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“The story Unger weaves with those earlier accounts and his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.”—The?Washington Post
House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House
This is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first splash in the booming, money-drenched world of New York real estate, and ends with Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States. That moment was the culmination of Vladimir Putin’s long mission to undermine Western democracy, a mission that he and his hand-selected group of oligarchs and Mafia kingpins had ensnared Trump in, starting more than twenty years ago with the massive bailout of a string of sensational Trump hotel and casino failures in Atlantic City. This book confirms the most incredible American paranoias about Russian malevolence.
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To most, it will be a hair-raising revelation that the Cold War did not end in 1991—that it merely evolved, with Trump’s apartments offering the perfect vehicle for billions of dollars to leave the collapsing Soviet Union. In House of Trump, House of Putin, Craig Unger methodically traces the deep-rooted alliance between the highest echelons of American political operatives and the biggest players in the frightening underworld of the Russian Mafia. He traces Donald Trump’s sordid ascent from foundering real estate tycoon to leader of the free world. He traces Russia’s phoenix-like rise from the ashes of the post–Cold War Soviet Union as well as its ceaseless covert efforts to retaliate against the West and reclaim its status as a global superpower.
Without Trump, Russia would have lacked a key component in its attempts to return to imperial greatness. Without Russia, Trump would not be president. This essential book is crucial to understanding the real powers at play in the shadows of today’s world. The appearance of key figures in this book—Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, and Felix Sater to name a few—ring with haunting significance in the wake of Robert Mueller’s report and as others continue to close in on the truth.
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6 个月When the Soviet Union collapsed, it was crucial to save stolen money. Big money. Huge money. It wasn’t an easy task. Two structures were able to help: KGB and Mafia. KGB already had channels to move money out of the country, and the ideal way to do this was to hide it in infrastructure investments. ExKGB agent (Putin) joined Tambovskaya Bratva (a large mafia gang in Saint Petersburg). So he was an ideal candidate to take control of the country - the control he never gave back. They have found Trump who was ready to cooperate. It sounds unbelievable, but ‘House of Putin’ can blackmail the US president :( So they have done what they can to bring him to power before and help now. The book “Putin's People” contains many interesting details about that time.
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6 个月Should I wear tin foil while reading this? Change one totally debunked Russia collusion myth with another...sad, sad people. Craig Unger never met a Republican he liked. (I hear he even checks under his bed to make sure they are not there before he goes to sleep. Come on people we are smarter than this.....really.