It was bad enough that Donald Trump was making decisions like trying to steer the G7 to his Doral property in Florida, or keeping the Trump Hotel in DC when the lease with the Park Service forbids it, just to enrich himself. But now NBC is reporting he has over 100 business interests in Turkey and has made millions of dollars a year in licensing fees from the Trump Towers there. Additionally, NBC notes, Erdogan has, in the past, threatened to take the Trump name off the Istanbul Trump Tower to get what he wants and Trump went along and changed US policy. Now it's gone beyond just altering or ignoring domestic US policy to keep the Trump family making money. Now, in Syria, innocent Kurdish and Christian civilians are dying for Trump family profits. Has Donald Trump set up a genocide for profit and thus committed the ultimate impeachable offense?



-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Has the Fed Broken the Business Cycle and What Does It Mean?

- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown / Understanding Marxism

Article: "Trump defends allowing Turkish offensive against Kurds: 'They didn't help us in the Second World War'" by Natasha Turak.

Article: "Turkey Syria offensive: What did the Kurds ever do for the US?" by Jonathan Marcus.

Article: "The Fed's September rate cut now looks even more controversial" by Dion Rabouin.

Article: "Consumer debt hits $4 trillion" by Jessica Dickler.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-2008" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Central banks say negative interest rates have been 'effective'" by Brian Cheung.

Article: "Howard Ruff" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal judge slams DeVos and Education Department for violating order and weighs sanctions" by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel.

Site: The Project on Predatory Student Lending.

Article: "Oregon Passes Permanent Daylight Saving Measure, Bill Goes To Governor" by Lauren Dake.

Article: "Federal government 'improperly ignored Constitution' when it allowed Trump's DC hotel lease to remain in place after the election, watchdog finds" by Geoff Earle.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).

Tweet: "No bedbugs at Doral. The Radical Left Democrats, upon hearing that the perfectly located (for the next G-7) Doral National MIAMI was under consideration for the next G-7, spread that false and nasty rumor. Not nice!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Donald Trump's longtime business connections in Turkey back in the spotlight" by Heidi Przybyla and Anna Schecter.

Article: "Iraq Levies" (Kurds and others fought with us) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The House Can Play Hardball, Too. It Can Arrest Giuliani." by Josh Chafetz.

Article: "Contempt of Congress" (inherent contempt, criminal contempt, civil contempt) by Wikipedia.

Event: Portland, OR - October 10 @ 7:30 PM: Booksignings w/Thom Hartmann - The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America at Powells City of Books.

Article: "Two men connected to Giuliani's Ukraine efforts arrested on campaign finance charges" by Erica Orden, Evan Perez, Michael Warren and David Shortell.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 2 section 4. "... The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors...."

Article: "The Scope Of The Impeachment Power: What Are "high Crimes And Misdemeanors"?" by Neil J. Kinkopf.

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787" by James Madison.

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787: July 20, 1787" by James Madison.

Article: "A Sitting President's Amenability To Indictment And Criminal Prosecution" by U.S. Department of Justice (OLC), 2000.

Article: "Re: Amenability of the President, Vice President and Other Civil Officers to Federal Criminal Prosecution while in office." by U.S. Department of Justice (OLC), 1973.

Article: "Saudi Arabia oil attacks: Donald Trump approves deployment of US troops in response to strikes on oil facilities" by Harriet Brewis.

Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

Article: "Hong Kong protests: Apple pulls tracking app after China criticism" by Erin Hale.

Article: "Ukraine's president says 'no blackmail' in Trump call" by BBC.

Article: "The Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Article X".

Article: "Donald Trump Has a Conflict of Interest in Turkey. Just Ask Donald Trump." by Ashley Dejean.

Article: "President Trump has made 12,019 false or misleading claims over 928 days" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

Article: "United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iran nuclear deal: Trump pulls US out in break with Europe allies" by BBC.

Article: "New poll finds more than half support impeaching Trump and removing him from office" by Paul LeBlanc.

Book: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

Book: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess the President by Dr. Bandy X. Lee.

Article: "25th Amendment Section 4" "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..."

Article: ""I was separated from him. I was taken": A 7-year-old torn from her father at the U.S. border" by CBS News.

Article: "Federal Court Dismisses Trump Claim That Immigrant Children Aren't Entitled to Soap and Toothbrushes" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "2016-present purges in Turkey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "State Department blocks ambassador from testifying in Trump impeachment inquiry" by Allan Smith and Geoff Bennett.

Tweet: "Fruman-just arrested trying to flee the country-met *personally* with Trump *twice* in the days before Ukraine froze all Manafort investigations in April 2018. Think there was a connection?" by Seth Abramson.

Tweet: "UPSHOT/ It's looking like these two men may have assisted Giuliani/Trump in shaking down Ukraine to end all investigation of Manafort-who Trump was telling friends months earlier, in January 2018, could bring him down-in exchange for business coming their way from Trump policies." by Seth Abramson.

Article: "Succession (TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Florida voters gave 1 million felons voting rights, so Republicans created a 'mess' to stop it" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Why Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Took On Donald Trump - Over Police Bills" by Dave Levinthal.

Article: "Trump rally: Police ask visitors not to bring all sorts of things in name of safety; road closures begin Wednesday night" (Minneapolis) by Dave Orrick.

Article: "'Baby Trump' Arrives In Minneapolis Before Rally: Video" by William Bornhoft.

Article: "Facebook confirms Donald Trump can lie in ads, but he can't curse" by Will Fischer.

Article: "Why Trump is rage-tweeting about the Minneapolis mayor" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Why The Trump Campaign Won't Pay Police Bills" by Dave Levinthal.

Tweet: "Harbath is Facebook's head of global elections policy. She literally worked for Rudy Giuliani. I can't make this up." by Brandon Friedman.

Site: MoveOn.org

Site: Impeach Trump Now.

Article: "Kurt Schrader" (OR-5) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mike Pence's conspicuously evasive answers on Ukraine" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "Turkey Syria offensive: Heavy fighting on second day of assault" by BBC.

Article: "War Crimes Suit Filed against Former Defense Secretary" by dgs/ap.

Article: "Jared Kushner's Real-estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade" by Clayton Swisher, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Qatar hosts largest US military base in Mideast" by Brad Lendon.

Article: "The troubling overlap between Jared Kushner's business interests and US foreign policy" by Mohamad Bazzi.

Article: "Jared Kushner may have an ethics problem - to the tune of $90m" by Vicky Ward.

Article: "Qatar Shocked, Shocked To Learn It Accidentally Bailed Out Jared Kushner" by Bess Levin.

Article: "Ivanka Trump exaggerated, outright lied about real estate values for years" by Jessica M. Goldstein.

Article: "Vice President of the United States" by Wikipedia. "Vice presidential vacancies will be filled by the president and confirmed by both houses of Congress"

Article: "EPA spent more than $43,000 on a 'secure phone booth' for Scott Pruitt's office" by Stephanie Ebbs.

Article: "Trump defenders' misleading claims about the House impeachment inquiry" by Salvador Rizzo.

Hour Three: Will Trump & Barr Go Down Like Nixon and HIs Attorney General?

- Lamar Waldron, Political Commentator/JFK Historian & Author - "Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA", "The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination", and co-author with Thom of "Ultimate Sacrifice" and "Legacy of Secrecy: The long shadow of the JFK assassination".

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The U.S. Is Now Betraying The Kurds For The Eighth Time" by Jon Schwarz.

Article: "Donald Trump Has a Conflict of Interest in Turkey. Just Ask Donald Trump." by Ashley Dejean.

Article: "Trump Towers Istanbul" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Treaty on Open Skies" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's plan to withdraw from Open Skies treaty 'would only benefit Russia'" by Lily Puckett.

Article: "1960 U-2 incident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Halabja chemical attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "Edwin Meese" by Wikipedia.

Article: "When Rumsfeld was chummy with Saddam.." by Aljazeera.

Article: "Telling It Like It Is: Kissinger and the Kurds" by Daniel Schorr.

Article: "Saddam's Iraq: Key events" by BBC.

Article: "October surprise" by Wikipedia.

Video: Richard Nixon - "I'm not a crook".

Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Barr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

Book: Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture by Mark Feldstein.

Article: "Daniel Ellsberg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Former Trump aide approved 'black ops' to help Ukraine president" by Luke Harding.

Article: "Viktor Yanukovych" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russia-Ukraine relations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Holodomor"(Ukraine famine) by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine" by Patrick J. Kiger.

Article: "Sevastopol" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Roger Stone Connects Donald Trump to Richard Nixon" by Lily Rothman.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Federal pardons in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is US President Blocked From Issuing Pardons During Impeachment?" by Alex Kasprak.

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How Trump Set Turkish Forces Against The Kurds (w/ Dr. Edmund Ghareeb)

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