New Yorker writer Adam Davidson tweeted Sunday that when Iran leaders set up front companies to try and acquire weapons of mass destruction that the Trump Organization met with one of those front groups.
“One of Soleiman’s chief goals was to acquire WMD missile systems that could threaten Israel and US installations,” Davidson wrote on Twitter Sunday. “He assigned the job to his ally, Mohamed Bagher Ghalibaf. When sanctions began, the IRGC used front companies to handle WMD acquisition.”
He explained that the Darvishi brothers, who served as chief deputies to Ghalibaf, set up one of the largest and most successful fake companies named Azarpassillo. The main partner was Azerbaijan’s Minister of Transport, Ziya Mammadov, who sent his son to the United States to meet with the Trump Organization and other businesses.
“Mammadov sent his son, Anar, to the U.S. in 2010 to develop business ties with U.S. companies,” Davidson tweeted. “He spent lavishly but got no takers. It was well-known that the Mammadovs laundered money for the IRGC and were wildly corrupt. Only one American business worked with them.”
It was President Donald Trump’s company.
“Ivanka worked extremely closely with the Mammadovs on their absurd tower,” Davidson explained. In 2015, the Trump Org acknowledged they knew the Mammadovs were likely laundering money for the IRGC. They kept working with them until after the 2016 election.”
In a 2017 report in the New Yorker, The Trump Organization would not confirm a 2012 visit with Mammadov. Davidson tweeted to the three-year-old piece, saying that the Trump Organization confirmed the New Yorker article.
See the full thread from Davidson on Twitter.
slakmehl on January 6th, 2020 at 02:27 UTC »
It's kind of tragic that this hasn't been known for years, because the original story broke in the New Yorker in March of 2017 in an Adam Davidson article entitled "Donald Trump's Worst Deal". This story should have been a big deal for almost three years, but because Trump is such a constant shitshow it has only resurfaced now that we teeter on the brink of war. The take home points are these:
Donald Trump knowingly laundered money for Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the entire duration of the 2016 campaign.
He did so for the specific branch of the IRGC tasked with acquiring missile guidance systems for ICBMs to enable nuclear strikes against American cities.
There were extensive media reports that the project was an IRGC money laundering front, and even with lavish spending in the US to find business partners, the Trump Organization was the only American company scummy and desperate enough to sign up as a licensing front.
The Trump Organization openly acknowledges everything. They knew they were too much of a rinky dink operation to be prosecuted at the time, and now that Trump is President they are beyond the law.
It's especially galling now that we hurtle towards a war over an assassination of Qassem Soleimani since, as Davidson notes today, this project made Donald Trump the chief US collaborator with Solomeini in his pursuit of a nuclear ICBM program. Here's the summary:
Soleimani assigned the task of acquiring ICBM components to his close ally Mohamed Ghalibaf.
Ghalibaf's two top deputies, the Darvishi brothers, set up it's most successful front company in collaboration with Azerbaijan's minister of transport, Ziya Mammadov.
Mammadov spent lavishly across the US looking for business partners, but no one was biting because it was well known they were laundering money for the IRGC. The only American who was willing to partner with him was Donald Trump.
But then Trump was elected, and Trump Org had to cancel the deal. Iran doesn't bribe him through his hotels like the Saudis, so now he is quite happy to have Soleimani assassinated and bumble us into a catastrophic war.
Idonediditdonedidit on January 6th, 2020 at 02:16 UTC »
Ugh I just can’t keep up. I try to be informed but shit man.
DanBetweenJobs on January 6th, 2020 at 02:16 UTC »
Man, the Stupidpocalypse is so much more depressingly fd up than I could ever have imagined.