This is one of the best non-fiction books to be released in the United States in the last several years. It was published in 2018 and should be read by every voter in America before the November 5, 2024, election. I have given it a prominent place in my list of several such books which every American should read even if it takes you several months to complete that list. But right now I'm going to make it easy on most of you to come to understand just how important this book by Timothy Snyder is with regard to the upcoming US election by discussing and copying one page from the book, page 220. Snyder has discussed this page in his feed on X, or Twitter, or whatever Elon Musk, TRAITOR Trump's latest version of Hitler's co-conspirator Joseph Goebbels is calling that website now. So, let's look at page 220 from the book and then discuss it.
"From an American point of view, Trump Tower is a garish building on Fifth Avenue in New York City. From a Russian point of view, Trump Tower is an inviting site for international crime. Russian gangsters began to launder money by buying and selling apartment units in Trump Tower in 1984. Beginning in 1986, Trump was courted and flattered by Russian diplomats, who suggested to him that he had a future as a mogul in Moscow. In 1987, the Soviet state paid for Trump and his then-wife Ivana to visit Moscow and stay in the Lenin Suite of the National Hotel. This room was certainly bugged and monitored; the normal KGB procedure was to collect compromising material on figures who might later become important. Interestingly, it was only after his return that Trump began to speak of running for president, and to place advertisements advocating U. S. isolationism. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian mob extended its reach in New York. The most notorious Russian hit man, long sought by the FBI, resided in Trump Tower. Russians were arrested for running a gambling ring from the apartment beneath Trump's own. In Trump World Tower, constructed between 1999 and 2001 on the east side of Manhattan near the United Nations, a third of the luxury units were bought by people or entities from the Soviet Union. A man investigated by the Treasury Department for money laundering lived in Trump World Tower directly beneath Kellyanne Conway, who would become the press spokesman for the Trump campaign. Seven hundred units of Trump properties in South Florida were purchased by shell companies. Two men associated with those shell companies were convicted of running a gambling and (money) laundering scheme from Trump Tower. Perhaps Trump was entirely unaware of what was happening on his properties. By the late 1990's, Trump was considered to be uncreditworthy and bankrupt. He owed about four billion dollars to more than seventy banks, of which some $800 million dollars was personally guaranteed. He never showed any inclination or capacity to pay back this after this debt. After his 2004 bankruptcy, no American bank would lend him money. The only bank that did so was Deutsche Bank, whose colorful history of scandal belied its staid name. Interestingly, Deutsche Bank also laundered about $10billion for Russian clients between 2011 and 2015. Interestingly, Trump declined to pay back his debts to Deutsche Bank." ("The Road To Unfreedom" by Timothy Snyder, pages 220-221.)
That is some might interesting writing from the best historian and political history writer in America today. Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University in an endowed chair and still manages to research and write at least one book a year every year. Every word in every one of his books has been impeccably and irrefutably researched and verified. His reputation, both as a professor and an author, is impeccable and unimpeachable. If he writes and publishes it, he can prove it.
So what does that have to tell you about TRAITOR Trump? First and foremost, it tells you that he is in far too deep with Russia and Putin. In light of the fact that TRAITOR Trump is facing multiple federal felonies over having stolen a truck load of classified documents from the government, and having made at least seven telephone calls to Vladimir Putin over the last 4 years, it tells you that everyone of those telephone calls is a violation of the Logan Act. It also tells you that there is a very high degree of probability that everyone of those telephone calls also involved violations of the Espionage Act. It tells you that TRAITOR Trump is a TRAITOR, no doubt, not even a little.
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