The Dworkin Report

Scott explains the finer points of Paul Manafort’s plea agreement to flip on Trump and cooperate with Special Counsel Mueller, something which doesn’t surprise the Dworkin Report team since we started sounding the alarm about Russian influence before the votes were cast. Forget the White House’s denials, we already know that Paul Manafort’s illegal conduct reaches into Trump’s inner circle from emails released in his Virginia mortgage fraud trial that implicate Jared Kushner in a serious crime of office.

 

Scott Dworkin explains why he and the Democratic Coalition filed a criminal complaint to the US Department of Justice against Judge Brett Kavanaugh with the legal counsel of Massachusetts lawyer J. Whitfield Larrabee. Scott and Jon Cooper, who is the Chairman of the Democratic Coalition, both joined the complaint individually. A parallel judicial ethics complaint will be filed with the Clerk of the DC Circuit Court for Chief Judge Merrick Garland to review on Monday morning. Transcript

Disclosure: Scott Dowrkin is a paid advisor of the Democratic Coalition, a SuperPAC.

Scott asks Mimi Rocah how federal prosecutions of mob bosses and crime families really work, and she should know as the former Chief of organized crime prosecutions for the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. Can Special Counsel Mueller issue an indictment of Trump without impeachment? What do Rudy Giuliani’s protestations of a deadline mean? She answered those questions and more.

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Scott interviews two of the documentary filmmakers behind Active Measures, director/writer Jack Bryan and his co-writer Marley Clements who told him about the making of the movie, the threats that began early last year, their interview with Sen. John McCain and their conclusions after spending 18 months investigating the links between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian mob boss Semion Mogilevich.

You can watch Active Measures on Amazon right now.

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Part two of The Trump Jr. Files series exposes the potential link between Don Jr.’s keynote speech at a Russian real estate conference in June 2008 as the world’s financial markets were tumbling, and his father’s unusual sale of a $100 million dollar single family home in Palm Beach, Florida. We also discussed how close Trump Jr. and his sister Ivanka came to being prosecuted for a lie-filled sales pitch for the Trump SoHo Hotel-condo units in Manhattan, and how a major loan default with Deutsche Bank on the Chicago Trump Tower all happened in the second half of 2008, all potentially involving offshore cash and Russian money.

Scott’s interview with Tom Arnold explains the one thing Trump’s former business partner Felix Sater does not want to be known about him, reveals the gaping holes in Michael Cohen’s alibi and explains why this story is probably going to wind up on the Rachel Maddow show this coming Tuesday, unless the news cycle intervenes. Arnold’s insider view of the Trump crime family will be featured in the upcoming television program “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold” which will premiere on Viceland this September 18th. Listen to Part 1 of our interview with Tom Arnold here and Part 2 here.

Part one of The Trump Jr. Files series exposes the Russian real estate conference Don Jr. was paid to attend as a keynote speaker in June 2008 as the world’s financial markets were tumbling. Scott found the images and web links to the high-end business conference while leading the Democratic Coalition’s investigation and provided them to producer Grant Stern who joins the conversation to explain why he broke the story in the Huffington Post.

Part one of The Trump Jr. Files series exposes the Russian real estate conference Don Jr. was paid to attend as a keynote speaker in June 2008 as the world’s financial markets were tumbling. Scott found the images and web links to the high-end business conference while leading the Democratic Coalition’s investigation and provided them to producer Grant Stern who joins the conversation to explain why he broke the story in the Huffington Post.

Grant Stern interviews investigative journalist and author Craig Unger about his findings of a billion dollars worth of laundered money from the Russian mafia through Trump properties dating back to over thirty years ago. Unger’s new book House of Trump, House of Putin is available today. During the interview, they discussed Stern’s interview with Roger Stone last year, and you can find it here.

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Scott interviews former CIA officer David Priess delivered the President’s Daily Brief to Special Counsel Robert Mueller when he was the FBI Director and got to know him over the course of a year working closely with him. Priess signed an open letter this past week opposing the President’s politicization of the top secret clearances held by former top-ranking intelligence officers and agency directors. He told Scott why that was such a corrosive decision, and gave him his opinion of the Mueller probe based on his extensive experience in the highest ranks of American intelligence. Priess’ first book was co-authored with President George H. W. Bush named the President’s Book of Secrets and has a new book coming out on November 13th entitled How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives.

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