian-bank-later-linked-terror-n657636
Donald Trump's real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran's nuclear program.
Let's see how the Trumpettes flap their false eyelashes at this while trying to dismiss this incident as nothing
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rgodfrey-2 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 10:36 AM)
Let's see how the Trumpettes flap their false eyelashes at this while trying to dismiss this incident as nothing
They'll say he's some sort of genius, 'cause making buttloads of cash while doing business with America's enemies is a genius thing to do.
Just ask Fidel Castro.
Donald Trump conducted illegal business in Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-conducted-illegal-business-communist-cuba-report-article-1.2810972 -
fab4_gal — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 12:36 PM)
They'll say he's some sort of genius, 'cause making buttloads of cash while doing business with America's enemies is a genius thing to do.
And all along this is how he's been Making America Great Again.
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pvd295 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 01:08 PM)
Obama GAVE Iran BILLIONS and a path to nuclear weapons.
Yes, it was called the Iran-Contra Affair and almost brought down his Presidency, which forced hsi wife Nancy to go into over-drive and save his Presidency by convincing him to go on TV and tell Americans "I knew nothing about it" and then he threw poor Oliver North under the bus as Nancy started firing his staff for making him look bad
Oh, wait! That was Ronald Reagan! Silly me..
"Splodey heads keep splodin' " - Sarah Palin, 7-1-16 -
!!!deleted!!! (28128673) — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 01:43 PM)
Thanks for the reminder, pvd, because Reagan's only response to his insane Iran-Contra scandal was, "I don't remember. . . ."
Well, Ronnie, everyone else did and it will NEVER be forgotten.
I'm sure Trump's response to being outed on his making bucks off the Iranian bank will be, "That makes me smart." He only cares about money, people be damned. -
ScaryMary123 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 02:07 PM)
Thanks for the reminder, pvd, because Reagan's only response to his insane Iran-Contra scandal was, "I don't remember. . . ."
Well, Ronnie, everyone else did and it will NEVER be forgotten.
I'm sure Trump's response to being outed on his making bucks off the Iranian bank will be, "That makes me smart." He only cares about money, people be damned.
Well, at least Ronnie had the excuse of being senile. Trump has no such excuse. -
ScaryMary123 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 02:07 PM)
And not only that, Nancy began consulting with psychics to guarantee that Ronnie would "have a good day" and not be plagued by all the questions those nasty reporters had for him. She even finished his statement during a press conference, which was caught on mic and made her look like a manipulatorwhich she was. No doubt poor Ronnie was already in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's when he was elected for a second term. By the time it ended, he had to have people remind him who Nancy was.
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pvd295 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 04:35 PM)
And not only that, Nancy began consulting with psychics to guarantee that Ronnie would "have a good day" and not be plagued by all the questions those nasty reporters had for him. She even finished his statement during a press conference, which was caught on mic and made her look like a manipulatorwhich she was.
Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama acted like this while being First Lady? DO you know what the Republicans would have done to either of them?
As I said before: The Reagans were very, very lucky his Presidency was not in the days of today's modern technology.
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pjpurple-1 — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 09:34 AM)
"Can you imagine" how irrelevant that sounds?
No I guess not.
It's well documented how Hillary Clinton "acted" as First Lady. How her actions over the years have brought her under a cloud of suspicion for crimes.
But again you go after the late Nancy Reagan who was devoted to her husband, and from all accounts DIDN'T throw lamps at his head.
Maybe you've conveniently forgotten how Hillary 'channelled' Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It's all in Bob Woodward's 1966 book 'The Choice.'
Hillary had "sessions" with Jean Houston some flaky New Age guru.She enabled the First Lady to enter 'an alternate consciousness' to contact Eleanor Roosevelt.
The spin control at the time had Hillary explaning that Houston was just an "advisor" and Hillary relied ONLY on her Methodist faith. Yeah, Houston's "Foundation fo Mind Research" is every bit as flaky as Nancy Reagan relying on astrology and psychics.
One of their beliefs in that "the human mind can create matter through thought." Yeah, just like God. Sounds like a philosophy that play very well in Hillary's wheelhouse. She already thinks she's above the law.
How can you honestly attack one woman and excuse the other? Oh I know, Gargantuan sized partisanship.
As for Michelle Obama, she was too busy growing vegetables and trying to get the nation's kids to eat healthy. I doubt if she was ever involved in anything so flaky. But if she was, it would've been unwise to criticize her, unless a person enjoys the 'racist' label being slapped on them.
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ScaryMary123 — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 11:44 AM)
Who's attacking Nancy? Strikes me that you're the one on attack. The TRUTH is, Nancy consulted psychics and planned Ronnie's entire day around their forecast. That was reported on dozens of times. She also didn't get along with her husband's chief of staff, Donald Regan, because she thought he wasn't "sympathetic" to Ronnie's needslike sleeping away half the day, when he should be governing.
Nancy finished Ronnie's sentence at a press conference when they were standing outside. I remember that when it happened and I just saw it again on YouTube. The facts, sorry to say. Not attacks.
Nancy was more concerned about the White House place settings and wearing designer gowns than the problems facing the country during Ronnie's reign as Commander in Chief. She threw her weight behind the totally useless "just say no" drug program, as if "just saying no" will put an end to drug use. That's just incredibly naive on her partbut, of course, she had to have SOME cause.
Never mind that Ronnie completely ignored the AIDS crisis and refused to even say the word. And when Nancy's Hollywood buddy, Rock Hudson, was suffering from AIDS, she turned her back on him. All facts. No attacks. Merely the TRUTH.
So, you can harp all you want on Hillary, both Ronnie and Nancy Reagan took full advantage of their time in public office. Nancy, with her designer gowns, Ronnie with his jelly beans. And let's not forget how he sabre rattled with the USSR over nuclear war and his absolutely BONEHEADED idea for the "Star Wars" defense system. -
pjpurple-1 — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 07:54 PM)
wellScaryMaryyour lack of sense IS "scary"!! "Who's attacking Nancy?" Are you new here?
You must be or you wouldn't be making such a silly statement. Nancy Reagan gets attacked regularly by some posters here. Just check out this thread. They go after her regularly and her terrible "influence" in the White House,, yeah as if a First Lady would ever try to influence policy or be given carte blanche to redesign the country's health care system, oh wait
I remember her psychics and astrologers and I thought it was flaky then as I do now. Good grief, take a moment and try to comprehend what I'm saying! What is the point in attacking a deceased First Lady? She consulted psychics, oh the HORROR!
In the post before mine, it was stated "imagine if Hillary Clinton" had acted that way, or some such nonsense, conveniently forgetting that she DID act that way. She had that New Age guru in the White House to help her channel the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt. Once again, it's the hypocrisy. Let's go after Nancy Reagan but Hillary gets a pass. She has seances to channel Eleanor, but let's attack Nancy Reagan and her astrologer. I find it all nonsense. But it's business as usual here. Let's bash Nancy and give Hillary a pass.
If you want to attack Nancy Reagan for placesettings and designer gowns, well I guess the White House really should use paper plates and plastic forks for State dinners. Don't be such a partisan 'tard.
If you want to attack a First Lady for "designer gowns", well let's go after one of my personal favorite First Ladies, Jackie Kennedy. Yeah, I'd much rather the First Lady represent the country wearing fashions from K Mart, blue jeans and biker shorts. Can you be any sillier? What do you CARE if she wore designer gowns? How did that affect your life? Did Nancy get dresses that were supposed to be delivered to you? Could you be MORE petty?
My grandmother used to call her "Fancy Nancy" and Truman Capote, when asked what would be agood birthday gift for Nancy quipped, "Versailles Palace." I know she liked the finer things in life. But that hardly made her evil. I don't see Hillary or her husband turning down six figure speaking fees.
You say Nancy wasn't concerned with the problems of the country. Oh come on, you are so used to the "reign" of First Lady Hillary that you assume the wife of the President has an elected official role.
Yeah, so make fun of her "just say no" campaign. So what would be better? "Just say yes! Try those drugs and after you are lying in a gutter with a needle stuck in your arm, then say no." Just admit that nothing Nancy Reagan would have done would have appeased your partisan hatred of her.
Ronald Reagan and his "jellybeans".
Oh the horror. Now I KNOW you didn't say NO! Somebody who is thinking clearly wouldn't say something so stoo-pid. That's the best you've got? He gave up smoking and developed a jellybean habit.
Now you go after Reagan and AIDS. That was Nancy's fault too, of course. There's been a ton of partisan, mostly false, rhetoric attacking Ronald Reagan for not stopping AIDS. He didn't talk about it. Neither did Rock Hudson. There were fake stories of the cause of his death when Hudson died.
I remember he appeared on the TV show Dynasty and had to kiss the character of Crystal, played by Linda Evans. It didn't occur to him to warn the producers of the show or the actress, "Maybe I shouldn't do this. I have a condition that might be contagious." But oh let's go after Reagan. Liberals are barf inducing.
I know one of the criticisms was Reagan was suppose to warn the nation to practice "safe sex." WTF. THAT'S one of the duties of the President? Where's THAT in the Constitution? Lefties get their panties all in a twist when it is pointed out that gay bath houses and rampant promiscuity among gay men had a TAD more to do with the AIDS epidemic than Ronald Reagan. Personal responsibility just doesn't play well with the left.
I just can't figure out if the left is just NOT thinking or just NUTS!
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ScaryMary123 — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 08:19 AM)
[quoteIf you want to attack Nancy Reagan for placesettings and designer gowns, well I guess the White House really should use paper plates and plastic forks for State dinners. Don't be such a partisan 'tard. ]
If you want retarded, let's go back to the Reagan Administration's stance that ketchup qualified as a "vegetable" in public school cafeterias.
You're not talking to someone who doesn't remember Reagan and his "socially conscious" wife, who was DULY criticized for her designer gowns, Hollywood parties, and elaborate and expensive dinner place settings (and no, I don't expect them to eat off paper plates, but the regular White House China was just fine, no need to replace it with something so ostentatious). She was viewed then, as she is now, as an empty-headed socialite along the lines of Mrs. Drysdale from The Beverly Hillbillies. More concerned with having her hair and nails done than the real problems facing the country during Reagan's 8 years in office.
The fact that she consulted mediums and psychics and THEN foisted those opinions on the daily workings of the White House and her husband in particular is downright frightening. Either you're too young to remember this or you're just mouthing the typical GOP line that Ronnie was our country's savior. He wasn't, by the way.
He hung AIDS sufferers out to dry, never even addressed the issue or mentioned the term, refused to allow funding for AIDS research (all the while selling arms to our deadly enemy, Iran), had MANY mishaps involving dead soldiers and terrorist attacks on American interests when he was President, ran up the national debt into trillions, and fed us all a line about "Morning in America." Meanwhile, he gave rise to the Moral Majority and fools like Jerry Falwell, had people in his cabinet who thought the Beach Boys were "subversives" (laughable), and his wife threw her weight behind a useless "just say no" drug campaign. Her naivete was surprisingor was it? Since her own daughter pretty much disowned her, at the time.
Just to refresh your memory, here's what Wikipedia had to say about Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Wattwho thought the Beach Boys were encouraging "drug use."
From 1980 through 1982, The Beach Boys and The Grass Roots separately performed at Independence Day concerts at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., attracting large crowds.[13][14] In April 1983, Watt banned the concerts, on the grounds that the "rock bands" that had performed on the Mall on Independence Day in 1981 and 1982 had encouraged drug use and alcoholism, and had attracted "the wrong element", who would subsequently rob attendees of similar events.[14] Watt then announced that Las Vegas singer Wayne Newton, a friend and an endorser of President Reagan and a contributor to the Republican Party, would perform at the Independence Day celebration at the mall in 1983.[14][15] During the ensuing controversy, Rob Grill, lead singer of The Grass Roots, stated that he felt "highly insulted" by Watt's remarks, which he termed "nothing but un-American."[14]
The Beach Boys stated that the Soviet Union, which had invited them to perform in Leningrad in 1978, "obviously did not feel that the group attracted the wrong element."[14] Vice President George H. W. Bush said of The Beach Boys, "They're my friends, and I like their music."[14] Watt apologized to The Beach Boys after learning that President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan were fans of the band.[16] Nancy Reagan apologized for Watt.[17] The White House staff gave Watt a plaster foot with a hole for his "having shot himself in the foot."[18]
At the 1983 event, Newton was booed by the audience when he came on stage.[16][19] The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson poked fun at Watt's last name, saying "James What? What?"
Ridiculous. And laughable.
Nancy Reagan was no American ideal. She hearkened back to when a woman knew her placebehind her man. No one in recent American history embodies that more, in my opinion.
How interesting that you'd compare her to Hillary. I'm not doing that. The fact that you brought her name into it speaks volumes about your perspective. -
!!!deleted!!! (28128673) — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 08:34 AM)
You're right, Mary.
Everyone should see the documentary, How To Survive a Plague. At the end , the ACTUP staff acknowledges, amidst tears, the lives that would've been saved if Reagan had taken action sooner. He didn't fund the research and the epidemic claimed millions more lives than it would have.
Did the astrologer tell him not to do anything about AIDS? Nancy? No one voted for them, but they damned millions of Americans to a living hell. And they never so much as said, "Sorry." -
ScaryMary123 — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 10:04 AM)
Watch. Somebody will bring up Hillary next.
Truth is, as you said, Hester, Reagan condemned millions of people to death because recognizing AIDS went against the Moral Majority. People tend to forget that when Reagan entered the White House, suddenly there was call for prayer in school, a return to the "1950s," and an absolute refusal to acknowledge women's rights, abortion rights, and the growing gay lobby. Reagan cowtowed to the Right, and his wife spent her time in the White House beauty parlor and deciding which designer gown to wear to which Hollywood fuction.
Someone brought up Jackie Kennedy. She was young, she was beautiful, and she was smart. None of those attributes can be used when discussing Nancy Reagan. Nancy was old, her daughter hated her (and him), and she really didn't have much going upstairs. Have you ever listened to her speak? Come on.