New Probe in NY Into Trump’s Ties With Deutsche Bank, Investors Bank

So let me say this again:

The gravest threat to Donald Trump, ultimately, may not rest with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, but with the Southern District of New York.

This is always the danger that comes from a public that lowers their standards for leadership from requiring men (or women) of character, to accepting anyone who appeals to their lowest instincts.

Dumb, angry bumper sticker slogans do not a leader make.

Long before ever running for public office, Donald Trump had a life and career in New York and New Jersey that was known by the locals to be “shady,” at its best. Few trust him, like him, or would support him in any political run.

Maybe voters should have listened to the ones who know him best, who are familiar with his inclinations and corrupt ties, before allowing this man to be the face of the GOP?

What’s done is done, and here we are, with a president who can’t crawl from under the mountain of investigations, many of which would not have ever began, had he not put himself and his family in the brightest spotlight in the world.

He could have carried on his very corrupt life, unnoticed and relatively obscure, but his ego finally tripped him up.

The latest bit of news comes from The New York Times, who are reporting that the New York Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank, in order to obtain records related to four, separate Trump Organization properties, as well as an unsuccessful bid by Trump to purchase the Buffalo Bills football team, at one point.

No, this one probably won’t be sending him to prison. It’s a civil probe, rather than a criminal one, according to the office of Attorney General Letitia James. It may, however, open up new lines of investigation.

The Deutsche Bank subpoena requested loan applications, mortgages, lines of credit relating to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, the Trump National Doral near Miami and the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, the person told the newspaper.

“We remain committed to cooperating with authorized investigations,” a Deutsche Bank spokesperson said in a statement.

So why now?

It would appear the president has his former personal attorney and fixer to thank for this particular inquiry.

When Michael Cohen testified before Congress last month, he told the House Oversight and Reform Committee some of the “tricks” used by Trump in his business.

Some of those tricks included inflating the value of his assets, in order to get loans. He did so in a statement to Deutsche Bank, as part of his efforts to purchase the Buffalo Bills.

That’s apparently a deal that fell through, but falsifying forms to banking institutions – there’s a name for it. What is it?

Oh, yeah. Bank fraud.

I mean, let’s not pretend this isn’t done all the time. I’m sure it is. It’s a white collar crime, and you just know a little “fudging” on paperwork happens.

That being said, not everyone does it, then puts themselves in a position of such scrutiny.

Deutsche Bank is about the last remaining bank still willing to work with Donald Trump, given his history of bankruptcies and atrocious business sense.

Deutsche Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany were also raided in November 2018, as part of a money laundering probe.

It had been fined in August for laundering around $10 billion for its Russian clients.

Why is it one of the only banks still willing to work with Donald Trump?

That’s why.

This is just one more headache for President Trump, but it’s one of his own making. All the rest of us can do is sit back and watch the national nightmare unfold.