S8 Ep677: 16. HEADLINE: Alleged Long-Term Financial Ties Between Trump and Russian Intelligence GUEST: Craig Unger SUMMARY: Craig Unger discusses alleged ties between Donald Trump and Russian intelligence dating back to the 1980s. He claims the Russian mafia u
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batch with Craig Onger, my colleague American Compromat and House of Trump, House of Putin. |
| 0:22.0 | Craig has introduced us to three events that happened on October 7, 2016. |
| 0:27.3 | The first one is the DHS releases information that confirms that there is a, there is relationship, |
| 0:35.8 | collusion, cooperation between the Russian state and the |
| 0:40.6 | Trump campaign. The second is the Access Hollywood tape. That's all I remember. Mr. Trump |
| 0:46.5 | boasting about how he groped women, he didn't know anybody. And then the third is the WikiLeaks |
| 0:53.7 | release of emails from, that were the product of hacking |
| 0:58.5 | of the Clinton campaign. Now, those three things happen October 7th, but why Russia, why Trump, |
| 1:06.2 | a property developer that no one could have ever imagined would be president of the United States. |
| 1:12.2 | It begins in the 1980s. Quickly, Craig, what happened? What was the first contact between Mr. Trump |
| 1:17.9 | and the Soviet Union? The very first contact was in 1980. Trump had developed his first |
| 1:25.7 | really successful hotel, the Hyatt Grand Central, right near Grand Central Station, and he needed to buy TV sets. And it turned out he was getting a really terrific deal on cheap TV sets for the hotel rooms there, hundreds of them, not from a major vendor like Samsung or Sony that you might expect, |
| 1:47.5 | but from a very small outfit that turned out to be a front for the KGB. |
| 1:54.0 | And that was the first thing that hooked Donald Trump. |
| 1:57.8 | From there, it went on to money laundering. The Russian mafia was laundering money, |
| 2:04.5 | millions and millions of dollars, over a billion in total, through Trump real estate. |
| 2:09.8 | They would use their ill-gotten gains to buy these multi-million dollar condos, and boom, |
| 2:17.1 | their money was laundered. |
| 2:21.1 | So what I read today is that there is a Chinese national who's been buying flats, |
| 2:27.0 | what they call flats or apartments. In London, some incredible amount of money, $11 million |
| 2:33.1 | or something in two days buying seven or eight of them. And in London, some incredible amount of money, $11 million or something in two days, buying seven or |
| 2:35.8 | eight of them. And in London, they call it McMafia Order, what he's doing. And there's a pursuit |
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