I BET THEY TAUGHT AT TRUMP
UNIVERSITY BEFORE IT WAS
SHUTDOWN AS A MULTI STATE FRAUD.
BUT "THE TIMES" PUBLISHING THIS
REPORTING AND THE PRESIDENT
DENYING IT, THIS WAS NOT
ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THE END OF THE
STORY.
ONE THING WE KNOW FROM "THE
TIMES" REPORTING AND OUR OWN
FOLLOWUP REPORTING AND REPORTING
FROM NBC NEWS IS THERE ARE
WITNESSES AND DOCUMENTS AND
EVIDENCE THAT COULD SHED LIGHT
ON WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED HERE.
AND IT DOES APPEAR THAT WHAT
ACTUALLY HAPPENED HERE MIGHT BE
A VIOLATION OF THE LAW.
"THE TIMES" REPORTS WOODY
JOHNSON TOLD MULTIPLE COLLEAGUES
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT’S REQUEST IN
2018, THAT HE SHOULD ASK THE
BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO MOVE THE
BRITISH OPEN TO HIS PRIVATE GOLF
CLUB.
"THE TIMES" ALSO REPORTS THE
EPISODE LEFT SEVERAL DIPLOMATS
AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN
LONDON UNSKETLED, INCLUDING
AMBASSADOR JOHNSON’S DEPUTY, WHO
ADVISED THE AMBASSADOR NOT TO
RAISE THIS ISSUE WITH THE
BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
BUT THEN THERE’S THIS, QUOTE,
COMPLAINTS WERE RAISED WITH THE
DEPARTMENT’S OFFICE OF THE
INSPECTOR GENERAL LAST FALL.
STATE DEPARTMENT’S OFFICE OF
INSPECTOR GENERAL WHEN A TEAM OF
INVESTIGATORS BEGAN A REVIEW OF
DIPLOMATIC OPERATIONS AT THE
EMBASSY.
THE FINDINGS WERE SUBMITTED IN
FEBRUARY AND THE COMPLAINTS ARE
EXPECTED TO BE INCLUDED,
ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE
INVESTIGATORS.
MEANING THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT
THIS GOLF COURSE SHENANIGANS ARE
EXPECTED TO BE INCLUDED IN THAT
REPORT.
IT’S NOT CLEAR WHY THE REVIEW
HAS NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC.
BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT
REVIEW?
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL LOOKED
INTO THIS, INCLUDING INTO THE
ALLEGATION THAT THE PRESIDENT
HAD THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO
BRITAIN TRY TO MOVE THE BRITISH
OPEN TO HIS PERSONAL BUSINESS?
THE STATE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR
GENERAL LOOKED INTO THAT?
AND WE’VE GOT CONTEMPORANEOUSLY
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS
COMPLAINING ABOUT IT AND PUTTING
IT ON THE RECORD?
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT REPORT?
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT
INVESTIGATION?
NBC NEWS FURTHER REPORTED TODAY
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT
WAS, QUOTE, COMPLETED AND MARKED
CLASSIFIED AS OF MAY.
AN UNCLASSIFIED VERSION HAS YET
TO BE RELEASED.
NOW NBC NEWS HAS ASKED THE STATE
DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL’S
OFFICE WHETHER THAT REPORT
INCLUDES INVESTIGATION OF THE
ALLEGATIONS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT
ASKING THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO
MOVE THE BRITISH OPEN GOLF
TOURNAMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S
PERSONAL CLUB, BUT HASN’T
RECEIVED AN ANSWER TO THAT
QUESTION SPECIFICALLY.
BUT WE NOW KNOW THERE IS AN
INSPECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT
SITTING SOMEWHERE INSIDE THE
STATE DEPARTMENT, A REPORT THAT
REPORTEDLY ADDRESSES SOME
VARIETY OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE
AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON UNDER
WOODY JOHNSON, AND PER "THE
TIMES," IS EXPECTED TO HAVE
INCLUDED CONTEMPORANEOUS
COMPLAINTS ABOUT OTHER STATE
DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT PULLING OFF THIS RANK
FIRST GRADE LEVEL -- FIRST
GRADER’S UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT
IT MEANS TO BE A INTERRUPT
PRESIDENT REQUEST WHERE HE TELLS
THE AMBASSADOR TO GO GET HIS
PRIVATE BUSINESS SOME GOLF CLUB
FROM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
I MEAN, FIRST OF ALL, THERE IS A
QUESTION.
LET’S GET IT CONFIRMED.
LET’S GET IT NAILED DOWN AS IF
THE BRITISH OPEN AT TRUMP’S GOLF
CLUB EPISODE HAS BEEN
INVESTIGATED.
IF SO, WHAT WHAT HAPPENED TO
THAT INVESTIGATION?
AND IT ALSO PUTS A WHOLE NEW
ANGLE ON THE FACT TRUMP
OUTRAGEOUSLY AND BLATANTLY
WITHOUT EXPLANATION FIRED THAT
STATE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR
GENERAL.
WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN THE GUY WHO
DID THAT REPORT.
RIGHT?
WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT FIRED HIM
IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT INSPECTOR
GENERAL CONDUCTING MULTIPLE
INVESTIGATIONS INTO SECRETARY OF
STATE MIKE POMPEO BUT THAT
APPEARS TO ALSO BE THE SAME
INSPECTOR GENERAL WHO
INVESTIGATED THIS, WHO
INVESTIGATED THE PRESIDENT
TELLING THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO
BRITAIN TO HAVE THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT GIVE HIM THE BRITISH
OPEN AT HIS PRIVATE BUSINESS.
AND THAT, OF COURSE, IS TUESDAY
IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
NOW WEDNESDAY IN THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
THIS KIND OF TRYING TO USE THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT, TRYING TO USE
THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY
LITERALLY JUST TO MAKE MONEY FOR
HIMSELF AND HIS BUSINESS, IT IS
SOMETHING WE HAVE SEEN PRESIDENT
TRUMP TRY TO GET AWAY WITH OVER
AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
BUT IN THIS CASE, WHAT WE’RE
LOOKING AT MAY ALSO BE AN ACTIVE
COVER-UP RIGHT NOW.
WE MAY ACTIVELY BE SEEING A
COVER-UP FOR THIS NEW CORRUPTION
SCANDAL INVOLVING THE PRESIDENT
RIGHT NOW.
DID THE INSPECTOR GENERAL LOOK
INTO THIS SPECIFICALLY?
WHY WAS THAT REPORT MARKED
CLASSIFIED MONTHS AGO?
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT REPORT?
WILL ANY OF IT CLASSIFIED OR
OTHERWISE BE RELEASED?
WHY IS IT BEING SAT ON?
IN NORMAL TIMES YOU WOULD EXPECT
THIS KIND OF THING WOULD BE THE
BASIS FOR AN IMPEACHMENT
INQUIRY, RIGHT, ALMOST FOR ANY
PRESIDENT NO MATTER WHICH PARTY
WAS CONTROLLING THE HOUSE WHERE
IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS
ORIGINATE.
AND THIS IS A REALLY BASIC
OBVIOUS ALLEGED ACT OF
CORRUPTION BY THE PRESIDENT TO
PUT MONEY IN HIS POCKET.
THE QUESTION NOW IS WHETHER
THERE ARE THREADS HERE THAT CAN
BE TUGGED ON, WHETHER THIS CAN
BE FAIR TO THAT, WHETHER SOMEONE
CAN ACTUALLY FIND OUT WHAT
HAPPENED HERE, INCLUDING THE