"Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years"

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Star Member dixiegrrrrl (58,546 posts)
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Investigative reporter Craig Unger: "Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years"

Salon mag. interview with Craig Unger about his book on Trump and Russia, posted in 2018.

I somehow had missed this.
But now, 2 years later, we can see and understand it more clearly.
Trump and all the Republican politicals , esp. Yertle, and Graham, and those Tea Party members who have left Gov't, who took Russia $$$ are actual real life treasonous traitors.


the Russians didn't just go after Donald Trump: They went after the entire Republican Party. There is Russian money going into the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, the NRA, and then to Republican officials and candidates directly.


Donald Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years. His properties have laundered money for them. The Russian mafia are connected to Russian intelligence. They’re living and have been working in Trump's building. Trump has even partnered with them. There are so many ways in which he’s compromised.


These were ways of laundering money that Trump had. The financing of building projects that involved $400 million or $500 million to build a skyscraper. Once the building was built, they could sell the condos through the shell companies, limited liability corporations and so forth. This was done anonymously in all cash transactions with the Russian oligarchs and other people affiliated with the Russian mafia. They owned Trump before he ever met Putin


https://www.salon.com/2018/10/11/investigative-reporter-craig-unger-trump-has-had-contacts-with-the-russian-mafia-for-35-years/

This was their big 'October Surprise' during the last election cycle. Didn't work then. Might as well re-cycle and try it again...

Star Member malaise (206,833 posts)

1. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

... only two years late...

Star Member barbtries (22,987 posts)

11. I'm still working on the Mueller Report.

it's a slog but I will get there.

Tue Apr 28, 2020, 02:45 PM ...   

Star Member GoneOffShore (14,227 posts)

4. Thank you Mr Unger.

The article is from 2018 - It should have been picked up ages ago.

Always the possibility that pmurT is a CI - though that's doubtful - more of a UI.

Star Member dixiegrrrrl (58,546 posts)

6. My memory is that we were all trying to figure out WTF, in 2018


to get a clearer pic of exactly who was who and what the hell they were doing.

I remember finding out that trump hotels in Miami were being used for illegal anchor baby scams...
Russian women coming here to give birth to babies who would have citizenship, paid for by Russian mafia types.
Same scam was being done on the West Coast, by Chinese/Asian women. Lots of money involved.

Just one lil piece of the myriad crooked schemes that were going on all at the same time.

 

warrior1 (12,191 posts)

5. No shit

Probably the mafia here as well. Rouge FBI agents in 2016 helping to foil HRC run also.

 

dalton99a (47,845 posts)

7. Trump is totally owned by Russians

Star Member UTUSN (54,678 posts)

9. Here's from a DUer's post a few weeks ago; mentions UNGER

Last edited Tue Apr 28, 2020, 06:53 PM - Edit history (1)

Ever since SHITLER decided to inflict himself on us, it has been inexplicable that he has cozied up to the Russians at every turn, down to a few days ago when he’s sending ventilators to Russia. I’ve been calling him a cartel mobster for a couple of years just based on his behaviors – the LOYALTY thing, the demands for total authority.

So there have been bits here or there about Russians laundering money via condos in his properties, high prices and empty buildings. The mysteries have nagged – the attacks on MUELLER and COMEY, the weird alliances (GUILIANI).

So this lays it out: Not PUTIN, but a Russian mobster/banker/SEMION MOGILEVICH. And GUILIANI + TRUMP is that they have the worst dirt on each other and hate each other but can’t throw each other under the bus. And SHITLER trashes the FBI guys because they know him as an FBI “Confidential Informant” (CI) and can’t expose him, hence why MUELLER hinted at everything but left it all hanging. I did the long reading of the links to outline it easy for you.

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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/bloody-mob-sht-an-interview-with
Bloody Mob Sh*t: An Interview with Lincoln's Bible
We talk Trump, Mogilevich, Epstein, Giuliani, Fred Trump, Roy Cohn, and more.

Greg Olear
.... LB (Lincoln's Bible) : ... Fred (Trump), ... all (his construction projects) were done with known mafia partners, in Genovese-controlled territory, and eventually with a fully Genovese-owned construction company (HRH Construction). ....
... Remember donald’s quote, “Even my father, he said, you don’t want to go to Manhattan. That’s not our territory?” That’s because Manhattan, for construction, was Gambino territory. They controlled the concrete and unions. And Fred was a very loyal, shrewd front for the Genovese. To get his idiot, greedy kid into Manhattan, Fred and Roy Cohn had to get those two mob bosses to agree on a joint venture. ....

GO (Greg OLEAR) : Rudy Giuliani, whose father was a lesser mobster, built his reputation prosecuting Italian mobsters. In the process, he made it easier for the Russians to move in. ... ....

LB: Here’s the thing…and it’s NYC mob gossip, but I trust the source. Rudy and donald hate each other. Capital “H” hate. They both have dirt on one another. And, for both, it’s as bad as it gets. Cocaine, corruption, and bloody mob shit. So they’re stuck together. Don’t look for one to turn on the other. Unless drugs/alcohol/dementia takes over, and they burn each other down as they internally crumble. ....

GO: ... We know he (Jeffrey EPSTEIN) was associated with the Russian mafiya, through his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert, was business partners with Semion Mogilevich, head of the Vor. ...

LB: Epstein laundered money for global arms dealers. ... ....

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http://www.citjourno.org/mission
Citizen Journalists Consortium
POKE THE BEAR

.... ... There is a man who controls our President. And his name is not Vladimir Putin. ....

... the most brilliant, dangerous, powerful, criminal mastermind the world has ever seen. This is not hyperbole. This is SEMION MOGILEVICH. ....

... Mogilevich, the "Boss of Bosses," is also known in Russia and to international intelligence agencies as Don Semyon, “The Brainy Don.” ....

... The Soviet Union collapsed. In the vacuum of leadership – of policy – of governmental order, a few hungry souls made a mad grab for state resources. They were the original seven oligarchs, called “The Magnificient Seven.” And they were all bankers. One of these first seven bankers, Mikhail Fridman – the founder of ALFABANK, is Semion Mogilevich’s partner. ... ....

... Putin was used to help execute Semion’s strategy for turning Russia into a Mafiya State. ... ....

... SEMION TRADES IN NUCLEAR MATERIAL AND ARMS WITH IRAN ... ....
... This aspect of Semion’s criminal enterprise is one thing (of many) the Iran Deal sought to eliminate. ... ....

... the Russian Mafiya’s infiltration of America. ... the Russian take-over of America’s mafia crime families, the “Five Families,” ... ....

... the mobster Vyacheslov Ivankov set him off on Semion’s trail. Ivankov was Semion’s lieutenant, sent to America to set up operations. If you recognize his name, it’s because Ivankov is the mobster who landed in a condo in Trump Tower, hid out regularly at Trump Taj Mahal, and was eventually caught by the FBI’s organized crime unit. ... ....

... Mogilevich’s crime syndicate is also THE case that puts the history of Donald Trump’s business “partnerships” into context. It explains why the #TrumpRussia investigation ... shifted from counter-intelligence to CRIMINAL. ...

It also answers what lurks beneath Trump’s flailing tweets, firing of Comey, and strategic undermining of the integrity of our independent press. ... ....

... The equation for finding the perfect mark is simple: 1) identify a businessman who has what you need – like a vehicle to wash your blood money, + 2) find their weak spot, and + 3) squeeze. ....

In the United States, there was one businessman at the top of Don Semyon’s list. One who was the easiest mark and could reap the greatest return. One who was sheltering Mogilevich's Men. One who was already in business with the American mafia, when "the" RUSSIAN MOB rolled over them all. ....

And thanks to Fred Trump, Roy Cohn, and the “Five Families” of American mafia, the United States already had a perfect front for Mogilevich to take. A man – a brand, that could wash the devil’s blood money clean. ....

... Semion Mogilevich took over American mafia’s territory, he took Donald Trump with it. ....

... Semion Mogilevich took over his second brand: TRUMP ENTERPRISES. ....

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https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1150239448649866&id=100009914652603

Greg OLEAR Facebook page
.... A confidential informant, or “CI,” is a mole run by law enforcement within a criminal enterprise. Not a “rat,” whose treachery is well known to his comrades, but a craftier, more duplicitous breed of rodent. Crimes committed by the CI are overlooked, or allowed to continue unabated, in exchange for good intelligence—“treasure,” as Control calls it in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. ....

The only way to know for sure if Donald John Trump is a Confidential Informant is if he admits it himself (unlikely), or if law enforcement comes forward (illegal). But the circumstantial evidence is compelling. The pattern is: 1) Trump deals with mobsters as usual; 2) Law enforcement begins investigating Trump; 3) Mobsters suddenly get busted, while 4) investigation into Trump is scuttled. This happened three times that we know about. I’m not counting the first known instance of Trump providing information to prosecutors, concerning Cody and concrete, in the late 70s: ... ....

... (Trump in) 1995? Failing tremendously. That was the year when he declared a loss of an unfathomable $916 million on his tax returns. It was also at this time that Trump Tower became a sort of Moscow on Fifth Avenue, with any number of Russian mobsters scooping up apartments—an arrangement that began in 1984, when the Russian mobster David Bogatin purchased five condos for $6 million. Trump Tower was one of just two buildings in all of New York City that allowed units to be purchased by shell companies. Why did Trump, virtually alone among New Yorkers, allow these fishy deals?

As the indefatigable Craig Unger writes in the Washington Post, the shady Bogatin deal began a 35-year relationship between Trump and Russian organized crime. Mind you, this was a period during which the disintegration of the Soviet Union had opened a fire-hose-like torrent of hundreds of billions of dollars in flight capital from oligarchs, wealthy apparatchiks and mobsters in Russia and its satellites. And who better to launder so much money for the Russians than Trump — selling them multimillion-dollar condos at top dollar, with little or no apparent scrutiny of who was buying them. ....

... what made Trump’s attacks on Mueller so ironic. He impugned the former FBI director as corrupt, while depending on his incorruptibility to not reveal his (alleged) CI status. ....

Notes
This piece was written under the expert guidance of Lincoln’s Bible. If you don’t already do so, please follow her on Twitter, and check out her own mafiya reporting at Citjourno.

I encourage everyone to read the State of New Jersey Department of Gaming Enforcement investigation report on the allegations against Donald John Trump in the Wayne Barrett book Trump: The Deals and the Downfall.
The late Bob Levinson was the FBI’s best Russian mob fighter. His Ivankov testimony is also essential reading.

— Greg Olear, Substack

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Star Member kimbutgar (12,376 posts)

14. But how do we get this info to his cult members?

And sadly the MSM media won’t report this. I doubt CNN, MSNBC nor CBS nor ABC will report it.

 

triron (16,669 posts)

27. And yet he's still there due to American sheeple, and other corrupt officials.

Star Member karin_sj (404 posts)

30. Good Lord

Unbelievable that this traitor is still in the White House.

bluestarone (8,785 posts)

32. We are dealing with the most EVIL ****ing bastards EVER on this planet! (RUSSIA and RETHUGS)

We need eyes OPEN, ears OPEN, and our BEST lawyers ready for the NOV> 2020 election!! THEY are going to use every trick in the book, and will be ILLEGAL as hell!!

 

Joinfortmill (978 posts)

37. Yup, we have a thug in the WH

 

[SVPete]

Craig Unger is an opportunistic CT-fruitcake who has moved from selling BDS CTs to fellow loons to selling TDS CTs to fellow loons. I'm sure DU-folk lapped up his BDS sludge back in the 2000s.

[Ralph Wiggum]

What a pathetic circle jerk.  The entire DUmp.

[FiddyBeowulf]

Citizen Journalists Consortium

They use that because "A Bunch Of Lefty Bloggers" doesn't sound as good to normal people.

[67 Rover]

What a pathetic circle jerk.  The entire DUmp.

Kind of almost makes you wish that mile wide asteroid would hit an old rocket stage floating out there and deflect into the earth. This planet needs a good douching. 

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

What a surprise that it originated from an interview with Salon.
Which story did Salon do first: This BS interview, or the one which was written by a pedo trying to explain he and most other pedos are wonderful innocent victims of society's bigotry who would never dream of touching an actual child (Only for it to later come out that the pedo was in fact very much in favor of children having sex as early as possible)?

[DLR Pyro]

Star Member dixiegrrrrl (58,546 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213360398

Investigative reporter Craig Unger: "Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years"

Salon mag. interview with Craig Unger about his book on Trump and Russia, posted in 2018.

Quick dixiegrrrl, forward this to adam schitt so he can begin immediate impeachment proceedings.  We can not allow another day to pass without taking action to remove President Trump for this affront to the American people.

But first schitt will need to convince nancy pelosi to bring the house back into session so they can begin shampeachment part deux.  See she apparently has deemed the house to be non-essential and has told all house members to stay home https://foxbaltimore.com/news/coronavirus/worried-about-virus-us-house-wont-return-for-now