We ALL have been scratching our heads about finding the Russian connection with Trump…..
The NY Times looks at Trump’s recent attacks against a Department of Justice official who specializes in Russian orignized crime….
Yes….
A US Government guy who goes after Russian mob figures has the President of the United States ragging on him…Oh, and there are others that Donald Trump has named and gone after who also investigate Russian illegal money crime….
Intersting, eh?
The author of the piece give a caution that the evident presented in the piece could be as at as ‘only circumstantial and well short of proof.’….
But I’d bet that when the final Mueller report drops?
David Leonhardt’s piece is gonna have some of the same conclusions….
It is NOT a pretty picture from a guy who likes to throw the word ‘treason’ around so freely….
Consider: The financially rickety Trump Organization, shunned by most mainstream banks, long relied on less scrupulous Russian investors. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. said a decade ago. “We have all the funding we need out of Russia,” Eric Trump reportedly said in 2013. And what was the rare major bank to work with Trump? Deutsche Bank, which has a history of illegal Russian money laundering….
Note…
We already know that starved of access to money around 1988?
Trump turned to money sources from Russia….
And has continued to….