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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The war is the sales pitch.
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Trump pardoned every January 6 rioter on day one. Didn’t matter. A judge just ruled he can still be personally sued by the cops that crowd beat with flagpoles. Trial incoming.
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A graphic design grad reverse-engineers the White House war propaganda and finds the same playbook every president has used – make you afraid of the right things so you stop asking questions.
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The CDC paused rabies and poxvirus testing because Trump fired half the lab staff. One person is left on the rabies team. One.
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Three FBI breaches in one month. The director fired the Iran counterintelligence team days before Iran-linked hackers breached his email.
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The FBI director was subpoenaed in the same cases he’s now firing people for working. Three agents just filed a class action that could reinstate everyone he’s purged.
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Memphis held a massive No Kings march Saturday. It ended with pepper spray, three arrests, and a brand-new Tennessee law used to charge the people keeping marchers safe.
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David Sacks spent a year writing White House AI policy. Now he’s backing a $100M PAC to elect people who’ll protect it. Total AI midterm spending tops $300M.
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