Donald Trump has attracted the attention of Anonymous, which warned him that
uncomfortable details about his life and business will soon come to light.
One of the primary Twitter accounts for the internet’s most notorious hacktivist
collective tweeted multiple times at the President-elect on Sunday night,
shortly after Trump attacked civil rights icon John Lewis and blasted Saturday
Night Live as “the worst of NBC” (oddly enough the same network that carries
the reality TV show for which Trump is listed as an executive producer).
In a series of responses to one of Trump’s tweets accusing outgoing CIA director
John Brennan of leaking the infamous “Golden Showers” dossier,
@YourAnonCentral told the President-elect that his dealings with
“Russian mobsters, child traffickers, and money launderers” would soon
come to light. Anonymous also ominously warned Trump that information on the
internet is there forever, and that his rich father can’t protect him anymore:
Anonymous isn’t just blowing hot air — Trump actually does have ties to unsavory
characters tied to the Russia mob, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
David Cay Johnston, who used to cover the billionaire real estate mogul for the
New York Times. Johnston wrote about Trump’s mob ties in a detailed piece
for Politico Magazine, saying voters had a right to know about the reality
TV host’s shady business ties to organized crime figures, given his candidacy for
the White House:
“I pulled together what’s known – piecing together the long history of federal filings,
court records, biographical anecdotes, and research from my and [author Wayne]
Barrett’s files. What emerges is a pattern of business dealings with mob figures—not
only local figures, but even the son of a reputed Russian mob boss whom Trump
had at his side at a gala Trump hotel opening, but has since claimed under oath he
barely knows… There was, for example, Felix Sater, a senior Trump advisor and son
of a reputed Russian mobster, whom Trump kept on long after he was convicted
in a mob-connected stock swindle.”
Anonymous’ references to Trump’s ties to child sex trafficking could be in
reference to his numerous flights on billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s “Lolita Express”
— the name of his private jet which is rumored to have featured child sex slaves.
Trump was accused of child rape by a woman identifying herself as “Jane Doe,
” who said in a complaint that she was raped by Trump at a party while being held
in captivity by Epstein when she was just 13 years old. While that lawsuit
has since been dropped, it’s unclear whether or not Anonymous has previously
undisclosed information about Trump’s ties to Epstein.
If the hacktivist collective does indeed have explosive information on Trump,
his next four years will likely be particularly stressful.
Zach Cartwright is an activist and author from Richmond, Virginia.
He enjoys writing about politics, government, and the media.
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