Trump's ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades

[soothsayer]

A year or so old, but boy is it interesting.

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/9/12/17764132/trump-fbi-russia-new-york-times-craig-unger

Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades
Journalist Craig Unger talks Russia, Trump, and “one of the greatest intelligence operations in history.”


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On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a man named Vyacheslav Nikonov approached a microphone in the Russian State Duma (their equivalent of the US House of Representatives) and made a very unusual statement.

“Dear friends, respected colleagues!” Nikonov said. “Three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections, and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America, and I congratulate you on this.”

Nikonov is a leader in the pro-Putin United Russia Party and, incidentally, the grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov — after whom the “Molotov cocktail” was named. His announcement that day was a clear signal that Trump’s victory was, in fact, a victory for Putin’s Russia.

Longtime journalist Craig Unger opens his new book, House of Trump, House of Putin, with this anecdote. The book is an impressive attempt to gather up all the evidence we have of Trump’s numerous connections to the Russian mafia and government and lay it all out in a clear, comprehensive narrative.

[cayugafalls]

1. I have a friend from New York and he told me that Trumps ties to the mob

was common knowledge to almost anyone with a brain. His buildings were notorious for using mob controlled companies during construction. He was known as Don the Con.

Of course, all this is hearsay...

[soothsayer]

2. Well this guy's book is well researched

Very interesting interview with the author at the link.

[stillcool]

3. Trumps father showed him the way..

[struggle4progress]

4. "He owes us a lotta money, and he's not payin, so here's how I see it: now he owes us

a lotta money and a lotta favors. So we tell him to work with Vlad, or when he's out of office we'll show him the inside of a junk car trunk that's headed for the crusher yard"

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[underpants]

6. Last paragraph

It’s hard to say. I think we’re on a collision course that will either end in impeachment or with Trump reverting to unconstitutional measures to stay in office. That is simply my opinion. However this plays out, it’s clear that we’re in uncharted territory here, and it’s hard to see how this ends well for anyone.

[lastlib]

7. Oh, it'll end reasonably well....

Those "unconstitutional measures" will get his fat carcass dragged forcibly out of the White House on Jan. 20th by an angry mob, of which I will be as close to the front as I can get.

[soothsayer]

10. Yeah I caught that

[smirkymonkey]

8. K&R

[certainot]

9. putin feeds limbaugh, who feeds trump

putin using talk radio goes back at least to 2008 and mccain palin, 2009 "climategate" from wikileaks, 2011 defaulting on the debt - how many republican billionaires would want than ....

putin/soviets would have hated Voice of America and this is the perfect revenge.

[niyad]

11. Nice to have even more confirmation of what has long been evident.