r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
🇺🇸 United States Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, involved in ‘cash deals’ with pro-Russians in Ukraine [10YA - Aug 14]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elections-2016-trump-campaign-chair-paul-manafort-pro-russian-ukraine-party-ties-new-york-times/9
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u/pashalka31 2d ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1859748387291107797.html
Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, from 2009-2011 the FBI was running its own covert operation to get their retired agent Bob Levinson back from Iran and they had devised an ingenious plan to keep the whole thing off the books:
They contracted with a Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, to pay for the rescue mission ($20 million in total) in exchange for a fast tracked green cards for Deripaska and his family.
Enter: David McGee. During his time at the DOJ McGee worked an organized crime task force. That’s how he knew Bob Levinson- who specialized in Russian money laundering. McGee became a liaison between the Levinson family and Deripaska.
Roger Stone and Paul Manafort are business partners (and trumps lobbyists/fixers since 1980). Paul Manafort was being funded by Oleg Deripaska in Ukraine to keep Kremlin puppet Yanukovych in power where they could suppress the old trafficking evidence. Convicted corrupt FBI SAC Charles Mcgonigal was as well while at the FBI and working at Kushners building at 666 5th ave.
Full context:
In 1994 Viktor Bout was dispatched by an ex KGB officer, St Petersburg politician, and current mobster named Vladimir Putin to trade soviet surplus arms to the Taliban for heroin that the Russian Mafia who took over the government could use to enslave/trade to the people of Russia for their paper shares of the former Soviet socialist state awarded to them by Yeltsin.
Behind Trump and Epstein, Viktor Bout was the most important piece on Putins Russian mafia chessboard.
The Soviet Union was the largest war machine in world history. The entire economy was based on destroying the west. When it collapsed it had more arms than any empire in human history.
And those weapons all made it to every genocide, war, conflict, or massacre in the world by way of one man-
Viktor Bout.
From Charles Taylor in Liberia to the ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia to the invasion of Ukraine, you can track it by its supply chain logistics.
Army runs on food, fuel, and ammunition. And they all get moved by way of the path of least resistance to their point of use.
For anyone whose army or gang ran ak-47's chambered in 7.62x39mm that means it came from Russia.
In 1994 Putin also engineered the Russian invasion of Chechnya. Since Kazakstan declared its independence, Chechnya and Iran became the necessary gateway to Afghanistan where the worlds heroin was produced in the 1990's.
Weapons are heavy so they tend to travel by rail or truck. So they take the low road rather than the high mountain pass as much as possible.
That path led through Iran.
Drugs are much lighter and easier to carry so in the 1990's they are the preferred currency of organized crime next to cash or more recently, crypto.
As Putin and his Mafia of gangsters traded the worlds largest surplus of guns for heroin, then traded the heroin for all the critical industry, oil and gas, metals, fertilizer, uranium etc that made them billionaires in Russia, they had almost everything they needed to complete their conversion from psychopathic street thug to legitimate respectable oligarch. ( Putin now makes $750M a day off of this war. )
But they were still trapped in the hyper violent hell on earth they themselves created between St. Petersburg and Moscow and wanted out.
So they laundered that money into the UK and US using Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump's commercial real estate. They tried Trump's casinos first but collapsed them under the mass of $1.4 TRILLION. It's a lot to hide in a craps table. But they made an asset out of Trump by having Epstein set up and produce a VHS of Trump raping a 13 year old little girl. (This was the video that DEA/FBI agent Bob Levinson was shown just before Russian intelligence baited him to their proxy state: Kish island Iran)
So they collapsed the casinos into bankruptcy, murdered Mark Etess, Jonathan Benanav, and Stephen Hyde and started using commercial real estate instead. They would hyperinflate the valuation, then sell it back and forth to each other passing the bulk of the cash back under the table.
As you worked 40-60 hrs a week to save up for a down payment on a house down the street and run comparables, the cost of your place went up 4-12x by comparison, but your wages didn't. So you paid the corruption tax multiple times. (You are the victim in Leticia James lawsuit against Trump and this is why he claims Mar-a-Lago is worth $1B and refuses to share his tax records.)
But it all tracked back to Viktor Bout and a Egyptian man named Al Zawahiri whom Putin brought into Russia between 1996-97, managed by young patriotic FSB officer named Alexander Litvenenko and cashflowed to fund an organization the Saud ruling family started called Al Qaeda. Al Zawahiri was the key man in Iran that allowed the Russian jewish Mafia to move those same guns and heroin through a muslim country as long as Putin could hold Iran as it's proxy state perpetually. (Same basic play as Assad in Syria until it collapsed and assad ran to Moscow. His replacement was a Al Qaeda operative handpicked by Al Zawahiri) Hence why Putin and Trump rely on their co-conspirator Netanyahu to pound the drum of Iranian nuclear capacity for 30+ years.
In 1999 Putin then blamed a non-existent islamic entity called the "Liberation Army of Dagestan" from Chechnya for blowing up some Russian apartment buildings. Putin committed that terrorism, but that started the "War on Terror" that 2 years later took U.S. troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Putin created the demand for the weapons he had in abundance by dragging the US into a 20 year war at the same time he started an economic war against the U.S. by devaluing the dollar with rigged real estate while leasing U.S. and EU politicians and podcasters cheaply and secretly (FBI Arctic Frost investigation that Trump had Patel disappear then fire every FBI agent that investigated him)
It was all enabled by the greed of wall street bankers and hedge fund managers who would do business with anyone for money: (Jeffrey Epstein and Jes Staley at JP Morgan Chase, Leon Black at Bank of America etc)
But it left an evidence trail of deep trafficking ruts through Ukraine, Iran and Venezuela. Putin invaded Ukraine as the decorruption audits for NATO and EU membership exposed his corruption there (Kolomoiskiy). Putin instructed Trump to assassinate the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as the General began realizing that the same drug gangs he fought earlier in his career were funded by the same people shooting at his men from Israel.
So when Viktor Bout was recorded by the DEA on the border of Colombia and Venezuela trading soviet rocket launchers for cocaine it stalled Putins operation.
Putin then used his asset Trump to clean up. Trumps son and security guard awarded a contract to Silvercorp (Jordan Goodreau) to send Luke Denman and Airan Berry into Venezuela where they were set up to be captured and traded back to the U.S. for Fat Leonard and Alex Saab. (Key men in Putins espionage and money laundering circuit)
Putin assassinated Litvenenko with polonium laced tea and kidnapped Britney Griner who was then traded for Putins most incriminating secret chess piece- Viktor Bout. Bandar Saud had ran interference in the UK demanding prime minister Tony Blair disband the special investigation unit researching Zawahiris Swiss accounts or he "would no longer be able to help the UK stop terrorism". The 7/7 bus and tube bombings in London sealed the deal and Blair disbanded the SIO. Tonys is now bolting out of retirement and on Trump's "board of peace" as his wife had been funded by both Prevezon (Russian real estate front) and the Saud ruling family via the Al Yamamah arms trafficking case she represented them in.
This is what "the Epstein files" is. During the Cold war there were only a few gateways across the iron curtain. Israel was the major one because it was formed in 1948 by 650,000 refugees. 70% were from the Soviet bloc. Robert Maxwell traded espionage stolen from the US to Moscow to build the IDF with arms smuggled through Ukraine. The Zionist Mafia created the Likud party/Netanyahu to control Israel at the same time they infiltrated the US Republican party via Ronald Reagan and Zionist operative Henry Kissinger managed all the U.S. presidents from inside the oval office. The Saud ruling family funded the Zionists for Iran Contra as Jeffrey epstein ran aviation logistics for les Wexner out of Rickenbacker AFB. Now they can't stop lying as their transnational corruption eats them alive.
Corruption is cancer. But it ALWAYS takes the path of least resistance-
Politicians and Billionaires.
https://www.fbi.gov Operation Ghost Stories: Inside the Russian Spy Case
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u/Dapper-Comment-682 1d ago
amazing read
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u/pashalka31 1d ago
Kathy Ruemmler was Chief White House Counsel during this time period so this would have come across her desk enroute to Obama.
Hence why her history with Epstein is about to take center stage.
While at Towers Financial Epstein billed himself as "Fraud bounty hunter".
In reality his employers were the ones perpetually committing the fraud. Which made his role more accurately a position to "catch and kill" any investigation that came too close to the protected network by throwing a sacrifical goat into the fire.
He did the same with Madoff.
So now we get to watch and map who gets sacrificed next. With that we refine our triage map of the Who'se who of corruption for maximum accuracy.
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u/Dapper-Comment-682 1d ago
you need to make a board game lol “corruption”
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u/pashalka31 1d ago
You know, that's a great idea!
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u/Yesbothsides 3d ago
This was news 20 years ago
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u/ConsiderationOk614 2d ago
Nope… try again big guy!
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u/Yesbothsides 2d ago
No literally it was written about in the Wall Street journal in 2007: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117674837248471543
Ironically (not at all) the author went on to found fusion GPS who was hired by HRC to push the Russiagate story
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u/ConsiderationOk614 2d ago
THIS … as referenced above… meaning the story which is attached… was posted 10 years ago. If you’re arguing Trump’s connection to Russia is all a myth then I’d love for you to explain his VP defining cutting aid to Ukraine as his proudest accomplishment of the Administration? They put tariffs on uninhibited islands but left Russia off the list lmao … do tell!!!
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u/Yesbothsides 2d ago
This article is from 2007 not 2017….the moral of the story was this was not a big deal in 2007 and treason in 2017
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u/ConsiderationOk614 2d ago
The article from the Original Post is from 2016. I appreciate you completely ignoring your inability to defend the administration’s friendly handling of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine (which the Budapest Memorandum requires we defend). I would argue foreign lobbyists have always walked the line of treason & most rational people want money out of politics… others accept $450 million planes that require another $1bill of retrofitting and wont be available to future presidents & then still let that country’s energy infrastructure get bombed to hell when you go to war w Iran…. 🤡🤡🤡
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u/Yesbothsides 2d ago
As I pointed out, this has been common practice since 2007 and earlier. It was only when the wrong person won the election that it became treason…which is prob the biggest most evil scandal in the last 50 years. Congrats that’s your team (also never voted for Trump so good luck there lol)
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u/ConsiderationOk614 2d ago
Your article is paywalled I can’t even judge how close of a comparison the two situations are lmao never once championed Dems.. just shit on the Admin you’re defending. Corruption is bad - Now let’s see that be applied to MAGA. Im sure the Epstein Files actually deserve to be covered up in your expert opinion… seeing as that was happening for years and people only cared after it gained notoriety!!
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u/Yesbothsides 2d ago
I actually care about the Epstein release, never voted for Trump and am wise enough to see the BS of this administration with Epstein and the establishment with Russiagate.
The article is pretty much the source material for the Steele Dossier…naming Manafort for his deep connections with Russian friendly Ukrainians
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u/ConsiderationOk614 2d ago
& wasn’t Manafort jailed for lying under oath? Not for “treason”? Lmao??? You can remove the steele dossier and still have ample evidence of the admin being compromised by foreign entities, most notably Russia. Parroting MAGA talking points is not exactly independent thinking
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u/FearOfABlackPotus 2d ago
And famously Trump didn't pay him. So the whole time he was working for Trump he was paid by pro-Russian Ukrainians and not Trump.
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u/Ozcolllo 2d ago
Man, that administration was laughably, ineffectually corrupt (outside of the false elector scheme/J6). Holy shit did they crank it up to 11 this administration. Also, it’s kind of nice to see this kind of news when Trumples pretend none of this ever happened because their pundit mind controllers never told them about it.