A detailed account of the serpentine connections between Donald Trump and a host of shady rich Russian and international autocrats, this richly documented story of global political shenanigans by a well-known American investigative reporter is frightening.
The interconnected world of rich decadent aristocrats discussed here include the international media mogul Robert Maxwell, thought to have been murdered perhaps by Israel’s Mossad, in 1991 because he knew too much, and his despicable daughter Ghislaine, who fed Jeffery Epstein’s insatiable pedophilia by procuring girls as young as 13 from around the world for him. Both Maxwell’s were known to be Soviet (and later Russian) informants. The list of Epstein’s friends and guests at his various luxurious hangouts include many household names and world leaders including Prince Charles, Arab sheiks, an Israeli prime minister, the Clintons, Bill Gates, George Soros, and the international arms smuggler Adnan Khashoggi. And of course, his Florida neighbour, Donald Trump. Even if some of them were not fully aware of Epstein’s Russian connections and his pedophilia, at the very least, associating with him reveals questionable judgement. Here, Epstein’s cause of death in prison from suicide is questioned because of too many peculiar features surrounding it- Unger makes a convincing case that he may well have been murdered.
Even as early as the 1970s, Trump was selling hundreds of TVs from a KGB- fronted store in Brooklyn to Soviet millionaires and laundering the enormous profits through various corrupt banks. And in return, the Russian Alpha Bank and Deutsch bank later bailed Trump out of some of his bankruptcies.
Soviet moles Robert and Bonnie Hansen, within the highest ranks of the FBI, were spared execution for treason for mysterious reasons, perhaps because they were pious members of the secretive multilayered right-wing Catholic prelature Opus Dei, along with an astounding number of Trump loyalists such as his Attorney-General Robert Barr, Kenneth Starr and Anton Scalia, the Supreme Court Justice. Opus Dei arose originally to support the Spanish fascist Francisco Franco and is a secretive society approved by the Vatican, itself not exactly a bastion of democratic principles.
More than 200 lawyers from Kirkland and Ellis LLP were appointed to the Justice department during Trump’s reign, many also defending Russians interests, Alpha Bank, Deutshe Bank, and Epstein, who was defended by Kenneth Starr, the prosecutor of Bill Clinton at his impeachment trial. Starr has been disgraced recently for failing to act on allegations of sexual abuse at Baylor, where he was president. All these appointed men (vey few were women) were dedicated to the goal of establishing a unitary executive form of government with unlimited presidential powers.
One good quote: the KGB recruitment of Donald Trump was “like throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what would stick.”
The frightening close scrape with dictatorship to our south has been somewhat relieved with the election of Joe Biden. But lest they (and we as their neighbours) lapse into complacency, consider this: why is Donald Trump still golfing and planning for his presidential return in 2024, rather than languishing in a federal prison?
A scary true story and a must-read for anyone interested in the world of modern politics.
Thanks
Leslie.
The Passionate Reader 