Who’s paying Trump’s bonds? Follow the money!
Trump’s $175 Million Bond May Be Every Bit As Dodgy As Every U.S. National Security Expert Feared — Seth Abramson in Proof
Trump paid the $175m bond in his New York civil fraud case thanks to Knight Specialty. It is owned by Don Hankey, who is known as “the king of subprime car loans”, specializing in lending to automobile buyers with poor credit ratings at high rates of interest. — Independent
Follow the money with this interactive map. Can you spot? (Answers below)
The sub-prime auto dealer who paid a $175 million bond?
The CEO who makes $34.5 million annually?
Charged for misusing company funds to pay Benjamin Netanyahu?
The Axos Bank auditor and whistleblower who was fired?
Who hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law?
Who got $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia?
The U.S. insurance executive who met with Putin in Moscow?
Subprime auto loan millionaire
- Hankey made his fortune with subprime auto loans, charging exorbitant interest to financially strapped customers who need a car. — Rolling Stone
- Hankey says that he didn’t even know one of his companies (Axos Financial) was lending hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump,
- Hankey only reached out to Donald Trump to save him from financial and political ruin because “he would have done the same for anyone.” — Seth Abramson
Criminals, even notorious criminals
Trump’s new lender’s digital bank stands accused of getting money from “criminals, even notorious criminals….includ[ing] very high level foreign officials from major oil-producing countries and war zones.” Nations looking to bribe Donald Trump with many tens of millions of dollars, and thereby purchase future U.S. foreign policy decisions, are “major oil-producing countries”:
- Saudi Arabia (the #2 oil-producing country worldwide)
- Russia (#3)
- China (#4)
- the United Arab Emirates (#8)
- the until-recently Jair-Bolsonaro-led Brazil (#9)
- Venezuela (#12)
- Trump’s new lender by one degree of separation (at most) are from Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, the UAE, Brazil, or Venezuela—all nations whose leaders Trump has colluded with or attempted to collude with over the last nine years—are very high. — Seth Abrambson
Who posted the $91 million bond for Trump? Follow the Russian connections.
Trump Posts $92 Million Bond to Support Jury Award to E. Jean Carroll in Defamation Suit — Time
Where did the money for the bond come from? Read Seth Abaramson’s article.
Read more about Trump’s bail bonds
- The Story of How Donald Trump Secured His Eleventh-Hour $175 Million Bond Is Already Changing Dramatically — Seth Abramson
- Source of the Money for $91 Million Bond in Trump’s Defamation and Rape Case Appears to Have Major Kremlin Ties. — Seth Abramson in Proof
- The Totally Dodgy Backstory of the Bank that Just Refinanced Trump Tower — RollingStone
- Trump needed $225 million. A little-known bank came to the rescue. — Washington Post
TakeAway: Follow the dark money that’s paying Trump’s bonds.
Deepak
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Answers: (1) Don Hankey (2) Greg Garrabants (3) Charles Kushner (4) Matt Earhart (5) Charles Kushner (6) Jared Kushner (7) Maurice Greenberg
Reposted from Democracy Labs with permission.