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Craig Unger
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“There were beautiful women, no doubt, when they took him to Moscow... [T]he idea of putting up Trump Tower, and this is now being revived... to put a Trump Tower near in the ... [B]ack in '87 during his... first trip there, that was absurd. ...The Cold War, even though Gorbachev was... General Secretary of the Soviet Union... a genial peacemaker, he was still very much a communist, and... the idea of having a monument to conspicuous consumption, a gaudy, glitzy, Vegas-like monument on Red Square near the Kremlin? That did not make sense to anyone, except for Donald J. Trump.”
Craig Unger (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 1987, the lie that Trump had met with Gorbachev appeared in The New York Times and... I strongly suspect... Trump fed it to the reporter on background and said, "You can't use me as a source, but I met with Gorbachev." That's the way it appears to have been written. It was a lie, and that's the way Trump works, but he is aided and abetted by a media that is complicit in that regard, and it's still going on...”
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“House Of Trump, House of Putin came out... 7 years ago, and back then you could say that Trump was a Russian asset. ...But gradually it's been supressed, and we've heard again and again that Trump Russia is a hoax... The Mueller Report didn't have anything in it, and people don't have the attention span... to do the deep dives, and it's very sad... I think Fox News has been part of the problem, and social media, it's been dreadful for the most part.”
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“It's the old access game. If you want access to Donald Trump, you don't ask him the tough questions. That's true of most politicians, but Trump... plays it to a tee, and people go along with it. ...[I]t's good for ratings to get him on your show. ...[L]ook at Fox News. It's still around. ...[I]t's unbelievable to me.”
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“In doing all these interviews, people ask me... "Can Europe trust America in terms of sharing intelligence?" and I say, "Absolutely not!" ...To say that my country thinks of Europe as an enemy. ...[I]t is ...horrifying. The Western Alliance helped build democratic institutions in 30 countries ...in Europe, strong market economies and strong military allies. Why are we turning against it? It doesn't make any sense... The only one it makes sense to is Vladimir Putin, and I think that's why Trump is moving in that direction.”
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“[T]he Jackson–Vanik Amendment to the allowed the Soviet Union... normal trade relations... General ...saw it as a great opportunity for the . ..."We told [the émigrés] ...you will provide ...information. And they pledged their services..." ...the KGB had leverage on any family left behind. ...And what was their task ..? "To penetrate... Western institutions. Government ...and ...high technology... And some did succeed" ...huge numbers of Russian criminals and KGB spies ...did inundate the United States ...fueling the growth of the and a new generation of KGB assets... one of whom was Donald Trump.”
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“[A] ... 1999 article by... Knute Royce... cited a 1994 FBI file characterizing [Kislin] as a "member/associate" of the mob organization headed by ... "godfather of Russian organized crime in the United States." ...Kislin had started Trans Commodities Inc. ..."...known to have laundered millions of dollars from Russia to New York." ...Trans Commodities, and Anton Malevsky... contract killer for the , were... allegedly tied to... Mikhail Chernoy... a major figure in the... Aluminum Wars... marked by embezzlement, money laundering, and murder. ...[T]he report said... Kislin was... a "close associate" of... arms smuggler Babeck Seroush and that he... cosponsored a visa for Malevsky.”
Craig Unger (born 1949) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: Knute Royce, "FBI tracked alleged Russian mob ties of Giuliani campaign supporter" The Center for Public Integrity (Dec 14, 1999)
“[Trump] was regarded by Russian intelligence and the ... as a special unofficial contact... that's different from being an active agent who who can be [assigned] certain operations. It's a slightly more informal designation where he's a trusted friend. He can be relied upon to do favors for Russia... It was a constant refrain when he was president. He did exactly what the Russians wanted. He withdrew American troops from Syria. He abandoned our Kurdish allies and left the Russians in that vitally important strategic area. ...[M]y book ...shows one after another event like that ...that Trump is working as a Russian asset, and according to ... he was.”
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“[W]hen I started investigating this in 1991... for Esquire magazine... [it] was the first... fleshed out narrative of... how the Republicans made a secret deal with Iran and delayed the release of the hostages... I was immediately hired by magazine. I was led to believe we would be leading a full bore investigation... with the substantial resources of Newsweek and its correspondents all over the world. But... the experience was almost like a "" operation that brought me on board so that I couldn't write it... Newsweek ended up doing three stories in a row saying the October surprise didn't happen...”
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“But and and... a wave of journalism characterizing investigative reporters, including me, as... tin foil hat wearing conspiracy nuts, and the story was just killed. It was dead, over and over for many decades, and a colleague... Bob Perry ended up following it at great length on his website. He investigated it for many... years until his death in 2018, and I went back to it from time to time... I went to Israel where I interviewed people in Israeli intelligence who were communicating with the Republicans during the campaign, and it's very... odd. If you follow American political campaigns... Dave Axelrod wasn't meeting with Israeli intelligence all the time... That's not the way it works. But Bill Casey was. ...[H]e had a real secret network, he had arms dealers all over the world, he had Israeli agents he talked to, he had fixers who spoke Farsi and could set up meetings with Iranian officials...”
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“, the satyrical magazine, had a book at the end of the century and... saluted that day with a fake headline from The New York Times saying "Reagan inaugurated, urges America not to put two and two together." ...[T]hat's one of the things that's so intriguing about the whole story. On some level it seems obvious on its face, and yet when you try to nail it down it was very hard to do so. ...Casey was a truly great spy and he would go in a dozen different directions at once. No one knew everything he was doing. Things were very... compartmentalized. But he would meet secretly in London with a South African arms dealer... selling arms to Iran... I went to Israel and met with who was the head of Israeli military intelligence and he said, "Oh sure, Casey and I would talk regularly." This is back at the time of the Iranian Revolution...”
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“Witkoff... in New Yourk real estate circles, he is a big... player. He owns the Woolworth building... He owns a lot of other buildings, like the Daily News building... He's a multibillionaire. He's got at least $2 billion... There was a bust in Trump Tower of... a $100 million poker game on the 63rd floor.... considered the most desirable apartment in the building. It is directly under Donal Trump's penthouse suite. ...34 people were busted. It was a raid by the Southern District of New York... under ... It... morphed into a movie called Molly's Game... because a lot of Hollywood celebrities like Matt Damon... Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio were part of it.”
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“[O]ne of the principals in the game was a Russian mobster... Anatoly Golubchik, and while he was being sentenced... he wanted to buy another apartment and... needed a reference... his name was ... [W]hy was Steve Witkoff vouching for the Russian mafia? ...[I]t was followed up by the real estate industry newsletter... The Real Deal and they... interviewed Witkoff... in 2013... [H]e said "Oh, I didn't really know Golubchik. I was doing it for a mutual friend." Well, who's the mutual friend? I don't know... but the first name that comes to mind would be Donald Trump... It may not be Trump and there were a lot of other people of interest who were busted then, but... the Russian mafia is... the engforcement arm of Russian intelligence.... [B]ack in the days of the Soviet Union that was true for the , and it's true for the FSB and the SVR today.”
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“38 years have passed. ...[I]f you go to the advertisement that he took out in the The New York Times, ... [etc.] It was just a few weeks after he had returned from his first trip to the Soviet Union... that was completely orchestrated by the . They had... set a trap for him. They had been luring him in, giving him... a deal on some cheap TV sets for the... Grand Hyett Hotel. So suddenly he's friendly with these guys. ...[A] big franchise operation like or Marriott... generally make deals with [a major vendor like] Sony or LG or Samsung... But Trump got them from... Joy-Lud Electronics... a front for the KGB, and that's how the... relationship started... There may have been some other contacts even earlier... If you look at how they lured Trump in, it was a good deal he couldn't refuse on cheap TVs.”
Craig Unger (born 1949) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Background Ref: Jeff Stein, How the KGB Hooked Trump: 'American Kompromat,' a new book by Craig Unger, gets the lowdown from former Russian and U.S. spies. (Jan 26, 2021) SpyTalk.