Don't know if you consider these valid news sources. Start here:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/28/trump-business-past-ties-russian-mobsters-organized-crime/98321252/
As stated before, I can't vet the news source, but I'm using sources generally accepted as legitimate by the greater public. The next one:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-russia-mafia-trump-tower-two-years-2016-presidential-election-us-money-laundering-alimzhan-a7642851.html
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
And another source on the same topic:
http://www.inquisitr.com/4079311/trump-tower-was-wiretapped-by-fbi-during-obama-era-to-capture-russian-mob-boss/
More on Tokhtakhounov:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/world/europe/tokhtakhounov-says-criminal-charges-are-just-a-misunderstanding.html
What I was referring to when I described financial relationships with despotic regimes:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
A politifact summation of a lot of what I was speaking on:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/feb/22/all-possible-ties-between-trump-and-russia/
I'm avoiding more obviously partisan, left leaning outlets that are highly critical, like Vox, Mother Jones, RawStory, and Politico. I am also avoiding the Guardian and MSNBC for the sake of argument (they are also openly critical. Dont disagree with that, I'm just trying to be objective.
I will plainly say, the investigation is still in progress. I obviously don't know more than the men and women still actively involved in this ongoing investigation. But interesting, dammit, interesting.
Bit, is this sufficient? I'm being serious. I get you don't trust the msm, so it seems pointless to offer sources from the mainstream media, which is real to me, if you have an inherent distrust of all mainstream media sources.
It's alot to look up (these are things I have encountered in my readings, over time). About to bake and frost chocolate cupcakes, give me like 40 minutes or so, and I'll point out the lobbying l/corporate interest shit I was taking about.
I am grateful for the effort. To be clear, news outlets are supposed to do their own fact checking traditionally. And their accuracy was how folks determined who to trust with their precious attention. These days we give our attention to any scoundrel it seems who does little to deserve it. Hence my request for verified fact.
It is unfortunate that the MSM has willfully abandoned their very necessary job. Open societies needed an informed public to make good decisions. And for example with the news outlets you cite one will now need to look through the reporting for facts or alleged facts and then independently attempt to verify those alleged facts. It is very difficult to do and sometimes cannot be done I realize.
In court you can offer a thing called self authenticating evidence. That is simply a certified copy of a document from a publically searchable database. This is a good thing to do for the court because it allows the judge to instantly consider the document as authentic because it has the control on it that tells him it is not fake. Otherwise the court must verify the document is real before the contents can be considered. So you see the news outlets can do the same thing if they wanted. They could cite where they got the info so the readers can check or they could provide the certified info if possible to save the reader the time of checking. These days neither options are done and we live in a see of bad info passing as fact!
It is not that I have any distrust as you indicate I may have on the MSM it is just that they have been busted so many times not doing the process I mention above so now they do not deserve any trust. If you still trust them it is curious why. Maybe you are not aware of the many times they have been busted individually and together as part of a wholesale misinfo front for the prevailing government.
This was why I posted the stuff I did the last few days because you did not believe these things are real. I posted quotes and have the full cite and You choose not to comment. And then I posted a video I think ( I will post it again just for you) about media being busted in outright lies using actual footage of the fakery and I will wait for any comment.
in the mean time thank you for the links and I will look through them over the next week