Originally Posted by Rochard

You should never assume things of people. What makes you think I don't have family in Russia? What makes you think I've never been to Russia? I'll give you a little hint... My mother's last name was Chreptovich.

From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia

"The Russian mafia can be traced back to Russia's imperial period, which began in the 1720s."

It details the Russian mafia starting in the 1920s, gaining ground after WWII, and then again growing after the fall of the USSR.

I am not an expert on this but... It's kind of common knowledge. Here in the US we had problems with a branch of the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach. I lived in Bayridge, Brooklyn at the time, early 1980s, and I remember hearing about them.

It's surely not a stretch that the Russian mafia starting using Trump to launder money in the late 1980s. In fact, it all fits perfectly into both timelines.