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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#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 through Intourist – a known KGB front. He came home and immediately spent $95,000 on newspaper ads attacking NATO, echoing Soviet talking points word for word. Czech intelligence files show foreign agencies were tracking his political ambitions.
Read More#2 The Test: Trump Tower Was Open for Business and the Mob Came Shopping
Trump Tower opened in 1983 and immediately became a magnet for dirty money. Baby Doc Duvalier, Russian mob operative David Bogatin, and mob-connected gambling kingpin Robert Hopkins all bought condos with cash through shell companies. BuzzFeed found 1,300+ suspicious shell company purchases totaling $1.5 billion across Trump properties. He never asked where the money came from.
Read More#1 The Mark: The KGB Had a Checklist for Picking Targets and Trump Checked Every Box
The KGB literally wrote down what kind of person they were looking for – ambitious, egotistical, susceptible to flattery. Czech intelligence had been monitoring Trump since 1977 through his wife Ivana’s father, an StB informant. Roy Cohn connected him to the Russian mob. The recruitment profile was a perfect match.
Read MoreThe House That Wexner Built
Leslie Wexner spent $25 million building Manhattan’s largest private residence. Then he gave it to Jeffrey Epstein for $0. Inside, FBI agents found hundreds of photos of nude girls and a safe full of evidence someone had already catalogued.
Read MoreAustralia Banned Trump Over Mafia Ties — America Let Him Build a Casino Empire
In 1987, Aussie regulators said Trump was too mobbed-up for Sydney. The U.S.? They gave him a license and looked the other way G’ Day! Wanna hear another CRAZY story… Read More
That Time Reagan Accidentally Broke Democracy
Have you ever wondered how politics became so partisan?
Is it really a shifting of demographics and values – or has the distance between viewpoints been artificially inflated?
Looking at media today…
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 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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