The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin

[Frequent Ranter]

From Politico:

habad of Port Washington, a Jewish community center on Long Island’s Manhasset Bay, sits in a squat brick edifice across from a Shell gas station and a strip mall. The center is an unexceptional building on an unexceptional street, save for one thing: Some of the shortest routes between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin run straight through it.

Two decades ago, as the Russian president set about consolidating power on one side of the world, he embarked on a project to supplant his country’s existing Jewish civil society and replace it with a parallel structure loyal to him. On the other side of the world, the brash Manhattan developer was working to get a piece of the massive flows of capital that were fleeing the former Soviet Union in search of stable assets in the West, especially real estate, and seeking partners in New York with ties to the region.

Their respective ambitions led the two men—along with Trump’s future son-in-law, Jared Kushner—to build a set of close, overlapping relationships in a small world that intersects on Chabad, an international Hasidic movement most people have never heard of.

Starting in 1999, Putin enlisted two of his closest confidants, the oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who would go on to become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide, to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, who would come to be known as “Putin’s rabbi.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007

I could've sworn I posted this article an hour or so ago!

[MedusaX]

1. Jared Jared Jared

Perhaps the article's author was wise enough to have already written a few more articles on the rest of the happy go lucky circles which Jared is connected to... and put them in the mail to multiple recipients... before publishing this one!?!

Since there's the ....
Kushner
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Netanyahu
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Mikhail Fridman (alfa bank)
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Richard Burt (Russ. Pipeline Lobbyist also)
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| ......... Jeff Sessions/45s Foreign Policy Resource
Center for the National Interest
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Kislyak ......Kissenger (recc's T-Rex & KT McF to 45)
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Flynn/Jared/Sessions/45



And the

Kushner.......,...Jared
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|...................... |
Netanyahu -- Abramovich----------P-------R
....... | ..... ........ | .. .......................... U
..... Mikhail Fridman ---------------U..........S
........| ............. |................................ A
......,, Viktor Vekselberg-------------T -------L
. John M ----- Renova --------------I
. Deutch-----Skolkovo --------------N
...............,..Metcom Bank.....
Wilbur Ross--Cyprus Bank-- Josef Ackermann
.....| ................................... |
..45's Cabinet ..... ..... .... ...Deutsch Bank
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.................................... 45' s lender



Amongst others ....

[IssuesOverParties]

2. Protocols Revisited

I read the Politico article and honestly I find it extremely offensive. Jews have long been accused of dual allegiance and secretive control of the government to the point of a book being written >100 years ago called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Nazis even published cartoons echoing this story showing Jews controlling US and Russian governments. Jared is not above criticism due to his faith, but painting a conspiracy theory of him and secret Jewish groups directing US policy is just another instance in the long history of these kind of allegations against Jews.

Would it have been OK to question Valerie Jarretts allegiances, try to make connections between her associates and Iranians, or protray her as not serving America's interest? Obviously not and just like people were rightly criticized for all the Obama accusations about dual allegiances and questioning his religion, I am stamding up and criticizing Politico for this article.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Well said.

[Frequent Ranter]

4. Chabad is a Reletively Small Part of the Jewish Community

Not a massive organization. This is made clear in the article.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Politico says Chabad is Trumps partner in something. Not so fast.

Did Chabad influence any of the business deals or relationships between Putin’s oligarchs, their friends and Trump? The article never reports any influence. Did Trump meet any of his Russian business partners through Chabad? Not according to the article. Did Chabad play a role in Kushner’s success shepherding Trump’s presidential campaign? If it did, the article doesn’t say so.

Despite the article’s info-dump on ties between Trump, Putin and Chabad benefactors, Chabad’s connection to the story emerges as nothing more than incidental. Although the article shows that Trump and Putin allies support Chabad, it does not prove that Chabad has any meaningful role — let alone an “outsize importance” — in the Trump-Russia affair.

http://www.jta.org/2017/04/10/news-opinion/united-states/politico-says-chabad-is-trumps-jewish-movement-not-so-fast