Donald Trump’s Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia
Source: Time
Russian intelligence agencies have allegedly recently digitally broken into four different American organizations that are affiliated either with Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party since late May. All of the hacks appear designed to benefit Donald Trumps presidential aspirations in one fashion or another.
When asked about this, and his affection for Russian president Vladimir Putin, Trump said any inference that a connection exists between the two is absurd and the stuff of conspiracy. I have ZERO investments in Russia, he tweeted after the Democratic National Committee was apparently hacked by Russia and the emails released by Wiki Leaks on the eve of the DNC convention to nominate Clinton as its 2016 presidential candidate.
Most of the coverage of the links between Trump and Putins Russia takes the GOP presidential nominee at his wordthat he has lusted after a Trump tower in Moscow, and come up spectacularly short. But Trumps dodgethat he has no businesses in Russia, so there is no connection to Putinis a classic magicians trick. Show one idle hand, while the other is actually doing the work.
The truth, as several columnists and reporters have painstakingly shown since the first hack of a Clinton-affiliated group took place in late May or early June, is that several of Trumps businesses outside of Russia are entangled with Russian financiers inside Putins circle.
So, yes, its true that Trump has failed to land a business venture inside Russia. But the real truth is that, as major banks in America stopped lending him money following his many bankruptcies, the Trump organization was forced to seek financing from non-traditional institutions. Several had direct ties to Russian financial interests in ways that have raised eyebrows. Whats more, several of Trumps senior advisors have business ties to Russia or its satellite politicians.
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The most obvious example is Trump Soho, a complicated web of financial intrigue that has played out in court. A lawsuit claimed that the business group, Bayrock, underpinning Trump Soho was supported by criminal Russian financial interests. While its initial claim absolved Trump of knowledge of those activities, Trump himself later took on the groups principal partner as a senior advisor in the Trump organization.
Tax evasion and money-laundering are the core of Bayrocks business model, the lawsuit said of the financiers behind Trump Soho. The financing came from Russian-affiliated business interests that engaged in criminal activities, it said. (But) there is no evidence Trump took any part in, or knew of, their racketeering.
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Read more: http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/?xid=tcoshare
There is some great reporting going on around this subject. And the deeper they dig, the stinkier it gets.
This is going to keep breaking for weeks. I can't wait to see what else they dig up on the lying, CheetoSkinned loser.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Criminal racketeering charges from his systematic non-payment of contractors would not be such a bad outcome.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)KT2000
(20,587 posts)aren't going crazy over his cozy relationship with Putin. What happened to their fear of the "commies?"
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)They don't care if he's in bed with the commies, as long as their side wins?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)God doesn't think he is Donald Trump
flying-skeleton
(698 posts)Don't be surprised if Lewandowski is the person who secretly tweets for Trump ... even while working at CNN !!
Remember .... You heard it here first
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)That's been shown over and over.
RapSoDee
(421 posts)What a hack.
And yet Republicans have taken Don the Con to heart as their brand new, Uber Chickenhawk.