Friday, July 27, 2018

What Russia 'Has' On Trump REVEALED




 

 

Dear friends,

It's now shockingly clear that Donald Trump is Putin's poodle.

The Shocking Truth about Trump

But we need the world to understand why, before it's too late...

Trump's businesses went bankrupt so many times in the 1990s that many legitimate banks wouldn't lend to him anymore. He turned to Russian oligarchs -- Putin's ruling clique -- to bankroll his projects, and launder their dirty money for them. This was, and continues to be, a huge part of his business. He's a Russian money launderer.

"We don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia."
Donald Trump JR, 2014

This isn't speculation or hyperbole. There's mountains of evidence. Trump's former election campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, has deep ties to Russian oligarchs, and is currently in jail awaiting trial on, among other charges, money laundering!

Here are 5 more top facts everyone should know about Trump's long collusion with Russian organised criminals -- forward this email and share it on Facebook -- we all deserve to know the truth:

 

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Trump's main financial backer for the Trump Tower Toronto was a Russian-Canadian billionaire who got the money by selling a massive steel mill in Ukraine for nearly a billion dollars. $100 million of that money was paid to a Kremlin-backed fixer, likely as a bribe to VERY high Russian officials. The Chairman of the Bank who financed the deal? Vladimir Putin.

 


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Trump bought his home in Palm Beach, Florida for $41 million. A few years later, with no real increase in the value -- he sold it for $95 million -- the most expensive home in America at the time! Why? A major Russian oligarch bought it -- we don't know yet why he effectively 'gave' Trump $54 million. But it's classic money laundering practice.

 


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Trump's real estate deals were often fuelled by Russian money, typically passed through shady shell companies. 77% of Trump Soho apartments were bought with cash by such mysterious companies. At least 13 people with links to Russian oligarchs or mobsters lived in Trump properties, including one of Russia's top mobsters. One even ran a high-stakes illegal gambling ring in the apartment right below Trump's!

"Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets"
Donald Trump JR, 2008

 


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Trump's financial broker and "Senior Advisor" was a Russian convicted felon named Felix Sater, widely known as a mafia figure who once stabbed someone in the face with a broken margarita glass, requiring over 100 stitches. Sater helped set up shell companies, and arranged funding for Trump's projects, including plans for Trump Tower Moscow. He's also part of Putin's inner circle. Here's one email he wrote to Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen in November, 2015:

"Michael I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. We both know no one else knows how to pull this off without stupidity or greed getting in the way. I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will."

New York Times, August 27, 2017

 


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Trump's other main business is casinos -- which are classic money laundering vehicles. One of his casinos was 100 times found in violation of federal rules protecting against money laundering, and paid the largest fine ever levied against a casino for having "willfully violated" anti-money laundering rules. Trump has a legal obligation to do "due diligence" for all his businesses to prevent laundering. His senior executive's comment on this was "Donald doesn't do diligence".

 


The Big Picture

Putin is a former KGB officer who has used chemical weapons, assassinated people in other countries, invaded the Ukraine, occupied Crimea, shot down the MH17 airliner with almost 300 passengers on board, aided a murderous regime in Syria, condoned the beating and torture of gays, stolen up to $200 billion from his own people, hacked foreign elections and launched what NATO calls the largest hybrid warfare campaign in history to undermine western liberal democracies. He is also widely believed to have ordered the murder of Russian journalists and critics, and bombed hundreds of Russian civilians to fake a terrorist attack and justify a war in Chechnya.

Yet when asked at their press conference if Trump had any criticism of Putin, he had none, and ridiculed US law enforcement for investigating Russian attacks on US democracy!

Why? Trump has been working for Putin's corrupt inner circle for almost 20 years. And it's that corrupt circle that promises to make him rich for the next 20 (he's refused, in violation of all ethics, to divest from his businesses as President).

Trump *may* be a Russian intelligence asset, he *may* have colluded with Putin to sabotage the US election. But what is clear is that he is a corrupt Russian money launderer, in the pocket of a KGB dictator. The whole world needs to know this, and rally together to prevent the damage this corrupt alliance threatens. Share this email with everyone...

 

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With hope,

Ricken, Emma, Rewan, Joseph, Morgan, Spyro, Flora and the whole Avaaz team

PS -- scroll down for a TON of credible, trustworthy, fact-checked sources for everything in this email. Avaaz isn't one of those absurd troll publications that slings lies for profit -- we're a nonprofit, and every time we make an error anywhere, we publish the correction on our accuracy page, linked from the front of our website.

PPS -- if Trump the 'organized criminal money launderer' sounds like a stretch to you, consider it just the tip of the iceberg of Trump's known corruption:

  • His 'charitable foundation' is likely to be shut down for multiple examples of fraud.
  • Trump 'University' scammed legions of vulnerable people out of their money.
  • He had an affair with a pornstar and paid her to keep quiet -- she says she was also threatened with physical violence.
  • His ex-wife attested in court documents that he brutally raped her while tearing out her hair after he didn't like the hair replacement doctor she recommended.
  • He bragged, on tape, about sexually assaulting multiple women.
  • Hundreds of people hired by Trump say he simply decided not to pay them for their work -- including dishwashers, painters and waiters, some of whom were making minimum wage.
  • He has been sued, and forced to pay out settlements, over a hundred times.

Trump is not a devil -- he's a human being, and like all people he has positive qualities and legitimate views. But anyone who denies that he is deeply corrupt, isn't looking at the facts. To understand Trump, and protect our world from him, we need to understand his corruption.

 

MORE INFORMATION

Trump's Russian Laundromat (The New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

Everything We Know About Russia and President Trump (Committee to Investigate Russia)
https://investigaterussia.org/timelines/everything-we-know-about-russia-and-president-trump

Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers (Buzzfeed News)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/thomasfrank/secret-money-how-trump-made-millions-selling-condos-to

Trump's Russian connections (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/sites/trumps-russian-connections/

Dirty money: Trump and the Kazakh connection (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923

Trump's oldest son said a decade ago that a lot of the family's assets came from Russia (Business Insider)
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-said-money-pouring-in-from-russia-2018-2

Sales of Trump properties suggestive of money-laundering - researcher (Reuters)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-russia-fusion/sales-of-trump-properties-suggestive-of-money-laundering-researcher-idUKKBN1F8058

Tower of secrets: the Russian money behind a Donald Trump skyscraper (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/trumptoronto

Trump Tower Toronto Was 'Investment Scheme And Conspiracy': Lawsuit (Huffington Post)
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/11/07/trump-tower-toronto-lawsuit_n_12849150.html?guccounter=1

If Trump Is Laundering Russian Money, Here's How It Works (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/if-trump-is-laundering-russian-money-heres-how-it-works/

Trump's casino was a money laundering concern shortly after it opened (CNN)
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/trump-taj-mahal/index.html

Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king (Miami Herald)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article135187364.html

Everything you want to know about Donald Trump's bankruptcies (CNN)
https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/news/companies/donald-trump-bankruptcy/

Canada's highest court upholds ruling that Donald Trump did mislead investors (The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-lawsuit-canada-court-approves-legal-case-against-us-president-a7623566.html

Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

Why did a Russian pay $95M to buy Trump's Palm Beach mansion? (The Seattle Times)
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/why-did-a-russian-pay-95m-to-buy-trumps-palm-beach-mansion/

The Russia investigation and Donald Trump: a timeline from on-the-record sources (updated) (Politifact)
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jul/16/russia-investigation-donald-trump-timeline-updated/

Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8507f77dfcb1

A Brief History of Attempted Russian Assassinations by Poison (Foreign Policy)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/09/a-brief-history-of-attempted-russian-assassinations-by-poison/

International Criminal Court: Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Is A 'Crime,' Not A Civil War (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2016/11/20/international-criminal-court-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-is-a-crime-not-a-civil-war/#1cf1ce247ddb

Donald Trump's Worst Deal: The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard (The New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

Trump's Business of Corruption (The New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/trumps-business-of-corruption

Trump lawyer 'paid by Ukraine' to arrange White House talks (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44215656

After becoming President, Trump has sold millions in real estate in secret deals (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-real-estate-secret-buyers-777276

Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910

Russian lawyer from infamous Trump Tower meeting admits to being an informant for the Kremlin: Report (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/27/emails-show-new-ties-between-trump-tower-russian-and-kremlin-nbc.html

 



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20 comments:

  1. This is quite an Exposé!

    I was not familiar with this media outlet and don't know how credible this information is. But it certainly sounds plausible and the information is well- referenced/authenticated.
    If it can be confirmed it would explain a lot of Trump's behaviour in relation to Russia:

    He is in a serious conflict of interest position vis-a-vis Russia.
    Trump is beholden to Putin and Russian oligarchs and is trying to protect his financial interests.

    Why has the mainstream media not run with this?!
    The extent of Trump's personal business and financial  entanglements in Russia needs to be more thoroughly investigated and  disclosed/exposed.
    Hopefully Robert Muller's investigation will expand into this area.

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      NY Times investigation into Donald Trump's taxes uncovers numerous instances of fraud:

      https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html

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  2. According to this info Trump is indebted to Russia's inner power circle.
    His whole "empire" is predominantly financed by the Russians...and if they call in their loans his entire house of cards will come crashing down!

    Trump must know that if he crosses Putin a special vial of "novachuck" is waiting for him!

    HoHoHo!

    The Truth always finds its way into the light of day!

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    1. Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder by Amy Knight

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    2. It isn't just Putin who seeks to silence critics and kill his enemies:
      Look how America hunted down Osama bin laden!

      How Kim Jong Un sent assassins to kill his half brother with a nerve agent. How Israel's Mossad killed professor Bull who had designed long-range cannon that coild be used to target Israel. Project Babylon: Gerald Bull's Downfall • Damn Interestinghttps://www.damninteresting.com › proje...

      Mossad also persecuted informant Mordechai Vanunu who disclosed info about Israel's nuclear capabilities.

      Opponents were not "brought to justice" in a conventional sense but were hunted down and "terminated" by state-ordered death squads or special agents Thrre are many other instances where state action goes way beyond the "rule of law"..including war and genocide.

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    3. The ordered killing of Jaimal Kashogi by yhe Saudi regime is but latest of numerous othrr examples of how states silence critics with impunity becaise in the realm of international relations there are no enforceable laws.

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    4. Countries that shield Saudia Arabia because of financial interests (weapons sales)have blood on their hands:

      Saudia Arabia has killed 50,000  innocent citizens in Yemen including busloads of children...  and triggered an immense humanitarian crisis.

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/09/dozens-dead-in-yemen-as-bus-carrying-children-hit-by-airstrike-icrc

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    5. Extra-judicial executions: "bring me his head!"

      Betrayed, ,tortured,  murdered, and butchered by a Saudi hit squad

      2000 years and not much has changed since Herod's time!

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    6. Moral principles are dispensible


      Trump refuses to condemn Saudi leadership for the murder of Kashogi on grounds that it would jeopardize US arms sales to Saudi Arabia. He turns a blind eye to this morally reprehensible brutal action in favor of financial benefit.
      Mr. President show some moral backbone and wash your hands of the blood money investments from Saudi Arabia. They are a laudromat for dirty/unethical money. Saudia Arabia deserves to be condemned/sanctioned for such flagrantly reprehensible behaviour(apart from their war in Yemen wch has created an immense humanitarian crisis).
      It is immoral to benefit at the expense of other people's suffering.

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  3. Exposed!
    I'd say the straw man might be feeling bit naked 'bout now!
    #the emperor has no clothes!

    formerbliever

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  4. The planet's forces of darkness have united in collusion!

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  5. Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty on 8 charges

    MATTHEW BARAKAT, CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER
    Associated Press
    August 22, 2018, 4:05 PM GMTALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) —

    Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president's associates.


    https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-trump-campaign-chairman-paul-manafort-guilty-8-042916875--politics.html

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    1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/sep/14/paul-manafort--plea-deal-donald-trump-robert-mueller-latest-live-updates

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    2. Mueller Report complete...but to remain secret:
      Trump signs executive order preventing it from being made public:


      https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/all/



      The White House invoked executive privilege and ordered former counsel Donald McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents related to Robert Mueller's investigation. In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, White House counsel Pat Cipollone argued that "McGahn does not have the legal right to disclose these documents to third parties" and asked that the committee instead direct the request to the White House, "because they implicate significant Executive Branch confidentiality interests and executive privilege." Trump has also promised to assert executive privilege to block McGahn's testimony to the committee later this month. McGahn spent more than 30 hours speaking to Mueller's investigators, outlining two episodes where Trump asked him to have Mueller fired, and later asking McGahn to deny news reports about that conversation. McGahn rebuffed both requests. (

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    3. Robert Mueller, in his first public statement about his Russia probe, did not exonerate President Trump, instead explaining why his office never considered indicting him for obstruction of justice.


      https://www.thenation.com/article/robert-mueller-congress-impeachment/

      “If we had confidence the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so”

      --Robert Mueller

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    4. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/mueller-testifies-russia-blackmail-leverage-trump.html

      THE NATIONAL INTEREST JULY 25, 2019

      Mueller Testifies Russia Had Blackmail on Trump

      By Jonathan Chait



      Robert Mueller. Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images

      The most interesting and newsworthy portion of Robert Mueller’s six hours of testimony before the House yesterday came in the final two exchanges of the day, long after the narrative was set and the national media had grown bored. In those ten minutes, Mueller confirmed that Russia had blackmail leverage over Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.



      The Mueller report states that it was a criminal investigation, not a counterintelligence probe. If Moscow has leverage over a presidential candidate, that is not a crime. Illinois Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi opened the line of inquiry by getting Mueller to offer that counterintelligence findings “probably were made in the FBI” and that “the counterintelligence goals of our investigation … were secondary to any criminal wrongdoing that we could find.” Mueller agreed that “the question of whether Russian oligarchs engaged in money laundering through any of the president’s businesses” — a possibility strongly suggested by numerous journalists who have studied Trump’s finances — was “outside his purview.”

      But, incidentally to the criminal investigation, Mueller’s criminal probe did turn up at least some counterintelligence findings.

      Mueller agreed that, if a candidate lies about his dealings with a foreign country, that country can blackmail him:

      KRISHNAMOORTHI: Individuals can be subject to blackmail if they lie about their interactions with foreign countries, correct?


      MUELLER: True.

      Krishnamoorthi mentioned Michael Flynn, who had lied to



      But, incidentally to the criminal investigation, Mueller’s criminal probe did turn up at least some counterintelligence findings.

      Mueller agreed that, if a candidate lies about his dealings with a foreign country, that country can blackmail him:

      KRISHNAMOORTHI: Individuals can be subject to blackmail if they lie about their interactions with foreign countries, correct?


      MUELLER: True.

      Krishnamoorthi mentioned Michael Flynn, who had lied to the FBI about his interactions with Russia. “Flynn’s false statements could pose a national security risk because the Russians knew the falsity of those statements,” he suggested. Mueller replied, “There are many elements of the FBI that are looking at different aspects of that issue.” “Currently?” asked an apparently surprised Krishnamoorthi. “Currently,” replied Mueller.

      Krishnamoorthi then applied the logic to Trump. Trump was lying in public about his dealings with Russia, again subjecting him to blackmail:

      KRISHNAMOORTHI: As you noted in volume two of your report, Donald Trump repeated five times in one press conference, Mr. Mueller, in 2016, “I have nothing to do with Russia.” Of course Michael Cohen said Donald Trump was not being truthful, because at this time Trump was attempting to build Trump Tower Moscow. Your report does not address whether Donald Trump was compromised in any way because of any potential false sta

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  6. Trump's lawyer pleads guilty

    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/michael-cohen-information-interest-robert-mueller-lawyer-says-111707823--abc-news-topstories.html

    Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight counts that included campaign finance violations spawned from hush money agreements with two women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, who claim to have had affairs with Trump, which he has denied. Speaking to a packed federal courthouse in Manhattan, Cohen said he made those payments "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," referring to then-candidate Donald Trump.

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  7. NY Times exposes Trump's tax avoidance:




    https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2020/09/28/new-york-times-reports-donald-trumps-tax-avoidance-financial-losses/3559192001/

    Investigation shows years of tax avoidance by Donald Trump – The New York Times
    POSTED BY VENTO ON 28TH SEPTEMBER 2020 IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    Donald Trump paid just $750 (£590) in federal income taxes in 2016 – the year he was elected, according to The New York Times.

    An investigation by the newspaper also claimed that he didn’t pay any income tax at all in 10 of the 15 years before he became president.

    The claims come just weeks before a divisive election, with early voting already under way.

    It is also claimed that his tax bill also came to just $750 in 2017 during his first year in office.

    When asked about the report in his daily briefing, Mr Trump said: “It’s totally fake news, made up, fake. Actually I paid tax.”

    Mr Trump insisted his tax details would be released when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) finishes its audit.

    “They’ve been under audit for some time,” Mr Trump added. “The IRS treat me very badly.”

    A lawyer for the Trump Organisation told the newspaper that “most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate”.

    In a statement, he said the president “has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015”.

    The NY Times report claims Mr Trump was able to minimise his tax bill by reporting heavy losses across his business empire.

    It said he claimed $47.4m (£37.1m) in losses in 2018, despite saying he had income of at least $434.9m (£340.7m) in a financial disclosure that year.

    The US president’s consistent refusal to release his taxes has been a departure from standard practice for presidential candidates.

    He is currently in a legal battle with New York City prosecutors and congressional Democrats who are seeking to obtain his returns.

    During a presidential debate against Hillary Clinton in 2016, Mrs Clinton said that perhaps Mr Trump was not releasing his tax returns because he had paid nothing in federal taxes.

    Mr Trump interrupted her to say: “That makes me smart.”

    POSTED IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS | TAGGED DONALD TRUMP, INVESTIGATION,

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  8. The myth and reality of Donald Trump's wealth

    Donald Trump bills himself as a self-made billionaire. But after a decade of painstaking reporting, Susanne Craig has built a compelling case that the former U.S. president's long-running image as a savvy dealmaker is all just an illusion. The Canadian investigative journalist at The New York Times joins Chattopadhyay to talk about her findings, as collected in the new book Lucky Loser, and how ideas about Trump's wealth play out among American voters.


    The Sunday Magazine22:31
    The myth and reality of Donald Trump's wealth

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