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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat May 13, 2017, 02:41 PM May 2017

Uncovering More Trump Ties To Mobsters And Shadowy Oligarchs

A Trump Business Partner Threatens to Reveal a Vast Network of Murky Relationships

By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Founder and Editor

Threats by a longtime business partner and “senior adviser” to Donald Trump to spill the beans about the president’s connections to a Russian oligarch have opened the door into a vast network of murky relationships involving the president, our latest exclusive report shows.

Richard Behar, a veteran investigative reporter and now Forbes magazine’s contributing editor of investigations, pursued facts in a little-noticed report last month in The Wall Street Journal. The Journal told of a threat by longtime Trump associate Felix Sater, a twice-convicted felon, to expose negative information about Kazakhstan-born oligarch Tevfik Arif and his “past relationship with President Trump and the Republic of Kazakhstan.”

Arif and others have called the Journal report nothing to our exclusive report except “unsubstantiated falsehoods

President Trump claims reports of Russian connections are “fake news.” But his firing Tuesday of FBI Director James Comey shows otherwise.

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https://www.dcreport.org/2017/05/12/uncovering-more-trump-ties-to-mobsters-and-shadowy-oligarchs/
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Uncovering More Trump Ties To Mobsters And Shadowy Oligarchs (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
I hope there is enough evidence to get him and his whole grifter family OUT of the people's house niyad May 2017 #1
Have trusted David Cay Johnson zentrum May 2017 #2
Blackmail SHRED May 2017 #3
Check the link below from Raw Story 051217 benld74 May 2017 #4

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
2. Have trusted David Cay Johnson
Sat May 13, 2017, 04:27 PM
May 2017

....in the past. But lately have worried people like him know more than they can actually prove. I feel we don't have much time to really limit Trump---and to force the hand of the totally indifferent Repugs.

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