Book of the Month
Glen Alleman MSSM
Applying Systems Engineering Principles, Processes & Practices to Increase Probability of Program Success for Complex System of Systems, in Aerospace & Defense, Enterprise IT, and Process and Safety Industries
For all the allegations contained in the “Steele dossier,” the urtext of President Trump’s possible ties to Russia, one has long stood out as the most compromising, because it would be evidence of a political and business relationship between Trump and Russia that predated his campaign for the White House.
However much Donald Trump rails against the “witch hunt” over his ties to Russia, he must secretly revel in the number of trees being felled to cover a presidential term not yet at its halfway point.
The author's argument is that Trump had been targeted by the Russian mafia, possibly acting together with political structures, for three decades. Much of the book alternates between the backstories of Trump and Vladimir Putin , like narrative strands in a novel destined to meet in the denouement. In one half, we have Trump swimming in dirty money as he runs his early business empire; in the other, a portrait of mafia don Semion Mogilevich, plus a recap of Putin’s rise to power.
The precise nature and location of that “intelligence exchange” have never been fully explained. But journalist Craig Unger thinks he may have found it, running out of the offices of Bayrock Group. This real estate development company operated in Trump Tower in Manhattan in the early 2000s and partnered with the Trump Organization.
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3 周LOL Why are "academics" so uncurious about the well documented activities of the current White House family (aliases, offshore accounts, etc. ) well documented in a Congressional report) but get all jelly kneed about a junk book (Redux Clinton Steele Dossier) proven to be complete fiction. Even the Guardian says "As far as can be made from the book, Unger did not travel to?Russia?himself, nor did he carry out more than a handful of his own interviews. As a former Moscow correspondent, most of the information, sources and colourful nuggets made familiar reading. There were also a few minor but grating errors when it came to Moscow geography and chronology. I’m much less acquainted with the US milieu than with the Russia side of the narrative,........but almost every time I followed a footnote to check the source of a particularly pleasing factoid or anecdote, I found a link to an old newspaper or magazine story rather than information the author had dug out via interviews or his own sleuthing. The meeting of the two narrative strands, when it came after many drumrolls, was largely unsatisfying. Unger does little to add to our knowledge"