Move over Kremlingate: Trump has been doing business with the russian mob since the 1990s.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/trump-has-deep-ties-to-organized-crime-federal-investigators-know-it-and-the-public-is-catching-up/The evidence of pre-election collusion between Trump and the Russians, while growing, is far from definitive. The evidence on Trump’s organized crime ties is stronger.
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Chronologically speaking, Trump’s ties to organized crime figures came first. Mutually beneficial transactions dating back to the 1990s led to closer relations in the 2000s and culminated in the contacts during the 2016 campaign. It all began with Russians who wanted to get their money out of the country.
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For example, David Bogatin: In the 1990s, the FBI considered Bogatin one of the key members of a major Russian organized crime family run by a legendary boss named Semion Mogilevich. According to the late investigative reporter Wayne Barrett, Bogatin owned five separate condos in Trump Tower that Trump had reportedly sold to him personally.
Vyacheslav Ivankov, another Mogilevich lieutenant in the United States during the 1990s, also resided for a time at Trump Tower, and reportedly had in his personal phone book the private telephone and fax numbers for the Trump Organization’s office in that building.
A lot of this Russian organized crime money flowed through Cyprus, and one of its largest banks, the Bank of Cyprus. The bank’s chairman, Wilbur Ross, is now secretary of commerce. When senators considering Ross’ nomination asked about Cyprus, Ross said Trump had forbidden him from answering questions on the subject.
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Torshin has also been targeted by a long-running Spanish police investigation into a Russian organized crime syndicate known as the Taganskaya. The White House canceled Torshin’s meeting with Trump rather than “exacerbate the political controversy over contacts between Trump associates and the Kremlin,” reported Yahoo News’ Mike Isikoff.
Also in February, Trump received a proposed peace plan for Ukraine and Russia, offered by his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and two Russians with organized crime convictions:
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“Imagine you’re a foreign government and you want to launder money for domestic espionage operations in the United States. High-end real estate would be a great way to do it. It was the method used by Colombian drug traffickers all over Latin America and Miami in the 1980s and 1990s. It’s a form that Russian organized crime has used… All of a sudden we’re starting to see the same kind of patterns involving some criminal people and some Russian officials showing up in current investigations with Trump properties.”
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/05/26/inside-donald-trumps-empire-why-he-wont-run-for-president.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/trump-mob-mafia/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-challenged-over-ties-to-mob-linked-gambler-100050602.html
But I bet he never stiffed them like he does the average Joe. Otherwise he wouldn't be here today.
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I'm glad to see that it has finally been published, but we needed to see it last year.
Donald Trump was never a serious - or even an acceptable - candidate for the Presidency.
His campaign should be been buried with these news stories when he first declared himself.
I'm not talking about "fake news" - we needed the truth in print and he would have been laughed off the stage.
The media never did their job last year and we know why. "Donald Trump is good for business."
...they would have gone with somebody else, I really believe that.
McConnell, Ryan, and maybe a couple of others knew all the dirt about him and they nominated him anyway. But a lot of others didn't have a clue about how bad he was. Because there was nothing bad in the media about him.
So it looks like the media got Trump elected by allowing him to present himself as a worthy candidate.
He was never worthy!
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Try to remain focused on the important things, racism and misogyny.
Don't allow the Russian mob controlling the White House to distract you from the fundamental prejudices so vital to maintaining plutocratic American social order. 
