House of Trump, House of Putin Quotes

“According to research conducted jointly by experts from the University of California at Berkeley and Swansea University in Wales, no fewer than 150,000 Twitter accounts linked to Russia began to tweet inflammatory and divisive messages about Brexit, Muslims, and immigrants”
― Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

“But in the end, Mogilevich eluded their grasp and settled in Moscow. The FBI closed down the Budapest outpost from which it had tracked Mogilevich. Meanwhile, the foreboding assortment of murderous gangsters and tattooed thugs known as the Russian Mafia had climbed the ladder of white-collar respectability, insinuated itself in multibillion-dollar global corporations, and taken on the protective coloring provided by K Street lobbyists and white-shoe law firms. They were now hard-wired into some of the most powerful Republican politicians in the country.”
― Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

“For Donald Trump, the fact that the entire city was on the verge of bankruptcy was good news indeed, because prices could not go much lower.”
― Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

“Dear friends, respected colleagues!” Nikonov said. “Three minutes ago Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America and I congratulate you on this.”1 Even though Nikonov did not add what many in the Kremlin already knew, his brief statement was greeted by enthusiastic applause. Donald J. Trump had just become Vladimir Putin’s man in the White House.”
― Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

“As to the impact of all the “active measures” undertaken by Russia leading up to the 2016 election, it is difficult to quantify exactly how much they changed the outcome of the presidential race. However, according to the study by the University of California at Berkeley and Swansea University in Wales, automated tweeting alone by thousands of bots added 3.23 percentage points to Trump’s vote in the US presidential race.77”
― Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

“It wasn’t enough that William S. Sessions had taken on Mogilevich, the most feared mobster in the world, as a client. Sessions’s successor as FBI director, Louis Freeh, was also working for the Russians.”
― Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

“Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to Senate races, but, according to the Dallas Morning News, during the 2015–16 election season, Ukrainian-born oligarch Leonard “Len” Blavatnik, who has British-American dual citizenship, put a small fraction of his $ 20 billion fortune into GOP Senate races. McConnell, who took $ 2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund from two of Blavatnik’s companies, was the leading recipient. Others included political action committees for Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Lindsey Graham, Ohio governor John Kasich, and Arizona senator John McCain.”
― Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

“Similarly, in 2014, former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-MS) and former senator John Breaux (D-LA) became the main lobbyists for Gazprombank, a subsidiary of Russia’s largest supplier of natural gas. More recently, in 2016, millions of dollars in Russian money was funneled to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell3 and other high-profile Republicans to finance GOP senatorial candidates.”
― Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia