President Donald Trump Reportedly Also Pressured China For Political Help | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Rachel Maddow shows that contrary to arguments by Trump defenders that Trump was only kidding when he called on China to investigate Joe Biden's son, reports from multiple sources suggest otherwise; that Ukraine isn't the only country Trump pressured to help his personal, domestic politics. Aired on 10/28/19.
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President Donald Trump Reportedly Also Pressured China For Political Help | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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    1. @ Grim Reefer Did you know that on YouTube you can’t harass or bully people who make comments you don’t like? Now you know.

  1. Birds of a feather right? Trump surrounds himself with grifters, liars, criminals and greedy people who already have more money than most families.

    1. @Dianne Forit We hear reports on Betsy & Ben, what’s the rest of Trump’s appointed theives up to?
      “Justice” Kavanaugh stated Trump is omnipotent when it comes to any legal action against him! We saw that Supreme Court bias coming! Shameful…

    1. @Brett Pechatsko *CORRUPTION IN TRUMP FAMILY.
      GOOGLE: TRUMP FOUNDATION WILL DISSOLVE, ACCUSED OF ‘SHOCKING PATTERN OF ILLEGALITY. Under court supervision, as part of an ongoing investigation and lawsuit by the NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL, Trump’s ‘charitable arm ‘ was literally functioning as a checkbook to serve Trump’s business and political interests, and of engaging in a shockinng illegality that included unlawfully coordinating with Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

      In addition to shutting down the charity , the Attorney General Barbara Underwood has pursued a LAWSUIT BARRING TRUMP AND HIS OLDEST CHILDREN FROM BOARDS OF OTHER NEW YORK CHARITIES, AS WELL AS FORCE THE PAYMENT OF MILLIONS IN RESTITUTION AND PENALTIES.

      The Attorney General has charged that the Trump Foundation and its directors ( Eric, Ivanka,Don Jr) are “held accountable for their clear and REPEATED VIOLATIONS OF STATE AND FEDERAL LAW.”

    2. @Brett Pechatsko (sharing)
      Youtube: How Donald Trump Shifted Charity Money Into His Business | Forbes
      Google : How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business – Forbes
      https://www.forbes.com/…/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his business.

    3. @Brett Pechatsko
      (sharing)
      GOOGLE/YOUTUBE _ DONALD TRUMP DISCOVERED TO BE PERSONALLY POCKETING FUNDS IN 7 STATES FROM 5 MILLION PEOPLE . By Christopher Powell, Feb 22 2019.
      – Donald Trump is making money from the Government and the People’s PENSIONS FUNDS.
      According to a Reuters review of public records, Reuters has released a report, again busting Trump for personally profiting from the government:

      PUBLIC PENSION FUNDS in at least seven U.S. states were used to invest millions of dollars in an investment fund – that owns a New York hotel, and pays one of President Donald Trump’s companies to run it. Trump is at risk of violating an obscure constitutional clause, according to legal experts.

      These People’s PENSIONS FUNDS, in the states of California, New York, Texas, Arizona, Montana, Michigan and Missouri, belong to more than 5 million members, including state lawmakers in California, teachers in Texas, and police officers in New York, just to name a few.

      These PENSIONS FUNDS also include the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest public pension fund in the nation.

      * NOTE: “If you take a step back and look at this transaction, it’s a payment chain from state pension funds to President Trump,” said Jed Shugerman, a Law professor at Fordham University.

    4. @Brett Pechatsko I don’t believe he’s as rich as he claims. There’s overwhelming evidence that he’s lost far more than he’s made over the last two decades, and he’s been bailed out by his father many times and has a history of going into debt. However, there’s a really easy way to convince me and the rest of the skeptics of otherwise, simply produce a third party document over all his assets, liabilities, revenues and expenditures. That would be called a “tax return”.

      And even _if_ he was as rich as he says he is, he would actually be a pretty poor businessman. It’s a statistical fact that if I inherited as much money as he did, then invested everything in an index fund and died, I’d be richer than Trump. His performance is even worse if we compare it to the New York Real Estate index. If I had a couple of drunken monkeys throwing darts on a map of Manhattan and bought whatever property they landed on for the money Trump inherited, I would very likely make more money than Trump.

  2. He fits the trump grifter business model perfectly – FRAUD…. covered in scam, covered in con…….topped with BS.

    1. And top it all off with Trump’s promise to drain the swamp of these ‘deep state’ operatives and then he appoints a guy who literally espouses the tenets of the Illuminati. His frickin’ books are about being the best Illunminatus you can be.

    1. Drumpf is like the blob of goo found in the sewers that no one can quite identify.

      But one thing’s for sure… it’s main ingredient is poop 😞 along with all the stuff we flush down the toilet.
      #sad #2545

    1. They will not go into this, but after this impeachment they will chase this down because of reports like this that shed light on another crime. The House is the Grand Jury and you can have multiple Grand Juries, this and Mueller felonies will still have to be dealt with once this impeachment is over, I suspect it will not get beyond testimony and court fight because it will not start until 2020. And like Hillary voters will go to the booth knowing Trump is being investigated for corruption, if they want to reward Trump with 4 more years because they can accept corruption but not investigations an indictments, that is their call and they get the corrupt government they voted on.

    2. @myko freder Muellers felonies? Kiddo you should listen to this story instead of trolling, even just the first 5 minutes. Trump is appointing illuminati lovers who donated millions to him to positions they ask for, and you probably still think the Deep State is against him? *He is hiring illuminati members* and you’re crying about Muellers legal investigation, that AG Jeff Sessions opened? Trump/Sessions approved the special council, so they’d face charges before Mueller(if there was anything to investigate)…😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    1. @tracy bird I suppose they realized their folly and will not vote for trump again. They can sue him.. He’s under numerous criminal investigations for money laundering, witness tampering, Obstruction of Justice, insurance fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, tax fraud, corruption, lying to the American people, massive Russian bank loans, stealing 5 million people’s Pension Funds and funneling them into his businesses, and using Children’s Cancer Charity funds and using them as his persona bank account.

    2. @tracy bird GOOGLE : “TRACKING 29 INVESTIGATIONS RELATED TO TRUMP.”
      Federal, state and congressional auhorities are scrutinizing rump’s life through investigations related to his businesses, campaign and presidency. According to the NYT, there are currently 10 Federal Criminal Investigations, 8 State and Local Investigations and 11 Congressional Investigations.

      GOOGLE : “Trump’s criminal cases Southern District New York Eastern District New York” ”

      GOOGLE : Trump’s World Still Faces 16 Known Criminal Probes | WIRED

      GOOGLE: VOX – MUELLER IS DONE. TRUMP’S LEGAL WOES AREN’T .
      No matter what special counsel Robert Mueller found, it won’t be the end of the president’s legal woes — because he, his business, and his family are in jeopardy from many other investigations and lawsuits.

      GOOGLE: U.S. NEWSWEEK –
      NEW YORK INVESTIGATORS COULD ‘INDICT’ DONALD TRUMP WHILE HE’S STILL PRESIDENT, WATERGATE PROSECUTOR SAYS.

    3. @GRK Alexis Donald Trump is a very rich man. His gross assets are $8 Billion, and his net assets are $3.1 after deducting debts (loans) of $4.9 Billion on his properties.

  3. Like attracts like:

    Trump attracts grifters like himself to fill his swamp and insecure, dimwits that support and enable his madness.

  4. I’m sitting here with a glass of champagne finally being able to breathe out. I am not American but i have spent the last 3 years feeling so worried, deflated, concerned and fearful that America would lose its democracy and if you go so does the rest of the world and I couldn’t live with that. Now, I am completely enjoying this as I reckon your system is going to survive and come through… thank goodness and thank you to your amazing investigative journalists. You should be so proud… wow!!!

    1. MSNBC stated Hillary had a 90% chance to win over trump in 2016. Look how that turned out for them. They tend to make things out to be what they aren’t in reality. Trump did nothing wrong and it will soon be yet another waste of time for our country to try to impeach him by any means necessary. It’s honestly sickening to watch.

    2. @Rob B i do not know mabey i should post a video of my third world country being Baltimore Maryland. Should i put md tags up off of cars or sould i show the road sings it mite be better. Or both

    3. Agnostic Atheist Agree! As an aside, for those of you with kids, teach them that those Congressional elections or midterm elections are just as important as voting for a president. I wasn’t aware as a new voter, but my kids sure are!

    4. I plan to hold a party the day he is tossed to the curb and then celebrate that day forevermore. I just need a name for this national holiday

    1. Yeah but I bet the DEMS will screw up the messaging..Why is it bad to seek political dirt from Foreigners? ..”COMPROMAT” ..The President will be COMPROMISED..yet I have not heard it once They should scream it every hour from the roof..but they won’t -DEMS do not know how to fight – they have the winning hand but will screw it up

    2. @Tom Jones no you liberals are resembling the people who are not human. You do strange things without thinking take your censorship View. In this you want pornography in comic books. For us to say that children should have lines that are innocent. A childhood. A time when girls and boys can mingle together not worrying about great sexual contact. You want to introduce these nonsense her comic books and basically have the older boys take every young girl as if they mimic their new super sexual comic book hero. And I tell you you wage war saying that that is censorship. And your wage war saying that such and such is not politically correct. I must say that there’s something else in this world that matters more and that is being culturally correct. Unbelievable you all can you not put away the things that harm you and you’re trying to join what is harming you as if you were a slave to it. Enough to honor a man who is trying to make positive change in this world. You cannot even see past someone being victimized by impeachment sport. Can you not stand up for dignity. Or should all the candidates who want to get elected give a fishing line with a drug packet attached. And he will be able to laugh his head off when he drags you through the sewer pit just to get it.

    1. It looks like all those books are predominately the same book with different titles. Just scramble the chapters and change a few words. Voila, a new book! Clearly a graduate of Trump University. All the best people.

    2. The most interesting part is just like there Lord and Savior DT. I think they may actually “believe” they are the things they pretend to be…
      It is foolishness mentoring foolishness.

  5. Global Academy of Finance & Management sounds like Trump University. Signing up and giving them money will make you one of the next generation of global suckers.😂

    1. @DoRight Actually Jesus said that about the unrepentant Jews who had initially believed Jesus’ words but were too proud of their Jewish heritage for his words to take root in their hearts, and who’d started insulting him: “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (John 8: 44).

      Blessings.

    2. @Kimberley McKay Please do not be rude. Please learn and practice good manners and be respectful of others. Thank you.

    3. Cornelius Gal You are a prime example of what’s wrong with American voting rights. People like you are allowed to vote.🤮🤮🤮🤮
      In your case they threw the baby out and kept the placenta!🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

    1. Hayden Logston and I’m sure you’d come out smelling like a rose under the same level of scrutiny

    2. Why in the world do you think he needs to be put underneath a microscope truthfully you guys have a poor case of victimization and therefore no legitimate case to investigate anyting. One of the good wisdoms of the Bible is treat people like you want them to treat you. What if someone suggested to put you under a microscope and see what bad things that you have done even in your childhood innocent years. I think you probably shouldn’t think about the concept of being forgiving. Try to look for what is good in Trump and you may find lots of it.

    3. @TRUE WORSHIPERS TRIBUIT QUEST There is no good in Trump – He pretends to be religious for the religious vote/ pretends to be a patriot but dodged the draft five times / He uses his position as president t increase his business profits / Trump’s said multiple times about dating his own daughter, the man is a sick, twisted psychopath and his supporters are looking like maniacs at this moment

    1. @UNDERGROUND WHEREHOUSE I understand that you do not study scripture it shows in your post . An Antichrist is anyone who goes against the teachings of Christ . Revelation 22:14-15. Anyone who knowingly does not keep the commandments and instead follow the traditions of men . Sunday worship is a tradition of men and is not scriptural , Christmas is a tradition of men and is not scriptural , saying you can be saved by faith alone is a tradition of men , saying that Jesus was the son of the Most High God is a tradition of men , Jesus actually said he was the son of David . Participating in religion is a tradition of men . Jesus taught , keep the commandments that you may be worthy to enter into his kingdom . It is just that simple .Keep the commandments , that is what is required and what Jesus taught and is the mark of God’s people . Those who are anti christ do not follow what Christ taught .

    1. I cant tell you guys how many times a day i just, shake my head and mutter, “of course he did” after whatever the newest scandal is, breaks.

    2. @TRUE WORSHIPERS TRIBUIT QUEST you cultists are real delusional. Who are you worshipping…trump or your god?

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