As The HuffPost reports, Spain has handed the FBI very interesting wiretaps involving Alexander Torshin, a Putin servant, deputy governor of Russia’s Central Bank, NRA member (a true “Patriot” by NRA’s definition thereof?) and probably master manipulator.
According to Jose Grinda, a Spanish prosecutor investigating Russian mafiosi, “Mr. Trump’s son should be concerned.”
There are two possibilities here, that would explain why in the world more and more dirt like this is swirling around the “First Son”:
One plausible cause is, Trump Jr. was so eager to help his father become president, that he knowingly and willingly engaged with known shady Russian figures to access Russian help against Clinton and didn’t really care about possible consequences, because he thought, he can cover everything up under the auspices of doing legitimate and legal business for the Trump Org. He knew exactly who the players are and where are they coming from. He probably thought, once his father becomes the president, no one will dare lift a single pencil against him.
The other plausible cause is, Trump Jr. was so eager to help his father become president, that he ignored the fact that he was (still is?) an ignorant amateur, incapable of understanding how dangerous it is to get into business dealings with Putin’s mafia, that those guys’ trade is shadowy, yet protected and supported by the FSB, a Russian government institution specialized in everything subversion, corruption, espionage and which is the primary and most expensive target for the U.S. national security services, probably swallowing about half of their funding.
Whichever it is, doesn’t matter. What matters is, DJTJr’s actions may have opened the door for the Russians to blackmail him and implicitly his father, and coerce old Trump into carefully treading in all matters Russia and Putin. Which given current state of affairs and Putin’s mastery of protecting his most valuable foreign assets, it seems very plausible. Aside of a few sanctions against some of his lieutenants, nothing really touches him. He just nonchalantly took the stage together with Macron, Abe, Wang and Lagarde at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum 2018, and showed no signs of worry.
There’s also no doubt that Trump Jr. just like his father, has a clear penchant for hanging out with important and powerful figures from all around the world, and that those untouchable corrupt ones with high official functions, but also lots of (stolen) money are admired by the Trumps even more, because that’s how they would like to rule over the common Americans, but they can’t, because America is not Russia and the FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS cannot be owned by rich corrupt Americans, like Putin owns these organizations’ Russian counterparts. And that is something that fills Trumps’ hearts with envy, but also desire to be just like those guys.
Just a side note: since the NRA seems to think it owns a trademark on all things “Patriot/Patriotic”, and to be the only non-religious organization true Americans should join aside the Republican party, what in the world is a guy like Torshin doing among NRA’s ranks and why the most “patriotic” people in America tolerate and court Russians at their gatherings? How American is that knowing that these are all spies reporting to the FSB?