Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "This man could shed light on Trump mystery, Senate witness says" video.

  1. One of the very first episodes of Trumps documented ties to shady Russan mobsters was in 1984 when David Bogatin — who is a Russian mobster, convicted gasoline bootlegger, and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin came to that meeting prepared to spend $6 million, which is equivalent to about $15 million today. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. Documents show Trump had approximately 1,300 transactions of this kind with Russian mobsters. By that, I mean real estate transactions that were all cash purchases made by anonymous shell companies that were quite obviously fronts for criminal money-laundering operations. And this represents a huge chunk of Trump’s real estate activity in the United States, so it’s quite hard to argue that he had no idea what was going on..
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  2. In April 2013, a little more than two years before Trump rode the escalator to the ground floor of Trump Tower to kick off his presidential campaign, police burst into Unit 63A of the high-rise and rounded up 29 suspects in two gambling rings. The operation, which prosecutors called “the world’s largest sports book,” was run out of condos in Trump Tower—including the entire fifty-first floor of the building. In addition, unit 63A—a condo directly below one owned by Trump—served as the headquarters for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States.   The entire operation, prosecutors say, was working under the protection of Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, whom the FBI identified as a top Russian vor closely allied with Semion Mogilevich. In a single two-month stretch, according to the federal indictment, the money launderers paid Tokhtakhounov $10 million. Tokhtakhounov, who had been indicted a decade earlier for conspiring to fix the ice-skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was the only suspect to elude arrest during the FBI raid on Trump Tower.  For the next seven months, the Russian crime boss fell off the radar of Interpol, which had issued a red alert. Then, in November 2013, he suddenly appeared live on international television—sitting in the audience at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Tokhtakhounov was in the VIP section, just a few seats away from the pageant owner, Donald Trump...
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  3. Berlin-Uhren24 I'm not interested in winning over Trump cultists. They are a lost cause. They can't be helped or reasoned with anymore than Jim Jones cultists could be helped or reasoned with.
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  4. Berlin-Uhren24 You interrupted nothing. And I couldn't care less whether anyone agrees with me or not. What I posted is not an opinion of mine, it is simply a matter of fact. It's a part of history. Do with it what you will.
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  5. Berlin-Uhren24 Dear God NOOOO!!!! How will I survive now?
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  6. RoninRacingDesign What I posted was not an opinion piece.
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  7. CurbsideChat LMAO!!!😄 Except it wasn't.
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  8. CurbsideChat It's public information. Real estate deals leave a paper trail that's available to the public. And why does Trump continue lie and say that he's never had any business deals with Russia or Russians?
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  9. CurbsideChat Using shell companies to launder money is also very common. And again, why does Trump continue to lie and say that he's never had any business dealings with Russia or Russians? Why all the lies?
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  10. Berlin-Uhren24 Trump and his cultists don't read.
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  11. CurbsideChat LMAO!!!😂 No he wasn't.
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