Comment by BouncyBunnyBuddy on 16/08/2020 at 11:59 UTC*

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View submission: 'Trump warns presidential election result may not be known for 'years,' as allegations grow he's undermining the USPS to rig the election

► Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump's real estate, but evolved into something far bigger.

► In 1984, David Bogatin — a convicted Russian mobster and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. (NY Times, Apr 30, 1992)

► Felix Sater He grew up with Michael Cohen--Trump's former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob. This goes back more than 30 years.

► Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Bayrock (mentioned above). Bayrock was run by two investors: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and poured money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management.

► The Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. That is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have been operating out of the home of the president of the United States is deeply disturbing.

► Rudy Giuliani famously prosecuted the Italian mob while he was a federal prosecutor, yet the Russian mob was allowed to thrive. Now he's deeply entwined in the business of Trump and Russian oligarchs. Giuiani appointed Semyon Kislin to the NYC Economic Development Council in 1990, and the FBI described Kislin as having ties to the Russian mob. Of course, it made good political sense for Giuliani to get headlines for smashing the Italian mob.

► A lot of Republicans in Washington are implicated. Boatloads of Russian money went to the GOP--often in legal ways. The NRA got as much as $70M from Russia, then funneled it to the GOP. The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee lead by McConnell got millions from Leonard Blavatnik. In the 90s, the Russians began sending money to top GOP leaders, like Speaker of the House Tom Delay. Craig Unger's book alleges that most of the GOP leadership has been compromised by RU money.

► At the Cityscape USA’s Bridging US and the Emerging Real Estate Markets Conference held in Manhattan, on September 9, 10, and 11, 2008, Donald Trump Jr. was frank about the tide of Russian money supporting the family business, saying "...And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets."

► Eric Trump told golf reporter James Dodson in 2014 that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”

► Russian oligarchs co-signed Trump’s Deutsche bank loans.

Trump now gleefully takes cues from Putin: ► Trump went against American intelligence on North Korean missiles. He told the FBI he didn't believe their intelligence because Putin told him otherwise. “I don't care, I believe Putin"

► Trump met in secret with Putin at the G20 summit in November 2018, without note takers. 19 days later, he announced a withdrawal from Syria.

► Trump refused to enforce sanctions legally codified into law - and in some cases reversed standing sanctions on Russian companies.

► He has denounced his own intelligence agencies in a press conference with Putin on election meddling - and publicly endorsed Putin's version of events.

► Demanded Russia get invited back into G7

► Pushed the CIA to give American intelligence to the Kremlin.

► Withdrew from the Open Skies treaty

► Received intelligence in 2019 that Russia was paying bounties for dead American soldiers, and hasn't done anything about it

Edit: source

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/hsifzw/comment/fyavoin

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Comment by [deleted] at 16/08/2020 at 12:18 UTC

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You forgot one:

Ivana's family was involved in setting up KGB affiliated spying & meetings with Trump

Comment by The_Tavern at 16/08/2020 at 13:55 UTC

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Please cite some websites with this info so I can show my parents this

Comment by BillNyeCreampieGuy at 16/08/2020 at 13:35 UTC

161 upvotes, 8 direct replies

I don’t disbelieve any of this, but can I get your sources for these claims? These points are presented so matter of fact. I just don’t want to be a dunce.

Comment by calittle at 16/08/2020 at 12:41 UTC

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I imagine you’ve seen Active Measures?

Comment by dudeitsrazz at 16/08/2020 at 14:40 UTC

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May be unimportant, but look into Mar-a-Lago. The woman who owned it before Trump was a wife of a US ambassador to Russia, collected a lot of russian artworks (they’re in Hillwood Estate in DC)

There’s a lot of connections to Russia, its disgusting lol

Comment by HereIGoTrollinAgain at 16/08/2020 at 14:56 UTC

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The CIA and FBI have known about all of this beofre his election without a doubt. It's interesting that they did nothing about this then, or now. Russia has compromised the US in ways we probably will have yet to grasp until it is far too late.

Comment by depressedengineer32 at 16/08/2020 at 16:10 UTC

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why doesn't /r/conspiracy ever talk about this?

Comment by [deleted] at 16/08/2020 at 15:55 UTC

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focusing on Russia instead of on the fixing the issues in America that lead to a situation where he was even a plausible candidate in the first place, is a good way to miss the mark again, only to wind of with a more competent Trump.

Comment by [deleted] at 16/08/2020 at 13:47 UTC

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I understand how someone could use a cash business like a nail salon to launder money, but could somebody please explain how laundering is done with real estate, where the transactions aren’t cash?

Comment by WutUtalkingBoutWill at 16/08/2020 at 14:23 UTC

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I'm not doubting you, but is there anyway I could get sources for all these? I'm going to save your comment and post it on some groups im apart of on Facebook. Would love to have sources so they can't throw it back in my face

Comment by TerkRockerfeller at 16/08/2020 at 15:38 UTC

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Wow, I sure am glad all the problems in America (and this administration in particular) aren't actually the natural result of neoliberal capitalist policies! It's all just Russia's fault

Comment by KruxAF at 16/08/2020 at 14:19 UTC

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Links no sources. Comeon givee mee

Comment by lucky5150 at 16/08/2020 at 14:32 UTC

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Ok. Case closed

Comment by GentleLion2Tigress at 16/08/2020 at 14:40 UTC

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Demanding Russia be included in the G7 is the tip off to me. And he has been persistent in this request...

Comment by vocalfreesia at 16/08/2020 at 14:57 UTC

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Imagine if he'd been imprisoned after the first evidence of money laundering. Learn from that mistake America.

Comment by TimStellmach at 16/08/2020 at 15:04 UTC

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Okay, sure, but as Trump himself so eloquently put it, "no puppet, no puppet."

Comment by cadium at 16/08/2020 at 15:14 UTC

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Why anyone would think Russia would be a good economy to promote is beyond me. California alone has double the GDP of Russia