Did the FBI’s Charles McGonigal Help Throw the 2016 Election to Trump? - Craig Unger / February 1, 2023
Did the FBI’s Charles McGonigal Help Throw the 2016 Election to Trump? Craig Unger / February 1, 2023 posted at 14:30:40 UTC via newrepublic.com In the course of writing two books on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, the same question occurred to me again and again: How is it possible that I knew all sorts of stuff about Donald Trump, and the FBI didn’t seem to have a clue? Or if they did, why weren’t they doing anything with it? Specifically, I knew that: Starting in 1980, an alleged “spotter agent” for the KGB began cultivating Trump as a new asset for Soviet intelligence. The Russian mafia laundered millions of dollars through Donald Trump’s real estate by purchasing condos in all-cash transactions through anonymous corporations that did not disclose real ownership. Trump Tower was a home away from home for Vyacheslav Ivankov, one of the most brutal leaders of the Russian mafia, and at least 13 people with known ...
