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Showing Original Post only (View all)important twitter expose' of the larger picture: Soviet MOB now includes Trump [View all]
Link to tweet
Here's the first fifteen of the posts in that thread:
Greg Olear
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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
?Verified account @gregolear
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.
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important twitter expose' of the larger picture: Soviet MOB now includes Trump [View all]
Grasswire2
Feb 2019
OP
This is a great thread and worth the click to read on twitter for the linked messages.
MelissaB
Feb 2019
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