In re: @mrbromwich's question about why Barr would attempt The Friday Night Massacre for Idiots™:

Mazars and Deutsche Bank prosecutions are at SDNY. They will end Trump. https://twitter.com/pragmaticNYC/status/1274162040949690370
With regards to Mazars, Deutsche Bank, Panama Papers, Trump SoHo, and all that: it's not just about exposing a single money launderer, but exposing THE MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR SECOND ECONOMY OFFSHORE.

Tax evasion. Arms dealing. Terrorism. Economic warfare.
As we see in the Trump Baku (Azerbaijan) project alone, it's never about "a hotel," but about the ability to finance global covert action through construction financing, used by drug cartels, Iranian terrorists, etc. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
Contruction projects and luxury hotel/condos allow SO many financial crimes of the greatest importance:
- Money laundering
- Tax evasion
- Economic warfare (make certain cities like Washington DC and New York too expensive for daily life)
- Espionage operations funding...
This is why we keeping telling you Trump is a FRONT, not his own dictator. His name - which he may not even own for business purposes - goes on the front of buildings that allow purchases of individual units by offshore, anonymous LLCs.

Many owned by the Global Mob.
This may be hard to envision for the average reader, but sorry, there's no way around the complexity. Here's how it works:

A crime syndicate makes cash from human trafficking. They transfer that money from, say, Uzbekistan, to bank accounts in Malta or Cyprus.
The shell company in Malta or Cyprus sends payments to Bermuda or Panama, wherever, to an offshore company that then buys a unit from Trump.

So: Profits from slavery -> offshore banks -> shiny Trump Tower unit owned *legally* in a NATO country. 🧐
Once your bogus LLC owns a unit in Trump Whatever, these days you can produce *clean, non-Mob-associated cash* a couple ways:
1. Rent out on AirBnB - perhaps to sex traffickers and make money multiple ways
2. Flip property from LLC A *for inflated price* to LLC B.
(See how this doesn't make it onto TV? It takes a second to explain.)

Let's call LLC A "Totally Not Human Trafficking LLC" - it buys a Trump unit for $800,000.

It *sells* that unit to "Totally Not Funding Russian Spies LLC" for $1.2 million.

That's $400k - laundered cash.
What would "Totally Not Human Trafficking LLC" do with the $400,000 of free cash flow from "Totally Not Funding Russian Spies LLC?"

Well, how else might you get "poor" grad students the tickets to fly around America and "hang out" with U.S. politicians?

(GET IT YET?)
Also, how might you bribe politicians as a foreign enemy/global Mob syndicate? Fund PR campaigns to cover your tracks?

Can't just fund the Embassy...too easy to catch. Deposits to non-U.S. citizens from abroad, meh, tips off Treasury FinCEN.

But have your "LLC" hire people? 🧐
These financial structures also feed private equity funds to take over American/NATO/Allied industry, allow for short-selling on Wall Street financial instruments and timed detonations of the stock market...all SORTS of fun stuff.

THAT SYSTEM IS WHAT BARR IS PROTECTING. 😠
Shutting down the U.S. Attorney of SDNY isn't just about Trump but: arms dealing, drug trafficking, political bribes, spy operations...and all of these track back to the 1970s and 1980s.

Which is why you'd need someone who knows about all of it to shut it DOWN.
More soon. 😈

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