Summary:
Cohen worked a quid pro quo with Vekselberg.
Manafartov worked a quid pro quo with Deripaska.
Cohen and Sater were working a quid pro quo over Trump Tower in Moscow well into 2016. Effort abandoned only when in the heat of the campaign Trump felt a need to deny any business dealings with Russia.
Adoption meeting in Trump Tower was predicated on a quid pro quo. Dirt for sanctions relief.
Flynn outreach to Kislyak was about sanctions relief.
Trump policy has featured slow-walking implementation of sanctions law and today Trump wants to forgive and forget Russian actions regarding Crimea/Ukraine and welcome them back into the G-8.
Have I left out anything?
Last edited by nsacpi; 06-08-2018 at 01:02 PM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
superseding indictments against Manafartov
https://www.justice.gov/file/1070306/download
Kilimnik also indicted
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
I am curious if the left on this board is actively rooting and hoping for collusion.
I'm not sure if I am on the left. I do think something very dangerous to our republican form of government happened in the last election and that there is a compelling public interest in having it thoroughly investigated.
One more observation. Politics is a contact sport and yes Trump is getting Benghazied on a grand scale. But then it is a target-rich environment that his political enemies find themselves operating in.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
This is not some baseball game. My hope is that the truth to the extent any of us mortals are capable of learning such a thing is fully brought to light.
How's that for a nice self-righteous answer!
It does strike me as rather significant that one side to this controversy has exhibited a strong interest in impeding the quest for finding out what happened.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
It would see that we should all hope that no wrong doing occurred
But I think people want it to have happened.
I still think this is a nuthin burger
One small additional detail that may or may not be important...Kilimnik was a business partner of Cambridge Analytica contractor Sam Patten
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
One of those profiles recently wrote or intimated that Kilinnik's being allowed to leave Ukraine (for Russia) was part of the trade for selling Ukraine the anti-tank missiles.
who turned off the Russian bots...they awfully quiet today
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Russian financial support for Brexit backers looks like it's going to be a big story in the UK, and possibly elsewhere.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/r...tion-7nbwc7m58
Follow the money.
The UK needs to understand how foreign money affected the vote.
We also need to fully investigate and understand the role of foreign influence (and I might add this goes beyond Russia) on the 2016 elections.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."