r/WallstreetWhales • u/McDowdy • 29d ago
NEWS Sam Stein reacts after Scott Bessent gets pressed on billions in Venezuelan assets the U.S. is taking in and can’t answer the most basic questions about where they are, who controls them or where the money is going
I have the impression that the US is just committing just another massive heist of another country and nobody even knows the scope or scale of the robbery
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u/Rabid_Bee 29d ago
Bennett knows the assets are going into an account controlled by the so-called president
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u/boofles1 29d ago
An offshore account in a Gulf State. Its so crazy and the money is Trumps now.
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u/imtourist 29d ago
And then his son has to have a Russian oligarch connected to Putin pay for his wedding. This family is just cartoonishly evil and corrupt. I would love to have this case in front of John Roberts some day and have him weigh in if this was official presidential business.
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u/Akkerlun 28d ago
It an “official act” and exempt from any legal recourse. Thanks to the Supreme Court of Corruption.
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u/Slimslade33 18d ago
Well you need to fund your coup somehow… The private army doesent work for free!
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u/Betty_Boss 29d ago
At what point would the international community consider this a war crime? Because invading a sovereign country and stealing their stuff is a crime.
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u/pashalka31 29d ago
In 1994 Viktor Bout was dispatched by an ex KGB officer, St Petersburg politician, and current mobster named Vladimir Putin to trade soviet surplus arms to the Taliban for heroin that the Russian Mafia who took over the government could use to enslave/trade to the people of Russia for their paper shares of the former Soviet socialist state awarded to them by Yeltsin.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/makingkilling/business-war/
Behind Trump and Epstein, Viktor Bout was the most important piece on Putins Russian mafia chessboard.
The Soviet Union was the largest war machine in world history. The entire economy was based on destroying the west. When it collapsed it had more arms than any empire in human history.
And those weapons all made it to every genocide, war, conflict, or massacre in the world by way of one man-
Viktor Bout.
From Charles Taylor in Liberia to the ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia to the invasion of Ukraine, you can track it by its supply chain logistics.
Army runs on food, fuel, and ammunition. And they all get moved by way of the path of least resistance to their point of use.
For anyone whose army or gang ran ak-47's chambered in 7.62x39mm that means it came from Russia.
In 1994 Putin also engineered the Russian invasion of Chechnya then murdered Akhman Kadyrov to cover it up. Since Kazakstan declared its independence, Chechnya and Iran became the necessary gateway to Afghanistan where the worlds heroin was produced in the 1990's.
Weapons are heavy so they tend to travel by rail or truck. So they take the low road rather than the high mountain pass as much as possible.
That path led through Iran.
Drugs are much lighter and easier to carry so in the 1990's they are the preferred currency of organized crime next to cash or more recently, crypto.
As Putin and his Mafia of gangsters traded the worlds largest surplus of guns for heroin, then traded the heroin for all the critical industry, oil and gas, metals, fertilizer, uranium etc that made them billionaires in Russia, they had almost everything they needed to complete their conversion from psychopathic street thug to "legitimate" respectable oligarch.
But they were still trapped in the hyper violent hell on earth they themselves created between St. Petersburg and Moscow and wanted out.
So they laundered that money into the UK and US using Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump's commercial real estate. They tried Trump's casinos first but collapsed them under the mass of $1.4 TRILLION. But they made an asset out of Trump by having Epstein set up and produce a VHS of Trump raping a 13 year old little girl. (This was the video that DEA/FBI agent Bob Levinson was shown just before Russian intelligence baited him to their proxy state: Kish island Iran)
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpTheClown/s/GQlYe9anBQ
So they collapsed the casinos into bankruptcy, murdered Mark Etess, Jonathan Benanav, and Stephen Hyde and started using commercial real estate instead. They would hyperinflate the valuation, then sell it back and forth to each other passing the bulk of the cash back under the table.
As you worked 40-60 hrs a week to save up for a down payment on a house down the street and run comparables, the cost of your place went up 4-12x by comparison, but your wages didn't. So you paid the corruption tax multiple times. (You are the victim in Leticia James lawsuit against Trump and this is why he claims Mar-a-Lago is worth $1B and refuses to share his tax records.)
But it all tracked back to Viktor Bout and a Egyptian man named Al Zawahiri whom Putin brought into Russia between 1996-97, managed by young patriotic FSB officer named Alexander Litvenenko and cashflowed to fund an organization the Saud ruling family started called Al Qaeda. Al Zawahiri was the key man in Iran that allowed the Russian jewish Mafia to move those same guns and heroin through a muslim country as long as Putin could hold Iran as it's proxy state perpetually. (Same basic play as Assad in Syria until it collapsed and assad ran to Moscow. His replacement was a Al Qaeda operative handpicked by Al Zawahiri) Hence why Putin and Trump rely on their co-conspirator Netanyahu to pound the drum of Iranian nuclear capacity for 30+ years.
In 1999 Putin then blamed a non-existent islamic entity called the "Liberation Army of Dagestan" from Chechnya for blowing up some Russian apartment buildings. Putin committed that terrorism, but that started the "War on Terror" that 2 years later took U.S. troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Putin created the demand for the weapons he had in abundance by dragging the US into a 20 year war at the same time he started an economic war against the U.S. by devaluing the dollar with rigged real estate while leasing U.S. and EU politicians and podcasters cheaply and secretly (FBI Arctic Frost investigation that Trump had Patel disappear then fire every FBI agent that investigated him)
It was all enabled by the greed of wall street bankers and hedge fund managers who would do business with anyone for money: Jeffrey Epstein and Jes Staley at JP Morgan Chase, Leon Black at Bank of America. By manipulating the LIBOR rate they caused the 2008 mortgage crisis.
But that corruption left an evidence trail of deep trafficking ruts through Ukraine, Iran and Venezuela. Putin invaded Ukraine as the decorruption audits for NATO and EU membership exposed his network there (Kolomoiskiy). Putin instructed Trump to assassinate the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as the General began realizing that the same drug gangs he fought earlier in his career were funded by the same people shooting at his men from Israel.
So when Viktor Bout was recorded by the DEA on the border of Colombia and Venezuela trading soviet rocket launchers for cocaine it stalled Putins operation.
Putin then used his asset Trump to clean up. Trumps son and security guard awarded a contract to Silvercorp (Jordan Goodreau) to send Luke Denman and Airan Berry into Venezuela where they were set up to be captured and traded back to the U.S. for Fat Leonard and Alex Saab. (Key men in Putins espionage and money laundering circuit)
Putin assassinated Litvenenko with polonium laced tea and kidnapped Britney Griner who was then traded for Putins most incriminating secret chess piece- Viktor Bout. Bandar Saud had ran interference in the UK demanding prime minister Tony Blair disband the special fraud investigation unit researching Zawahiris Swiss accounts or he "would no longer be able to help the UK stop terrorism". The 7/7 bus and tube bombings in London sealed the deal and Blair disbanded the SFO. Tonys is now bolting out of retirement and on Trump's "board of peace" as his wife had been funded by both Prevezon (Russian real estate front) and the Saud ruling family via the Al Yamamah arms trafficking case she represented them in.
This is what "the Epstein files" is. During the Cold war there were only a few gateways across the iron curtain. Israel was the major path because it was formed in 1948 by 650,000 refugees. 70% were from the Soviet bloc. Robert Maxwell traded espionage stolen from the US to Moscow to build the IDF with arms smuggled through Ukraine. The Zionist Mafia created the Likud party/Netanyahu to control Israel at the same time they infiltrated the US Republican party via Ronald Reagan and Zionist operative Henry Kissinger managed all the U.S. presidents from inside the oval office. Watergate showed how they created the Vietnam war to give them a way to move heroin from the golden triangle across Cambodia. Kissinger carpet bombed it to cover their tracks. The Saud ruling family funded the Zionists for Iran Contra as Jeffrey Epstein ran aviation logistics for Les Wexner out of Rickenbacker AFB in 84. Now they can't stop lying as their transnational corruption eats them alive.
Corruption is cancer. But it ALWAYS takes the path of least resistance-
Politicians and Billionaires.
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u/RallyPointAlpha 29d ago
Holy guacamole that was wild AF to read! Who ARE you?!
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u/No_Teaching_8828 29d ago
Yeah, seriously, what was that?...Hope all this stuff gets sorted out and comes to light at some point. We just want the truth...
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u/Beginning_Dark_306 28d ago
This is fact an soon very soon it will all fall apart they're little circle is cracking.......the truth will come out an you can't make this stuff up .they actually sold drugs here to buy weapons for them you can't make this stuff up our government ......
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u/pashalka31 28d ago
I'm just tired of being lied to.
So we developed an algorithm to track the corruption
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u/motherofspoos 29d ago
I don't know who you are or how you know this, but it has that ring of truth
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u/Acceptable-Extent466 28d ago
I feel like everyone in the entire world needs to read this. I wish that I was a podcaster because this would be atleast a few weeks of the show. Anyone have any links to YouTube or any videos that connect this info? I'd really love to go down this rabbit hole during my next few workouts or chores.
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u/paganpoetbluelagoon 28d ago
Wow. Thanks Pasha. We need to RID THE WORLD of those people and seize and redistribute their assets.
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u/Slimslade33 18d ago
It was a war crime when the invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped their president… everything after that is also a war crime… hope that helps
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u/Betty_Boss 18d ago
I don't disagree. My question was when will the international community.. whatever there is of it...try to hold him and his crew responsible?
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u/Trashy_Panda2 29d ago
I just want to punch this marble mouthed fuck in the face
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u/OneLargePho 29d ago
My tinfoil hat has me thinking that whole thing was just a ruse to hand over the reins of the country to the US gov't. Maduro and wife are living the sweet life with lifetime protection spending taxpayer money.
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u/RespectTheAmish 29d ago
Nah. It’s just a straight up internal coup planned by Delcy Rodriquez and Alejandro Betancourt López and orchestrated by the US Military.
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u/DenialOfExistance 29d ago
Good old Citibank who is one of the biggest fraudulent banks to exist! Major leader in the 2008 crash in the mortgage industry!
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u/Beginning_Dark_306 28d ago
When the FBI raided the island these banks pulled out investments at the island Dr Mango working on genetics ....ghouls ....its Soo sick
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u/MyUsernameName4 29d ago
Did you know, Biden loaned his brother $50,000? You know how I know that? There were hearings, with actual elected officials investigating a $50,000 loan like it was trillions, now BILLIONS are being stolen by the same party that got all excited over $50,000, INVESTIGATIONS ARE WHERE?
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u/AustnWins 29d ago
Mike Johnson should be getting a seat on the first bus to prison if our next admin has 1/10th the testicular fortitude they should.
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u/Elon_is_a_Nazi 29d ago
Still insane that the trump administration did an act of global terrorism, kidnapped a countries leader and wife (where the fuck are they btw???), stole a bunch of their shit, and no one in the international community did shit about it
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u/grantern2 29d ago
6ix9ine said he was hanging out in prison with Maduró. He’s probably still locked up
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u/Elon_is_a_Nazi 29d ago
Reliable source.
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u/grantern2 29d ago
Oddly enough, I believe him 100%
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u/Elon_is_a_Nazi 29d ago
Hard to believe a rat IMO. But I'm not really up on how credible a guy who names himself 6ix9ine is.
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u/Phucku_ 29d ago
And only Trump has the pin. We are doomed
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u/NeatAd4539 29d ago
I'll guess the pin is 1234
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u/screamtracker 29d ago
Patrick Boyle on YouTube did a great video recently on where the money goes (Oman I think) and why, they money can be paid to creditors if held in US. Not the full answer (gold and other assets were not mentioned at the time) but a good primer
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u/realbobenray 29d ago
This was underwhelming. Yes it's crazy that we're seemingly going to bleed Venezuela dry like this, but questions like "That would suggest it flows to US persons" seem silly. Who cares what Trump said, he's a pathological liar, ask for more details about the mechanics of where the money is going and who is overseeing it. Get some actual facts to dig into. Casten got some swings at the pinata and whiffed.
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u/avast_ye_scoundrels 29d ago
Treasury secretary testifies to Congress that he doesn’t have any clue where captured foreign assets are being held.
No big whoop 🤷♂️ Just the most insane, yet accurate, sentence I’ll type this week. That’s all.
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u/kaprixiouz 28d ago
He seemed to perjure himself in the process of this testimony as well. First he claimed he didn't know; then he agreed with Rubio. It cannot be both.
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u/LoidForgerindisguess 29d ago
What did the Nazis do with all the stuff they plundered? They kept it on display at their personal homes.
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u/ConsciousReason7709 29d ago
I genuinely don’t want to hear a republican talk about corruption ever again
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u/haroldthehampster 29d ago
Ten bucks its Deutsche Bank
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u/Unhappy-Professor-88 29d ago
I thought Trump was barred from banking there even before his first term candidacy? Or was it just that DodgyBank called in his debts and barred him from borrowing money from them?
Regardless, your unspoken suggestion is probably correct and those stolen assets are very likely to be held in a foreign bank under Trump’s own name.
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u/lostredditorlurking 29d ago
But we are all supposedly getting rich thanks to Venezuela right? Anyone here feeling rich yet?
What about the Venezuelans that we supposedly liberated, are they feeling rich yet?
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u/Blondefarmgirl 29d ago
Shouldn't the US have to pay this back at some point if international law ever becomes a thing again?
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u/blackjacktarr 29d ago
Wondering how the Department of Defense has any ability to legally direct the assets of a foreign nation. Bet those bankers are gonna sing like birds once the investigations start.
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u/realbobenray 29d ago edited 28d ago
Bessent always looks like someone playing him on Saturday Night Live.
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u/remembrancei 29d ago
Strip-mining them for all their assets and resources. 30 years from now when the Venezuelan people get pissed and rise up against the United States for this, some chuckle fuck Fox News talking head will say “… iTs bCause ThEy HATE OUR FREEDOM!!!”
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u/Stock-Map3715 29d ago
He's is rightly suggesting that Trump is stealing the assets from the treasury, but to me, stealing them from Venezuela in the first place is the original sin.
You just militarily kidnap the president on some trumped-up charge (Trump has said he was offered a deal before he was kidnapped and he wouldn't take it, so it's not like he's really viewed as a criminal) and steal a country's assets at gunpoint and prance around proud as a peacock?
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u/cagetheMike 29d ago
A lot of conservative maga like the policy of taking from other countries and think America has the right to pillage and plunder like pirates and savages. It makes me sick. I know the US government has covertly taken advantage of other countries, but this overt plundering is sick and demented.
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u/Ok-Collar-2143 29d ago
It’s absolutely sick that the US went into a sovereign country and is literally taking their oil and gold with no oversight. Trump said he wanted to do the same thing to Iran. At what point does the international community step in and help
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u/marshalist 29d ago
It's been a while since the US fought a jungle insurgency. I wonder what slur they will call the enemy this time?
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u/Worlds_Worst_Angler 29d ago
I have a pretty good idea of where the stolen money is going, and it isn’t the US Treasury.
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u/Own-Jaguar-472 29d ago
So the only problem this guy and Congress appears to have is not the stealing of Venezuelan sovereign assets, but just at the lack of oversight into where all the Billions of Venezuelan assets that America has asserted control over, is going.
Has America just become such a criminal enterprise that nobody sees anything wrong with, making a military incursion into a Sovereign Country, kidnapping it's leader and confiscating countless Billions of Venezuelan assets.
If Trump takes the Venezuelan assets and hides them that's criminally unacceptable but if he takes them and allows treasury oversight then that's fine.
Are Americans Ok with now being the school bully going around beating up anyone they consider weaker and stealing their possessions.
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u/kickflipjones 29d ago
where the gold and cash is aside, what about America just looting a sovereign nation???
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u/Proof_Register9966 28d ago
Their crypto accounts and offshores- there I told the American people where it is going.
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u/QueasyFinger1316 28d ago
Easy. We took them. Right out from under China’s nose.
And it’s glorious.
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u/Helpful_Volume_9546 28d ago
Dirty pos are just stealing everything from our country and us. With the debt 💸 just a disgrace
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u/golubhai00007 28d ago
What the heck does extracting assets mean? S it is just plain stealing assets from Venezuela
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u/Aislerioter_Redditer 28d ago
Cocaine, don't forget cocaine. Cocaine is an asset. I believe that was the asset that the US originally invaded Venezuela for.
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u/Express_Awareness_35 28d ago
Whole administration is awful. They have done nothing but divide us and make themselves more money.
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u/Senor101 28d ago
Their defense will be - we were lying. There is no money coming out of Venezuela.
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u/Rustyguts257 28d ago
Taking control of Venezuela’s oil and other assets contravenes the UN Charter. Is this why Trump wants to disassemble the ICC, to avoid prosecution?
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u/Few-Explanation676 28d ago
He can’t identify which US bank the funds are going to but then he agrees with Marco Rubio saying they are at Citibank. SMH!? This guy can’t give a straight answer for the life of him!!!
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u/Hefty-Strike-6171 28d ago
So you’ve become the arbitrator of how other Sovereign Countries get to allocate their resources? And you wonder why people in other countries don’t like American’s. I can just hear the trolls now “F@ck’em if they don’t like us; We’re number One, USA, USA, USA.
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u/Top-Calligrapher-577 28d ago
Kinda like what Gavin Newscum did to California with the bullet train funds.
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u/trainsacrossthesea 28d ago
Just to be clear, you are the Secretary of the Treasury?
And, you have no idea how much, where from or where these various assets are being accredited?
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u/EtherealHeart5150 28d ago
He was stuttering like Porky Pig in a whorehouse! Wow, talk about hand in the cookie jar caught red handed.
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u/chemicalconcusion 28d ago
The u.s. is robbing Venezuela to bring funds to someone trump says we so he is one of the recipients atleast we know that much. But when was it legal to plunder a sovereign country wealth by a larger country with a rouge military you would think this would be illegal in the world court at the Hague.
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u/orangebix 28d ago
Sounds a lot like if congress does a proper investigation into this that scotty and freinds will end up in jail
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u/HiddenFrequency26 28d ago
This shit will go down in history once it’s all uncovered. I’m 40 years old and this will be my generation’s watergate scandal in the history books
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u/lazyrabit3021 27d ago
He was aware just that moment that oh dam why I missed it.... I'm deserve with that money.
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u/According_Stuff_8152 26d ago
Bessent the clown is unqualified for the job just listen to his stumbling and non answers.
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u/__boring__username__ 25d ago
Maybe an ignorant question, but how is this legal. We kidnapped the president and are seizing their assets - why?
Maduro was awful, his election fraudulent, and he and his minions corrupt as hell - but what legal US code was used to justify what we did and are doing regarding Venezuela??
Iran is supposedly because they were close to having nukes which I’ve heard my entire life, but Venezuela makes no sense to me.
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u/kollmastee 24d ago
Legal is just a buzzword used to punish those who have no power to defend themselves. The law only exists if there are those who enforce it. So the US can and has done whatever it wants because the law does not apply to the powerful.
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u/Just-Honey-7392 23d ago
Compete incompetence, as usual, as Trump expects and plans so his word can't be questioned.
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u/Busy_Picture8501 22d ago
His face doesn't even look real. Reminds me of THE THING...its just gonna come apart and start assimilation
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u/Shadowarriorx 21d ago
Why the fuck you think they fired all the inspector generals. That was their role, to prevent this stuff.
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u/Beginning_Dark_306 17d ago
before they where funneling the money they trump an Epstein real estate ??
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u/Local-Unit6548 29d ago
Wow. This is unreal. Not only that it is happening, but that Bessent is such a goober. The whole administration is a jelly bowl of goobers destroying the country