Trump's 1987 NYT advertisement re: Japan

[bucolic_frolic]

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Craig Unger
@craigunger
Yes, it was an active measure—and, as I show in American Kompromat, evidence that Trump was an intelligence assrt for the KGB.

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Scott Filipski @scottfilipski · 4h
On Sept 2 1987 Donald Trump published a full page ad in The NY Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe attacking the US-Japan alliance. Was this a Soviet active measure ? Former KGB officer Yuri Shvets claims that it was. My latest for @japan_indepth ( in Japanese ) @craigunger twitter.com/japan_indepth/…
11:00 AM · Jun 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

[dalton99a]

1. Followed by his Central Park Five ad to start his racist campaign against America

[Renew Deal]

2. The US government would have known if Trump was compromised.

I think the 2007-12 attacks by Trump on Obama were also on behalf of his Russian masters.

[msfiddlestix]

6. I just posted below questions along that line.

this just gets weirder and weirder.

[Goonch]

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/27/the-100-plus-times-donald-trump-has-assure

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=

[msfiddlestix]

4. So then, why didn't the intel agencies sound off on him at the time?

And most especially, why didn't they go warn off NBC execs wrt to what he was about before signing him on to Apprentice?

And on and on and on...

where the hell was our intelligence svcs then? surely they weren't compromised too?

[Renew Deal]

7. I don't think they thought he was a big enough fish.

Also, his actions in the 80's weren't really consequential

[msfiddlestix]

9. that's when he was solidifying his connections with Organized Russian Mobsters

money laundering and all manner of criminal financial dealings. I'll never get why that was allowed to go on unfettered.

[Renew Deal]

16. It was probably something perverse like they wanted to keep the intelligence coming.

[msfiddlestix]

20. 0no doubt, and I agree.

It feels like we've been informed of so much dating back to the time that should have landed his ass in the middle of a RICO prosecution and conviction times the power of 10.

Yet here he remains free as an effing bird, involved in plans for a different angle on staging a coup, in plain sight.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Yes, that is the question, why did they permit this to happen?

Several possible answers, probably.

Once the Cold War was over they figured no more worries. Budget cutbacks support that idea.

Ongoing operation to cast a wide net on espionage leaks? There was Venona Project, so it's been done before.

Enemies of America include dictators, former near dictators, the business community, and capitalists. All prefer a weak US. Capitalists and spies share certain objectives - protection of assets, perhaps even money. Many international businessmen, now known as oligarchs, of course, invested in Germany in the 1930s in hopes of making money. So some of the guys protecting us are possibly also trying to make a buck off it. Some of them may be high office holders with connections in Moscow.

Others feel free to add their own ideas. Shameful that we know so little.

[msfiddlestix]

21. Yep, this pretty much sums it up in a nutshell.

Books have been written detailing parts of the story, but at some point the high stakes espionage and corruption regarding intelligence services role has to be spelled out and dealt with.

[barbtries]

5. that actually makes sense.

i had no idea.

Trump is a traitor. Time to prosecute.

[JI7]

8. There was a lot of bigotry against Japan at the time

With People claiming they were going to take over the country and other shit becsuse of their achievements.

So it could just be him playing on that same bigotry .

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Yes!, I recall auto workers smashing Toyotas around 1980, calling the cars "rice burners"

So anti-science and tech was always a vein of American discontent.

[SergeStorms]

12. And, horror of horrors....

they started buying up a lot of U.S. golf courses, including one of the crown jewels of American golf, Pebble Beach golf club in California. Golf courses and Donald Trump. Let's see........no connection there, right?

[bucolic_frolic]

14. wow, very true, they were real estate competitors in much of Manhattan too

and ultimately the Japanese lost hundreds of millions on US real estate

[Bristlecone]

15. I lived in Hawaii at the time

And much resentment was present there due to homes being purchased door to door. Basically Japanese business men writing checks for properties. It drove up housing and locals were very angry about it.

[monkeyman1]

18. i remember that bs . union's gave ya hell if had a jap car !! TFG ran his ass lip's a lot !

[jaxexpat]

13. Ah, the good old days. When Trump was merely a loud mouthed patsy rehearsing for a bigger gig.

But then, big oak trees, from little acorns.......so they say. Could be it's the same for reprehensibility.

[world wide wally]

17. The dumbing down of America

Before 2015, we were always smart enough to avoid Trump for starters.

[monkeyman1]

19. it's like cancer , get rid of it !! he's gone & can't do shit but run his gum's. irrelevant!

[LessAspin]

22. Q & R

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