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Bloomberg Admits: We Goofed on Trump-Russia
Lifezette ^ | 12/6/17 | Jim Stinson

Posted on 12/06/2017 6:14:44 PM PST by markomalley

Bloomberg News corrected a major story that alleged the Justice Department had subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s past financial records.

Bloomberg’s Politics division reported early Tuesday that Robert Mueller, the special counsel for the Justice Department, had issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank that had “zeroed in” on the financial records of the Trump family.

The news caused major buzz, as Mueller's examination of Trump's financial records, or those of Trump's family, was considered a "red line" to the president, and one not related to Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian hacking during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, insisted the Bloomberg report was wrong at her Tuesday press briefing.

"We confirmed that the news reports that the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records related to the president are completely false," Sanders said. "No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources. I think this is another example of the media going too far and too fast, and we don't see it going in that direction."

At that point, Playboy correspondent Brian Karem tried to interrupt Sanders, to insist the media were just doing their job.

Reaction to the news that Trump's financial records had been subpoenaed was met with celebration from left-wing media outlets.

"The development seemed likely to send the already unraveling Trump into a tailspin," wrote reporter Bess Levin of Vanity Fair.

But by Wednesday afternoon, Bloomberg Politics corrected its story to note that the subpoena related to people "affiliated" with Trump.

Deutsche Bank has long been reported to have loaned The Trump Organization money. Bloomberg reports that before becoming president, the debt to Deutsche Bank ran as high as $300 million.

The 16th largest bank in the world, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, the German bank has assets of $1.7 trillion. The reason Deutsche Bank attracts so much attention from Trump critics is that the Justice Department looked into an alleged $10 billion Russian money-laundering scheme.

The bank reportedly settled with U.S. regulators sometime this year, CNN reported in November.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alabama; douchejones; dougjones; fakenews; fbi; jamescomey; media; msm; peterstrzok; robertmueller; roymoore; russia; trump
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To: Luke21

I was referring to my line of business. Sorry, should have said “in my line of business” back in the day. But now, and I’m not THAT old, it doesn’t matter much. Anywhere. In any line of work. Does that salve your ire?


21 posted on 12/06/2017 6:44:56 PM PST by TrueFact (The Republicans keep putting the stopper back in the swamp drain.)
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To: markomalley

This is an old tactic of trial lawyers. They ask a leading or argumentative question, or make some statement that is argumentative. The other side objects, the judge sustains the objection, directs the record to be stricken, and then tells the jury to disregard the remarks. Of course the jury can’t unhear what they heard.

The MSM tells the big, loud, front page lie. The lie echos around all the other MSM outlets. The lie gets exposed, but only the original liar has to retract. The others, after all, were only reporting that someone else had reported something.

Most of those casually connected to the news have been inoculated with the lie, and it is now part of the story.

These incidents need to be pursued. With lawsuits, prosecutions, and most of all with ridicule.


22 posted on 12/06/2017 7:13:17 PM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: markomalley

And, they wonder why they’re trusted by .005% of consumers!


23 posted on 12/06/2017 7:32:35 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: motor_racer
Yesterday I thought this flop / fake news was attributable to a mole op, particularly given there have been a number of dubious "reports" of late that could easily be leak testing. But .... given the statement(s) then forthcoming, from the bank and White House lawyer - I'm also considering it could be that the fake news had some grain of truth - ala it's possible that Mueller had subpoenaed bank records for something other than Trump - maybe for Fusion GPS OR the Clinton Foundation or Clinton Global Initiative. See: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/48617: Read about Bill Clinton, Tom Steyer & Deutsche Bank in Wikileaks - "He also said he's worried about the pensions commitment and not having real projects to announce at CGI america. I said we are concerned too and explained cf/cci/cgi discussions with deutsche bank, tom steyer, kkr, etc. He said ira suggested we at CF or CCI just create a fund and do the investing for the aflcio. I explained aflcio doesn't have the money, the States do, and that if we tried to do it in-house there might be some complexity around us running a fund. And that also would entail hiring a bunch of finance folks. He said ira told him the CCI finance guy had resigned. I said he is still working and actually was a part of our kkr call today and always has been a part of our pensions discussions. He said to call him in addition to ira to get more movement on the pension stuff."
24 posted on 12/06/2017 7:37:50 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: markomalley

Trolled, rolled, or smoking out leakers?


25 posted on 12/06/2017 7:55:10 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: markomalley; Admin Moderator

Might this important news do more good in Extended News (News/Activism), so more readers can see it? Only a suggestion. Great news, by the way!


26 posted on 12/06/2017 8:12:34 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Bullish
Mika and Joe are going to have a crying fit.

And Maddow! Don't forget Rachel Maddow who went for Bloomberg's reporting hook, line and sinker.

Yesterday, Andrew Wilkow played a clip from her show where she was literally giddy that Bloomberg (up to that point) had stuck to its reporting despite the WH stating it was not true. She had Trump convicted.

Tomorrow's show will be almost as good as the clips of her on Election night 2016.

God help me, I love this so!

27 posted on 12/06/2017 8:31:26 PM PST by JohnG45
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To: DoughtyOne
That same bloomberg article also added that the AFP was reporting that the subpoena was for Manafort's records.
28 posted on 12/06/2017 8:40:41 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever.)
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To: stylin19a

Yes, that’s true.

It wasn’t Trump or Trump family records.

Just a tad inaccurate huh.


29 posted on 12/06/2017 8:48:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: markomalley

“”The development seemed likely to send the already unraveling Trump into a tailspin,” wrote reporter Bess Levin of Vanity Fair.”

Uh, sure. trump “unraveling” and in a “tailspin” all because of a bunch of fabricated lies. these people are so demented they believe their fictional world is the same thing as reality.


30 posted on 12/06/2017 8:55:42 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: markomalley

I’m beginning to think the Trump administration is feeding them these stories to make them look even more foolish.


31 posted on 12/06/2017 9:33:00 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
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To: DoughtyOne
Bloomberg is a member in good standing of the SwampMedia. They are not reliable and haven't been in recent memory.
32 posted on 12/08/2017 7:05:38 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
I agree. Thanks hinckley buzzard.
33 posted on 12/08/2017 9:23:16 AM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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