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Did the FBI’s Charles McGonigal Help Throw the 2016 Election to Trump? - Craig Unger / February 1, 2023

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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 ...

FBI and Trump News Review at 10 a.m. [Inoreader digest]

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