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Jun 25 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
@FrankFigliuzzi 1/Part 2 of my series with FBI whistleblower Jonathan Buma is up. Among other things, I knew that at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.

I knew all sorts of similar stuff from open sources so it seemed to me that the FBI absolutely had to know this stuff. And yet, in the end, what had the FBI done with that information? Absolutely nothing. And that became increasingly important as Donald Trump rose to power. So I wanted to know from Buma why the hell they did nothing with it!Johnathan Buma, at right, with Robert Mueller, the late FBI director.
2/The answers? Among other things, I noted that former FBI officials including William Sessions and Louis Freeh, both former directors of the FBI, ended up being lawyers for powerful Russians with dubious histories including Russian mobster Semion Mogilevich, who was represented by Sessions, After retiring from the Bureau, Buma says, “A lot of [top FBI officials] wanna start in the private sector working for the enemy as a criminal defense attorneys at a million dollars a year.”

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3/Another thing I had noticed was that there was an enormous amount of money laundering through Trump properties, but the Bureau seemed to do absolutely nothing about it. Why? “The Russian intelligence services figured out that by swimming close to people that are extremely high profile, high net worth, or politically connected, they were able to evade a level of scrutiny.”
There was one other thing Buma told me about how the FBI related to allegations regarding Trump, and other high-profile subjects, but I'll save that until my next post

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Jun 11
1/ Last month I told a room of Baltic intelligence officers and diplomats that Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence. Not one of them blinked. "Of course," they said. Ho hum. But in America, saying it out loud is still taboo. Why? 🧵
2/ It isn't a fringe claim. Acting CIA director Michael Morell called Trump "an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation." Hayden called him Russia's "useful fool." Brennan called Helsinki "nothing short of treasonous." The Senate Intel Committee — led by Marco Rubio — documented the threat. @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CBSNews
3/So why won't major news outlets pursue it? My argument: the American press can carry a grave story about a president only while it's tied to a legal docket — an indictment, a trial. Take the prosecution away and the story isn't re-argued on the merits. It just goes quiet.
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May 21
1/After 36 years of cultivating Donald J. Trump as an asset, Russian intelligence finally put its man in the White House.

Post #39 — the final chapter of my Trump-Russia Timeline — is now up on Substack. This is how they did it.
2/ At 9:32 am Moscow time on November 9, 2016, Russian Deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov stepped to the mic in the State Duma: 'Three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat...I congratulate you on this.'

The applause said everything his words left out.
3/Tagging some colleagues who know this territory well: @nakashimae @PaulSonne @MarkMazzettiNYT @julianbarnes @juliaioffe"
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Mar 16
Trump Knew! 1.NEW: Jeffrey Epstein wrote "Of course he[Trump] knew about the girls, as he asked Ghislaine to stop." Trump's name appears 38,000+ times in the Epstein files — more than any other person. He has never been asked a single question under oath. Here's why that must change. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/craigunger…Image
2. (The FBI Record) It's not just Epstein's word. An FBI 302 shows Trump called the Palm Beach police chief in 2006 to say "everyone has known he's been doing this" — and that he'd personally been around Epstein when teenagers were present and "got the hell out of there." He volunteered this. Under oath, he's said nothing.
3. @RepRobertGarcia's Oversight Committee voted 24-19 to subpoena AG Pam Bondi — with 4 Republicans crossing the aisle. The bipartisan majority has established on the record: there is a coverup underway. Garcia has called Bondi "instrumental in orchestrating the White House's cover-up."
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Feb 25
1/The Built It. Now They Want to Bomb It.

Today's Iran crisis didn't start with just the mullahs. It started in 1980 with a secret deal that Republican operatives made with Iran--a deal that changed history and may now lead to war.
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2/Back in the 1980 October Surprise, Reagan campaign mgr Bill Casey conspired w/ Iran to prolong the detention of American hostages until AFTER the Nov. elections, thereby making it look like Jimmy Carter had reduced the US to a pitiful helpless giant.
3/At the time, Iranian Pres. Bani-Sadr wanted to release the hostages and take Iran on a path towards secular democracy and normal relations w/ the West.
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Jan 29
1/ @jessedrucker @jkbjournalist @joshgerstein @Propublica @ChristCuomo @juddlegum Exclusive: In 2001, Jeffrey Epstein became the chair of a secret offshore company called Liquid Funding that incurred $6.7 B in liabilities. craigunger.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epst…Image
2/For next six years, while he was running a huge sex trafficking operation, Epstein simultaneously loaded Liquid Funding w/ the same toxic mortgage-backed securities that triggered the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Margot Robbie in The Big Short: "When you hear subprime, think 'shit.'"
3/At JPMorgan, Epstein had a champion: Jes Staley, who The New York Times called Epstein's "chief defender." Despite mounting red flags—cash withdrawals, suspicious payments, a 2006 indictment for soliciting minors—Staley kept Epstein as a client until 2013. Image
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Jan 25, 2025
1/ 1968-Nixon gets South Vietnam to withdraw from Paris Peace Talks at last minute, thereby sabotaging Hubert Humphrey’s chances at last minute.

1972-President Nixon, afraid that the Democrats have evidence re 1968, puts together The Plumbers to find such documents by breaking into Watergate.
2/ 1980- Reagan campaign manager Bill Casey orchestrates covert operation in which he illegally sends weapons to Iran which is holding 52 American hostages. In return, Iran agrees to hold hostages until AFTER November election, thereby destroying Jimmy Carter’s chances. (For whole story, read my new book, Den of Spies.)
3/ in 2000, GOP operatives stage Brooks Brothers riots in Fla sabotaging recount and sending election to Supreme Court which gives WH to Dubya Bush over Al Gore.
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