financial statements that were submitted to deutsche bank to get loans. that is classic bank fraud. again, if it s true. there s an extraordinary story in here, i haven t heard whether you ve talked about it yet, involving a fraud involving his foundation where he uses i had straw donor to buy a portrait of him and then reimburses the donor. another, you know, if true, an outright fraud. and, of course, perhaps the most important part of it which is the roger stone conversation about wikileaks which implicates him in the entire collusion issue. now, i hold on, jeffrey. stand by one moment because first to cnn, we have a new piece of evidence that michael chon promis cohen promised in this statement he would deliver in the is the check that he promised he would deliver under oath that he says and shows on this check is from donald j. trump, 725 fifth
and i don t even think you can make it a straight face argument anymore. at this point, there have been so many lies about russia and no convincing explanation for any of it. honestly, there have been more lies about russia than really anything else. if you take the president out of it, because he has a problem with mendacity. you know, he abuses the truth when the truth would suffice. that s him. but in people around him campaign, even with this inaugural commission that they re looking at now with the democrats, what are they looking for? foreign investors with straw donors, straw donor meaning they do it in my name, but it was actually a foreigner who gave me the money to donate. you re not allowed to do that. even that goes to this same principle of what they were hiding. no, exactly. it s like every time russia is mentioned, pinocchio jumps out of the bush, every single time. and that is, and you know, the question is fundamentally why. that s what mueller s trying to figure
they always did that. ken cuccinelli was just on, talking about jeff bezos and david pecker and brings out the clintons, saying, they used to wash things like there all the time. matt gates, ardent defender of the president will say, there s a lot of questions about russia and clinton, too. that s part of the tactic of, is there too much examination of this only because it s trump. i just don t think you can say that and win the argument anymore. and i don t even think you can make it a straight face argument anymore. at this point, there have been so many lies about russia and no convincing explanation for any of it. honestly, there have been more lies about russia than really anything else. if you take the president out of it, because he has a problem with mendacity. you know, he abuses the truth when the truth would suffice. that s him. but in people around him campaign, even with this inaugural commission that they re looking at now with the democrats, what are they looking f
influence, so not the kinds of factors you want a u.s. president taking into account deciding who gets what excuse me, they can give lots of money to libraries. is that because they re on their way out? they started giving to libraries pretty early on. libraries don t have as much power i m talk about presidential libraries. ego towers. because they re out of office. what are crimes you think are on the table? we know the southern district s taking a look. the subpoena seems very broad in scope at this in time and you have those money flows you were just talking about. from big donors to the inauguration and you have people buying tick tsz. we know one by the name of sam patten, by using a straw donor, was able to give $50,000 of
committee to buy influence? it s to try it s a little like saying there s gambling at rick s casino. of course. you re exactly right, but look, the issue is that you re right. the whole concept and the whole way the inaugural system is done is maybe needs to be they need to take a look at it, but there are rules. and there are guidelines. and there are laws. and something as simple as like what shimon was mentioning, potentially a straw donor, if that happened even once, that s a big problem. but the other thing is, okay, let s say they tried to buy influence. they want the subpoena calls for e-mails, text messages and other things. there s buying influence and then there s buying influence. there s a wink wink nod nod, and then there s an actual request for a quid pro quo that might be a little more clear and illegal. we don t know if donald trump