Trump company did biz with Iranian bank tied to terrorism
Donald John Trump: objectively pro-terrorism!
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.
Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, according to public records reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity. The Trump Organization kept the bank on as a tenant for four more years after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Bank Melli in 1999 as being controlled by the Iranian government.
U.S. officials later alleged that Bank Melli had been used to obtain sensitive materials for Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump.
The Trump Organization’s dealings with the Iranian bank shed more light on Trump’s wide-ranging business interests, which sometimes stand at odds with his blunt declarations on the campaign trail. Trump has denounced Iran as a “big enemy,” blasted Hillary Clinton for not taking a harder line against the Iranian regime and charged that donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation amounted to evidence of corruption. His five-year stint as Bank Melli’s landlord provides an example of the Trump Organization itself doing business with a government hostile to the United States.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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Suzanne McFly October 4th, 2016 at 07:12
He would do business with Satan himself if he could.
whatthe46 October 4th, 2016 at 08:57
satan is such a bad ass bastard, he’d tell tRump, let me have a piece of that ____ and then we will talk. after tRump gives it up, he then asks satan for the reward. satan then tell his ass, sue me bitch.
whatthe46 October 4th, 2016 at 08:58
i crack myself up. LOLOLOL
whatthe46 October 4th, 2016 at 08:59
suzanne, i’m not going to get up until 3 i know it. ahhhhhhhhhhh
Mensa Member October 4th, 2016 at 09:44
and then he wouldn’t pay him.
bpollen October 5th, 2016 at 04:02
How do you think he’s built his empire? His “genius” business sense?
Suzanne McFly October 5th, 2016 at 07:29
Oooooh, that is good bpollen. Do you think Lucifer in on the payroll? I wouldn’t want to be the one to short change that guy.
bpollen October 5th, 2016 at 15:35
I doubt Beelzebub would be deterred by Trump’s usual tactics – “If you sue, I will keep you in court driving up costs for YEARS!”
Maybe he’d turn Melarilla into a clone of Carly Fiorina…
Suzanne McFly October 5th, 2016 at 18:28
Ha!!! If rump woke up to that face in the morning, even that thing on his head would beat feet.
bpollen October 6th, 2016 at 02:30
That toupee (more like Shar Pei) would gnaw his scalp off just to escape…
William October 4th, 2016 at 08:49
In order to make a fair assessment of Donald Trumps platform concerning Iran, it’s important to read his thoughtful and enlightened opinion on the subject.
…as follows…
“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
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Mike October 4th, 2016 at 18:36
Huh…??
It’s like peeking into to a brain on crack … a flowing stream of verbal diarrhea no one wants to hear.
Mensa Member October 4th, 2016 at 09:43
Look, this doesn’t seem like a big scandal.
But, if tables were turned, the conservatives would hammer on this for a decade, including endless stories on Fox, Congressional hearings, special prosecutors and calls for “lock him up.”
granpa.usthai October 5th, 2016 at 00:03
how does someone who is a great businessman, genius for stiffing 100 million tax paying Families for a billion dollar write off plus 18 years tax free not know what the hell is going on in his business?
enabling terrorist in luxury at US taxpayer expense!
granpa.usthai October 4th, 2016 at 10:21
chalk up another one for my investigators!
the triangular attack on the American taxpayers is real and it really works.
terrorist groups need money to operate.
foreign banks hold mega US Treasury notes for the greedy money grubbers amongst US.
tax dollars are used to ‘fight’ terrorism.
it’s a nice scam – with the little peoples getting hit all three ways while the money grubbers walk away extremely wealthy (legal transactions like billion dollar write-offs with 18 years tax free attached).