Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

[lpetrich]

New Book Documents Trump's Long Relationship with Russian Mafia

Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena is the author of the new book Trump/Russia: A Definitive History, which documents the decades-long relationship between Donald Trump and Russian organized crime, which has helped finance many of his development projects and bought up his properties, often at higher-than-market prices. He did an interview on MSNBC about those ties.

Author reveals how Donald Trump chased after 'Russian criminal money' to build Trump Tower

“You have relationships with Russia — between Trump and people around him — that go back decades,” Hettena noted. “When we look at that, what we see is this isn’t a new development here, that these are relationships that go back to the 1980s even.”

Witt wondered if the entire scandal came down to money.

“It’s about money, but it’s about Russian criminal money, specifically,” Hettena clarified. “What happened, is in the 80s there was a group of Russian criminals here in New York that were running a really lucrative gas tax scam, they had so much money they didn’t know what to do with it.”

“The interesting thing is Donald Trump found them, and got them to invest in Trump Tower and they wound up buying a block of units for a little less than $6 million,” he continued.

“That was Trump’s introduction into this world of Russian criminal money,” Hettena argued. “It continued in Trump Tower, it continued in his casinos, it continued into development projects, right up until the present day.”

Mafia Don: Donald Trump's 40 years of Mob ties - Kindle edition by H.B. Glushakow. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. reproduces the book blurb:

Read about the murderers, drug dealers, fraudsters and scam artists that he not only did business with, but also defended, befriended and made his advisors. Are those "the very best people" that he's promised to bring with him to government if elected?

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Read about the two top Mafiosi currently in jail with first hand knowledge of some of the Trump secrets he has never owned up to. Together these men are responsible for over 20 murders. It does not take much imagination to see them in their cells, rubbing their hands together in gleeful anticipation of a Trump presidency as a means of obtaining "Get Out of Jail Free" cards.

Donald Trump talked about "draining the swamp" of Washington corruption. It turns out that he is a big fat swamp monster.

Connections with criminal gangsters may explain why he has stayed in business despite his business failures. It looks as if gangsters with money to launder have been a ready source of capital for him.

 

[ZiprHead]

I will find it to be totally hilarious when his pathological narcissism to "be best" over Obama brings his whole empire crashing down. The stupidity of aspiring to the most scrutinized position in the world when one has so many very serious skeletons in the closet is astounding.

 

[Elixir]

I will find it to be totally hilarious when his pathological narcissism to "be best" over Obama brings his whole empire crashing down. The stupidity of aspiring to the most scrutinized position in the world when one has so many very serious skeletons in the closet is astounding.

Trumpsuckers ain't skeert of no damn skeletons!