Jul 9, 2018
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David Waldman is in Iceland, hopefully soaking up its picturesque, cultural and more idiosyncratic highlights during his stay. Yet, he still finds time to put together special pre-recorded KITM’s for us!
Are you ready for some association football? World Cup fever is sweeping the nation (probably, idk) but KITM listeners are also aware that even though team soccer began with the best of intentions, it eventually attracted multi-million dollar corruption... and James Comey, and David Waldman, who devoted hours to its coverage in 2015.
What does this have to do with the fix we’re in, here, today? Just about everything, it seems. David follows the warp and weft of the threads of malfeasance sewn through the Trump/Putin/FIFA tapestry of corruption:
Long before
The Dossier,
Vladimir Putin caught Christopher Steele’s attention. Steele
and the
old-school shoe leather reporting of Andrew Jennings led
Multi-millionaire
Trump pal cat fancier, Chuck Blazer
to eventually turn snitch,
taking down FIFA President Sepp Blatter, and keeping
corruption at FIFA to a
minimum medium.
Trump’s Miss Universe business partner, “Trump of Russia” Aras Agalarov, used unpaid migrant labor to build two World Cup stadiums. Now he’s part of the Russia Probe.
The terrorism money trail leads to poaching, and lions follow the poaching trail!