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The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his business empire, and has also been fined for its role in a Russian money laundering scheme.
The waivers were issued in a little-noticed announcement published in the Federal Register during the Christmas holiday week. They come less than two years after then-candidate Trump promised “I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder.”
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 11 2018, @08:59PM
Sure. It's understandable.
It's also true that because a country is mean to somebody else that doesn't mean that we will or should treat them as bad guys for that reason. If we did, no country would have any friends for long. Should we stop being friends with Australia because of their appalling treatment of the Aborigines? If you were an Aborigine or had a friend who was, you'd probably say yes, but don't be surprised if the country as a whole didn't go along with you.
It also doesn't mean that country is bad or unredeemable. Turkey has been total bastards to the Kurds, and to the Armenians. But I gotta tell you, in my travels there I'd have to say in total honesty that between them it's a three-way tie for the nicest, gentlest, kindest people I have ever met in all my years. Seriously, they out-nice the Canadians, and that's near impossible.
In short, the way the Russians have been behaving toward the Ukrainians does not mean they are suddenly the existential threat to American democracy (my money for that title, as always, would be on the Deep State/1%/lizard people and their lackeys in the NSA, CIA, FBI, and Wall Street).
Washington DC delenda est.