#3 The Invitation: How the Soviet Union Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Donald Trump
In July 1987, Donald Trump flew to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, on a trip arranged through Intourist, the Soviet travel agency the KGB ran. Less than two months later, he spent $95,000 on full-page ads saying allies like Japan and Saudi Arabia should pay for America's protection. Czech intelligence files show foreign agencies were tracking his political ambitions.
#2 The Test: Trump Tower Was Open for Business and the Mob Came Shopping
Trump Tower opened in 1983 and quickly drew buyers with money to hide. Haiti's dictator, Baby Doc Duvalier, bought through a shell company, Russian mob figure David Bogatin bought five condos, and gambling kingpin Robert Hopkins brought a suitcase of cash to his closing. BuzzFeed found 1,300+ all-cash shell company purchases worth $1.5 billion across Trump-branded condos in the US. The law never made him ask where the money came from.
#1 The Mark: The KGB Had a Checklist for Picking Targets and Trump Checked Every Box
The KGB wrote down what kind of person it was looking for: "pride, arrogance, egoism, ambition or vanity." Czech intelligence started watching Trump the year he married Ivana, and wiretapped her father. His mentor was Roy Cohn, a lawyer for the mob. I'd argue the profile fit him line by line.
I Can Prove Trump’s Russia Problem Goes Back to 1977 and I Will
Starting in 1977, Czech intelligence kept a file on Donald Trump's family. In 1984, a Russian mob figure paid $6 million for five condos in his tower, and Trump went to the closing. Deutsche Bank kept lending to him when most big banks wouldn't. This is the sourced, receipts-in-hand story of how Russia bought an American president.
Eric Swalwell’s Accusers Brought Receipts - His Lawyer Brought Cease-and-Desist Letters
He admitted “mistakes in judgment.” He just thinks you shouldn’t care. Here’s the thing about the Eric Swalwell allegations - he denies sleeping with his staffers. He just had his lawyer send at least two of the women accusing him letters demanding they stop talking about it. If you’re new here - let’s catch you…
The Man Who Might Be Satoshi Is Going Public Through the Commerce Secretary’s Son’s Firm
Adam Back, Howard Lutnick, and a $79 billion disclosure problem The guy the New York Times just identified as the secret creator of Bitcoin is in the process of going public through a company chaired by Howard Lutnick’s son. Take a second with that. Adam Back is a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work…
The Pentagon Is Lying About Dead Americans While Writing Legal Cover to Kill Iranian Civilians
The Pentagon has three casualty counts. None of them are the same. I’ve been staring at two documents from the Pentagon and I keep coming back to the same question: are they bad at counting, or are they lying? The Intercept published a piece this week showing that CENTCOM’s official casualty count for the Iran…
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Was Caught on Tape Spying for Russia. He Still Has His Job.
Verified recordings, 72 delisted Russian entities, zero consequences Okay so Hungary’s Foreign Minister got caught on tape coordinating with Russia and I genuinely don’t understand why this isn’t bigger news, so let me walk you through it ’cause it’s wild. Peter Szijjarto is Hungary’s Foreign Minister. He’s been in the job since 2014. Hungary is…
Paolo Zampolli Connects Epstein, Maxwell, Melania, and Trump. He’s Currently a US Special Envoy.
The modeling agent rabbit hole goes deeper than anyone’s reporting. Oh - you thought I was done writing about Melania’s surprise Epstein press conference and the Amanda Ungaro situation? Well, I fell down the Paolo Zampolli rabbit hole and guess what I found? Every layer of this guy’s biography connects to something worse. So let…
Melania’s Surprise Epstein Denial Makes a Lot More Sense When You Know Who Amanda Ungaro Is
The deported ex says she knows where the bodies are buried. The only reason why I still have a Twitter account is that that’s where you find the real tea. As you all know, Melania Trump went in front of the cameras at the White House yesterday to tell the country she has nothing to…
Altman Proposes Taxing Robots While Selling Them to the Pentagon
The company that dropped its ethics lost to the one that kept them People think I’m a cheerleader for AI. I would say that I’m not a cheerleader for anything. I just want to look at issues logically. AI is not good or bad - it’s just a tool - used by people - who…
Israel Poisoned Lebanon’s Farms. Then It Killed Another Reporter in Gaza.
The evidence grows while the witnesses disappear I want to talk about two things that are happening at the same time, ’cause I think when you put them next to each other it tells you something nobody’s really saying out loud. The first thing is that Mohammed Wishah, an Al Jazeera correspondent who’d been with…