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John Feffer
19 quotes
“Trumpism is here to stay.”
John Feffer (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The voters vowed to take their revenge at the polls. They’d missed out on the country’s vaunted prosperity. They were disgusted with the liberal direction of the previous administration. They were anti-abortion and pro-religion. They were suspicious of immigrants, haughty intellectuals, and intrusive international institutions. And they very much wanted to make their nation great again.”
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“Trump was, they concluded, sui generis, a peculiar mutation of the American political system generated by the unholy coupling of and the Tea Party revolt. But Trump is not, in fact, a sport of nature. He reflects trends taking place around the world.”
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“His opponents have tried to argue that America is already great, has been great, and will always be great. But the truth is, for many Americans, things have not been so great for at least the last two decades.”
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“Then it will matter little how much both liberals and conservatives rail against “stupid” and “crazy” voters. Nor will they have Donald Trump to kick around any more. In the end, they will have no one to blame but themselves.”
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“Before he became president, Donald Trump was... an unsuccessful businessman... He filed for bankruptcy six times—five times for his casinos and once for the Plaza Hotel.”
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“An astounding number of his... business ventures have gone belly up...”
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“Only one institution, , continued to supply him with credit. ...Trump began to rely on ...questionable characters and networks.”
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“[H]e started to use large amounts of cash... since 2006...”
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“[A]ll telltale signs of : the cash, the shell companies, the s, the lack of transparency and .”
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“A Buzzfeed investigation... found... one-fifth of [Trump's] condos... since the 1980s have been bought in cash, which allows the purchasers to avoid... scrutiny... Many... purchasers were shell companies.”
John Feffer (born 1963) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: Thomas Frank, Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers (Jan 12, 2018)
“[T]he Treasury Department estimates... one-third of... high-end real estate [transactions] involves potential .”
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“Many of the purchasers of Trump properties are Russian.”
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“In 2015, federal authorities fined the... bankrupt Trump Taj Mahal $10 million for violations of anti-money-laundering laws. ...In a 1998 [$450,000] settlement... the Taj Mahal was cited for breaking anti-money-laundering laws 106 times in... 18 months of operation.”
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“CNN reports, "...violations date... to... when the Taj Mahal was the preferred gambling spot for Russian mobsters... according to federal investigators...”
John Feffer (born 1963) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: Jose Pagliery, Trump’s casino was a money laundering concern shortly after it opened (May 22, 2017)
“Russian money saved Trump... when his projects were on the verge of collapse.”
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“The Panama Papers... leaked... from ... revealed... mechanisms by which Putin's associates transferred enormous... money[s] overseas... to conceal assets. Putin... parked... money in shell companies created by... associates.”
John Feffer (born 1963) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: , Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin The Guardian (Apr 3, 2016)
“... [l]ast year... was fined over $600 million for its role in laundering $10 billion of Russian currency. ...[R]elevant documents would link the bank's... most questionable... lending to Trump and washing Russian money.”
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“Compromising information about ... explains the president’s extreme deference to Vladimir Putin. As Alena Ledeneva... explained to It is possible... there is in the hands of... [former Soviet Union] business groups... Each would have bits and pieces of damaging information and might have found... ways to communicate that... to... Trump and Putin. Putin would likely have gathered some of that material...”
John Feffer (born 1963) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: Adam Davidson, A Theory of Trump Kompromat Why the President is so nice to Putin, even when Putin might not want him to be (Jul 19, 2018) quoting