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Raw Story
August 16, 2018
Reporter Craig Unger went on CNN Thursday to discuss some of the explosive findings contained in his new book "House of Trump, House of Putin."
During the interview with CNN's Erica Hill, Unger revealed that Trump's first contact with the Russian mob came all the way back in 1984.
"It started off as a money laundering operation where a man in the Russian mafia met with Donald Trump in Trump Tower - this new, glitzy building then - and he just came in with $10 million and said, 'I'll buy five condos,'" Unger explained.
"That event was typical of at least 1,300 such purchases of Trump properties."
Unger went on to discuss the next major contact between Trump and Russians, which came in 1987 when he made his first trip to the then-Soviet Union.
In particular, Unger said one of his sources told him that Trump "had lots of fun with women" during his 1987 trip to Russia and that "the Soviets had kompromat" - i.e. compromising information - on him dating back to that trip.
Additionally, Unger said that any contacts with Russian mobsters by Trump should be seen as the same thing as talking with Russian intelligence officers.
"I interviewed a counter-intelligence officer for the KGB, I asked him about the Russian mafia, and he said it is another part of KGB," he said.
"They are another part of intelligence."
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/investigative-reporter-tells-cnn-russia-started-compromising-trump-1980s/
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The Russians are patient operators.
spanone
(135,859 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)Were excerpts published in the New Yorker or something? Vanity Fair?
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)but I guess it's possible.
janx
(24,128 posts)author. The idea that these Russia/Trump connections go back to the 80s is out there. And if true, this guy is probably a lot more compromised than anyone thought.
MBS
(9,688 posts)July 2018
Covers some of same territory, but so far as I can tell, Unger's book not mentioned:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
Yes, it was Chait.
DavidDvorkin
(19,483 posts)red dog 1
(27,845 posts)"Putin's favorite congressman"
DavidDvorkin
(19,483 posts)People we won't know about until they're in positions of significant power.