A Ticket To The Trump Show

This is the greatest show and so the greatest actors must show up.

I think often to something that happened not so long ago that has had a huge impact on our current moment.

Here it is. Movie producer Arnan Milchan and Robert DeNiro in 2013 discussing how Arnan helped smuggle nuclear material out of the US and into Israel’s illegal nuclear program.

Milchan worked to smuggle nuclear material out of the United States.

He was ultimately discovered and had his 10-year visa removed — only after the direct intervention of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did then-Secretary of State John F. Kerry acquiesce to giving Milchan his visa again.

I’m told Jonathan Winer of Steele dossier fame negotiated that deal between Milchan and Kerry on behalf of the State Department, making Winer complicit in what followed next.

Winer, who works in private practice now, was a part of the efforts to steal Clearview.AI from me. Here’s Jonathan Winer with none other than Eliot Spitzer, Hoan Ton-That, and Floyd Abrams.

Floyd Abrams, Eliot Spitzer, Hoan Ton-That, and Jonathan Winer

The Israelis pursued Milchan and he, in turn, helped to indict Benjamin Netanyahu. Those protests you see daily in Tel Aviv are a direct result of that corruption. And, if you believe in the reports coming out of Israel, Netanyahu OKed the Hamas attacks against the Israelis in part to end a two-state solution.

Robert DeNiro, meanwhile, has participated in Friends of the IDF events.

As we shall see, this is not the first time he has participated in treason.

As recently as 2015 De Niro said “maybe” to Russian citizenship.

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All the world’s the stage... and there’s no bigger stage than the Big Apple. If you can make here you can make it anywhere, or so we’re told. Frankly I think the whole place is — to borrow a presidential phrase — “rigged.” Uncle Chuck doesn’t like getting hustled so I seldom visit Gotham unless I absolutely have to.

There’s a strange quality to the way that show business interacts with politics.

Here’s Robert De Niro, well into his eighties, picking fights in New York.

I’ve often thought you could tell a fascinating story about the post-World War II era by writing the truth about the life and times of De Niro.

With actress Iya Parulava

What precisely was De Niro doing in Georgia in 1987? It was a part of the Soviet Union in 1987! You can watch him being interviewed.

After the Moscow shootings we wrote about the the curious subplot of Robert De Niro, who is a partner with Azeri billionaire, Aras Agalerov, in the Nobu restaurants.

Times have been tough for Agalerov. Reportedly Agalerov had tried to secure loans on the Moscow theatre he helped build only a few weeks before there was this recent mass shooting. Agalerov was also a partner of Donald Trump in bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Crocus concert hall — the very place that was the scene of the grisly mass shooting.

What’s that about? Will anyone ask De Niro about it? Not on your life!

More likely De Niro has been repurposed after his tax troubles.

A lot of the old mobsters have gotten the message.

Today De Niro accused his interlocutors of being “gangsters.” He would know — having played them in the movies and, perhaps, in real life.

There’s nothing more American than the rogue who does the right thing in the end.