Wow! It’s all starting to make sense. The real estate and golf resort infusions of cash, when no bank would lend to the guy. And also, accounts for why a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin, Rybolovlev, bought a Palm Beach mansion in 2008, when our housing market was in tatters, for $95 million, the most ever paid for a Florida mansion (at the time).
And interesting enough, Trump bought the property in 2006 for $39 million, at the hight of the housing bubble, when property values were at its peak.
The scope of the investigation was officially bound to events directly related to 2016 election interference. Very possible that they did not look into events nearly thirty-years earlier--as pertinent as those events are, in reality. Also, the pattern in Trump’s statements regarding U.S. alliances and alliance partners has become particular obvious in the past year. (Same theme as always on Friday in Michigan: “We’re being taken advantage of by every country all over the world including our allies. And, in many cases, our allies are worse than our so-called enemies.” https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1852471847822262695) We can fairly infer that he has been setting the stage for a further shift of U.S. foreign policy in the Kremlin’s favor in a second term, if elected, potentially including a NATO pullout.
One point where I think Abramson and many others have gotten the story wrong is in the emphasis on kompromat. The “golden showers” story (whether true or false) was particularly distracting and thus damaging in that regard. The most difficult thing for even Ambramson to conceive seems to have been the simple truth that Trump is a decades-long, loyal employee, whose most trusted associates are Russians.
Is that fair, or would you say I’m mischaracterizing Ambramson’s story? (He has written a good deal, of course, so there’s still much I haven’t read.)
The irony is…when has Trump ever paid is “fair share” of anything? How often has he paid his contractors? When has he paid his debt to society for the crimes he’s committed?
Update: See full exchange between Peter Strzok and John Sipher in this post of mine from yesterday: https://kingofthewildthings.substack.com/p/the-cold-war-is-over. Summary from Strzok: “[T]hat nobody has ever looked at the very, I think, reasonable question of counterintelligence concern surrounding Trump is a problem, is a gap, is a failure. And we haven't done it. And frankly, I don't think at this point in our history, we're ever going to do it. . . . The short takeaway from that is, this person where it's been demonstrated has extraordinary counterintelligence concerns around him, will never ever be subjected to a professional counterintelligence investigation to try and understand it."
So the world’s preeminent investigative agency, the FBI, has been trying to get Trump for almost 10 years and they come up with virtually nothing. If it is so obvious Trump is a Russian asset, why no real proof, but only conjecture and innuendo.
You misread the quote. What it indicates is the that world’s preeminent investigative agency (as you put it), the FBI, never undertook a counter-intelligence investigation focused on the question "What is Russia trying to do? What has Russia done with Trump in the past?” (full context here: https://kingofthewildthings.substack.com/p/the-cold-war-is-over quote from this podcast episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-implausible/id1728340033?i=1000675875771) In other words, the FBI never investigated the events described in this post, or (in more detail) in my Substack @kingofthewildthings.
No, Ivana (not Ivanka) is unlikely to have died from "blunt impact injuries to her torso” sustained in an accidental fall on the staircase in her home.
Wow! It’s all starting to make sense. The real estate and golf resort infusions of cash, when no bank would lend to the guy. And also, accounts for why a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin, Rybolovlev, bought a Palm Beach mansion in 2008, when our housing market was in tatters, for $95 million, the most ever paid for a Florida mansion (at the time).
And interesting enough, Trump bought the property in 2006 for $39 million, at the hight of the housing bubble, when property values were at its peak.
Coincidence, I think not!…:)
very much unsurprising that trump has been a russian puppet for decades.
And how much of this did Mueller know and simply let slide?
The scope of the investigation was officially bound to events directly related to 2016 election interference. Very possible that they did not look into events nearly thirty-years earlier--as pertinent as those events are, in reality. Also, the pattern in Trump’s statements regarding U.S. alliances and alliance partners has become particular obvious in the past year. (Same theme as always on Friday in Michigan: “We’re being taken advantage of by every country all over the world including our allies. And, in many cases, our allies are worse than our so-called enemies.” https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1852471847822262695) We can fairly infer that he has been setting the stage for a further shift of U.S. foreign policy in the Kremlin’s favor in a second term, if elected, potentially including a NATO pullout.
See also Seth Abramson's Proof series...
One point where I think Abramson and many others have gotten the story wrong is in the emphasis on kompromat. The “golden showers” story (whether true or false) was particularly distracting and thus damaging in that regard. The most difficult thing for even Ambramson to conceive seems to have been the simple truth that Trump is a decades-long, loyal employee, whose most trusted associates are Russians.
Is that fair, or would you say I’m mischaracterizing Ambramson’s story? (He has written a good deal, of course, so there’s still much I haven’t read.)
The irony is…when has Trump ever paid is “fair share” of anything? How often has he paid his contractors? When has he paid his debt to society for the crimes he’s committed?
Update: See full exchange between Peter Strzok and John Sipher in this post of mine from yesterday: https://kingofthewildthings.substack.com/p/the-cold-war-is-over. Summary from Strzok: “[T]hat nobody has ever looked at the very, I think, reasonable question of counterintelligence concern surrounding Trump is a problem, is a gap, is a failure. And we haven't done it. And frankly, I don't think at this point in our history, we're ever going to do it. . . . The short takeaway from that is, this person where it's been demonstrated has extraordinary counterintelligence concerns around him, will never ever be subjected to a professional counterintelligence investigation to try and understand it."
So the world’s preeminent investigative agency, the FBI, has been trying to get Trump for almost 10 years and they come up with virtually nothing. If it is so obvious Trump is a Russian asset, why no real proof, but only conjecture and innuendo.
You misread the quote. What it indicates is the that world’s preeminent investigative agency (as you put it), the FBI, never undertook a counter-intelligence investigation focused on the question "What is Russia trying to do? What has Russia done with Trump in the past?” (full context here: https://kingofthewildthings.substack.com/p/the-cold-war-is-over quote from this podcast episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-implausible/id1728340033?i=1000675875771) In other words, the FBI never investigated the events described in this post, or (in more detail) in my Substack @kingofthewildthings.
I don’t think Ivanka fell…
is this portentous or did you mean ivana?
No, Ivana (not Ivanka) is unlikely to have died from "blunt impact injuries to her torso” sustained in an accidental fall on the staircase in her home.
https://x.com/auerswald/status/1811934865685635581