Am I reading a very bad John Le Carre novel?

                              Its almost impossible to keep up with the Trumpf Clown  Regime.

 So far:

•  The urgent executive order banning travelers from 7 Muslim lands etc;which could not wait a second or the judges should be blamed for the inevitable terror attacks. 
• That was 3 weeks ago,Now  a revised draft is on hold while the WH press machine preens over Trumpf's 'incredibly brilliant" address on Tuesday night.
• He did not drool,fall down or insult any disabled vets.He mouthed a series of platitudes,lies and half truths without losing his place on the teleprompter--which he "does not use".
• The whole triumph has now been drowned by Jeff Sessions lying under oath in his senat
• Confirmation Hearings. This Russia stuff has barely begun!

                                          

• No plan to repeal or replace or repair or rescue Obamacare.
• Did they promise that?

• The tax reforms will be the Huuugest, Bestest ever etc etc etc.           
• Just will not be "scored” by the OMB.
• No coherent immigration policy.
• Wall: Mexico not paying-so the Donald no longer asking. 
• A brilliant negotiator.
• Foreign policy at WH different to at the State Department.
• Ditto Homeland Security.
• Ditto Defence.
• The failed mission in Yemen, decided over dinner at his Golf Resort,was a"great success”. 
• Anyway "it was planned by Obama" and "his Generals" are to blame.
• Still it allowed for "a great" photo op exploiting the dead Navy Seal's widow

We have already forgotten that:

• Michael Flynn The National Security Advisor--no senate confirmation needed,Trumpf's personal appointment.Has resigned in disgrace.
• His nominee for Labor Secretary withdrew rather than release his financials.
• Ditto nominee for Under secretary for the Army.
• Ditto second nominee for Under secretary for the Army.
• Ditto nominee for Under secretary for the Navy
• Anyone knows who is looking after the  Air Force?
• White Supremacist still the most powerful man in the W.H.
• We have not seen the promised tax returns.
• Has not divested his business interests.
• Still has a hotel with a government  lease not allowed by law.
• He still tweets.

RUSSIA

And now Jeff Sessions,his Attorney General, is in the firing line for lying in his senate hearings about --RUSSIA--and meetings with the Russian ambassador a known foreign agent.
Perjury by the nations chief law man.
Sessions is the other remaining white supremacist in the ruling clique.
The polite--but ruthless--bigot sidekick to Steve Bannon.

The Russian onion is only just beginning to unpeel [the King wants credit for not using the Russian    Matryoshka Doll metaphor]  .

 Banafort will go to prison not for treason but for tax evasion.
 Flynn's gone .
 Sessions next .

 After that a really serious one.
Bringing the money trail closer to Trumpf himself.

                                              

Secretary of Commerce billionaire Wilbur Ross is a partner with several Russian billionaire oligarchs in the Bank of Cyprus . http://www.nationalmemo.com/ross-russian-connections/

Regular readers will be aware that in his past the King has been the chairman of a Ukrainian bank founded in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.First Ukrainian International Bank, FUIB, was owned by the the World Bank, EBRD, DEG[German],FORTIS[Belgian] and several Ukrainian "business men'" or companies.
He was also the chairman of an investment trust in Moscow.

In 2006 the bank was sold to its  Ukrainian oligarch shareholder Rinat Akhematov.
Now the richest man in the Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinat_Akhmetov 
This oligarch along with Vlad the imPUTINer financially backed the despot Viktor Yanukovych who was run out of town by the Orange Revolution.Ultimately leading to the Russian invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

                    The king has some understanding of business practices in Russia/Ukraine.

So back to Wilbur:

• Ross is Vice Chair and a leading investor in the Bank of Cyprus,the largest bank on the Island,
• By coincidence Cyprus is well known as an offshore havens for illicit Russian finance.
• Since its bailout by the IMF and Cyprus government in 2014,Ross has been Vice Chairman.
• Alongside several Russians, one of whom is believed to be a Putin surrogate,he is a substantial investor.
• Another major investor in that bank is a Russian mega-billionaire named Dmitry Rybolovlev.[more later].
• Ross and his team invested more than $1 billion in the troubled Bank .                                                                  
• Ross named a new chairman, Josef Ackerman,the disgraced chairman of Deutsche Bank. 
• On Ackerman's watch,Deutsche Bank paid $20 billion in fines and settlements..
•  Among these was a $650 million fine for helping launder Russian money through Deutsche's offices in Moscow, New York and Cyprus.
• FCA in UK said bank  allowed unidentified customers to transfer $10 bn from Russia "in a manner  highly suggestive of financial crime”.
•  Money moved via Deutsche in the UK, to accounts,"including in Cyprus, Estonia, and Latvia".

Deutsche Bank is Trump’s largest known lender, having extended him more than $300 million in loans ,which remain outstanding.
Why Ross would appoint anyone with such a poor record of banking conduct, and why he worked with the Russian oligarchs, remains a" mystery".

• His fellow bank co-chair, Vladimir Strzhalkovsky was effectively appointed by Vladimir Putin. The NY Times and Financial Times of London describe him as “a former KGB agent” and “long-time associate of Putin’s.”
• In February that year Ross paid $81 million to settle a lawsuit brought by shareholders that Ross breached his fiduciary duty when engineering the merger of two companies that he majority-owned..
• In August 2016,he reimbursed investors $11.8 million and paid a fine of $2.3 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the overcharging of fees by his investment company.
• To be fair he is also a major art collector and donor to think tanks and other charities.
• As is Rinat Akhematov.
• Neither of them is Jewish.
• This is important to Steve Bannon.

Ross is 80 years old and until the mid 2000's was apparently a registered Democrat.Bill Clinton appointed him to the board of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund.He only became a registered Republican in late 2016.A year after he signed on to the Trumpf campaign,contributing  $200,000.

   Ross has been associated with Trumpf since his early bankruptcies in the 90's.

Mar -a-Lago

•  In the last decade Dmitry Rybolovlev[see above] had the most expensive divorce in history
• Wife awarded $4.5 billion.
• He conspired to hide his money buying into foreign real estate.
• This included a $100 million estate in Florida.The seller---Donald Trump.

• Trumpf had bought the estate out of bankruptcy two years earlier,for $40 million in 2006
• A modest $60 million profit.
• Neither Trumpf nor Rybolovlev ever lived on the property nor spent money to refurbish  or upgrade.
• Rybolovlev has now torn down the buildings and is reported to be planning to parcel and sell off the land--probably at a very substantial loss.
• They claim they never met and the deal was handled by an intermediary.

                Unknown if Ross was this intermediary,but 

• He was co chair with Rybolovlev at the bank of Cyprus.
• He knew he was looking to hide his assets in real estate.
• He lived down the road from Trumpf at Mar-a-Lago
• He also knew that Trump needed an influx of cash to repay at debt to --who else 
• Deutsche Bank.

All this ties Wilbur Ross,Bank of Cyprus,Deutche Bank and Dmitry Rybolovlev to POTUS

                  Why did NONE of this come up at the Wilbur Rosss Hearings?

                        Beats Me.But the Democrats will get a second bite.

         Unless I learned nothing working in Ukraine and Moscow:

There is much more to come,so much more.