Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy

by Seth Abramson

In 2016 and 2017—both before Donald Trump is elected president and after—anti-money-laundering specialists at his longtime bank, Germany’s Deutsche Bank, “recommend[] that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be reported to a federal financial-crimes watchdog.”1 According to a May 2019 investigative report in the New York Times, the transactions by Trump and Kushner “set off alerts in a computer system designed to detect illicit activity” and result in the internal production at Deutsche Bank of “suspicious activity reports” that the bank’s money-laundering experts believe need to be sent to the U.S. Treasury Department immediately.