Post by ekauqodielak on Nov 15, 2020 1:46:57 GMT -5
www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2020/7/23/american-gestapo
During the Cold War, Soviet and Soviet-adjacent intelligence services routinely created dossiers on Westerners and used this information to manipulate individuals and influence world affairs. US intelligence agencies employed similar tactics, though they deployed them in the USSR in a less aggressive, and arguably, less effective way. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, states that remained authoritarian, including Russia, gave their security services new names while employing the same brutal practices, while states that embraced democracy like the Czech Republic began reforms. Surveillance is to be expected. Kompromat is not unique. What is not typical, however, is for documents to claim that, beginning in 1977, Trump would remain completely tax exempt for the next 30 years, thanks to a mysterious arrangement between his company and the American government that he was contractually bound to have three children with Ivana, which he did, and that he was being groomed to run for president in 1988, which he nearly did.
Despite repeated demands from officials, Trump has still not released his taxes to the American public. The head of the IRS has not complied with congressional requests. No member of the US government has commented on the CSSR files, despite the perplexing nature of the claims inside them. The only journalist who did a followup on the files’ existence was British reporter, Luke Harding. Harding tracked down Czech officials who affirmed that the files were real and told him “it wasn't only us who paid attention to him.” The first department of the STB–the Czech Security Services–were interested in him. “I don't know if the first directorate shared information on Trump with the KGB. I can't verify or deny.” The question of whether Trump, in 1977, at the height of his tutelage under tax-dodger, Cohn struck up some incredible agreement where he would pay no taxes to the United States until 2007 is not just unanswered, but unexamined.
The answers could be found. The IRS should know. Given the number of times Trump business dealings have fallen under investigation by federal agencies, including the Department of Justice and the Treasury, other government agencies may know too, but the American people do not. The question of why we do not know remains as enormous, and is disconcerting, as the information in the Czech files themselves. The late 1970s ushered in an era in which the rich paid less and less to the government, and the poor worked and suffered more. Trump was introduced into the corrupt world he now inhabits and developed the tactics he now employs to evade consequences. Just as the world itself was changing to reward white collar criminals like himself. In the 1980s, he became symbolic of this era and its rapacious greed.
But the extent to which he showcases wealth as raw power is distressingly literal. He was not merely an outcome of the economic restructuring ushered in by Reagan's union busting and trickle-down economics, and he was not merely a brazen player in the corporate raiding and glitzy rebuilding of New York City. Trump may have been involved in an unparalleled and inexplicably pact with the US government to remain above the law, one that was likely buffered by criminal actors and hostile foreign states. This disturbingly parallels his present day actions as president.
Despite repeated demands from officials, Trump has still not released his taxes to the American public. The head of the IRS has not complied with congressional requests. No member of the US government has commented on the CSSR files, despite the perplexing nature of the claims inside them. The only journalist who did a followup on the files’ existence was British reporter, Luke Harding. Harding tracked down Czech officials who affirmed that the files were real and told him “it wasn't only us who paid attention to him.” The first department of the STB–the Czech Security Services–were interested in him. “I don't know if the first directorate shared information on Trump with the KGB. I can't verify or deny.” The question of whether Trump, in 1977, at the height of his tutelage under tax-dodger, Cohn struck up some incredible agreement where he would pay no taxes to the United States until 2007 is not just unanswered, but unexamined.
The answers could be found. The IRS should know. Given the number of times Trump business dealings have fallen under investigation by federal agencies, including the Department of Justice and the Treasury, other government agencies may know too, but the American people do not. The question of why we do not know remains as enormous, and is disconcerting, as the information in the Czech files themselves. The late 1970s ushered in an era in which the rich paid less and less to the government, and the poor worked and suffered more. Trump was introduced into the corrupt world he now inhabits and developed the tactics he now employs to evade consequences. Just as the world itself was changing to reward white collar criminals like himself. In the 1980s, he became symbolic of this era and its rapacious greed.
But the extent to which he showcases wealth as raw power is distressingly literal. He was not merely an outcome of the economic restructuring ushered in by Reagan's union busting and trickle-down economics, and he was not merely a brazen player in the corporate raiding and glitzy rebuilding of New York City. Trump may have been involved in an unparalleled and inexplicably pact with the US government to remain above the law, one that was likely buffered by criminal actors and hostile foreign states. This disturbingly parallels his present day actions as president.
Related:
www.businessinsider.com/czech-secret-agents-spied-on-donald-trump-he-is-tax-exempt-for-30-years-2016-12
The spy writes that Trump’s company is absolutely safe, economically speaking, since it receives commissions from the state. One other juicy detail: “Another advantage is the personal relationship with the American President and the fact that he is completely tax-exempt for the next 30 years.”