“Who’s the Puppet?”

“Who’s the Puppet?”

The Trump/Epstein story reported in Thursday’s Washington Post is sleazy and would be a great episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and [In]famous. However, the most significant part of this report is buried near the end:

“Four years after [Trump outbid Epstein for] the Gorman mansion, Trump sold it to Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million, more than doubling his investment.”  

Now let’s connect some dots. A December 2017 Dallas Morning News
article on the Bank of Cyprus reported that Rybolovlev is part owner of the Bank (which was run by Wilbur Ross before Ross became Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, and is the center of much Trump-related corruption), and included this information:

“Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia's 'Fertilizer King,' owns a 3.3 percent stake in the bank. Rybolovlev purchased Trump's mega mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million, which allowed Trump to more than double his $41 million investment in the property in four years. The timing of the purchase was essentially a Trump rescue package Trump was suing Deutsche Bank, his one remaining creditor, to try to avoid repaying a $40 million real estate loan. He lost.”

There is no such thing as a mega-rich Russian businessman who is not part of the Putin Machine. The Putin Machine bailed out Trump in 2009.

 “Who’s the puppet?”  Indeed.