The Jackson-Vanik Amendment opened American doors to 600,000 Soviet emigrants. It also let in the Russian mafia. By the 1980s, Brighton Beach was the headquarters of America’s most ruthless criminal organization – and Trump Tower was their favorite laundromat.
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Trump Is Updating Nixon’s Playbook
Trump is pulling a Nixon – but somehow making it worse.
The administration is gutting the IRS Criminal Investigation division and installing loyalists who’ve already drawn up hit lists of Democratic …
Read MoreWhy Trump’s Middle East Peace Fantasy Was Always Doomed
Let’s talk about Donald Trump’s belief that he could end a 46-year blood feud with a Truth Social post demanding “PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL” behavior. The man is too dumb to understand that some conflic…
Read MoreThe Obama Iran Money Conspiracy
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people talk today about the time Obama sent pallets of money to Iran to help them build their nuclear program. The only problem is – it never happened.
What …
Read MoreMake Iran Great Again? Who Made Them Bad? We Did.
Anyone else facepalming over Trump’s MIGA (Make Iran Great Again) tweet?
Have you ever wondered why the US is so worried about Iran getting a nuclear weapon? I did – so I looked it up. As it turns ou…
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