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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI wiretapped Russian gambling ring headquarted at Trump Tower for 2 years before he ran for office
The Feds were monitoring Russian activity at Trump Tower but it was years before President Trump ever ran for office.The FBI had a court-sanctioned warrant from 2011 to 2013 to monitor a Russian crime organization working out of a unit three floors below President Trumps penthouse, according to an ABC News report.
Listening in on the Russians happenings resulted in more than 30 people being indicted in April 2013, with federal agents raiding the Trump Tower apartment. But the mastermind, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, got away and has since fled the United States justice system.
Emergence of the Russian gambling wiretap comes as President Trump claims his own residence at Trump Tower was bugged at the direction of President Obama, but the intelligence community says there's no evidence to back that up.
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FBI wiretapped Russian gambling ring headquarted at Trump Tower for 2 years before he ran for office (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2017
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. President Trump will try to have it both ways
He will triumphantly point to this surveillance of Russian mobsters as "proof" that he was being tapped, but then when inconvenient questions arise about how much Trump knew about his own tenants, he'll go full Sgt. Schultz, and know nussing, NUSSING! about Russian mobsters on the floors just below him.
It will be interesting to watch the popular media's reaction: Will they let Trump try to thread that moving needle, or will they say he can't have it both ways?
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)2. I want to know what his cut was.
Yavin4
(35,440 posts)3. Or how much are Trump's gambling debts. n/t
niyad
(113,315 posts)6. also an excellent point. almost guaranteed it is one or the other.
niyad
(113,315 posts)5. excellent point
Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)4. His residence probably was bugged
by the russians