Saturday, July 15, 2017

#141) "Trump's Russian Laundromat"


July 15, 2017

Dear Mr. President,

Well, Net neutrality is going to have to take a backseat again because I just read the most amazing and in-depth article about you and Russian money and I just have to write about it.  First off, everyone should read it; it's called "Trump's Russian Laundromat" by Craig Unger and it's published in The New Republic.  It reads like a David Baldacci or John Le Carré novel.  Stop what you're doing and Google this one now.  It's a doozy.

While the rest of the media world was trying to answer the question, "How much does Donald Trump have invested in Russia?" journalist Craig Unger decided to answer the question, "How much does Russia have invested in Donald Trump?" and the answer is mind-blowing.  Everyone knows that you have long and deep financial ties to Russia as you even said yourself at a real estate conference in 2008:

            "Russians makes up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets. 
            We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia."

Bur Mr. Unger looked all the way back to the 1980s, the very start of your development career, and followed the money through every twist and turn.  What he uncovered is staggering (and far too much information for me to relate in this letter).  But here's what bothered me the most:

            "sifted through mountains of real estate records, tax filings, civil lawsuits, criminal cases, and 
            FBI and Interpol reports, unearthing ties between Trump and Russian mobsters like 
            Mogilevich.   To date, no one has documented that Trump was even aware of any suspicious 
            entanglements in  his far-flung businesses, let alone that he was directly compromised by the 
            Russian mafia or the corrupt oligarchs who are closely allied with the Kremlin. So far, when
            it comes to Trump's ties to Russia, there is no smoking gun."

Let me ask you this sir, do you know what a "pawn" is?  A pawn is something or someone (you, for instance) who gets manipulated in an expendable manner.  A pawn, (also known as a patsy, stooge or mark) gets taken advantage of for someone else's gain.  The good news is that when Robert Mueller's investigation eventually leads him to all this criminal activity you will be able to honestly say, "I didn't know."  Although that is pretty sad and pathetic. 

The other bit of good news (for you anyway) is that you won't get impeached or arrestedbecause being an idiot and a patsy isn't a criminal offense.


Sincerely,
Amy Beaton

P.S.  It would really save everybody a lot of time and money if you would just make your tax returns public.

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