This is the most startling frightfulness story that you will at any point read. To realize that the U. Not as an allegory. Not in the feeling of lying or block of equity nor even in the feeling of a plot with a remote nation. Be that as it may, as a functioning accomplice with the Russian mafia. Trump is a Russian mafia resource. If you read this book, you will leave with little questions that he is a made man. Place of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia uncovers the subtleties of the guiltiness that interfaces these two in manners that are both stunning and sickening.
He would never show up. As, indeed, he never did. I always wondered what he was doing with his other hand. Cell phones have pretty much put an end to such calls. They can't find your number.
It might surprise you, however, to learn how many guys are dumb enough to commit the crime of terroristic threatening in an email. These days, as soon as they start, I simply block them. But I also keep a file. The only interesting thing is the psychological projection: who they think they're talking to, and who they pretend to be.
Hairy-chested he-men, mostly. Guys who, in the immortal words of Fifties wrestling icon Dr. Jerry Graham, "men fear and women adore. In my experience, real tough guys don't go around boasting about it. Only professional wrestlers and Republican politicians. OK, that was a cheap shot. But consider Rep. Rather like my guy outside the liquor store, I'd say.
See, the thing that drives these boys crazy about AOC isn't simply her Bernie-crat politics, but her quick-witted New York bartender's demeanor: She's the kind of beautiful woman skilled at fending off jerks who make clumsy passes. In much of the country, the label's simply toxic, and no amount of clever apologetics can make it less so. But I digress. Sentenced to double-secret probation by House Democrats, Rep. Evidently it's perfectly alright to fantasize publicly about murdering a colleague and assaulting the president if you were just kidding.
Then there's Sen Josh Hawley of Missouri, another virile Republican specimen last seen raising his fist in solidarity with Trump's January 6 insurrectionists. Hawley gave a recent speech at the National Conservatism Conference calling for "revival of strong and healthy manhood in America. My response to Hawley is as follows: Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to watch this week's Michigan-Ohio State football game.
Do you still think effeminate girly-men are taking over the USA? Closer to home, the Missouri-Arkansas game would do. Everywhere you look, privileged characters with fancy private school degrees are venting populist rage.
Stirring up the mob. Not only Sen. Hawley Stanford and Yale , but establishment figures like Sen. Ted Cruz Princeton, Harvard , J. Vance Yale Law fill the air with violent invective. To longtime conservative author David Brooks, they're "wrong to think there is a unified thing called 'the left' that hates America. This is just the apocalyptic menace many of them had to invent in order to justify their decision to vote for Donald Trump.
But the mob is definitely listening. At a right-wing rally in Idaho recently, a young man asked publicly when it would be OK to shoot Democrats. Jeff Danziger lives in New York City. He has published eleven books of cartoons and one novel.
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Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Still, I must give him credit: because of his meticulous, detailed reporting, at least one tantalizing, largely-ignored passage in the Steele Dossier is clearer to me now than it was before I read his book.
The Dossier passage which fascinates me so is this:. Within this context PUTIN'S priority requirement had been for intelligence on the activities, business and otherwise, in the US of leading Russian oligarchs and their families. The implications are clear. As early as , intelligence was flowing between Putin and Trump, but it was flowing mostly from Trump to Putin —information about the oligarchs and their families, who they were associating with, how and where they were laundering their money.
Now the question I want to know is this: exactly how—and from whom—was Putin receiving his "Trumped up" information? A stocky olive-complexioned, Porsche-driving super salesman straight out of Glengarry Glen Ross who was always on, pushing a pump-and dump scam, or going undercover for the CIA, the DIA, the FBI—whomever--to try to buy Stinger missiles from al-Quaeda or undertake other mind-boggling feats of derring-do.
From his earliest years, Slater was connected. And his Bayrock office was conveniently located too: on the twenty-fourth floor of Trump Tower. View all 4 comments. Sep 19, David Katzman rated it it was amazing. So now it's clear that Mueller found enough evidence for obstruction of justice that Trump can and should be impeached. He found enough to indicate collusion with the campaign as well, but not enough to make a criminal charge for conspiracy.
That merely means he didn't FIND the evidence, not that it didn't occur. I think there is still more to come out, and I'm hopefully that impeachment proceedings will begin and a RICO charge will be filed against the Trump Enterprise in Southern District of N So now it's clear that Mueller found enough evidence for obstruction of justice that Trump can and should be impeached. This is the most terrifying horror story that you will ever read. To know that the U.
Not as a metaphor. Not in the sense of of lying or obstruction of justice nor even in the sense of collusion with a foreign country.
But as an active partner with the Russian mafia. Trump is essentially a Russian mafia asset. If you read this book, you will leave with little doubts that he is a made man. I was already aware that he had illegal business practices as, for example, demonstrated by the recent lawsuit in NYC against his charitable foundation, which has alleged that he used the foundation as a checkbook for non-charitable purposes.
And I knew that Putin suppressed human rights and freedom of the press. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia reveals the details of the criminality that connects these two in ways that are both shocking and sickening. Did you know that Putin is reputed to be the richest man in the world? Did you know that he made many of his friends into billionaires? They would pay a few million dollars for a billion-dollar company.
They were sold natural gas for a fraction of the actual value by the government that they then sold to the rest of the world at an outrageous profit. They were simply made rich because they supported Putin. They plundered and continue to plunder all the natural resources Russia has at the direction of Putin.
One of the most shocking revelations for me about Russia is that even more than Russia being a kleptocracy by stealing the country's wealth for a handful of individuals including its President, it is also a literal criminal enterprise. And Putin is its boss. The one to rule them all. The Russian mafia deals in the usual criminal enterprises—selling guns and drugs, extortion, and prostitution and human trafficking. And further, the Russian mafia has now diversified into white collar crime.
They run companies that engage in real businesses, such as energy trading, but while doing so they perpetrate every scam you can name including cheating taxes, skimming profits and more.
They have skillfully blended corporate institutions with organized crime tactics. Unger outlines the evolution of the Russian mafia and its relationship with Putin and other oligarchs both internationally and in the United States.
Interestingly, they have frequently teamed up with Italian mafia characters on diverse financial scams, such as skimming tax money from hundreds of gas stations. Now how does this connect with Trump? Here are some highlights of the numerous connections.
Trump was bankrupt after his Atlantic casino failed in the s. He was in huge debt and no reputable banks in the U. He was on the brink of complete failure. Then Russian oligarchs and Russian mafia connected figures began to rebuild his wealth. They developed a simple symbiotic relationship with him. They made him wealthy again, and he laundered their criminal wealth. The oligarchs want to get their money out of Russia, since that economy was a field for plunder but not a reliable source to maintain wealth, and Trump real estate properties helped them launder it.
Many shady practices have surrounded Trump properties. For example, a group of Russian mafia figures were running a sports-betting corporation out of Trump tower until they were eventually arrested. They had bought an entire floor. And beyond Russians buying properties in his towers to launder their money, he actually partnered with a company called Bayrock that is now defunct due to diverse legal issues , that was run by Russian-oligarch connected individuals to develop Trump-branded properties.
Bayrock would finance the properties likely with Russian or Ukrainian sourced funds then arrange for all the construction and development. Trump made money from sales by licensing Bayrock his name.
Through his partnership with Bayrock, Russia was funneling money to make Trump wealthy again with Trump himself having to do next to nothing and simultaneously creating properties to launder more Russian wealth. As former KGB operatives have told Unger, the Russian government is constantly seeking political assets in other countries. They also seek to destabilize democratic institutions and global partnerships, such as between the U.
S and the EU. Chaos and right-wing regimes provide Russian criminal enterprises more opportunities to make money, and they weaken criticism and opposition to his regime. Unger presents the story of numerous oligarch and mafia connected figures who have connections to Trump in diverse ways, beyond the money laundering. In fact, he carefully itemizes nearly 60 individuals with Russian mafia and oligarch connections who have had relationships with Trump ever since the s.
One fact that surprised me—Trump had Presidential aspirations that date back to that time. The Russians had long term plans to build him up and groom him as both a financial and political asset.
Unger provides some interesting background. Per his interviews with former KGB agents, they explained that developing kompromat on potential assets is common practice. It is one of the many tools that the Russian secret service leverage to achieve their ends. They are trained in getting it. He has unaccounted for days in his Miss Universe trip.
What do you think? I want to reiterate some key point. Russia is a criminal state. The Russian mafia is a division of the Russian government. Putin is the head of Russian mafia. He can grant support to criminal enterprises or summarily withdraw it and have a billionaire thrown in prison or killed. Trump pursues goals that align with Russian interests, such as destabilizing the U. Trump has facilitated billions and billions of dollars of money laundering by Russia oligarchs and other shady Russian mafia connected figures.
Regardless of whether Putin has kompromat on Trump, it hardly matters. They made him a billionaire after his wealth collapsed. They own him. Unger outlines the case in arresting and irresistible fashion. This is high drama and high treason. I wish every citizen would read this book. View all 22 comments. Sep 03, Steven Z. In his newest effort, Unger has not totally measured up to preceding works. First, if one has followed the news the last twelve months the material should be very familiar especially if one thinks about news accounts on cable television, newspaper articles, and exposes in magazines like The Atlantic.
Third, the book promises to deliver the untold story of the Trump-Putin relationship, but it seems to rehash what is already in plain sight in the media. This is quite an undertaking, a puzzle whose pieces do not always seem to fit, resulting in a narrative that too often does not make a concrete case.
Everything Unger states may be accurate, but he does not present his arguments without raising a certain amount of doubt. Unger develops his narrative on two parallel tracks. First, he describes the development of the Russia Mafia or Mob and how they have made inroads in the United States and countries abroad.
He correctly points to the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in a Congressional Trade bill that called for allowing hundreds of thousands of Jews to leave Russia. In doing so, the Kremlin let out many Jews, but also many criminals, rapists, and other unsavory characters. This provided an area for the Russian Mafia to dominate, set up businesses to launder money, and carry out extortion and other nefarious activities.
Trumps relationships with men like Felix Sater and others comes to the fore as more and more Trump develops relationships with Russian oligarchs for investment capital, and business projects. The author tries to unscramble the web of relations surrounding Russian oligarchs and mobsters with ties to Putin and Trump throughout the book, and in many cases the links are solid, and in other cases less so, but the arcane world he is describing is really difficult to totally nail down.
Unger will then take these two tracks which encompasses about two thirds the book and turns to their nexus - how the Russians used their investment in Trump to interfere in the election, and reap the rewards of a Trump presidency. For Putin, this was a red line that could not be allowed. The key to this new approach as put forth by Vladislav Surkov and Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia was to create a false reality consisting of fake news and alternative facts for both within and without Russia.
Putin and his cohorts set out to destroy the truth and create a never ending conflict about perception that helped the Russian autocrat to control and manage his country.
Hybrid warfare and active measures were employed to weaken the U. Money would be poured into pro-Russian parties in former Soviet states, as well supporting right wing candidates in the U. There were spies, hackers, and informational soldiers who carried out sophisticated attacks on social media. Once the strategy was developed Russian intelligence zeroed in on Donald Trump who had years before established a relationship with the Russian mob.
The Russian cyber warfare campaign against the U. Unger digs deep into the June 9, meeting at Trump Tower, analyzing who participated, and what agendas they represented. It is clear that the Trump campaign was now in bed with the Russians, even if the Trump people did not realize how deep, or maybe they did.
In summation, Unger has done prodigious research into what is available, but much of what he uncovers is not new. However, he has done a service by unraveling the role of Russian organized crime, the Putin regime, and its links to Donald Trump and his circle. Aug 20, Mike rated it it was amazing. There is nothing light-hearted about this book; it is frighteningly serious. This book will scare you shitless if you live anywhere in the so-called Western world.
Unger paints Russia as basically a country controlled by organized crime lords Oligarchs, if you like with Putin being the capo di tutti capi and the richest man in the world circa billi There is nothing light-hearted about this book; it is frighteningly serious.
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