It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first splash in the money-drenched world of New York real estate, and ends with Trump's inauguration as president of the United States. That moment was the culmination of Russia's mission to undermine Western democracy, a mission that began more than thirty years ago, when the Russian Mafia first targeted Trump properties to launder money, and led to oligarchs and Mafia kingpins rescuing Trump from a string of bankruptcies.
This book confirms the most incredible American paranoias about Russian malevolence. To most, it will be a hair-raising revelation that the Cold War did not end in 1991-that it merely evolved, with Trump's apartments offering the perfect vehicle for billions of dollars to leave the collapsing Soviet Union.