#TrumpMedia #RussianAmerican #CriminalInvestigation
🚨 Breaking News Alert 🚨
In a shocking turn of events, it has been revealed that Trump Media, the controversial media outlet owned by former President Donald Trump, has been saved from financial ruin in 2022 by a Russian-American individual who is currently under criminal investigation. This new development raises serious questions about the potential influence of foreign entities on American media.
Here are some key insights and recommendations regarding this exclusive story:
**The Russian-American Connection**
– The individual in question, who has not been identified, has close ties to both the Russian government and the Trump administration.
– This raises concerns about potential foreign influence on Trump Media’s content and operations.
**Implications for Media Integrity**
– The involvement of a Russian-American individual with a criminal record in saving Trump Media is alarming and raises questions about the outlet’s credibility.
– This could undermine public trust in the media and further polarize political discourse in the United States.
**Recommendations for Transparency**
– Trump Media should disclose the full extent of the Russian-American individual’s involvement in the company.
– The outlet should be transparent about any potential conflicts of interest and take steps to maintain editorial independence.
**Calls for Investigation**
– There are growing calls for a formal investigation into the Russian-American individual’s role in saving Trump Media.
– Law enforcement agencies should closely monitor the situation and ensure that all legal and ethical standards are upheld.
**Conclusion**
The revelation that Trump Media was saved by a Russian-American under criminal investigation is a concerning development that underscores the need for transparency and accountability in the media industry. It is crucial for media outlets to uphold the highest ethical standards and maintain their independence to preserve public trust.
Stay tuned for more updates on this developing story.
#TrumpMedia #RussianInterference #MediaEthics #ForeignInfluence #Transparency #Investigation #BreakingNews
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans
Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation.
The former US president stands to gain billions of dollars – his stake is currently valued at about $4bn – from the merger between Trump Media and Technology Group and the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which took the parent company of Truth Social public.
Trump owes so much money to Putin and his thugs… Electing him this year will effectively result in handing over eastern europe to Russia.
If Trump abandons NATO, we’ll all be answering to Vlad.
I’m shocked. Russian involvement. So unexpected.
Shocking just totally unbelievable that a Russian asset is propped up by his handlers
The fact that conservatives prefer to sell their country to Russia rather than have a democrat run the government speaks volumes about their values & priorities.
He is clearly vlad’s bitch, you don’t need to look deep just look what he says and does. Blocks Ukrainian aid, believes vlad more than his own intelligence agencies, invites the Russians into the White House as soon as took office, wants nato weakened, the list is endless!
Musk is also owned by China and Russia, he took over twitter and turned it into maga pro Russian disinformation hotspot as well. He removed state media label from clear propaganda channels.
Then we have TikTok and then we have the hundreds of Chinese owned media spreading Chinese and Russian lies all over the west and rest of world, all while they completely block outside media
We need to wake up
WOAH, Woah, woah . . . You’re telling me that Trump has monetary connections to *Russia*?
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First I’ve heard of it.
Thank you for the great enlightenment.
Turns out it’s cheaper and less risky to just fund Trump to divide the country than run their own Internet Research Agency and get caught with their hands in the cookie jar again.
They are drooling over getting hands on US resources, using the weak minded authoritarian indoctrinated to devise it under a smokescreen of religion
https://globalextremism.org/project-2025-the-far-right-playbook-for-american-authoritarianism/
Christian nationalist theocrats have reached levels of embedding those they indoctrinated & trained for taking political office well enough to fully begin to dismantle democracy and hand the country to their god’s chosen (oligarchs, con artists, those who behave like kings) by wiping out human rights and making the U.S. a theocracy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family:_The_Secret_Fundamentalism_at_the_Heart_of_American_Power
It must be some kind of throwback instinct to follow whoever barks the loudest and snaps the most.
I feel like Trump Media assets could be seized as part of a criminal investigation. Accounts could be frozen to prevent money laundering.
Russian FSB agent; Donald Trump.
No collusion?
нет оправдания
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Trump saved by Russian Porn Money
It’s a good time to also point out that [a big chunk of the startup money for Truth Social came from Russian entities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social)
According to The Guardian, in December 2021, two loans totaling $8 million (~$8.87 million in 2023) were paid to Trump Media from obscure Putin-connected entities as the company was “on the brink of collapse”. $2 million was paid by Paxum Bank, part-owned by Anton Postolnikov, a relation of Aleksandr Smirnov, a former Russian government official who now runs the Russian maritime company Rosmorport. $6 million was paid by an ostensibly separate entity, ES Family Trust, whose director was the director of Paxum Bank at the same time.
No surprise
Wow. They found a lot of very interesting dots to connect. This is excellent reporting and well worth a click to read the whole article.
Some of the most notable dots:
“The new details about the trust are drawn from documents including: Paxum Bank records showing Postolnikov having access to the trust’s account, the papers that created the trust showing as its settlor a lawyer in St Petersburg, Russia, and three years of the trust’s financial transactions.”
Dot
“The concern surrounding the loans to Trump Media is that ES Family Trust may have been used to complete a transaction that Paxum itself could not.”
Dot.
“Paxum Bank does not offer loans in the US as it lacks a US banking license and is not regulated by the FDIC. Postolnikov appears to have used the trust to loan money to help save Trump Media – and the Truth Social platform – because his bank itself could not furnish the loan.”
Dot
“ES Family Trust was established on 18 May 2021, its creation papers show. Postolnikov’s “user” access to the account was “verified” on 30 November 2021 by a Paxum Bank manager in Dominica. The trust was funded for the first time on 2 December 2021.”
Dot
“Trump Media then received the loans from ES Family Trust: $2m on 23 December 2021, and $6m on 17 February 2022.”
Dot
“The loans came in the form of convertible promissory notes, meaning ES Family Trust would gain a major stake in Trump Media because it was offering the money in exchange for Trump Media agreeing to convert the loan principal into “shares of Company Stock”.”
DOT
“The ES Family Trust account also appears to have benefited Postolnikov personally. As the criminal investigation into the Trump Media deal intensified towards the end of last year, the trust recorded several transfers to Postolnikov with the subject line “Partial Loan Return”.”
DOT
“In total, the documents showed that the trust transferred $4.8m to Postolnikov’s account, although $3m was inexplicably “reversed”.”
DOT
“Postolnikov, the nephew of Aleksandr Smirnov, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has not been charged with a crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing Paxum Bank warned of legal action for reporting the contents of the leaked documents.”
Thats a lot of significant dots.
Seems shady as fuck.
Edit: typo
Intewesting, vewy, vewy intewesting 🕵🏻♂️
Further proof of no Russian collusion. /s
He also reached out to Trump to organize the bond.
It’s funny how the far right media keeps bringing up the Russian connection was a hoax as part of their outline of the “persecution” of trump. But yet all these people around him have heavy ties.
Well looky there
This keeps getting better.
First, Trump media is worthless and brought in just $4m and lost $58m.
Now it’s revealed that the company would have gone under if it hadn’t received large loans from a family trust owned by a Russian money launderer who runs an offshore bank known for servicing porn companies that is not allowed to do business in the US because it doesn’t have a banking license and its leaders are being investigated for money laundering. And when Trump Media made loan payments the payments were given back.
After seeing this, and how Trump Casinos descended into as a publicly traded company with Trump as CEO, it’s amazing this guy has been in business so long. It’s like his only business success was committing massive tax fraud to get his dad’s wealth under his own name through shady business deals between shell companies.
Money laundering. Insider trading. Bank to the porn industry. Links to shady Russian characters. And Alexander Smirnoff. Yep sounds pretty much like Trump.
Gee Russia owns even more of the US if he gets back in. AWESOME.
And people cheer to “stick it to the libs”.
Well what do you know…
Why would a billionaire need russian porn bank financing to keep a tiny company alive?
Honest Don would never do something like this.
Holding my breath waiting for Fox to cover this. /s
Yeah the Kremlin has a very solid investment in the GOP of the USA and they’ll be damned if they let that go to waste.
Donald Trump: Career criminal, rapist, seditionist, and **traitor**.
Everything about Trump is sleeze
Why would a billionaire need an emergency loan and why couldn’t he get it from a normal bank? Really shocking /s
A POTUS should have to go through a character and fitness application, just like a law student.
Money laundering is kinda the TRE45ONOUS LOSER’s MO, so not surprised.
Russia owns Donnie dementia
It won’t do anything
how did the SEC let this through?
Hillary was right.
This is the same thing Facebook did around 2009. Social media has been leveraged by the Russians, and was likely thought up by the Russians, as weapons of war.
The Cold War never ended, it just shifted to the geopolitical fronts focused on social cohesion, wealth distribution, and financialization of political choice.
Let me know when something actually happens.
My level of surprise at this revelation that, yet again, Trump is exposed as being a Russian puppet…
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# TRUMP RUSSIAN CORRUPTION CONNECTION IN DA HOUSE!
So “no collusion” meant “lots of collusion,” and the “witch hunts” actually caught lots of “witches!”
This friggin’ guy…
Where is the technology?
Everything is for sale with this guy.
It’s treason then…..
I’m shocked. SHOCKED I TELL YOU. /s
The day Trump won the US presidency, I said to my wife, “He’s literally going to sell that country to Russia”
No puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet!! #🍊🤡