Deutsche Bank Article Among Trump's Classified Documents Raises Eyebrows ( www.newsweek.com )

Donald Trump appeared to keep an article about a dead Deutsche Bank whistleblower among his classified documents, according to newly released FBI photos.

The article was a feature about Val Broeksmit, a rock musician, who leaked details of Deutsche Bank's files to media and FBI agents investigating the bank's alleged links to money laundering, the Trump Organization and Russia.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Hey is that where Justice Kennedy’s son worked who gave trump that sweetheart loan when no one else would?

It is? Wow and you say there’s evidence of ties to russian oligarchs eh? Boy howdy ain’t that a ding-dang ol thang there. Oh well. It’s just a complicated mystery no one will figure out i guess.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres ,

Early in her career, a friend worked for a white shoe law firm in NYC and she used to use Deutsche Bank as her reference point for corruption. Like, I’d go on my lil’ leftist rants about the 2008 financial crisis and she’d say, “Oh come on. They aren’t anywhere close to as bad as Deutsche Bank.”

I always wondered what fucked up things they had to be doing that they were officially The Worst Bank to corporate lawyers. And beyond that, the main part of a corporate lawyer’s job is litigation prevention and saying “No.” to the worst ideas. So, what did they want to do but get told it was so illegal, not even a giant international bank with teams of lawyers could get away with it.

SGGeorwell ,

Violating sanctions

Mouselemming ,

Hey, I learned something new today, thanks!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-shoe_firm

AmidFuror ,

Seems really more about what pictures the prosecution decided to use to exemplify the mixing of personal and classified than any particular significance to the article. It wasn't clipped out or anything.

AmidFuror ,

From the article:

The article was the cover of the Sunday business feature section. Trump did not cut it out to read it and there is no indication that he was even aware of its existence. It is resting on top of a pile of other newspaper sections, which suggests its placement is coincidental.

Aqarius ,

So, the article itself says the thing it's writing about is irrelevant?

So why write about it?

gibmiser ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e17082f1-881c-4f95-aa73-3dba3c1fddb0.jpeg

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Donald Trump appeared to keep an article about a dead Deutsche Bank whistleblower among his classified documents, according to newly released FBI photos.

The photo was included in special counsel Jack Smith's rebuttal of Trump's claim that the FBI mishandled boxes of documents found at his Florida home.

Trump is facing 40 federal charges in Cannon's court over his alleged handling of sensitive materials seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, after leaving the White House in January 2021.

In February Judge Engoron, who sits on the New York State Supreme Court, imposed a fine of $454 million, including interest, on Trump after concluding he engaged in civil fraud by falsely inflating the value of his assets when securing bank loans.

Smith's explanation in court documents of the randomness of Trump's boxes of personal possessions didn't stop the speculation on Tuesday and Wednesday.

On Tuesday, journalist Sandi Bachom wrote on X: "WHY would Trump have an article about Val Broeksmit in his secret file folders and why would Jack Smith release it last night?"

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