An extraordinary combination of evidence that Epstein operated a Russian honeytrap and it directed Trump as a Russian asset

US capitalism has been extremely effectively exploited by the Russian deep state to a level that the whole Republican party is covering it up legally and commercially. The evidence is so overwhelming, it is full of admissions of so many people involved.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-russia-2675069424/
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    If you ever watch the 1980s film Red Dawn, the US was absolutely convinced that a military attack by Russia would be way it attempted to take over.

    Instead, relegated to virtual backwater status, Russia managed nonetheless to subordinate the entire US establishment through honeytraps and greed

    Would have made for a very different Red Dawn film, if only anyone had the imagination to see it coming

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    At this point the question is how much conservative America and the supreme court of the US are subordinate to the Kremlin. The MAGA base is clearly controlled through the commercial socials, who are financially dependent on disinformation. But how much of the declining fossil and arms industries are helpless without Russian money?

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    @nepravda
    "“Epstein even seems to have secured audiences with Putin after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.”
    Essentially, they’re arguing that Epstein was running an operation on behalf of the KGB/Putin that lured wealthy and powerful men to Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach mansions and his island where they were surreptitiously filmed having sex with underage girls.

    That material was then presumably passed along to Putin, who used it for leverage when he needed it"

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      @nepravda "In return for giving Putin videos of wealthy, famous men in criminally compromising positions, Putin reportedly arranged for massive amounts of corrupt Russian money to be handed to Epstein to launder in the US.

      America has the most lax and largely useless real estate transaction laws in the developed world, so a main way to launder such dirty cash is through cash-based real estate transactions (which are illegal in almost every other developed country)."

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        @nepravda "As Don Jr. told wealthy attendees to a 2008 real-estate conference:
        “In terms of high-end product influx into the U.S., Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”

        Eric Trump told a friend, who later testified about it:
        “‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs.’”"

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          @nepravda "Epstein, of course, died under deeply suspicious circumstances in jail while Trump was president (and now Epstein’s partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved to a country club type of facility where she reportedly spends the days training puppies). As Republican consultant Harlan Hill noted on Twitter at the time of Epstein’s supposed suicide:

          “Dead men tell no tales. Just as Jeffrey Epstein starts to name names, he decides to kill himself? Mkay. Totally believable.”"

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            @nepravda "The manager of his 2016 campaign, Paul Manafort — who was previously paid tens of millions by Vladimir Putin’s people to install a pro-Putin puppet as Ukraine’s president in 2010 — has admitted that he was regularly feeding secret inside-campaign strategy and polling information to Russian intelligence via the oligarch who typically paid him on their behalf.

            Throughout the campaign, he regularly let Russia know where Trump needed specific types of help, and how, and when."

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              @nepravda "Trump pardoned Manafort, which got him out of prison. He’s still fabulously rich from his work for Russia and his unpaid efforts to elect Trump.

              As The New York Times noted in 2020:

              “[I]nvestigators found enough there to declare that Mr. Manafort created ‘a grave counterintelligence threat’ by sharing inside information about the presidential race with Mr. Kilimnik and the Russian and [pro-Russian] Ukrainian oligarchs whom he served.”"

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                @nepravda "There is no known parallel to this behavior by any president in US history and criminally bringing stolen top secret documents to Mar-a-Lago is just the tip of the iceberg.

                The WP reported that Trump had a habit of carrying top-secret information that could severely damage our national security, leaving it in hotel rooms in hostile nations.

                Was he bringing these documents with him to sell?.. Or because Putin told him to?"

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                  @nepravda "When Robert Mueller’s team tried to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia and they were stonewalled.

                  The Mueller Report identified ten specific instances of Trump trying to obstruct the investigation, including offering the bribe of a pardon to Paul Manafort, asking FBI Director Comey to “go easy” on General Flynn after Flynn’s dinner with Putin, and directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to limit Mueller’s ability to investigate Trump’s connections to Russia."

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      @jbiserkov @nepravda I don’t see any contradiction in him being at-least a double agent. After all, apparently he was the type of asset that only exposed high profile people, but was not provided intelligence information from the services themselves. 1/3

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        @jbiserkov @nepravda The USSR had very long traditions of sexual honey traps. There are several high profile Russian women currently on trial for government-sponsored prostitution in the US. For the historical account, see “mozhno girls”

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          @jbiserkov @nepravda As for the point you’re making, Russia has much larger capacity to finance his operations, and - as documented in this same article - it did.

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