House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and Russian Mafia

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“The story Unger weaves with those earlier accounts and his
original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than
the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.”—The
Washington Post

House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive
investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald
Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped
win Trump the White House.

It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made
his first splash in the booming, money-drenched world of New York
real estate, and ends with Trump’s inauguration as president of the
United States. That moment was the culmination of Vladimir Putin’s
long mission to undermine Western democracy, a mission that he and
his hand-selected group of oligarchs and Mafia kingpins had
ensnared Trump in, starting more than twenty years ago with the
massive bailout of a string of sensational Trump hotel and casino
failures in Atlantic City. This book confirms the most incredible
American paranoias about Russian malevolence.

To most, it will be a hair-raising revelation that the Cold War did
not end in 1991—that it merely evolved, with Trump’s apartments
offering the perfect vehicle for billions of dollars to leave the
collapsing Soviet Union. In House of Trump, House of Putin, Craig
Unger methodically traces the deep-rooted alliance between the
highest echelons of American political operatives and the biggest
players in the frightening underworld of the Russian Mafia. He
traces Donald Trump’s sordid ascent from foundering real estate
tycoon to leader of the free world. He traces Russia’s phoenix like
rise from the ashes of the post–Cold War Soviet Union as well as
its ceaseless covert efforts to retaliate against the West and
reclaim its status as a global superpower.

Without Trump, Russia would have lacked a key component in its
attempts to return to imperial greatness. Without Russia, Trump
would not be president. This essential book is crucial to
understanding the real powers at play in the shadows of today’s
world. The appearance of key figures in this book—Paul Manafort,
Michael Cohen, and Felix Sater to name a few—ring with haunting
significance in the wake of Robert Mueller’s report and as others
continue to close in on the truth.

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