Sort of says it all, doesn’t it? Who do you think is holding the kompromat? From Russia With Subversion
by Don Clasen
Sep. 12, 2019
Should we change the name of America to the United States of Masochists? Two years ago, 63% of the public said Donald Trump did not deserve to be re-elected. Today after two years of his non-stop chaos, controversy, mockery of and damage to—well, almost everything—that number has actually improved for Twitter Man. It’s down three points to 60%!
Even more mystifying, he doesn’t seem to care. Everything he does is designed to reinforce his base. He’s doing nothing to win over a majority. How does he think he’ll ever get re-elected this way?
The original title of what I wanted to write was, “Election? What Election?” As it implies, Americans and especially the Democrats are assuming a lot if they think that their new desperate hope is the 2020 election wherein Donald Trump can be turned out of office. There is good reason to believe that the thugs and oafs that put him in there against his will as their front man/fall guy have every intention to do all they can to make sure there is no 2020 election. This they will attempt by trip-wiring a state of emergency crisis that will give him the only way out of his self-made mess—the Presidency for life.
What other conclusion can we come to since he refuses to resign from office? And if he knows the plan is not a state of emergency, then he must be sitting secure in the knowledge that it doesn’t matter how many votes he gets. All that matters, as Stalin said, is who counts them. As the link to a recent article I posted explains, new Deep State Israeli/American software can fix results all over the world and render free and fair elections a relic of the past. All people would be left with would be speculating on what happened and pointing fingers at one another. (In other words, even more division and demoralization.)
Hidden In Plain View
Whether they will succeed or not depends on a lot of things, not the least of which is the grace of God to stop them. (Personally I do think there will be another election, but that Trump will “win” it anyway). But to present the case for either of these two nightmares would take a series of at least three articles to make it. The first is this one, to report to you what I have learned this summer about the role of Russia in putting Donald Trump in office. The second would be about the Mueller Report and how it was subverted by Attorney General William Barr and how he was placed there to play this role. The third would be about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and his role as manager of a massive, decades-long Israeli intel blackmail operation, originally the brainchild of mobster Meyer Lansky who bequeathed it to Trump sensei Roy Cohn.
All three of these are blockbuster stories in and of themselves, they are all inter-related, and they paint a more intelligible picture of the Donald Trump phenomenon and the stunning evil and threat it represents to not just Americans but the whole human race.
All of which of course, begs the question. Just where have you been all year Don Clasen, as all these earth-shaking stories have been unfolding? Why have you done so little to “weigh in” on it all?
Well, aside from the usual answer that everything is time and money in life, I can guarantee you it’s not due to indifference. What I’ve been doing is working on another project near and dear to my heart. And part of that work entailed a deeper dive into the role of Russia in the 2016 election, resulting in a better understanding for me, made possible by the reading of four books in particular. They are House of Trump, House of Putin by Craig Unger, Trump/Russia: A Definitive History by Seth Hettena, The Making of Donald J. Trump by David Cay Johnston, and Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding.
I would highly recommend them all along with a lecture series (“Week 4”) by attorney Daniel Sheehan over the lifting of Russian sanctions and a potentially-explosive Rosneft oil sale scandal at the heart of so many Trump Campaign “contacts with Russia.”
Donald Trump, Long-Time Russian Asset
Putin’s choice to do all he could to help elect Donald Trump was a no-brainer. The Russians had been trying to recruit him ever since his marriage to Ivana, a Soviet citizen, in 1977. They saw him as the perfect asset, someone who ticked all the boxes of what they were looking for. He was a businessman instead of a typical leftist academic, so people would be less likely to suspect him. Plus he was greedy, narcissistic, disloyal, rebellious, easily bribed and flattered, susceptible to sexual blackmail, etc. In fact, the KGB were so interested in him that they had Czech intelligence send two agents to New York for ten years, to study him like an insect!
It paid off. In 1986, the new Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, landed in New York. When his daughter Natalia, who just happened to be a tenant at Trump Tower picked him up, the first thing he wanted to do just coincidentally, was go see if he could meet the great Donald Trump!
The two of them managed to worm their way into his office where Dubinin flattered him no end. Six months later when Trump and Ivana were invited to a luncheon at multi-billionaire Leonard Lauder’s house, who just happen to be there but Dubinin and daughter again? Author Craig Unger in his book, House of Trump, House of Putin writes,
“For the KGB, [defector Oleg] Kalugin told me, recruiting a new asset “always starts with ‘innocent conversation’ like this.” Natalia explained, ‘Trump melted at once. He is an emotional person, somewhat impulsive. He needs recognition. And of course when he gets it he likes it. My father’s visit worked on him like honey on a bee” [p. 47].
Dubinin told him the “good news” that his government wanted to bring Donald and Ivana on an all-expenses paid trip to Moscow to discuss a joint venture—building a hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Trump later told the Washington Post that it was his mentor Roy Cohn, the sex blackmail mogul, who was always pushing him to do this.
Thus, Donald and Ivana boarded a plane for Moscow on July 4, 1987, a trip sponsored and controlled by Intourist, a KGB front. Arranging for that date was no doubt an insult aimed at the famous American holiday, like a cherry on a cake.
I believe it was on this trip that Donald Trump became at least an asset if not an outright Agent of Chaos for the “Evil Empire.” Why do I say that? Because the first thing this notorious tightwad does when he gets back is take out a full-page ad in America’s three biggest newspapers costing him $95,000, advocating for…wait for it—a full American troop withdrawal from Japan!
That’s right. Absolutely no one in the US was talking about such a subject at the time. The only ones in the world doing so were the Soviets who were in the middle of a campaign aimed at the Japanese public for that very thing!
Over the years, it seems the Russians were never serious about letting Donald build such a hotel, but were rather trying to sucker him into compromising situations that they could use as leverage over him. I’m sure he’s been aware of this possibility for a long time, but his brash and reckless nature has gone along with it all the same. Certainly his 2013 trip to Moscow to host his sexually-charged Miss America pageant is probably where they got the most kompromat on him. This may explain the lurid allegations in the Steel Dosier about him having prostitutes urinating on a bed Barak Obama once slept on, along with the sheepish look on his face when he came out of that 2018 Helsinki meeting with Putin.
The infamous Helsinki Summit where only Russian translators were allowed to be present. Who do you think has kompromat on whom?
Why Russia Gets So Much Sympathy
For those of you familiar with my previous articles, I have tended to downplay the role of the Russian government in the 2016 election, in distinction to the Russian mobsters Trump owed so much money and so many favors to. In Russia however, there’s not a lot of difference between the two, though it’s there all the same due to the latter’s dual loyalty to Israel as well. (Sorry for the “trope” but c’est la vie.) When you dig down you find that the Russian enthusiasm for accumulating kompromat on its targets is exactly the same strategy as Israel’s, and not just coincidentally as the Epstein story shows us.[1]
One of the reasons so many Americans sympathize with Russia nowadays—and why they have so easily fallen for the gross distortions of the Trump/Q Anon “Deep State” narrative—is the fault of the American Establishment itself. American foreign policy since the late 1990s has sought to deploy an American version of Israel’s Oded Yinon plan to balkanize the nations of the world, breaking them up into tiny little statelets to cut everybody down to Israel’s size.[2] First on Israel’s agenda was the “seven nations in five years” neocon plan for the Middle East. The turning of Libya into an Islamist hellhole was our greatest “success,” but the agenda got bogged down in Syria as the world and the Middle East especially began to catch on to the plan.
As I have tried to document in past articles, the dominance of Israeli influence in American foreign policy circles has caused us to pursue the most ridiculous and deceitful of tactics, greatly damaging our credibility with the world. As has been shown by so many researchers, the campaign against ISIS alone has all been theater, the United States pretending to fight that group while actually recruiting, funding, arming and training them to be a Western proxy army to overthrow heads of state Israel wants gone.[3]
Thus Vladimir Putin, having a base in Syria and knowing this was our strategy, made a very shrewd chess move around 2014. He gave the United States a year to actually take care of the ISIS problem in Syria that we claimed to be so committed to doing. When we didn’t, he simply bombed them into oblivion, cutting Turkey off from their “cut” in the plot,[4] eventually turning the whole war around.[5]
ISIS convoy on its way to Turkey with oil stolen from northern Iraq and Syria is bombed by the Russian Aero Forces.
It was the overthrow of the Ukrainian government earlier that year when Putin decided to deploy a multi-faceted campaign to destroy the American Empire for good. Here the situation was a little more morally ambiguous. On the one hand, Viktor Yanukovych, Putin’s ally in Kiev, turned out to be not just another Russian oligarch looting their country. His excesses were so off the chart as to be downright obscene. It’s no wonder the Maidan revolt was so furious.
On the other, whether that justified America’s efforts to help out in his overthrow is another question, since we often don’t do things for the high-minded reasons we give. In this instance, the ultimate objective of the United States was to seize the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. The American line ever since has been that Putin “invaded” Crimea and Eastern Ukraine (where all the mineral wealth was). Western media and government spokespeople almost never mention these things, nor the fact that 97% of the Crimean population wanted to be annexed after receiving death threats from victorious neo-Nazis in Kiev.[6]
Still, It’s A Mafia State
I don’t think it’s rocket science to figure out that Vladimir Putin could read the tea leaves and see that Russia and China were in the American Empire’s crosshairs. From the point of view of the American planners, spreading democracy to these two regional powers was much preferable to the dangerous influence of these two autocratic states in our world.
But it was not just “Russian paranoia” as Western apologists have caricatured it. Putin saw a real threat coming his way. Thus did he go on the offensive, figuring out the many cracks in American society and doing all he could to drive a wedge between them. He knew how Hillary Clinton felt about Russia and that she was the West’s point person in the Ukrainian revolution. And I’m sure that her comparing him to Hitler, a deep insult to a Russian, was taken personally.
But there’s one big problem for Russia lovers. Vladimir Putin presides over what is effectively a Mafia state, what William Partlett of the Brookings Institute has called a “fake democracy” since at least 2011. He was also a lifelong KGB man and later the head of its replacement, the FSB in the 1990s. He has stated that for him the fall of the Soviet Union was “the major geopolitical disaster of the century”! That’s an amazing “take” on something that for the rest of the world was looked upon as a great victory for mankind. He has lately stated that Western-style liberal democracy is unworkable and undesirable.
One typical and popular influence in Russia today is Alexandr Dugin, a “philosopher” who advocates for a truly “fascist fascism,” the destruction of Western Enlightenment values and what’s left of liberal democracy. He has stated, “We, conservatives, want a strong, solid State, want order and healthy family, positive values, the reinforcing of the importance of religion and the Church in society…We want patriotic radio, TV, patriotic experts, patriotic clubs. We want the media that expresses national interests.”
In Defense of Democracy
I am tempted here go on a sidebar to explain why this is important, given the way people like Trump are causing us to question every day the things we were once certain of and held dear. I can see many people in the Christian Right for instance, agreeing with this man’s statement above. We are tempted in the West to applaud the “revival of Christianity” and “the family” (that great Evangelical idol of our time) in Russia since the fall of Communism.
But Christianity there means the Russian Orthodox Church, which is currently in the process of stamping out as many other Christian sects [i.e., Protestantism] as possible. Both Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism are not just highly-centralized and distorted versions of the Kingdom of God but represent human dogma over Divine doctrine, hierarchy over equality, and mediating priesthoods over direct access to God. They are paradigms that found their most natural milieu under feudalism.
The Enlightenment in contrast which informed the Founding Fathers of America was something of a secular version of the Protestant Reformation. The system they created was based on concepts of liberty and freedom of speech predicated on freedom of thought. A society that allows such freedoms results in great creativity and productivity. One that doesn’t leads to stagnation, conformism and inevitably corruption and absurd injustices with no countervailing checks on power.[7]
Donald Trump, with all his provocations of the press as “the enemy of the people” and his open longing to be dictator for life is of a piece with this kind of mentality. What Alexandr Dugin is proposing essentially is a literal Orwellian world where three autocratic rulers, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, vie amongst themselves with no real input from their populations.[8] It is as I’ve also tried to put it in other ways, the ultimate showdown at the end of the age between the liberty found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ versus the totalitarian, control-freak nature of ancient and medieval Talmudism.
And this is but one of many aspects of the dilemma before us. You can be a purist about it if you want (as I often am), railing on the hypocrisy and contradictions of an American Empire resorting to dirty tricks to “spread democracy” throughout the world. But what Donald Trump represents is the final burial of “the rule of law, not of kings” that used to be our pride and joy. If the Russians have their way with us, we too will be seeing more dead journalists, poisoned dissidents and academics, greed and corruption on a massive scale, and the brutality of mafia culture looting the country.
Donald Trump is their dream Trojan Horse for subverting what’s left of this freedom paradigm. How 45% of this country can be that stupid and willfully blind, I just don’t know. I thought it was the liberals who were the gullible ones.
The Real Russia
Winston Churchill once remarked that Russia is like one of their Matryoshka (“nesting”) dolls—“a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Getting to the bottom of anything there is like peeling an onion—layers upon layers of mystery and complexity. Unlike in America where the government makes some effort to fight and suppress organized crime and where clear lines of demarcation define the government, intelligence agencies, legitimate businesses and the mob, no such thing exists in Russia. They all kind of blend into one another into what some have called “Kremlin, Inc.”
Statue commemorating victory of Ukrainian Prince Sviatoslav over Khazars, 968 AD. On the bottom shield is a “Star of David.”
To understand how this came about we need to look at a bit of Russia’s ethnic, economic and political history. The two dominant and rival ethnicities in their history are the ethnic Russians and the Khazarians. Khazaria in the 8th Century was the most powerful nation of its day and probably stopped the spread of early Islam into Europe.
Khazaria, 8th Century.
Located between the Black and Caspian Sea areas, Khazaria was always in conflict with Christian Russia to the west and the Muslim Caliphate to the south. Legend has it that their khagan (king) Bulan decided to convert the nation to Judaism to avoid becoming a vassal state of either power.
By the time of Peter the Great (1672-1725), Russia had already established their gulag prison system. Khazarian prisoners within them founded the vory vy zakone mafia, literally “thieves-in-law” or as they’re often called, “the vories.” The arrogant sentiment expressed here was that either the Khazarians or the Russians or both were stuck with them, like a marriage that cannot be annulled. This gang made a fetish of brutality and developed a code of omerta or silence, a feature that goes all the way back to the rule of the rabbis over the medieval shetl community.
This rivalry between the Russians and the Khazarians became the basis for Russia’s long-running controversy over “anti-Semitism.”[9] In general, the Russians prevailed during the centuries of the czars, while the Khazarians prevailed with the coming of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. While the revolution made “anti-Semitism” a capital crime, Communist doctrine also tried to suppress all religions to make way for the new secular Communist man. Hence the charge that under Soviet Communism, Jews were “being persecuted,” even though atheist Jews made up 81% of the early Soviet government’s top 550 officials.[10]
During the Soviet era, the centrally-planned economy proved so inefficient that the people had to turn to black markets to meet even their most basic needs. These markets were dominated by this mafia and other gangs, some of which became fabulously wealthy even before the Soviet system fell. When it did, they were the only people who had any real business experience. That, along with corrupt alliances with members of the intelligence and political world, resulted in some of them, usually the most well-connected (or brutal), to become overnight billionaires. This is how at least some of the modern-day “oligarchs” came to be, as the vast industrial wealth of the state turned into a fire sale.[11]
Putin’s Rise To Power
Vladimir Putin had two great loves as a boy that planted his feet squarely in both of these worlds. He romanticized the KGB as the heroes of the Russian people, gobbling up comic books wherein the KGB man would always out-fox his American adversaries.
The other was his love for martial arts, with a judo teacher who was a prominent member of the St. Petersburg mafia. It was at the latter’s gym where Putin hung out that he made lifelong friendships with many shady characters, eventually making some of them billionaires themselves. In this way he built a powerful and wealthy entourage of businessmen, spies and criminals around him.
A younger Putin with now-billionaire Arkady Rotenberg (left) and Vasily Shestakov, head of International Sambo Federation
When the Soviet Union fell, Putin left the KGB and went to work for one of these friends, then the mayor of St. Petersburg. In his powerful position as Chair of the Committee for External Relations, all foreign investment in the New Russia had to go through Putin’s hands. In this way he perfected the art of corruption, leveraging a position of power while enriching himself at the same time. After a brief stint as the head of the FSB, the successor to the KGB, Putin replaced the much-compromised and exhausted Boris Yeltsin as head of state at the start of the new millennium.
When he took over, the privatization process had turned much of the country into the Wild West. The biggest gangsters became richer still while even the scraps were left to lesser ones.[12] But once he had total power, he called all the oligarchs to a meeting where he laid down the law—privatization was going to continue but in an orderly way (i.e., “with my approval”). In essence, what Putin did was make these guys an offer they couldn’t refuse—“You either agree to become junior partners with the Russian state or we will crush you with our superior power.”
It may have been that Putin had little choice but to handle things this way. The United States did not keep its promise to Gorbachev to not recruit the former Soviet republics into NATO (actually, most of them wanted to join), and now neither did we help Russia through this hard transition. As Craig Unger summed it up, “The choice was not between socialism and ideal capitalism but criminalized transition and civil war.”[13]
Meanwhile, In New York…
In 1974, the Jackson-Vanik amendment was passed by Congress, allowing Russian Jews to more easily emigrate to the United States. The Russian response to this may have been a shrewd chess move: “The KGB made certain to…open the gulags and release thousands of hard-core criminals…many of whom settled in Brighton Beach.”[14] These vories landed in this Jewish community and began to both terrorize and transform it, making it their base for reaching out throughout the American landscape.
When Rudy Giuliani as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York at the time targeted the Five Italian mob families for elimination, he opened up the door for the much more ruthless “Russian” mobsters to take over New York in their place. It is not clear if he did this wittingly, but it may explain why the man became so much of a “9-11 insider” cooperating with a terror attack rooted in Israeli mobster and government circles. It might explain why he is so tethered to a fellow insider like Donald Trump to this day. They both know “where the bodies are buried,” and they both want to exploit each other’s knowledge of how his sordid underworld works, mostly through incredibly-lucrative business deals, Putin-style.[15]
A heavily-tattooed Vory Russian gangster (or an actor). The perverse “body art” tells their stories, number of kills, etc
As was said, even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, massive amounts of illegal wealth were being made in the black market. But these gangsters needed a safe place to stash it, and the already-collapsing Russian economy was not it. So they began to send it to the stable West to launder it, usually by buying up real estate.
Of all those locations, their favorite was the United States where privacy laws, thanks to Republican “business” philosophy, are such that LLCs and anonymous shell corporations are allowed to buy property without disclosing who the owners are. According to a BuzzFeed investigation into Donald Trump’s real estate transactions, about 1300 of his condos, one-fifth of all sold since the 1980s, have come through “secretive, all-cash transactions.”[16] And those are only his properties in the US. He also has about 30 Trump-branded high-rises throughout the world.
All in all, about $300 billion a year is being laundered through American real estate, much of it coming from Russia. This became in essence, especially after Donald ‘s bankruptcies in the 1990s, the Trump Organization’s business model.
Don Jr. at a 2008 business conference: “In terms of high-end product influx [laundered cash] into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. Say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo, and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
Eric Trump to Golf magazine, 2014: “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”
Donald Trump at a 2017 news conference: “I have no dealings with Russia, I have no deals in Russia, I have no deals that could happen in Russia because we’ve stayed away.”
Thomas Friedman, NY Times: “My guess is what Trump is hiding has to do with money. It’s something about his financial ties to business elites tied to the Kremlin. They may own a big stake in him.”[17]
Wow, do ya think?
Mob Money
Mogilevich, Mikhailov and Averin, the picture of discipline, honor and spiritual aspiration.
We’re talking mob money here and lots of it. At the top of that heap are Sergei Mikhailov, Viktor Averin and Semion Mogilevich. The first two are the most powerful but Mogilevich, worth $10 billion, is reputed to be the brains behind their scams. They call him the “Brainy Don” because of his ability to come up with ingenious ways to siphon money out of legitimate business enterprises undetected. They say today he owns virtually a private nation all his own, complete with his own army, yet he is an arm of the Russian government as well. They sometimes work for the Israelis (and exploit them) as well.
Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald and Melania Trump partying together.
Mogilevich cultivated a relationship with Robert Maxwell, the notorious Mossad agent and British media mogul. Ghislaine Maxwell who operated as Jeffrey Epstein’s recruiter of under-aged girls is his daughter. She and Epstein had a literal contract with the Ha’Aman, the Israeli military intelligence agency, to sexually blackmail as many officials and celebrities around the world as they could.
To facilitate travel abroad, Mogilevich turned to Israel. “Thanks to Israel’s Law of Return the easiest route…favored by countless Russian mobsters, was to get Israeli citizenship,” according to Unger. “There is not a major Russian organized crime figure who we are tracking who does not also carry an Israeli passport.”
“Many of them were not even Jewish,” said Jonathan Winer, the former money-laundering czar for the Clinton State Department. It is believed today that Mogilevich owns all the brothels in Israel which are stocked with Russian and Ukrainian girls, lured to the West with the prospect of new jobs only to find themselves kidnapped and enslaved.[18]
Ivankov
One of his partners was one of the most brutal and murderous gangsters in the history of Russian crime named Vyacgeskav Ivankov. He was so vicious that he was scaring business investors away from Russia. In early 1992 Ivankov got his marching orders from the Circle of Brothers to invade America.
Once here he quickly built two brigades of 250 athletes and Spetsnaz veterans, paying them $20,000 a month to fight and take over all other gangs in the US. The FBI’s Jim Moody who started tracking the Russians in 1991 noted that these people are branching out into every imaginable crime field all at once.
It was at this time that Trump was opening a new chapter in his life, divorcing Ivana and unable to get any money after his Atlantic City bankruptcies. (Richard Branson said Trump had told him he had a list of five people he wants to destroy for making his life difficult during his bankruptcy years alone.) When the FBI looked all over Brighton Beach for Ivankov, they finally found him living at Trump Tower and operating out of there. He and other Russian gangsters hung out regularly at Trump’s Taj Mahal, laundering their cash through chips. All in all, the Taj Mahal was fined 106 times in its first eighteen months alone for violating banking laws.
During the campaign, Donald Trump accused “Obama” of “wire-tapping” Trump Tower. The truth is, the FBI has been “wire-tapping” it ever since 1990, there’s been so much organized crime being run out of there. Illegal gambling, sports gambling, drug running, art theft, stock scams—so many of the residents who live there not only launder their money through the units but carry on their business right from there.
“Doing business with Trump allowed the Russian Mafia to secure a significant new foothold in the United States and begin an offensive that continues to assault America’s most essential democratic institutions to this day,” writes Unger (p.16). Indeed, Donald Trump’s connections to and dealings with organized crime figures are so voluminous, I don’t have the time to document a fraction of it. As Seth Hettena put it in the preface to his book, the problem is not a lack of evidence or material but not enough space to go into all the details.
Donald Trump’s Long History of Being Targeted
In the world of intelligence and espionage, nothing works quite so slickly as blackmail. A person of influence compromised by their own vices is what these hardball players look for. Sex is an obvious and classical weak point, but so are other addictions—gambling, drunkenness, even gluttony (Prov 23:1-3). So are greed, vanity, pride, flattery, arrogance, undue ambition, illegal business practices, reckless spending, easy indebtedness, a contempt for law in general and the like. All such things leave a person vulnerable to be ensnared in their own ways (Psa 9:16).
I believe there is ample evidence to assume that Donald Trump was targeted for big things as a front man/fall guy at a young age, and for obvious reasons: he is a walking vice factory. Few people tick off all those boxes quite like him. Roy Cohn, Donald’s mentor and one of the architects of the Mossad’s “business style,” apparently developed the pedophile blackmail operation that Jeffrey Epstein later inherited. I assume based on Trump’s shocking history with the infamous Cohn that he saw in a young Donald the perfect Mossad tool for a long-term plan to set him up for exploitation (or at least was encouraged to do so).
A young Roger Stone and Donald Trump were Roy Cohn’s understudies back in the day.
The Israelis weren’t the only ones however. In 1984 General Vladimir Kryuchkov, the KGB’s director of foreign espionage with 12,000 agents under him decided they needed to upgrade their efforts in the recruitment of prominent Americans of any stature, including businessmen. Within two years Dubinin, the new Russian ambassador came knocking on Donald’s door bearing copious flatteries, as mentioned above.[19]
Former Soviet UN Ambassador, Yuri Dubinin (right)
Why Rex Tillerson Became Secretary of State
The tragedy of the Mueller Report is not that it doesn’t prove collusion—it most clearly does! The problem is he was under the restraint of a DOJ “memo” that claimed that a sitting President could not be indicted. Who made that decision up the food chain of worldly power, I don’t know. But all Mueller could do was leave it for a political “solution” (impeachment), not a legal one. [23]
This explains why Trump had been so nervous about that investigation. He didn’t have to worry. His craven political party ran cover for him. Yet in spite of that, a Republican-led Senate committee concluded after the election that Russia indeed had gone out of its way to support Trump as “their man in Washington.” Not of course that they would do anything about it.
Yukking it up at the White House with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak the day after Trump fired James Comey (TASS photo). It was at this time that Trump gave them classified documents.
That responsibility has been given apparently to America’s researchers and journalists, and we know how both Putin and Trump feel about journalists. Not able to stand the light of day, they react the only way tyrants always have throughout history, by doing all they can to suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Rom 1:18).
But it may be that the biggest connection and scandal of them all might yet to be fully presented. One small part of the Mueller Report was on the activities of Carter Page on behalf of the Trump campaign. He may have ended up acting as an unwitting intermediary between the Trump family and the Russian government involving a massive bribe.
For a number of years the Russian government has claimed land in the Arctic Circle. The reason for their interest is the presence of an estimated 87 billion barrels of oil and nearly a third of the world’s natural gas hidden there. Since they didn’t have the equipment to reach it, they made a deal with Exxon-Mobil in 2012 to develop it for them. However, the sanctions Congress levied on Russia in the wake of the Magnitsky Act, the Crimean annexation and the 2016 election interference put a halt to this project. Obviously, it was something Putin wanted lifted as soon as possible.
In a July 2016 meeting with Putin’s long-time right hand man and Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin,[24] Carter Page was led to believe that he could earn a brokerage fee of up to $500 million on an oil deal. He was told that Russia was planning on selling off 19% of their national oil giant Rosneft, a claim that Russia did announce—one day before the US elections.
One of the investors was a shell company registered in the Caymans. No one knows who they are, nor do they know who got that huge brokerage fee. The question is, did any of that fee and/or deal end up in Trump’s pockets? This is but one of many dangers you have when you have a man so obsessed with greed running your country.
Why All This Matters
A Senate minority (Democrat) staff report in 2018 had concluded that Vladimir Putin has launched (since about 2011) “a relentless asymmetric assault on democracy in Russia, Europe and the US using an arsenal that includes military invasions, cyber attacks, disinformation, support for fringe groups, weaponization of energy resources, organized crime, and corruption.” During the 2016 election, Trump famously and in public invited Putin to intervene on his behalf–“Russia, if you’re listening, feel free to hack more of my opponent’s emails.” How that’s not treason, I don’t know. But it’s vintage, in-your-face, Trump audacity.
The worst of it is that they are gearing up to do it all over again in 2020 and “their man in Washington” is doing nothing about it despite all the warnings of our security agencies.
One small example is the IRA (Internet Research Agency), a cyber war operation run by “Putin’s Chef,” Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of thirteen Russian nationals indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. During the last election, they created hundreds of fake Twitter accounts to create a false impression of grass roots support for Donald Trump, plus many others to spread truly “fake news” stories about Hillary Clinton. They even created fake sites spreading inflammatory racial strife, organizing American protests and rallies from Moscow no less. Trump’s compulsive use of the term “fake news” is something of an insider joke to him because he was and is privy to all this from what I can tell.
We should also recognize that Russia’s target for some time now has not only been blackmail and bribery-prone people like Trump but Americans in general. Politicians like Dana Rohrbacher, Mitch McConnell and many others have also been bribed and lulled into their “let’s be friends now” siren song. The targeting of the NRA by a Russian Central Bank official, former senator and mafioso Alexander Torshin and his protege Marina Butina, is not due to some “aw shucks” common love of gun rights, but to insinuate their way into US culture and bond with the evermore subversive Republicans.
I’ve made the case in the past that Trump is not exactly “Putin’s Puppet” (even though he often is) and that he doesn’t always make the exact decisions Putin might want. But Putin doesn’t need him to. When they recruited Donald Trump they got a one-man wrecking ball half of America is still in denial about. Trump’s already practically broken up NATO, railed on our allies, loudly praised our enemies and provoked a trade war with China. Every day he assaults another of our traditions and national institutions, degrades the discourse, culture and atmosphere, stokes racial division and exacerbates every other fault line.
He’s openly enriching himself at taxpayer expense, and enabling a plague of thieves-in-law grifters to steal as much as they can. To protect himself from being brought to justice, he’s carrying out a war against Congress, refusing to recognize their role of oversight in checks and balances. In essence he’s undermining the Constitution itself and has succeeded in persuading an entire political party to be co-conspirators in it. For Russia he’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Yet the worst of it is the danger of him protecting an influx of Russian, Israeli and God knows who else gangsters, mercenaries and “businessmen” to terrorize the American public in ways we can’t even conceive of now. While he rails on about the MS13 gang or south-of-the-border cartels, we don’t know if he’s targeting these people simply to make it easier for his own partners in crime to come in and take their place, or if they’re all in business together already. If you think a cynic like him cares a whit about America and what it’s supposed to stand for, you’re in denial.
And yet why do so many Americans tolerate this flim-flam artist? When questioned, their response is usually, “He doesn’t back down,” or “He stands his ground,” “He’s politically-incorrect and proud of it,” and other stylistic drivel that’s irrelevant to the very real threat he represents. Certainly the fact that so many Evangelicals have their heads willingly in the sand about this man tells you all you need to know about their sense of judgment and reality in general. It’s a big part of what Paul meant by the “strong delusion” of the last days (II Thess 2:11).
Notes:
[1] This highly-unethical, very uncivilized practice of tempting people to do evil in order to compromise them is very contrary to the New Testament ethic but very Talmudic, and reflective of the latter’s triumph within what used to be Western Enlightenment philosophy. Today every nation with a major intel paradigm (the US, Great Britain, Russia, Israel etc.) resort to the same dirty tricks when trying to squeeze their targets. But no one does it with such facility as Israel whose philosophy is one of default warfare with the goy, a philosophy of their own choosing.
[2] Oded Yinon was an Israeli Foreign Minister who came up with a plan in 1982 to deal with Israel’s Arab enemies by stirring up whatever ethnic and religious divisions they could to break up larger nations into little failed states. The Israelis through their influence in American foreign policy circles persuaded the Americans to adopt this highly-unethical, manipulative strategy. They in turn developed their own version with the Colonel Peterson re-making of the Mid-East map (in the best colonial tradition), but it was first deployed during the Clinton years in the Balkans (Yugoslavia). Hence the slang term.
[3] Revelations by Edward Snowden certainly helped bring this deceit to the attention of the world.
[4] Turkey, NATO’s direct link to the Middle East, was allowed to loot all the oil it could from Syria and Iraq. Since then, Putin has managed to effectively flip Turkey into his corner.
[5] When Assad allowed the Russians in around September of 2015, Syria was really on the ropes and about to become another Libya.
[6] Crimea had always been a part of Russia for 300 years anyway and was only made a part of Ukraine in the 1950s by Nikita Krushchev for still-baffling reasons.
[7] The current idolatry with covetousness here in the United States, embodied almost perfectly in the life of this President of all people, shows you just how far the decay of Enlightenment ideals has gotten now.
[8] Xi does not have much formal education but he does supposedly read a lot. Putin has a law degree and is very intelligent, yet sadistic and Machiaellian. He wants a return to 19th Century “Great Power” politics instead of a shared ideals/law-based international order which is becoming increasingly unfeasible in this cynical era. Trump is simply inexperienced, in over his head and unpredictable.
[9] This is why Israeli geneticists cannot find any Semitic blood in most of the Jews of Israel today. They come from another bloodline, if that’s important to anyone. It isn’t to God.
[10] The truth was, all religions were being persecuted including religious Jews. Some secular Jews never had more power.
[11] For instance, the entire electric grid of Russia, an ongoing money-maker, was privatized for only $630 million.
[12] Unger says that as early as 1984, there were already 9000 gangs and 35,000 gangsters in Russia. House of Trump, House of Putin by Craig Unger, (New York: Dutton), 2018, p. 13.
[13] Unger, p. 75. Could the US have helped during the 1990s? Perhaps. At the end of World War II, the United States ensured that Germany and Japan would never threaten the world again by making them trading partners. Nations that are entangled with one another in trade relations are less likely to go to war since the fortunes of both are now inter-twined. This was the basis of what became the American free trade empire. Yet when it came to the fall of the Soviet state, we had no such visionary leaders anymore and did not provide much help.
Trump followers do not understand this beneficial side to “globalism.”
[14] Unger, p. 27.
[15] Giuliani later on capitalized on his role as “America’s Mayor” after 9-11 even though his actions were suspect as to that seminal moment. The fact that his law firm was representing all the principals in the Rosneft privatization deal goes far to explain all the lies he was spewing as Trump’s shield bearer last Spring. https://thesternfacts.com/the-trump-russia-dossier-includes-rudy-giulianis-clients-alfa-bank-rosneft-and-qatar-1353876e789e
[16] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/thomasfrank/secret-money-how-trump-made-millions-selling-condos-to
[17] https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2018/02/20/thomas-l-friedman-whatever-trump-is-hiding-is-hurting-all-of-us-now/
[18] This is a long-standing business pattern of Jewish male culture, the difference being that in the past, the girls were usually all Jewish. Here’s a great story about this by Gilad Atzmon: https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/08/29/jeffrey-zwi-epstein-migdal/
[19] Ambassador Dubinin’s daughter Natalia, who lived in Trump Tower and was present at both meetings, described it this way: “My father’s visit worked on him like honey on a bee.”
[20] Even his marriage to Ivana may have been part of a targeting of him, at least after the fact. Czech intelligence actually sent two men to spy on them both for 10 years after their 1977 marriage. He always said it was Ivana who was promoting the idea he should go into politics and who to this day claims she’s the “real First Lady.” https://abcnews.go.com/US/ivana-trump-opens-surprising-facts-life-donald-trump/story?id=50330454
[21] The official sponsor was Intourist, but it was a wholly-run KGB front complete with microphones, agents tailing them everywhere, etc.
[22] His argument was the now familiar one that the United States was “getting hosed” paying the bills for “ungrateful allies.” (There was a dirty little secret as to why the American planners wanted it that way—that in the event of war with the Communist world, it would not be a “war by committee,” but one solely in the hands of the Pentagon. Naturally, they didn’t want the American taxpayers to know that though. Trump is a master at exploiting these “grievances,” real or contrived and drive a maximum wedge of division.
[23] Mueller went out of his way to stress, contrary to Barr’s lies, that his Report did prove collusion but he had no power to recommend the handing down of indictments. Why? Because the DOJ had this ridiculous “memo” that stated it was not their policy to “indict a sitting President.” All that was left therefore was a “political indictment”—impeachment.
[24] Page claims he actually met with the director of research for Rosneft, not Sechin himself, but experts highly-doubt that.
