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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. .....http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-group-did-business-iranian-bank-later-linked-terror-n657636
October is going to be a whirlwind..
I'm no Trump fan but this is a pretty thin gruel. Especially in view of the characters the Clintons have been associated with.I hate the MSM.
Compared to his other idiocy I'd agree. but if I were running against him, from the right, I'd point out that Mr. Patriotic Conservative was doing business with the ayahtollahs. And hammer it home. Because ultimately any business with Iranian anything is directly contributing to people attacking Americans.
Stories like this are a good test if one is playing the political game only (it is fine if the R does it but not the D or vice versa for the other side) or if one is being intellectually honest in their judgment of the action.
I dunnno. On one hand, you have Trump supporters that are absolutely in the dishonest/gameplaying camp, but then many of them simply arent that bright. It's pretty obvious they havent used their heads and thought a lot of things through at ALL.Now consider that the gameplayers AKA lying propagandists, regularly play the R OK/Dem/Evil game, but the stupids never EVER call them on it. So I honestly don't think this is a good test. From a purely objective standpoint, how can one differentiate when both actions are monumentally idiotic?
I just posted two stories about the Clinton Foundation having similar financial dealings with Iran. We can see if it treated the same way.
"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. 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.
At the time, the U.S. had a sweeping embargo in place which prohibited Americans from doing business with Iran, including receiving rent payments. However, some Iranian organizations were granted licenses exempting specific transactions from sanctions. If the payments were licensed, it may have been legally difficult for the Trump Organization to evict the bank.
