Yes I am a Trump supporter but I rallied people when Cruz did his filibuster and I don't want him smeared with this stuff. The media is just waiting for the right time to jump on this material.
What a bunch of hooey
“The media is just waiting for the right time to jump on this material.”
But not a word about who is funding Hillary’s campaign — for example, the Saudis.
You did the right thing posting this.
Cruz must be vetted just like Trump and just like Rubio.
I try to remain as judicious as possible. For example, even though I favor Trump at the moment ...
‘Ted Cruz: Trump Will Let Deported Immigrants Back In, I Won’t’
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3379878/posts
[One for Cruz.]
Cruz also is opposed to Big Ethanol, unlike Trump.
All must be added to the mix.
I’m wondering how much these same outfits are giving to other candidates. I’m going to guess that Morgan Lewis doles out money to more than one candidate — Democrats too perhaps. I used to work for a law firm that has its own PAC. They play both sides of the fence.
And note that all three companies are under investigation or have been sued. Have any of them been convicted of wrongdoing?
This is written in the stupid world that A: everything that is not instant deportation is amnesty and B: that the only issue is amnesty and that C: a financial donation is the equivalent of Barton’s support (he is full time director of Cruz super pac now, and he’s anti amnesty by your own admission).
I’ll not waste my time in this intellectually vapid and vacant black hole.
Who, specifically, allegedly received the money from CSG? A PAC, or the Cruz campaign itself, or Ted Cruz the person, or someone else?
The more stuff like this gets posted from this source, the more I realize that CoachIsADouche.
And one would suppose Donald Trump is just like the guy next door? Big money contributors to candidates donate like a gambler spreading his chips across a roulette table. Whatever the outcome they can say they bet on the winner. Compared to the hay the Democrats will make of Trump’s casino limousine parking lot expansion via eminent domain in Atlantic City (picture an older lady telling her sob story with Hillary beside her at the podium) this is small potato inside baseball to most people.
You fail in logic for this statement:
Credit Suisse Group gave Cruz $33,442. CSG is under federal and international investigation as the money launderers for the crooks who ran FIFA the international soccer association.
How are they associated?
I gave Cruz well over a grand and I got a speeding ticket last year.
You might think twice about supporting a candidate who’ll take money from lawbreakers like me.
Just saying...
Goldman Sachs is Cruz’s wife’s employer. She is a Hedge Fund Analyst.
Horseshit!
Having worked quite a few very high-level money laundering and terrorist financing cases after I retired from the Army, I can tell you that, by and large, ALL banks are involved in money laundering to some extent. Some - including some very well known US banks - know exactly what they’re doing and some simply choose to look the other way. In many cases, major US banks have avoided indictment by “cooperating” (to a limited extent) with federal law enforcement. This link and a minor amount of research will give you some insight into the real extent of the issue: http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/12/relationship-managers-at-the-new-york-fed-and-citibank-the-job-function-ripe-for-corruption/
The truth is that every president of every bank in the world knows that the amount of money generated by criminal enterprises like drug trafficking organizations makes billions for banks around the world every year. For example, almost 20 years ago a friend and very highly-regarded international money laundering expert and I did a bottoms-up estimate of the amount of money generated worldwide by drug trafficking organizations alone. Our very conservative estimate, based on verifiable information, came in at over $620 billion per year. Factor in other criminal enterprises, including official corruption, and it easily exceeds that estimate by orders of magnitude. Does anyone really believe that the banking industry would willingly support removal of that amount of money from the banking system when the transfer fees alone generate millions in profits every year?
At any given time, you’ll find one or more major banks UNDER INDICTMENT somewhere in the world. The underlying reasons for those indictments are many and varied, which is an important point. By definition, “under indictment” means that the bank has been officially accused of complicity or involvement in illegal activity, sometimes knowingly and sometimes because they should have known or failed to complete and submit required disclosures. An accusation is NOT the same as a conviction and the same standard could be applied to major corporations in other industries.
If we’re going to single out a couple of banks that donated to Ted Cruz, then we ought to look at the financial institutions that have donated to every candidate at every time in that candidate’s political career. El Dorado Savings and Loan, BCCI and the Bush family come to mind, as do the activities of Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and the banks with which they have been involved, as well as, I’m sure, every candidate who has been involved in politics for more than 10 minutes.
I’m glad to see “Coach” has moved up to two sentence paragraphs.
It's so concerning. I can't watch. Wake me up when it's over.
Cruz raised over $22M in the last QUARTER, and people think he can be bought for less than $1M?
Pluswhich, anyone who knows the man knows he cannot be bought.
Keep trying though!
“Credit Suisse Group gave Cruz $33,442. CSG is under federal and international investigation as the money launderers for the crooks who ran FIFA the international soccer association.”
CSG is also a very prominent financial firm. Of course, countries accusing Swiss financial firms of “money laundering” is nothing new. That’s pretty much par for the course.
“He has received $705, 657 from the pro-amnesty Club For Growth...”
It might be true that Club for Growth supports amnesty, but their main function is NOT as a pro-amnesty organization. Club for Growth has always been primarily pushing a FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE agenda of lower taxes and lower spending.
“The pro-amnesty Goldman Sachs....”
Again, everyone knows Goldman Sachs is primarily a BUSINESS, and not some pro-amnesty organization.
If this is the worst they can dig up (on Cruz’ donors, not even on Cruz himself), it just makes me want to vote for him even more.
Well here’s my counter-point to the coach-is-right article:
I like Cruz and intend to vote for him in the primaries. Good luck with your guy “coach”.
You are welcome to try and rebut my counter-point.
Here’s a suggestion, if one is concerned about Cruz’s indebtedness to donors: pull the records from his Senate campaign. Now, is there any indication that Cruz has been championing the causes of questionable donor groups?
They great thing about experienced candidates is that they have records to vet.
Same ol’ shtick. Hi. I’m from the media and I’m here to help you choose the best candidate. I’m smarter and wiser than you. You can trust me. Let me guide you?
Do not trust the opinions of the media. Their goal is to divide and confuse us. Stay united and vote conservative.