Author reveals how Donald Trump chased after "Russian criminal money" to build Trump Tower

[Miles Archer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/author-reveals-donald-trump-chased-russian-criminal-money-build-trump-tower/

Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena, author of the new book Trump/Russia: A Definitive History, explained President Donald Trump’s decades-long ties to the Russian Mob during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC

“A new book on the Russia investigation explores whether President Trump is either hiding something when it comes to the Kremlin or was duped by Soviet state craft,” anchor Alex Witt noted.

“You have relationships with Russia — between Trump and people around him — that go back decades,” Hettena noted. “When we look at that, what we see is this isn’t a new development here, that these are relationships that go back to the 1980s even.”

“It’s about money, but it’s about Russian criminal money, specifically,” Hettena clarified. “What happened, is in the 80s there was a group of Russian criminals here in New York that were running a really lucrative gas tax scam, they had so much money they didn’t know what to do with it.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/author-reveals-donald-trump-chased-russian-criminal-money-build-trump-tower/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Why am I NOT surprised?

Anyone with even half a brain gets this.

He wants his name spread all over everything, and he doesn't care whose money he gets to do it.

[oasis]

2. In a slightly bigger deal, Trump sold American democracy to Russia. nt

[infullview]

3. My God! His hands really are that small!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. They are small, but the optics & perspective exaggerates it.

The photograph has been made with a wide angle lens, as can be determined by the clues in the geometry of the photo.

That means the camera is very close to his head and his hand is more than twice as far away. The brain compensates automatically for some of that, but not completely, so his hands seem even smaller than they are.

To regain the true perspective, make the photo large on your screen and look at it from a close distance: about half the distance of the width of the photo. Then holding your head at that distance, look around the photo by moving your eye. It will have a more natural perspective.

[calimary]

5. Like the seasoned investigators all agree:

Follow the money.