Because I’m nuts, I’m re-reading @craigunger’s book House of tRump, House of Putin. I read it earlier this year and found it overwhelming. As someone who thought about global crime syndicates (until 2016), the names and various mob families all run together. THREAD
I often find myself trying to explain things I learned in this book to others - and failing. So I’m re-reading it in hopes that I’ll be able to hold onto more of the stories and connections.
The tangled web is so, so distressing. Did we know that Don McGahn (former White House Counsel and ally of McConnell) is the nephew of two lawyers who brought legalized gambling and Donald Trump’s casinos to New Jersey? That Kelly Ann Conway’s grandfather was a big time monster?
That former FBI Director William Sessions became a lawyer for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska & Russian mob boss Semion Mogilevich? Or, that William Session’s son is former TX Rep Pete Sessions, who took big $ from Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian crooks/friends/employers, Lev and Igor?
Or that Semion Mogilevich’s (top 10 most wanted by FBI) business partner, Robert Maxwell is the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was for many years the lover and criminal/sexual abuser accomplice of Jeffery Epstein?
Or that Jared Kushner’s father Charles bankrolled the creation of an extremely conservative Jewish organization in Russia, created at the direction of Putin, with goal of marginalizing a long standing Jewish org and replacing it with one loyal to Putin?
There’s so much more. I’m only half way thru my re-read. It all makes my head hurt.
