As Trump's Impeachment Trial Looms, It's Important to Put Things in Context ...
Trump's Russian Mobster Ties, Trump's Taj Casino Violation of Money Laundering Laws & Russian Interference in Favor of Donald Trump in the 2016 Election
Did Trump's Apparent Hedonism & Amoral Proclivity Toward Racism & Violence and Financial Mismanagement, Attract Russia to Using Him to Sow Social & Political Discord in America?
February 2, 2021 / US Politics / NYC Neighborhoods / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo at right shows the headline title and photo of a Politico story about Trump's first trip to Russia in 1987, where all expense were paid and he was a guest of the Russian government.
According to Wikipedia's report on Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,
" ... According to the special counsel investigation's Mueller Report (officially named "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election"), the first method of Russian interference used the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Kremlin-linked troll farm, to wage "a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton". The Internet Research Agency also sought to "provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States" ..."
Mobster Don? A Russian Mobster Con? A Russian Asset?
Russia's aiding of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was certainly successful in amplifying political and social discord in the United States.
The photo at right is from a Guardian story on January 29, 2021 about how Trump appears to have been long cultivated as a Russian asset to incite social and political unrest in the United States of America. Russia has used race and ethnicity in its efforts to stir social unrest in the U.S., as well as discredit the United States abroad, since the Cold War began in the 1950's.
And one has to wonder if Russia is still not holding the Donald's feet to the fire, as Putin is believed to operate an Assassination Bureau, using the Russian mob, through which Trump had done business with via Felix Slater. The Wikipedia report on Slater describes him as,
" ... is a Russian-American mobster, convicted felon, real estate developer and former managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate conglomerate based out of New York City. ... In 1998, Sater pleaded guilty to his involvement in a $40 million stock fraud scheme orchestrated by the Russian Mafia, and became an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ... During Donald Trump's 2016 presidential 
campaign, Sater worked with Michael Cohen, former attorney for The Trump Organization, to broker a deal to build a Trump Tower Moscow, asserting to Cohen that he could boost Trump's election prospects through his Russian contacts. ... On July 9, 2019, Sater appeared before the House Intelligence Committee, but repeatedly withheld testimony and documents concerning the details of a false joint defense agreement and thus remains under subpoena..."
The photo at right shows real estate developer Donald Trump with Felix Slater and one of the principals of Bayrock, a real estate development firm. Bayrock has offices in Trump Tower and Slater was convicted of stock fraud and is believed to have been a Russian mobster. The photo was taken in the first decade of 2000.
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As Trump's Impeachment Trial Looms, It's Important to Put Things in Context ...
Trump's Russian Mobster Ties, Trump's Taj Casino Violation of Money Laundering Laws & Russian Interference in Favor of Donald Trump in the 2016 Election
Did Trump's Apparent Hedonism & Amoral Proclivity Toward Racism & Violence and Financial Mismanagement, Attract Russia to Using Him to Sow Social & Political Discord in America?
February 2, 2021 / US Politics / NYC Neighborhoods / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC. Continued.
The Trump Administration's 13 Executions Appear Racist & Reveal Trump's Penchant for Violence
This report is part of a serious look into Donald Trump's apparent proclivity toward inciting racism and violence such as in the case of the 13 federal executions done between July 2020 and January 2021. Donald J. Trump resumed death penalty killings, which appears pretty racist as the executions skew heavily toward African American men, vis a vis African American males representation in the general population.
Reportedly five of the 13 executions were of Black men and one was of an American Indian. Together Blacks and Indians make up 15% of the U.S. population, while making up nearly half [46%] of the executions ordered by Trump. Also, one of the executions was of a woman, Lisa Montgomery, the first in 67 years [1953].
According the AP News, Trump broke with a 130 year tradition of suspending excecutions during the transition of power. Trump also executed more people during his Administration than any president in 120 years, and broke a 17 year tradition of no federal executions. The Washington Post states that Grover Cleveland was the last president to preside over double digit executions during his presidency, and also the last president to preside over executions during the transition of power.
The first photo under the above headline is of Donald Trump spewing his hatred out into the universe. It strikes me as not unlike what we saw in Nazi Germany in the 1930's as Hitler rose to power by using race and hatred to galvanize the masses, eventually leading to war and the collapse of Germany.
Mass media manipulation, via the Nazi 'Big Lie', is an essential ingredient to stealing control. The Nazi Big Lie is repeating something unbelievable so many times, that people will eventually believe it. This is not unlike Trump's 'Stop the Steal' big lie, which has been debunked by 60 lost court cases, a half of dozen unfavorable vote recounts in numerous different states including those presided over by Trump voting Republicans. And yet Trump's Big Lie has been continually repeated by so many Republicans - including in the leadership - such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Trump's Character is One of a Con Man Who Apparently is a Terrible Manager of Finances
I know some Trump supporters believe that the investigation of Donald Trump's involvement with Russia was a hoax. But quite honestly, there are a lot of Trump supporters who've been drinking way too much of Australian born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's Fox News propaganda cool aid, and have too long ignored the facts about 'the real' Donald Trump. This ignorance also plagued many of the people formerly conned by the Donald.
The 'real Donald Trump' is a first rate con man as lawsuits filed against Trump University, Trump Charities, Trump SoHo, and by contractors, lenders and investors would inform them. And years before the Donald ran for president, Trump was indicted for laundering cash [Russian Oligarch?] through his casinos and / or real estate. Recognizing these facts might help his supporters better understand who the man really is. For reasons I haven't yet fully fathomed, Trump supporters have vested near godlike faith in the Donald, not unlike how members of the Nazi party bestowed unequivoval faith in Adolph Hitler in the early 1930's and well past Hitler's death in 1945.
People resort to conning others because they're desperate. Either desperate in reacting to events like bankruptcies [Trump] or desperate because they can't accumulate enough money or power quickly enough [Giuliani / Murdoch].
The photo to your right was included in a May 22, 2017 CNN report about Trump's Taj Mahal's hundred(s) of money laundering violations.
Early on, People had Scant Idea of Who Hitler Really Was
Similarities between America 2020 & Germany Early 1930's
Therein [the con] lies the tale and the warning. In the early 1930's Hitler didn't publicly appear to be the man who would one day set the world afire and cause the deaths of an estimated 80 million people or about 5% of the world population, which included 20 million Russians who fell to the German wermacht [war machine], six million Jews who were systematically murdered in the Holocaust, and the 20 million Chinese who fell to the Japanese Imperialists, along with tens of millions of others.
Time Magazine did six covers featuring Adoph Hitler, which includes one for his death in 1945, but also one as Man of the Year in 1939 - on the dawn of his blitzkrieg of Europe [the Time Magazine cover to the right was first published in 1933].
As a child, and quite honestly up until about five to ten years ago, I had always wondered how Hitler was able to amass so much power without being challenged.
How to Accumulate Unshakeable Power?
Mass Deception via a Relentless Barrage of Bigger & Bigger 'Big Lies' & Recruitment of Talented Enablers Willing to Make the Faustian Bargain
The answer? It's all about manipulation and deceit of well meaning, as well as other people, who ignore all the signs along the way. Kind of like how ALMOST ALL LEADING REPUBLICANS are conducting themselves today. They're prioritizing themselves and their careers before their constituencies, before their country, and above doing the right thing.
I urge people to beware of ignoring the early signs of an amoral, narcissitic, maniac hellbent on serving himself regardless of the expense on all others. But attention also need be paid to the many enablers - like talented Nazi filmmaker Leni Refenstahl and munitions head, architect & rally theatrics stage organizer Albert Speer - both of whom helped make Nazi Germany possible, as they traded in all semblance of any morality, to enrich and empower themselves. They ignored the ugly truths they eventually told us they saw happening before their very own eyes - and ignored it - in furtherance of their own careers.
These two top Nazis were incarcerated for quite a while after the war, but spared execution by the American government officials who presided over the Nuremburg trials [my father was at Dachau as a Stars and Stripes very cub reporter]. As such, they lived to tell us their tales, which I have found useful in trying to understand what happened back then, which helps me understand what is happening now. Remember,
"... those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it ..."
And Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish statesman, political philosopher and contemporary of the Founding Fathers, who lived in the 1700's warned us.
" ... All it takes for evil to succeed, is for enough good [wo]men to do nothing ... "
That statement is no less true back during the American Revolution than it is today.
In the photo above right, you can see that one need not pay attention to Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's words, but rather his actions. He chastised Trump shortly after the Capitol Riot, where QAnon followers, among others, stormed the Capitol in an effort to disrupt our democracy. But within less than a month after the riot, McCarthy flew to Mara Lago to kiss Trump's ... ring, apparently motivated by his desire to further his own career and one day become Republican House Majority Leader. And McCarthy also reluctantly and only lightly reined in QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Greene, who has made some unbelievable comments for anyone holding House office. On Monday, Greene said she would be visiting Donald Trump soon.
The graphic above right shows all the incredible ties between Trump and Putin's Russia during the 2016 campaign assembled by NY Magazine for a July 2018 story.
Editor's Note to the Mainstream Media - he is FORMER president Trump - not president Trump. You would think after all we've been through, you would get that right, but I've seen numerous instances by the highly paid corporate broadcasters, where they got that wrong.
Stay tuned as we'll have more on this over the next couple of weeks.
