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Trump burned his bridges and wore out his welcome in this country – in the investment banking community. By the 1990’s no U.S. bank would lend Trump a friggin’ dime! Hell, not even the People’s Bank of China would.
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Trump turned eastward. Aside from the freaky confluence of events involving Mr. Burnett and “The Apprentice” in the early 2000’s, propelling this Dip-Shit into public notoriety, the Orange Dumpster sucked up to Deutschebank for some loans, notably for his Chicago Trump Tower. But even this proved a pitfall for that bank as the Dumpster “welched” on upwards of $760-million in loans.
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No, the only source of investment cash/money through the Trump criminal enterprise was from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan. This is where Felix Sater & Tevfik Arif come into the picture. In 2002 these two fellow Ukrainian emigres set up shop in the Trump Tower on the 24th floor – 2 floors below Trump’s 26th floor office. Their investment firm, Bayrock Capital, got mysterious infusions of cash from Tevfik’s brother back in the Ukraine – everytime they were needed. Felix Sater, during this time, had befriended the “Dump” and pitched all kinds of deals to the Orange One. Sater had connections back in Russia – his father worked for Russia’s largest mafia family. Between these two sources a good deal of cash made its way into Trump real estate projects – such as the Soho condo/office complex in downtown Manhattan.
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Michael Cohen was also working inside the Trump Organization right around this time as well. As a matter of fact, he and Felix Sater were childhood friends that had grown up in Brighton Beach – near Coney Island. Cohen’s uncle, Morton Levine, was a wealthy Brooklyn doctor who owned the El Caribe Country Club, a Brooklyn catering hall and event space that was a well-known hangout for Russian gangsters. Cohen already had the mentality of a “wise-guy”, having grown up in that kind of extended familial atmosphere.
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So, between these Trump “wise-guys” – over the next decade – the Trump organization would go on to spend $400 million – in CASH – on real estate holdings around the globe. Golf courses, buildings, condos, apartment complexes. ALL-CASH! This occurs when no one spent all cash on any real estate deal. Especially during the 2008-2012 years when the world economy was in the most serious economic downturn since the Great Depression.
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Fast-forward to October-2015. Michael Cohen and Felix Sater. Sater is in Moscow working on the Moscow Trump Tower project and communicating back to Michael Cohen in New York. Sater is pitching the penultimate Trump real estate deal ever to Cohen saying that he, Sater, had all the high-echelon Russian connections to make this thing work. A 100-story high-rise in downtown Moscow, the tallest structure in Europe, and something that could bring in $300-million in licensing fees, royalties and other income for the Trump Organization.
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Add to this the August 2, 2016 secret meeting between Trump campaign principals, Paul Manafort & his assistant, Rick Gates and a young Russian, Konstantine Kilimnick, a former GRU Russian Military Intelligence officer at the Club Havanna cigar club in downtown Manhattan. Kilimnick was an aide to Russian billionaire oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, to whom Manafort owed $20-million. Basically this was a quid-pro-quo affair. Manafort gave Kilimnick highly granularized polling date of the rust-belt states designed to allow the Russian GRU hackers to “micro”-target key precincts and weaponize their Facebook postings to discourage Clinton voters and encourage Trump voters. In effect, helping Trump become president.
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In return, the Russian side would expect that the crippling sanctions levied on Russia for their 2014 incursion into Ukraine, by President Obama, would be lifted. This would then enable the Russians – through one of the sanctioned banks – VTB – to come up with the financing for the Trump Moscow Tower. A win-win all the way around!
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All roads do, indeed, lead to Russia. Starting with Trump’s father, Fred’s, death in 1999, all of the Trump Organization’s efforts at attracting and raising financial capital almost exclusively involved siphoning off any and all monies from the East – Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan – through the efforts of Michael Cohen, Felix Sater, Tevfik Arif & his brother. The money – predominantly all-cash – was flushed through the Trump Organization for years – laundered – for this money was dirty – the byproduct of criminal enterprises.
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Well, the shit’s about to hit the fan. Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen have a lot to “get off their chest”. Mueller has indicted both of them and they are both facing significant prison time. One way or another, Special Counsel Robert Mueller will extract every last ounce of that information out of these two. What they know will not be beneficial to Trump or his family. Trump, is the ultimate Moscow Mule! Bring the paddy around & “book em Danno“, Trump, Sr., Trump, Jr. & Jerrod Kushner!
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We’ll “save” Ivanka, after all, someone has to be left to make that trip out to the Big House – on visitor’s day.
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