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Doing business with Trump allowed the Russian Mafia to... to assault America’s most essential democratic institutions...

— Craig Unger House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

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Lazar and Leviev ...promised Putin that they would... "open doors to the corridors of power in Washington.

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Firtash’s “success was built on remarkable sweetheart deals brokered by associates of... Vladimir Putin, at immense cost to Russian taxpayers."

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Yeltsin... would... describe Russia as "the biggest mafia state in the world."

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Trump appears to have taken advantage of... weak regulations to sell en masse to the Russians.

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According to James Henry... $1.3 trillion in illicit capital has poured out of Russia since the 1990s.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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