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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsimportant twitter expose' of the larger picture: Soviet MOB now includes Trump
Link to tweet
Here's the first fifteen of the posts in that thread:
Greg Olear
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4h4 hours ago
1/ The mob developed in Sicily & Naples in the mid-1800s because the actual government was too weak to perform basic oversight duties. In the absence of regulations of any kind, folks turned to organized bands of thieves to settle disputes, offer protection, and mete out justice.
13 replies 136 retweets 479 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
2/ So right off the bat, the conservative notion of "government being the problem" is both idiotic and historically wrong. We NEED governance. It can either be done by elected officials or by hoodlums. But it's a necessity.
MOB GROWS WHERE GOVERNMENT ISNT.
17 replies 220 retweets 768 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
3/ The quaint Italian mob depicted in GoodFellas, The Sopranos, and the Godfather films is NOT the mob of today. These outfits were absorbed by the Russian Vor in the 1990s, after the breakup of the Soviet Union. (I say Russian, but this is shorthand for former Soviet bloc).
5 replies 123 retweets 500 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
4/ The head of the Russian mob today is Semion Mogilevich, aka The Brainy Don. He is Ukrainian by birth, Jewish enough to have acquired an Israeli passport, and currently a Russian national, living in Moscow.
He is the capo di tutti capi of the Vor. He is THE bad guy.
6 replies 184 retweets 547 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
5/ Don Corleone is to Semion Mogilevich as Roy Raymond is to Leslie Wexner, or as McDonald the hamburger stand guy is to Ray Croc.
Mogilevich took the mob big time.
The Russian mob is more like SPECTRE than like GoodFellas.
4 replies 115 retweets 446 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
6/ Putin is the public face of the operation. He lends an air of legitimacy to the operation, as he is nominally a head of state. But he is also a mobster. He and Mogilevich work like hand in glove.
Russia is a mafiya state, governed by mob ruleslike Sicily in 1860.
5 replies 192 retweets 561 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
7/ If you want to find the common link in every villain of the Trump/Russia universe, its this: MOB.
Whether this means the Russian state or the Vor, its all the same thing.
Its all MOB.
8 replies 155 retweets 550 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
8/ Obvious example: Michael Cohen and Felix Sater, childhood friends with long ties to the Russian mob.
Sater especially is a charming guy. Doesnt erase who he is or where he came from.
8 replies 102 retweets 434 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
9/ Less obvious example: in the 1980s, Mogilevich had a business partner named Robert Maxwella wealthy media magnate. Born in Czechoslovakia, Maxwell was a British national & an alleged Mossad agent (codename: Little Czech).
7 replies 94 retweets 390 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
10/ Maxwell died in 1991 when he fell off his yacht. He was in quite a bit of legal & financial trouble at the time. His body was buried in state in Jerusalem, without an autopsy, so we dont know if he was killed, killed himself, or just fell off the boat.
5 replies 83 retweets 383 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
11/ Robert Maxwell had a daughter named Ghislaine. Her longtime boyfriend waswait for itJeffrey Epstein.
This means that Epstein had a long & intimate relationship with the daughter of a business partner of Semion Mogilevich.
So: MOB.
16 replies 227 retweets 600 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
12/ American politicians who are in deep with Russian IC agents? Thats a different side of the same mob coin. But its still MOB.
7 replies 168 retweets 481 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
13/ Anyone who had extensive dealings with these three Russian spies is also implicated:
3 replies 143 retweets 413 likes
Greg Olear
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3h3 hours ago
14/ The Russian mob trades in the heinous & the horrible. Human trafficking is a big operation for them. Opioids, too. Nuclear and chemical weapons. Blood diamonds. They will do ANYTHING for money.
And they have SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY that it requires armies to launder it all.
13 replies 171 retweets 494 likes
Greg Olear
?Verified account @gregolear
3h3 hours ago
15/ Thats who Trump is. Hes a money launderer, one of countless mob money launderers the world over. He has been laundering mob money for decades.
Thus, the mob pwns him. Hence these sit-downs with Putin with no one on our side taking notes.
9 replies 261 retweets 665 likes
crazylikafox
(2,806 posts)MelissaB
(16,520 posts)I'm so glad to see it posted here on DU. Thanks!
airmid
(505 posts)but it was well worth it.
Grasswire2
(13,643 posts)malaise
(275,356 posts)Holy Shit
Karadeniz
(23,112 posts)Wasn't this the Epstein whose parties, loaded with teenage girls and drugs, trump used to attend? I've got the details scrambled up now...the depositions are on the internet...but one teenager, after a couple of futile attempts, got a good lawyer and sued trump for a death at a party that she said occurred due to trumps brutality. The day her lawyer had a presser set, the girl canceled because she said she'd received such terrifying threats, she feared for her life. Reminds me of trump tactics.
OMGWTF
(4,321 posts)Here's her interview; it's hard to watch. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=donald+trump+raped+at+13+year+old+girl&view=detail&mid=43985DDED5D976D1F42143985DDED5D976D1F421&FORM=VIRE
Grasswire2
(13,643 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,412 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,784 posts)And, their tentacles are spread a lot farther than most people realize.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,692 posts)Whenever anyone starts to complain about Mueller taking so long, THIS is what needs to be understood. Taking out Trump alone would still leave this vast network unscathed, and it will just happen again with a different, and maybe smarter, puppet (asset). Trump needs to go, but that could be accomplished with or without Mueller. SDNY could do it, and those would not be pardonable crimes. Congress could get it's shit together and impeach him (if it weren't for all the Russian-owned Republicans). Mueller needs to complete THIS. The future of not only our country, but the planet, depends on ripping these fuckers apart, and that's what Mueller is good at doing. Whenever I feel myself growing impatient, I remind myself to look at the big picture.
KT2000
(20,741 posts)from the time the sale of the house in Fl that he bought for $9 mil and sold for $45 mil to a Russian.
I wish the conclusion could be speeded up before he totally destroys this country and hands it over to the Russian mob. If a lot of our millionaires were guaranteed their slice of the pie, make no mistake, they would go along with it. Russian oligarchy, American oligarchy.
world wide wally
(21,783 posts)Trump didn't earn money using his brain or through hard work.
Lulu KC
(3,039 posts)PatSeg
(49,535 posts)Excellent summary, thanks for posting.
cannabis_flower
(3,811 posts)looking back, he predicted Roger Stone would be indicted in Nov 2018.