#EminAgalarov and #Trump: Five women in a hotel room? Irrelevant. The thread below is what really matters. 1. 2013, Moscow: Trump has meetings with Aras Agalarov, an oligarch and Putin’s ally in Moscow, the father of Emin Agalarov. @WendySiegelman @grantstern @bfry1981
2. Aras Agalarov invested $20 million in Trump’s Miss Universe competition in Moscow in November 2013, right after Putin decorated Agalarov with the Order of Orders in Kremlin.
3. Trump was accompanied by Rotem Rosen, the right-hand man of Soviet-born Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, an oligarch with longstanding ties to Putin, and Alex Sapir, Rosen's relative and business partner/relative.
4. In May 2015, Kushner Companies, owned by Jared Kushner, announced the purchase of 51% share of a condo from Leviev’s company.
5. Alex Sapir/Sapir Organization, partners of Bayrock Group LLC (a real estate firm with the office in Trump Tower) and Trump.
6. Felix Sater also worked for Bayrock Group LLC. In 2007, the Bayrock Group received $50mn investment from FL Group (an Iceland bank with the Kremlin connections) for four projects, including Trump SoHo.
7. Sater’s father, Michael Sheferovsky, was a “syndicate boss” for the Mogilevich's organized crime group in Russia (Solntsevo), identified as FBI as the most dangerous Russian organized crime figure. (according to a document filed in a court case)
8. The right-hand man of Mogilevich, the boss of the Russian Mafia, was Dmitry Firtash, who worked with Paul Manafort from 2005 and was on the board of Cambridge Analytica with Steve Bannon.
9. After inauguration, on Jan 29, 2017, Sater organized a meeting between Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician to discuss a proposal that included lifting sanctions on Russia. Cohen then "hand-delivered" the plan o Michael Flynn’s office.
9. After the inauguration, on Jan 29, 2017, Sater organized a meeting between Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician to discuss a proposal that included lifting sanctions on Russia. Cohen delivered the plan to Michael Flynn’s office.
10. This is the tip of the iceberg. There are layers and layers of this history, going back 30 years, to 1987. It is time for us to own and understand information, instead of relying on someone to deliver it to us.
11. I reported all this a year ago. Here is the article that keeps coming back every week these days. Watch the video at the end: Trump says into the camera: "I do have a relationship with Putin. crossingenres.com/what-fbi-cant-…
