1/Why Deutsche Bank subpoena so important? Trump has already been found guilty by US government of illegally enabling illicit money laundering. fincen.gov/news/news-rele…. This was just months before he declared for President.
2/Trump wasn't content to just illegally wash dirty money here in the US, but took this business abroad. theguardian.com/us-news/2017/n…
3/And while President has relaxed rules that make it easier to create dirty cash. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
4/Others have done great work exposing the dark/illicit money world's connections to Trump. This recent thread from @RVAwonk is particularly helpful.
5/But this dark money world is of course connected to the leading gangster of our age, Putin, and his broader orbit - the FSB and Russian oligarchs/"organized crime." Last week we learned FSB directed largest hack in history
6/Russia is leaning deeply into its role as anti-democratic insurgent against the West, the global system, even getting banned from the Olympics
7/And is now working to set up a parallel Internet, in case, let's say, they crash the one America and the world uses today. cdn.defenseone.com/a/defenseone/i…
8/Russian disinformation continues here, around the world. My friend @tchambers found this new popup Russian based fake news site this week medium.com/@tchambers/new…
9/Finally, one of the great sources of this dirty money undermining global institutions today is from horribly corrupt petro-states. Hard to overstate negative impact of political economy of oil on world today. usnews.com/opinion/op-ed/…
Something of course Trump embraces.
Something of course Trump embraces.
10/Rolling back, stopping sanctions has been critical to Russia/Putin and #TrumpRussia because it has curtained flow of their dirty money, core to their global power projection and Putin's own domestic power. nytimes.com/2017/12/06/us/…
