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Kid Berwyn

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26. Trump purged FBI of Russia counterintelligence experts, inc. Strzok.
Sat Apr 23, 2022, 04:58 PM
Apr 2022

From just the other year…



Trump’s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime

Some of President Trump’s favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they pertain to Russia.


NATASHA BERTRAND
The Atlantic, AUG 30, 2018

Bruce Ohr. Lisa Page. Andrew Weissmann. Andrew McCabe. President Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked these FBI and Justice Department officials as dishonest “Democrats” engaged in a partisan “witch hunt” led by the special counsel determined to tie his campaign to Russia. But Trump’s attacks have also served to highlight another thread among these officials and others who have investigated his campaign: their extensive experience in probing money laundering and organized crime, particularly as they pertain to Russia.

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Trump’s latest obsession is with Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who spent years investigating Russian organized crime and corruption—an expertise he shared with another Trump target named Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who provided valuable intelligence on Russia to the State Department and the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force prior to authoring the Trump-Russia dossier in 2016. Ohr and Steele met in 2007, according to The New York Times, and stayed in touch as a result of their shared interests and mutual respect. Trump has tweeted about Ohr nearly a dozen times this month alone, complaining about his relationship with Steele and Ohr’s wife’s past work for Fusion GPS—the opposition-research firm that hired Steele in 2016 to research Trump’s Russia ties.

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Trump’s fixation with seeing Ohr ousted from the Justice Department could be perceived as yet another attempt to undermine the credibility of the people who have investigated him. It could also be interpreted as an attack on someone with deep knowledge of the shady characters Trump and his cohort have been linked to, including Semion Mogilevich, the Russian mob boss, and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate close to Putin who did business with Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. (Incidentally, another Manafort associate, the Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash, admitted that he only managed to be in business because Mogilevich allowed him to be, according to a leaked 2008 State Department cable.) Ohr was involved in banning Deripaska from the U.S. in 2006, due to his alleged ties to organized crime and fear that he would try to launder money into American real estate. Nearly a decade later, Ohr and the FBI sought Deripaska’s help in taking down overseas criminal syndicates.

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The president has denied having any business ties to Russia, and his dream of building a Trump Tower Moscow never materialized. But his links to Russian oligarchs and mobsters from the former Soviet Union have been documented: Millions of dollars from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s developments and casinos throughout the 1990s, as the journalist Craig Unger has chronicled, as oligarchs looked for a place to hide their money in the West. The Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was once known as a hot spot for Brooklyn mobsters associated with the Russian Mafia, and quickly became the “favorite East Coast destination” of the top Russian mob boss Vyacheslav Ivankov, according to the 2000 book Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. It was also repeatedly cited by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for having inadequate money-laundering controls.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trumps-top-targets-in-the-russia-probe-are-experts-in-organized-crime/569056/



Traitor Trump, as PRESIDENT, targeted the FBI Witch Hunters who were tracking Putin and his Mafiya.

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REPUBLICAN traitors planning their ATTACK on America Achilleaze Apr 2022 #1
Can you say conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, conspiracy to overthrow onecaliberal Apr 2022 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Apr 2022 #24
No question. They were already an authoritarian government. onecaliberal Apr 2022 #31
It'd be great if you'd correct the spelling of his name MineralMan Apr 2022 #3
done, dad. nt Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #4
Thanks. He deserves to have his name spelled correctly, I think. MineralMan Apr 2022 #5
no comment on the content? wow. nt Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #6
It's good that this came out. That's my comment. MineralMan Apr 2022 #7
If DU is to be reliable you should be grateful someone allowed you to correct an error alphafemale Apr 2022 #18
"allowed me"?? Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #28
Well, since folks are busting your chops about the structure of your post..... A HERETIC I AM Apr 2022 #33
I do that all the time. Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #43
LOL.... A HERETIC I AM Apr 2022 #50
Yes. Acting insulted if someone points out an error you can correct is immature. alphafemale Apr 2022 #34
LOL. Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #45
Snide response - unneeded. DU is a bit of a news organization. Many of us rely on it. erronis Apr 2022 #12
I was on my way to correct, before someone felt it necessary to step in. Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #14
If you will notice, MM interrupted in the same MINUTE my post was made. nt Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #15
Nine minutes later. MineralMan Apr 2022 #37
Sounds serious. Torchlight Apr 2022 #41
LOL. Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #46
Thanks. We all like to chime in - sometimes with value erronis Apr 2022 #16
Traitors Joinfortmill Apr 2022 #8
So they assumed the FBI would help them steal the presidency Novara Apr 2022 #9
Seeing they're not doing much investigating now, it was a pretty good assumption. dem4decades Apr 2022 #10
What "deputy" are they referring to? How encrypted is SIGNAL and can it be Frustratedlady Apr 2022 #11
Signal should be totally impervious to decryption. All messages are encrypted end-to-end. erronis Apr 2022 #13
Thanks for the explanation. Beyond my pay grade, but I get the general idea. Frustratedlady Apr 2022 #19
But it's not. It is for most of us, for our use, and ancianita Apr 2022 #29
The surveillance "big boys" don't usually tackle the encryption HariSeldon Apr 2022 #38
strzok was a major punching bag for team limbaugh regarding hacked communications with girlfriend certainot Apr 2022 #17
Yep. On the bright side, Limbaugh is rotting in Hell now. nt SunSeeker Apr 2022 #20
Zero doubt Peter Strzok was targeted for removal by Russia Arazi Apr 2022 #21
Strzok knew Semion Mogilevich was into Trump. Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #32
limbaugh was trumps neighbor, dinner, partner, golf partner and being ablle to feed llimbaugh was certainot Apr 2022 #40
emptywheel has been following the debacle of strzok's media/gov't actions erronis Apr 2022 #22
wow. certainot Apr 2022 #39
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Apr 2022 #25
Enforcing compliance with the vote of the fake electors, would be my guess. nt SunSeeker Apr 2022 #23
Trump purged FBI of Russia counterintelligence experts, inc. Strzok. Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #26
We know Clark to be a rabid loyalist who wanted the election overturned Warpy Apr 2022 #27
We need to figure out how to say soldierant Apr 2022 #30
Kick dalton99a Apr 2022 #35
don't forget Snoopy 7 Apr 2022 #36
how much more of this can we take? IcyPeas Apr 2022 #42
our government llashram Apr 2022 #44
Every day, I become aware of new tentacles to this beast Torchlight Apr 2022 #47
and the media can't keep up with the revelations... Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #48
Thank you for posting UpInArms Apr 2022 #49
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