Married to the Mob

Investigative journalist Craig Unger, who has dug deep into various Presidents in the past, has a new book out this week. This time, he's turned his sights on Donald Trump (details here).

The title is "House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia."

Some excerpts of interest from two very different publications that reviewed the book, the Washington Poar (link here) and the very conservative Spectator (link here).

From the Post:

"There is abundant evidence in Unger’s book that Trump made his business infrastructure — his condos, his developments, his very name — available to criminals and oligarchs trying to hide their ill-gotten gains, whether from tax collectors, investigators or the president of Russia. And that’s a form of collusion, too."

"Unger sees the Kremlin’s intervention in the 2016 presidential election, which U.S. intelligence officials have said was ordered by Putin himself, as the latest manipulation of Trump by Russia, and the most consequential."

Brutal. And now from the Spectator:

The book "is damning in its accumulation of detail, terrifying in its depiction of the pure evil of those Trump chose to do business with, and enraging in that — if Unger is right — Trump acted with impunity for decades to get filthy rich laundering the mob’s blood money. This is the man who now sits in the Oval Office, Unger says. In fact, he argues, they put him there."

Wow. I can't wait to read this book. When I do, I'll share my thoughts here.