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NYT Bombshell: Deutsche Bank Has Been Cooperating with NY AG Criminal Investigation of Trump for Over a Year

The New York Times just dropped a massive bombshell right on Trump’s desk. The prosecutors have his records from Deutsche Bank, and have had them for over a year. The bank is cooperating. We can’t know whether the bank notified Trump that they had turned the materials over to the prosecutor. In a normal situation, the bank would not necessarily notify a client.

Now Trump knows that Deutsche has been cooperating with the NY AG for over a year:

The New York prosecutors who are seeking President Trump’s tax records have also subpoenaed his longtime lender, a sign that their criminal investigation into Mr. Trump’s business practices is more wide-ranging than previously known.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office issued the subpoena last year to Deutsche Bank, which has been Mr. Trump’s primary lender since the late 1990s, seeking financial records that he and his company provided to the bank, according to four people familiar with the inquiry.

Last year. They have had Trump’s biggest financial records (Deutsche Bank is his primary “official” lender), and they’ve had them for over a year. If Trump is just learning of this development, someone had best load up a crate of benzos to the White House.

Deutsche Bank complied with the subpoena. Over a period of months last year, it provided Mr. Vance’s office with detailed records, including financial statements and other materials that Mr. Trump had provided to the bank as he sought loans, according to two of the people familiar with the inquiry.
The bank’s response to the subpoena reinforces the seriousness of the legal threat the district attorney’s investigation poses for Mr. Trump, his family and his company, which in recent years have faced — and for the most part fended off — an onslaught of regulatory, congressional and criminal inquiries.

Trump can scream “witch hunt!” from now until the end of time, but a crime where a value “X” for one thing (His tax form) is listed as value “Y” in another form (His bank loan) for obvious gain, is very difficult to disprove as a “hoax.” These are crimes on paper. Yes, it is notoriously difficult to appraise real estate (that’s why it’s wonderful for money laundering) but it’s not difficult to put the same number in the same year, in the same places. If he didn’t …

This also comes out in the same week that the NYT reported that Deutsche Bank announced it was doing its own investigation into Trump’s personal banker at Deutsche. The timing may not be directly related, but the investigation into all things Trump is definitely related, and could bring down a lot of people, perhaps some small countries, … and maybe one big one.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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