Dear Cheetos-In-Chief — If you truly want peace with the Imperial Kingdom You must travel to pyongyang and lick my boots & thereby show total fealty to your “Dear Leader”
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Otherwise we will continue with the LongDong # 10 —- Which is able to reach Trump Tower — (Melania & Baron) & we’re also working on the LongDong #11 — that’s able to reach Mar-A-Lego
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You will lick the boots of the “Dear Leader”, Oh Cheetos-One! You will dance to our bamboo flute rhapsody We will show you a live demonstration of our most advanced weaponry And then, we’ll give you a Golden Showers Show that you will NEVER forget!
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Yes, Dear “Orange” Blossom, the Hermit Kingdom beckons you come We will shower you with bosoms beyond belief We will provide you with a harem worthy of Omar Shariff & Omar Quadaffi You will want for nothing and it will be most BIGLEY — as Bigley as you can make it!!!
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Oh, Comrade Cheetos, leader of the decadent West You cannot defeat us with your words and actions No, we will never kow-tow to an Orange Infidel We will fight to the last rice paddy, to the last bowl of rice, to the last clump of coal
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Mr. Marmalade, you cannot stop us, our missiles will not heed your tweets You’re a paper tiger without teeth And besides, we know you have very small hands, what do we fear? No, Orange-Man, we are beyond your influence and power
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We aim to replace your name from Trump Tower It will then be known as “Dear Leader” Skyscraper Lick Dear Leader’s boots and dine on chocolate cake filled with cognac And we will then reconsider our bomb building programs
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We await your response because we know you will As a show of good faith, we will gladly pay you for one of your golf courses And we’ll rename it Dear Leader Master Of The Sand Traps We will sell Dear Leader sports apparell and split the profits with South Korea
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Oh, Hair-On-Fire leader of a declining war mongerer Fly to our Kingdome on one of our 40-year old Koryo jets Dine fabulously on the one item on the menu, frozen artificial hamburgers – served just above freezing And fly into North Korea in total pitch-black darkness until the lights of Pyongyang airport appear
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Kim Jong-un knows when he’s won and won he has He’s getting his boots ready for polishing to reflect the noon sun Now, Old Orange-Cremed One, you must likewise get ready Begin licking envelopes and postage stamps to do justice to Dear Leader’s boots
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The road to peace is clear, the “ball” is in your court Orange-man You can’t stop 105-years of insanity of the Hermit Kingdom But, you’re a man of action and a tongue to back it up Take action, take tongue, and lick it — lick it good — lick Dear Leader!.
The “Real” TRUMP TEAM — Tevfik Arif (Middle) — Felix Sater (Right). .
For The AUDIO Version Of This, Click On BELOW ——>
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Two recent developments on the Trump-Russia “Cabal”.
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One, is today’s revelation by the New York Times today – (Thurs./March 30, 2017) – that The GOP House Intel Chairman – Devin Nunes – was assisted in entering the White House this past week by two White House staff and examining highly confidential documents that allegedly showed Trump campaign associates had been “incidentally” monitored within the context of a previously FISA authorized warrant to monitor “foreign” nationals and their contacts with U.S. citizens during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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One such staff member was Ezra Cohen Watnick – former National Security Assistant Michael Flynn’s senior staffer. The other White House staffer was the former staff member to the GOP House Intel Committe Chairman himself, Devin Nunes – and that would be Michael Ellis.
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As Dana Carvey used to say on Saturday Night Live —-> My, How Convenient!
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Such Shennigans can only be interpreted to show that the White House is desperately trying to throw any “shade” on the ongoing Senate Intel Committee Trump-Russia investigation as well as the House Intel Committee’s. Designed to interject ancillary issues that really have no bearing or significance to the “meat” of the respective Congressional investigations — was there collusion between any members of the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and senior Russian operatives to actively and intentionally disseminate extremely unflattering information on Hillary Clinton with the sole and express purpose of aiding the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.
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Well, as of late, the New York times has been on a real “tear” in unearthing damning information on Trump and his administration — (and we’re only 68-days into his presidency). This new tid-bit is more than likely “spot-on”. Take it to the bank. Worse yet, Nunes aboslutely lied when he stated that his “unnamed” source was not a White House staffer but an intelligence officer. What a crock of shit.
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The other development, occured today with the report that the former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, fired for his admissions that he had met with the Russian ambassador over the merits of steep sanctions levied by this country on Mother Russia for Russia’s illegitimate and unwarranted incursion into Ukraine in 2014) – had himself declared that, in exchange for legal immunity, he was more than willing to appear before the Congressional intel committees to reveal anything pertaining to ongoing collusions/connections between Russia and Trump campaign personnel during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Well, his testimony, if immunity is granted, would certainly be riveting as Flynn was heavily involved in the 2016 campaign and an extremely senior campaign aide to Trump and would have been in the center of any alleged Russian-Trump collusional, quid-pro-quo activity.
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The bottom line is, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, headed by GOP Chairman Senator Burr and Ranking Democratic Senator, Mark Warner, appears to be the real thing as far as a credible investigatory committee designed and operated to actually get to the bottom of this whole damn, fucking mess.
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When asked how long their investigation would take, both Senator Burr and Senator Warner indicated it would take at least several months, perhaps -7-8 months. But, unlike Senate Intelligence Committee investigations of the past, this one would be done in public, with only sporadic closed-door sessions that dealt with super-sensitive information.
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On the face of it, Trump’s whole business empire is predicated and built on massive amounts of Russian “underground” money as well as oligarch money fleeing Mother Russia in search of a safe haven. Two of Trump’s top money-guys, both Askenazy Jews from Kazakstan, Tevfik Arif and Felix Sator, both working out of Trump Tower For Bay Rock Group — a real estate venture/investment firm — are Trump’s conduit to all of this kind of money! There is an enormous amount of “money-laundering” that makes up the Trump business consortium and these two men are the gatekeepers that keep the “flow” of funds flowing into Trump’s coffers.
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My money is on Trump being “defrocked” sometime by Halloween — 10-31-17. It could happen sooner. His political capital is hurtling down — his Gallup Poll ratings are an historic low of 35% — nothing but his most rabid base supporters. With each new Russian revelation, Trump may very well get down to 25% and lower.
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He’s not going to serve a full 4-year term as U.S. president. It’s just not in the cards. One can read the tea-leaves NOW and see nothing but a president caught in the cross-hairs of an extremely damning investigation that will shoot Drumpf and his presidency right out of the water. And Vice-President Mike Pence is not off the hook either. He’s got as much “exposure” on this matter as the Drumpf. The whole White House is headed for the Dumpster!
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The Alt-Right Will Soon Be Alt-OUT!!! ——> NEEEENER-NEEEEENER-NEEEEENER Trumperzzzzzz!!!! ——->
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Nobody luvs you but your momma & she’s probably jivin ya too!!
(Before We Start Our Podcast, Keep In Mind, We’ve Only Been In This BumFuck’s “Residency” For A Measly 64-Fucking DAYS!)
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. ChumpCare Went To Palookaville Yesterday/Friday – March 24th, 2017 —> Hell, The GOP Never EVEN Brought It To The Floor For A VOTE —> Just Like They Did The Day Before On Thursday!
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Trump/Drumpf — In His Fart Of The Deal —- Says — He Likes To Keep A Lot Of “Balls” In The Air — Because Not Everything Is Going To Work Out!
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The Only Balls Trump’s Got In The “Air” Are His Testicles! —> Balls-To-The-Wall For The Drumpf —> The Result Over The Years —-> 6 Bankruptcies —-> Countless Thousands Fucked Over & Stiffed —–> & Drumpf Hmself Rescued From TOTAL Financial Ruin In 1994 By A “Consortium” Of Chinese Billionaires Headed By Vincent Lo Who Bought A VACANT West Manhattan Parcel Of Land In Drumpf’s Portfolio & Gave Him A 30% Stake Just For “Continuing To Breath” As A Human Carbon-Life Form —-> And Again, Financially Rescued Again In 2005-2006 By The Russian Mob Who Swooped In & Bought Up Every Trump Property They Could Find That Wasn’t Nailed To The Wall!
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Well, This Week, The Balls-To-The-Wall Strategy — Over The Repeal & Replace OBAMACARE — Finally, Crashed + Burned In Fucking EPIC Fashion! They Scheduled The Vote Over The GOP Replacement Health Care Bill — American Health Care Act — For Thusday & Ended Up “Pulling It” From The Floor. Then Drumpf Gave The GOP House Members An Ultimatum, Bring It Back To The Floor Of The House For A Vote On Friday Or He’d “Move On” To His Other Legislative Priorities And Leave ObamaCare In Place.
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Well, The Small, But Mighty 30-Plus Ultra-Conservative House Republicans – The House Freedom Caucus – Voted Like They Did The Day Before — They Voted NO — And Single-Handedly, Sank The Trump/GOP Replacement Health Care Bill Like The Titanic That It Was ALL ALONG!!!
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Trump Is A Fake President Who STOLE The 2016 Presidential “Erection” With The MASSIVE Infusion Of Russian Counter-Intelligence Propaganda Aimed At & Designed To DESTROY HILLARY CLINTON Personally & Any Fucking Chance She Had Of Winning The Presidency.
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Drumpf Has A Fake White House Staff, A Fake Legislative Agenda — (For The Sole Benefit Of BILLIONAIRES) — And A Fake Wife — (The Ice Bitch From The East Who Plagiaurizes The Hell Out Of Others — Michelle Obama — @ Her Tawdry 2016 GOP Convention Address) — And Fake Kids, Who Might Have Been “Spawned” By Drumpf But Spent VERY Little “Real” Time With Their Fake Dad!!!
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Trump Is Correct In Throwing Out The Term “Fake” Like He Does! —> BUT, He’s REALLY Projecting What He WELL Knows Is True Within His Own Cheeto-Colored Head —-> Yes, My Shit Is ALL Fake, From The Tip Of My Cheeto-Colored Hair To My Squeaky-Clean $1,000 Pair Of Dress Shoes.
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Yes, Ladies & Germs, We’ve Moved From The “Shake, Rattle + Roll” America —-> To —–> The “Fake, Gaggle & Troll AmeriKa!
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Trump Supporters —> We HATE You Like The Plague That You Are!!!
Donald Trump made a ridiculous assertion on March 4, 2017 that he “just found out” that the former President, Barack Obama, had personally ordered wiretaps placed in Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign headquarters in Trump Tower.
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Ever since that day, The Drumpf has been catapulting that piece of garbage for anyone to listen to. He’s had his Press Secretary, Sean “Spicey” Spicer reiterating that during the daily press briefings at the White House.
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The Drump on March 5, 2017 requested that the Senate + House Intelligence Committees look into the matter.
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To date, they did get “back” to the Drumpf, emphatically and categorically stating that no wiretapping has been “detected” by any of our nation’s surveillance agencies. Full-Stop!!!
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Remember, Trump’s whole “basis” for this ludicrous allegation imminated from a Sean Hannity/Fox News segment or a Mark Levin radio talk-show broadcast.
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To add “gasoline” to the fire Trump then went on – in the coming days – to claim that British Intelligence was brought in to do the dirty-work of spying on him, Drumpf, by the Obama Administration. That was quickly debunked by the British and at this point the tentative British trip scheduled for Donald Trump this Spring might have just been cancelled by Prime Minister Theresa May.
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This Friday’s White House Appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel was the “icing on the cake with the cherry on top”. While standing side-by-side with the German Chancellor, Drump field a question from a reporter regarding the “alleged” Obama wire-tap and said that’s what was said by the noted legal expert and Fox News correspondent, Judge Napolitano. Drumpf suggested the reporter to take it up with him — he, Drumpf, had no further comment on the matter.
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Let’s just say that, based on the reactions of GOP Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charless Grassley (IA) and ranking Democratic member, Diane Feinstein, immediately following their “secret” briefing on Trump-Russia ties by FBI Director, James Comey, that it’s becoming painfully obvious that Drumpf, in his own inept way, is desperately trying to draw attention AWAY from his Trump-Russia Ties (that are VERY REAL) by keeping his ridiculous allegation of Obama wiretapping alive, irrespective of the fact that no U.S. intelligence agency has come forward to support Drumpf’s allegation.
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What we have here is a full-tilt-boogie, epic melt-down of a U.S. presidency, the likes that we have never seen before.
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FBI Dir. James Comey will be coming to Capitol Hill tomorrow, Monday, March 20th, to brief Congress on this matter.
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If I were Trump, I’d be damned scared of ALL of the intelligence hearings and newspaper reporting that will be going after this unsavory association between Drumpf and Mother Russia.
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Everything, and I mean everything, tax returns, underworld Russian business/mob folk, Russian oligarchs, Chinese billionaires, criminals, dirty deals, dirty deeds, will eventually come spewing forth into the light of day. Hope Trump has a really good lawyer, and NO, I don’t mean his personal, Michael Cohen, who is himself, inmeshed up to his eyeballs in dirty Russian, underworld finances.
We’re half-way through the 1st 100-Days of the Donald DRUMPF TRAUMA!
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Sean “Spicey” Spicer at today’s press conference — when asked about the jobs numbers report — (237,000 new jobs created in February) — and whether this should be considered “fake’ news like all of the previous job reports under President Obama — said without missing a beat or batting an eye, “Spicey” said . . . . . .
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The president asked me to state that . . . . . .
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The previous ones could be considered fake — BUT — the February report can be considered LEGITIMATE.
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Therein lies the sum and substance of the Trump Tautology!. What Trump Says At “Any” Given Time — Simply IS! He’s like the Oracle of Delphi — When The Oracle Speaks, You Can Take It As GOSPEL — An Open + Shut Case!
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DAY 1: Sean Spicer says there’s no DOJ/FBI investigation of Trump. DAY 2: DOJ says Sean Spicer didn’t get that from THEM. DAY 3: All US Attorneys are fired with NO prior notification.
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Drumpf/Trump, The Liar-In-Chief —-> Is Best Seen Through The Lies “Passed On” By His Press-Secretary-In-Deceit, Sean “Spicey” SPICER!
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In Fact From Sean Spicer’s Very 1st Press Conference – The Day After The Inauguration – He Used That Occasion To Project The Bull-Shit That The Crowds At The Trump Inauguration Were The Largest In U.S. History! Really???
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And, Let’s Not Forget The Biggest “Whopper” In The Drumpf’s 1st 50-Days —-> That The Former President, Barack Obama, Personally Initiated The Wiretaps On Trump’s Trump Tower — His 2016 Presidential Campaign Headquarters! To Date, NO ONE, NOT The FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Most Republicans, Howdy Doody, Mr. Rogers, Or Captain Kangaroo Has Come Forward With ANY Fucking Proof To Back That AssHole Assertion Up, In Any Way, Shape Or Form!
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BUT, The Biggest Pinocchio Prestidigitation Perpetrated By The Drumpf Syndicate Is Their Dismissal Of Trump Ties With Russian Underworld Elements And/Or Russian Intelligence Operatives! On The Contrary, The Overwhelming Evidence Now Being Leaked Out In Dribs And Drabs From The Intelligence Services, Suggest That Drumpf/Trump Is INDEED IN UP To His EYEBALLS When It Comes To Collusion And Involvement With These Most-UNSAVORY Foreign Parties.
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Just To Rattle Off A Few Names —-> Of Russin Origin Individuals —-> Felix Sater, Konstantine Kilmnick, Mikahail Kalugin – (Mikhail Kalugin, the former head of the Economic Section at the Embassy of Russia in Washington, D.C.), Tevfik Arif, Tamir Sapir, Andrii V. Artemenko, Boris Epshteyn, By Far The Biggest Dick In The Drumpf Stable.
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So, Boys & Girls, Mommies & Daddies, By The Time The Senate Select Intelligence Committee Gets Up & Crankin’ And The Independent Special Prosecutor Is Put In Place — (As The Positive Fall-Out From Jeff Sessions “Recusal” Of Any Russian-Trump Ties) — The Turd Droppings Of Drumpf/Trump Russian “Involvement” Will Be L.ike A Littered Minefield — Watch Where You Step, There’s Always Another Mine Ready To Explode.
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Trump’s Tenure At 1600 Pennsylvania Is Of An Extremely Limited Duration!. Maybe He’ll Be Able To Steal All Of The Furniture, Drapes, Silverware, Rugs & Paintings When He Moves Out And Back To House Arrest Down At Mar-A-Lago!
You Know You Have A Problem When Conservative GOP Congressman Darryl Issa Is Calling For A Special Prosecutor To Look Into Trump’s Ties With Russia And Russia Intelligence Operatives. This Is The Same GOP Congressman That Led The Benghazi Investigation With The Sole Purpose Of Indicting Hillary Clinton And Her Role In The Attacks On The U.S. Embassy In Libya By Libyan Militants.
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Nancy Pelosi Has Similarly Called for Such An Investigation — That Would Involve A Special Prosecutor.
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It Just May Be That There Are Still “Some” Republicans In Congress That Are Actually Genuinely Concerned About The Plight Of This Country When It Comes To Foreign Involvement In Our Political Processes. That They Are Genuinely Concerned, Truly Genuinely Concerned That Our Very Sovereignty Is At Stake And Is Being Threatened By A Foreign Power.
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Susan Collins (As A Ranking Republican Senator On The Senate Select Intelligence Committee) Has Made It Quite Clear That She Will Insist On Calling General Michael Flynn For Questioning And For Using A Subpoena — If Necessary — To Request Donald Trump’s Tax Returns — With The Clear Implication That Perhaps There Will Be Evidence Of Trump’s Financial Ties To Russia That Leaves Him Compromised And Vulnerable To Blackmail By The Russians.
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There Is Overwhelming Circumstantial Evidence To Suggest That Donald Trump Has “Sinister” Ties To Russia – Ties That Go Far Beyond Merely Traveling Back And Forth Between The United States And Russia. Trump Has Several Business Associates, Originally From Russia, That Have Provided Him, Trump, With Ample Financial Wherewithal Just To Keep The Trump Business Enterprise Chugging Along.
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One Of Them Is Felix Sater, A Convicted Felon With An Astonishing Ability To Acquire Stinger Missiles From Inside Russia For The CIA. The FIM-92 Stinger is a Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles and helicopters Sater Also Kept Money Flowing Into The Trump Organization From His Underworld Contacts Inside Russia. Many Of The Trump Condos Inside Trump Tower Were Bought And Paid With Russian Money.
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Another One Is Tevfik Arif, Originally From The Former Soviet Republic Of Kazakhstan. Tevfik Went From The Ministry of Commerce and Trade In 1991 Making A Small But Steady Salary To Becoming A Billionaire Within Less Than A Decade. Somehow he acquired ownership of the Speciality Chemicals Trading Company, “an export-import business trading in rare metals, chrome, and raw materials.” Shortly thereafter, once Kazakhstan gained it’s independence from Russia, he took over ACCP, a chromium plant in Aktobe, Kazakhstan.
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Then, There Is Tamir Sapir, An Ashkenazi Jew who was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, He Goes From Being A Cab Driver In New York City Earning Between $300-$400 A Week To Being A Billionaire In Just A Few Short Years. So, supposedly this guy went from sleeping in his cab to being a billionaire because he quickly made enough money selling VCR’s and Walkmans to make major investments in Russian carbamide which he then used to buy a skyscraper for 17 million dollars. In the process, he was invited to join the Council for American-Soviet Trade and meet with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush.
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Now, these individuals ALL come together with Donald Trump In 2006. They all were business partners on the Trump SoHo project in lower Manhattan in the early 2000’s. The project was a collaboration between the Trump Organization, the Bayrock Group (of Arif and Sater), and the (Tamir) Sapir Organization. This was the last building project that Trump engaged in before becoming President.
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The potential Russian intelligence connections of Arif and Sapir are present considering their unlikely rises to great wealth. Felix Sater is already known for his well-established connections to the Russian mafia, and he was also turned back against the Russian mob and probably Russian intelligence, too, by our own FBI.
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So, Yes, Darrell Issa Is Right To Suggest The Appointment Of A Special Prosecutor To Look Into Donald Trump’s Ties With Russia. The Circumstantial Evidence Surrounding Donald Trump And His “Involvement” With With Russians Of Dubious Character Throws Up Red Flags All Too Self-Evident To Merely Gloss Over Or Ignore.
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Above All Else, Trump Truly Loves Money, Money For Its Own Sake. It’s His Very Identity. No One Goes To Such Great Lengths To “Remind” People That You Are, In Fact, A Billionaire Unless It Serves As A “Prop” Or “Crutch” For A Fragile Ego! And Trump Will Seek It Out, No Matter The Shadiness Of The Source!
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Unfortunately For Trump, Vladimir Putin Has Long Since Picked Up On Donald’s Trail — A Trail Littered With Dirty Deals Involving Dirty Russian Operatives Doing Dirty Deeds.
“A Big Shoe Just Dropped” Trump’s SoHo Project, the Mob, and Russian Intelligence
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JOSH MARSHALL by BooMan
Published — FEB. 19, 2017, 4:54 PM EDT Feb 20th, 2017 — 02:04:51 PM EST
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Donald Trump keeps saying that he has nothing to do with the Russians. Most recently, he made this claim in his White House press conference last week: “I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don’t have any deals in Russia.” He said it at a press conference in early January, too.
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Hopefully, you’ve already seen the New York Times piece from this weekend detailing how Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen took a dossier to Michael Flynn that had been provided to him by a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician named Andrii V. Artemenko and a Russian mob-connected former employee of the Trump Organization named Felix Sater.
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The dossier reportedly contained damaging information about the anti-Russian Ukrainian president, Petro O. Poroshenko, that the Trump administration could conceivably use to oust him. It also contained some kind of Russian-Ukrainian “peace plan” that would facilitate the lifting of sanctions on Russia.
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At this point — we need to stress the “real” importance behind the lifting of sanctions on Russia. The U.S.’s new Secretary of State — Rex Tillerson, was the FORMER CEO Of EXXON-MOBIL. In 2012 He entered negotiations with the Kremlin to join forces with the Russians to extrapolate nearly one-trillion dollars worth of oil that lay in the Arctic Ocean North Of Russia — just waiting to be brought up to the ground and sold for enormous revenues! With the invasion of the Ukraine by The Russians & Putin in 2014 President Obama placed severe sanctions on the Russians which also froze in place Rex Tillerson’s trillion-dollar Arctic Ocean oil venture agreement with the Russians.
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Now, back to the story @ hand — I don’t know how much attention it’s received. But the appearance of the name of Felix Sater in this new article in the New York Times is one of the biggest shoes I’ve seen drop on the Trump story in some time. — Trump said he barely knew who Sater was. But there is voluminous evidence that Sater, a Russian emigrant, was key to channeling Russian capital to Trump for years. Sater is also a multiple felon and at least a one-time FBI informant. Felix Sater is already known for his well-established connections to the Russian mafia, and he was also turned back against the Russian mob and probably Russian intelligence, too, by our FBI
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The new story explains that a group of Trump operatives, including top lawyer Michael Cohen and fired former campaign manager Paul Manafort, along with a pro-Putin Ukrainian parliamentarian named Andrii V. Artemenko and Mr. Sater are pushing President Trump on a ‘peace plan’ for Russia and Ukraine.
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Cohen recently met with Sater and Artemenko; and Cohen agreed to personally deliver the peace plan (actually a sealed envelope with documents detailing it) to the President when he met with him at the White House. Cohen says he left it with General Flynn days before Flynn was forced to resign.
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The backstory to all this is amazingly byzantine and murky. Let me try to cover the key points as simply as I can.
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Having spent some time studying the matter, the biggest red flags about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia and businessmen around Vladimir Putin have always been tied to the Trump SoHo building project in Lower Manhattan, from the first decade of this century. I base my knowledge of this on this rather cursory but still quite good April 2016 article from the Times and my own limited snooping around the Outer Boroughs Russian and Ukrainian emigre press. (I summarized the most salient details of the earlier Times article in Item #3 of this post.) This was a key project, perhaps the key project in the post-bankruptcy era in which Trump appeared heavily reliant on Russian funds to finance his projects. Sater was at the center of that project. The details only came to light after the project got bogged down in a complicated series of lawsuits.
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After the lawyers got involved, Trump said he barely knew who Sater was. But there is voluminous evidence that Sater, a Russian emigrant, was key to channeling Russian capital to Trump for years. Sater is also a multiple felon and at least a one-time FBI informant. Bayrock Capital, where he worked was located in Trump Tower and he himself worked as a special advisor to Trump. Again, read the Times article to get a flavor of his ties to Trump, the Trump SoHo project and Russia. For my money there’s no better place to start to understand the Trump/Russia issue.
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On its own, Trump’s relationship with Sater might be written off (albeit not terribly plausibly) as simply a sleazy relationship Trump entered into to get access to capital he needed to finance his projects. Whatever shadowy ties Sater might have and whatever his criminal background, Trump has long since washed his hands of him. (Again, we’re talking about most generous reads here.)
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But now we learn that Sater is still very much in the Trump orbit and acting as a go-between linking Trump and a pro-Putin Ukrainian parliamentarian pitching ‘peace plans’ for settling the dispute between Russia and Ukraine. (Artemenko is part of the political faction which Manafort helped build up in the aftermath of the ouster of his Ukrainian benefactor, deposed President Viktor Yanukovych.) Indeed, far, far more important, Cohen – who is very close to Trump and known for dealing with delicate matters – is in contact with Sater and hand delivering political and policy plans from him to the President.
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Were Cohen not involved, one might speculate that Sater is just up to yet another hustle, looking to parlay his one-time association with Trump into influence with the new President. Cohen hand delivering his messages to the President changes the picture considerably. How or why Cohen would do this, if for no other reason than the current massive scrutiny of Trump’s ties to Russia and Sater’s scandals, almost defies belief. But here we are.
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At this time there needs to be mentioned TWO OTHER CHARACTERS in this Trump-Russia saga. ONE IS THE MAN who hired Felix Sater despite his record of violence that landed him in prison and his felony conviction for a pump and dump stock scheme he ran in the 1990’s in league with Sammy ‘the Bull’ Gravano’s brother-in-law. That man would be Tevfik Arif.
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It should be noted here that the Yeltsin Era of the 1990s or the rise of Vladimir Putin, saw the Russian state sellling off state assets to KGB-connected or approved businessmen and intelligence officers who quickly formed into a ruling oligarchy. Mr. Arif’s rise from a hotel management functionary in the Commerce and Trade Ministry into a rare metals trader is highly, highly suspicious and ought to be looked at very carefully.
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The OTHER CHARACTER here is Tamir Sapir (nee Temur Sepiashvili), who died in 2014. An Ashkenazi Jew who was born in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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The FIRST OF THESE CHARACTERS,, Tevfik Arif, is originally from the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakhstan. During the Soviet Era, he worked for seventeen years in Moscow for the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. He quit that job in 1991 as the USSR was dissolving and caught quite a break. Somehow he was able to parlay his experience (which focused mainly on hotel management) at the Commerce and Trade Ministry into ownership of the Speciality Chemicals Trading Company, “an export-import business trading in rare metals, chrome, and raw materials.” Shortly thereafter, once Kazakhstan gained it’s independence from Russia, he took over ACCP, a chromium plant in Aktobe.
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From there, he took his riches and built a hotel in Antalya, Turkey which was completed in 1999. This was obviously more in line with his career experience than handling rare metals. Then, in 2001, he came to America and created the BAYROCK GROUP, a real-estate development company based in Brooklyn.
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It was then that he hired Felix Sater and made him a part-owner and partner, and these two then got involved with Donald Trump.
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Mr. Sater, a Russian immigrant, had recently joined Bayrock at the behest of its founder, Tevfik Arif, a former Soviet-era commerce official originally from Kazakhstan. Bayrock, which was developing commercial properties in Brooklyn, proposed that Mr. Trump license his name to hotel projects in Florida, Arizona and New York, including Trump SoHo.
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The SECOND OF THESE CHARACTERS, Tamir Sapir, (nee Temur Sepiashvili), died in 2014. An Ashkenazi Jew who was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in the former Soviet Union, he emigrated to Israel just prior to the outbreak of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. From there, he quickly re-emigrated to Kentucky where he worked as a laborer.
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Before long, he relocated to New York City, and became a cabbie — making, perhaps, $300-$400 per week.
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What happened next was either the work of Russian intelligence or one of the most surprising and unlikely success stories in history. According to the legend, Mr. Sapir and a fellow USSR emigrant named Sam Kislin pooled their savings and bought an electronics store on Broadway in Manhattan. They hoped to attract business from the Russian emigre community, but they had a different kind of luck.
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Former President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze played an important role in his success. “Once USSR’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eduard Shevardnadze, visited my shop. One of his bodyguards, Murad Kazishvili, turned out to be my childhood friend. Back in the day, an organization existed called “Council for American-Soviet Trade”, in which over a hundred large American companies participated, among them “Occidental Petroleum Hammer” and “Pepsi-Cola”, which also had business ties with the USSR. With Murad’s help, I also joined this organization and went to Moscow with Vice-President Bush, who headed the Council,” Tamir says. According to him, during his stay in Moscow, one of his friends advised him to start exporting carbamide to America. This substance is necessary for oil production and during Soviet times it cost 5 times less than in the US. The Carbamide trade gave Tamir his first million and as he says, whet his appetite.
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He exported American clothing, footwear and tech to USSR while importing oil and oil products from there, investing profits into real estate in New York. Prices on real estate were low in 1995-1996: for example, a skyscraper that is now estimated to be worth approximately 1.5 billion dollars cost just 17 million back then. Sapir got incredibly lucky; according to his own words, it was nothing less than divine intervention. In 1997, real estate prices grew and property that Sapir bought for miniscule prices was sold for colossal amounts of money. This is how Sapir got his first billion.
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So, supposedly this guy went from sleeping in his cab to being a billionaire because he quickly made enough money selling VCR’s and Walkmans to make major investments in Russian carbamide which he then used to buy a skyscraper for 17 million dollars. In the process, he was invited to join the Council for American-Soviet Trade and meet with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush.
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Now, here is where I tie all these individuals together with Donald Trump. They all were business partners on the Trump SoHo project in the early 2000’s. The project was a collaboration between the Trump Organization, the Bayrock Group (of Arif and Sater), and the (Tamir) Sapir Organization.
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The potential Russian intelligence connections of Arif and Sapir should be obvious considering their unlikely rises to great wealth. Felix Sater is already known for his well-established connections to the Russian mafia, and he was also turned back against the Russian mob and probably Russian intelligence, too, by our FBI.
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Recently unsealed federal court records show that Mr. Sater helped the government disrupt an organized crime ring on Wall Street and deal with an unexplained national security matter involving his foreign connections.
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So, ladies & gentlemen, there you have it. Some interesting business “associates” of the Donald who said just this past weekend —-> I have no business deals or connections with RUSSIA. Fat chance, DONALD, fat chance. You’re so-called TRUMP empire was propped up by Russian mob money & Russian intelligence-spawned money. Putin has you by the proverbial gonadys — which is Russian for BALLS.
