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12 Jan 19, 3 tweets, 2 min read
4/ Then, not long after he returns from Moscow, a report surfaces saying the Soviets love Trump, & he starts to run for president in 1988. He takes out full page ads in WaPo, NYTimes, Boston Globe, putting for a foreign policy attacking NATO. ImageImage
5/By the early 90's, the FBI is looking all over Brighton Beach for Russian Mafioso Vyacheslav Ivankov, the henchman for Semion #Mogilevich and find he has a place in Trump Tower. ImageImage
6) Impt to remember that Putin has weaponized the Russian Mafia. They are state actors. As General Kalugin told me, the Russian Mafia was another arm of the KGB.

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21 Sep 19
2/As I reported in #HouseofTrump, FBI files asserted that Kislin was tied to the infamous Russian mobster Vyachslav Ivankov. Trump's ties to Kislin dated back to the late 70s when he bought 100s of TVs from him for the Grand Hyatt.
3/ Kislin's alleged ties to Russian Mafia notwithstanding, Trump got him to assist in issuing mortgages for condos in Trump World Tower
4/Kislin partner Tamir Sapir played a key role in bailing out Trump by partnering w Bayrock and helping fund the ill-fated Trump SoHo. Meanwhile, Kislin was a significant contributor to Giuliani who appted him to NYC's Economic Dev't Corp.
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23 May 19
1/ It's worth remembering the entire context of McCarthy's remarks which @washingtonpost printed at the time. It shows that not only was McCarthy NOT joking, he was speaking in response to a series of events that began to reveal the corrupt core of the Trump-Russia scandal.
2/ As I write in #HouseofTrump, McCarthy's remarks came in June 2016, just 6 days after the Trump Tower meeting, and the same day the GOP House leadership had met Ukrainian PM Groysman, leading Paul Ryan to make the astonishing claim that the GOP was standing up to Russia.
3/ That's when McCarthy chimed in. McCarthy had a reputation for blurting out inconvenient truths, having said on Fox a key reason for Benghazi hearing was to drive down Hillary's poll numbers.
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22 May 19
1/Given that he’s being charged with obstruction of justice, the optics are, shall we say, less than perfect.
2/ But right in line with his assertion that he could gun down someone on Fifth Ave and get away with it.
3/ His corruption has long taken place in plain sight.
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15 May 19
It’s personally gratifying but politically horrifying to see that some stuff I wrote 15 years ago is still so relevant. @arapaho415
2/ Those articles were part of House of Bush, House of Saud. When it was published in 04, I gave a talk at Columbia and when I finished a man w a Russian accent came up to me and invited me to lunch.
3/ He was from the Russian consulate. What interested him in House of Bush was that it told the story of young Saudi billionaires arriving in US and how they clawed their way to the highest levels of power in the US-largely thru legal means.
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11 May 19
For those w short memories, this is very similar to how the Iraq War began.
1/Back then, John Bolton, a hawk loyal to VP Dick Cheney, played a key role when Cheney had him installed at the State Dept. to keep an eye on Colin Powell.1/
2/ At the time, the so-called "Niger documents" among the key bits of "intel" that triggered the war, documents that purportedly showed that the Republic of Niger had sold tons of yellowcake uranium to Iraq's Saddam Hussein so he could make nuclear weapons.
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7 May 19
@peterbakernyt @maddow @griffwitte Orban has a lot in common w Trump, as I show in #HouseofTrump, in that both were allegedly compromised by Russian mobster Semion #Mogilevich.
2/In Orban's case, that took place in 1994 when, as a rising young pol in Hungary, he reportedly took large sums of money from a Mogilevich associate named Dietmar Clodo--and was videotaped in the act.
3/Orban, of course, went on to become Prime Minister of Hungary in 1998 after denouncing various "Moscow puppets"and pro-Russian projects as treasonous. But when he was elected again in 2010, he reversed field and become a Putin apologist.
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