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Trump Dismantles FBI CounterIntelligence To The Benefit Of Vladimir Putin And FSB
“Trump has relentlessly attacked these FBI and Justice Department officials as dishonest “Democrats” engaged in a partisan “witch hunt” led by the special counsel.”
theatlantic.com/amp/article/56…
Trump Dismantles FBI CounterIntelligence To The Benefit Of Vladimir Putin And FSB
“Trump has relentlessly attacked these FBI and Justice Department officials as dishonest “Democrats” engaged in a partisan “witch hunt” led by the special counsel.”
theatlantic.com/amp/article/56…
2) “Trump’s latest obsession is with Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who spent years investigating Russian organized crime and corruption—an expertise he shared with another Trump target named Christopher Steele...” 
3)”Trump’s fixation with seeing Ohr ousted from the Justice Department could be perceived..as an attack on someone with deep knowledge of the shady characters..including Semion Mogilevich, the Russian mob boss, and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate close to Putin..”
4)”Andy McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI who spent more than a decade investigating Russian organized crime and served as a supervisory special agent of a task force that scrutinized Eurasian crime syndicates...was fired in March..”
5)”Trump has also villainized the former Mueller team member Lisa Page, a trial attorney in the Justice Department’s organized-crime section whose cases centered on international organized crime and money laundering.”
6)”Peter Strzok, a Russian counterintelligence expert in the FBI, during a period in which both briefly worked on the Mueller investigation. Strzok was fired earlier this month..”
7) Trump “has denied having any business ties to Russia..But his links to Russian oligarchs and mobsters from the former Soviet Union have been documented: Millions of dollars from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s developments and casinos throughout the 1990s..”
8)”By the early 2000s,a third of the buyers of Trump Tower’s most expensive condos were Russia-linked shell companies or individuals from the former Soviet Union—including Eduard Nektalov, a mob-connected diamond dealer from Uzbekistan,& David Bogatin, a Russian-émigré mobster..”
9)”Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov—Russian mob leader..ran an entire gambling &money-laundering network out of Unit 63A in Trump Tower..3 floors below Trump’s own residence &was a VIP attendee at Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in Moscow 7 months after the gambling ring was busted by FBI.)”
10)”Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen—who pleaded guilty last week to tax fraud and campaign-finance violations, in which he implicated the president—once bragged that he was part of the Russian mob..”
11)”NBC News reported in November that Trump’s Panama hotel had organized-crime ties, and a Russian state-owned bank under U.S. sanctions, whose CEO met w/Trump’s son-in-law,Jared Kushner..helped finance construction of 65-story Trump International Hotel and Tower in Toronto.”
12)”The Russian Mafia is essentially under the dominion of the Russian government and Russian intelligence services,” Simpson said..But Trump, continuing on the curious theme of defending Moscow while throwing U.S. intelligence officials under the bus..conveniently for Putin..”
