The Gerasimov Doctrine laid out how to destroy a country without firing a shot. Russian operatives described their idea with Donald Trump – using Cambridge Analytica, WikiLeaks, and hacker groups to manipulate the 2016 election. This is the final act.
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#9 The Deal: Trump Tower Moscow and the Biggest Lie of the Campaign
While Trump told voters he had nothing to do with Russia, Michael Cohen was negotiating Trump Tower Moscow with the Kremlin. Felix Sater emailed: Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it.
Read More#8 The International Pipeline: How the Network Took Trump’s Brand Global
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.
Read More#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#6 The Lifeline: Deutsche Bank, Russian Money, and Trump’s Only Option
Every bank in America said no to Donald Trump. But Deutsche Bank – which was simultaneously laundering $10 billion for Russian oligarchs through its Moscow mirror-trading scheme – kept writing checks. Over $2 billion in loans.
Read More#5 The Laundromat: How Trump’s Atlantic City Casinos Became Money Laundering Machines
Trump didn’t fail at the casino business. He succeeded at something else entirely. His Atlantic City casinos racked up 106 Bank Secrecy Act violations and the largest fine in history for anti-money-laundering failures. The Taj Mahal was a laundromat.
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#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 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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