Biggest criticism I had of the Obama administration. The rich and powerful always get their asses covered.
The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions | Financial crisis | The Guardian
As I said in another thread, GG is a right-wing authoritarian apologist masquerading as an investigative journalist. I don't put much stock in his opinions.That's an 8 year old article from Glenn Greenwald. This issue was discussed ad nauseum here back then.
Grennwald spent the last 4 years criticizing democrats and giving Trump a pass.
This is my issue with him - he doesn't actually care about banking regulation/prosecution in the slightest. If he did, he would have gone after Trump continually as Trump dramatically scaled back white collar law enforcement of all kinds. Instead, silence and raging against the fact that federal law enforcement correctly determined that Trump's campaign was in cahoots with the Russians. (this is something he still bizarrely denies)That's an 8 year old article from Glenn Greenwald. This issue was discussed ad nauseum here back then.
Grennwald spent the last 4 years criticizing democrats and giving Trump a pass.
It tells you a lot about who Greenwald is as a person that after four years of raging against what he thought were questionable facts of Trump's corruption/dealing with the Russians he had a meltdown and quit in protest over the fact that an editor wouldn't let him publish something that very likely wasn't true.Usually when I come across threads attacking "Wall Street" I approach it a certain way for reasons.
I think the more interesting story is Glenn Greenwald
How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald
<b>Before he was the <i>Guardian</i>'s eyes on the National Security Agency, Greenwald was a Manhattan litigator with an itchy trigger finger.</b> "He doesn't care if the entire world hates him."www.buzzfeednews.com
I don't keep track of mouth pieces because I'm more of a "Source material" kinda guy but gotta say, Glenns life is more interesting than the words he spews
Matt Taibbi is another one who really had a meltdown during the Trump years.Matt Taibbi at the Rolling Stone (LOL... of all the publications) wrote some of the best articles about the financial crash, what led up to it, what types of fraud were committed, and the types of bailouts and protections the fraudulent bankers were given. Here's a recent(ish) article about the fallout 10 years after: https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...financial-crisis-ten-year-anniversary-723798/. It's a pretty fascinating read.
I'll start off simple
What law was violated.
Who exactly violated that law and should have been arrested.
Still denying documented and systematic Russian interference?Both Greenwald and Taibbi were basically right to be skeptical of the Russia hysterics. It was never more than a smoke screen to excuse the party's failure to defeat Trump. Russia was never shown to have interfered anywhere near as much as other countries like Israel.
Still denying documented and systematic Russian interference?
Or that some people just want to continually provide evidence for horseshoe theory.Of course he is, he's just another Trump bitch.
Odd that so many members of the Russian government were indicted in this smoke screen. Doubly odd that Trump’s son, son in law, and campaign manager decided to participate.Both Greenwald and Taibbi were basically right to be skeptical of the Russia hysterics. It was never more than a smoke screen to excuse the party's failure to defeat Trump. Russia was never shown to have interfered anywhere near as much as other countries like Israel.
Still denying documented and systematic Russian interference?
Meaning a few Facebook trolls and tweets?
Of course he is, he's just another Trump bitch.
More like a few hundred million. And that was only part of what they did.
You're delusional.
Odd that so many members of the Russian government were indicted in this smoke screen. Doubly odd that Trump’s son, son in law, and campaign manager decided to participate.
It is illegal (I'm pretty sure) to submit fraudulent lending applications, and lending officers that encouraged or facilitated the submission of fraudulent applications as well as the institutions that were supposed to be supervising them should have been accountable.
He is a very disillusioned Bernie Bro really.Of course he is, he's just another Trump bitch.
Right, the issue is that it was more than loan officers. It's been a while so my memory might not be as clear on this, but I believe there were also banks wrongly foreclosing on houses, banks that were misrepresenting the health of the mortgages in their structured investment products, etc.
Also, it's a little bit unfair to say 'tell me what laws were broken and who broke them' when the crimes weren't investigated and prosecuted. The way you investigate something like this is you start with the loan officer and then you work your way up to their manager, their director, their managing director, to the executives at the firm. If that doesn't happen, then it becomes impossible to answer the questions that you're asking, quite by design.
Yes, I’m sure Robert Mueller indicted a dozen foreign officials to run cover for the Democrats.Wait, we indicted people that have no chance of ever standing trial so that evidence could be presented? Wow, that's convincing.
Lol - how can you be so ignorant of basic facts?Weird that none of the Americans you mentioned were also indicted.