Putin’s state bank financed Trump Toronto through a chain of KGB-linked companies. A broker for Trump Panama admitted half his buyers were Russian mafia. Kushner bought property from a Putin-allied oligarch and financed it through Deutsche Bank. Same network, three continents.
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#7 The Front Company: How Russian Intelligence Built a Business Inside Trump Tower
Bayrock Group set up shop in Trump Tower, staffed by a Soviet commerce official and a convicted felon turned FBI informant, funded by Kazakh oligarchs, and designed to move Russian money through luxury real estate. 77% of Trump SoHo units were bought with cash by shell companies formed days before purchase. This is the KGB front company playbook with expensive suits.
Read More#4 Brighton Beach: How the Russian Mob Set Up Shop in Trump’s Buildings
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.
Read More#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#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 MoreI Can Prove Trump’s Russia Problem Goes Back to 1977 and I Will
Starting in 1977, Czech intelligence opened a file on Donald Trump. The KGB identified him as a recruitment target. Russian oligarchs laundered money through his properties. Deutsche Bank kept him afloat when no one else would. This is the documented, sourced, receipts-in-hand story of how Russia bought an American president.
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