Trump's Russian Collusion

[wahoomurf]

AOC

Back in the day, certain LP mods would gather up "like" posts and put them together in a new place.

We really need separate threads for...

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[youthathletics]

Its the new 24/7 news cycle. we would end up with hundreds of new threads a year, our attention is not the keen.

[Trinity]

Deutsche Bank could only assess Trump's net worth at $788 million. Despite Trump's entire life as a "great negotiator" and a "savvy business man", he's essentially worth no more than his father left him...minus interest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/busi ... -bank.html

[Trinity]

lawyers for Flynn's ex-business partner Bijan Kian, as part of pre-trial discovery, want information on Michael Flynn's "contacts with Russian officials, including Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) following the presidential election in 2016
Flynn-Dmitriev contacts??? Who knew?

[Trinity]

The White House will review Mueller's findings before they go to Congress and choose what information to withhold due to executive privilege, @CNN reported today.

Sounds fair, letting the perps edit the indictment. How about we learn everything except for State Secrets.

[old salt]

lawyers for Flynn's ex-business partner Bijan Kian, as part of pre-trial discovery, want information on Michael Flynn's "contacts with Russian officials, including Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) following the presidential election in 2016
Flynn-Dmitriev contacts??? Who knew?

Might have been about financing Russian nuc power plants as part of Flynn's Middle East Marshall Plan
(Plan B, for after Trump's loss)

https://www.ft.com/content/6a2cc100-af3 ... a01f1b0fa1

[dislaxxic]

BY JULY 18, 2017, MUELLER HAD PROBABLE CAUSE MICHAEL COHEN WAS AN UNREGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT

"In addition, Cohen was working for Columbus Nova, which was ultimately controlled by Victor Vekselberg. That would be of immediate concern for the question of Russian influence.

The 951 charge, however, is more interesting. It could relate to the same thing (basically arguing that because he was working for instrumentalities of foreign countries, he was their agent — basically a “soft” spy). Or it could relate to his efforts to negotiate a Trump Tower deal for Trump. Note that the November 13 warrant basically extended the first warrant back to June 1, 2015, which would we know would cover the Trump Tower deal (and precede any tie to BTA or KAI).

951 is a charge I always suspected might be used with Paul Manafort (it still might), or even Jared Kushner. But it appears that Mueller’s worries about Trump’s closest associates acting as spies wasn’t limited to Manafort and Flynn, but extended, too, to his personal lawyer. And Mueller already had evidence of that fact by July 18, 2017."

Naaahhhhh, the FBI had no basis for looking into Russian-related activities by Trump's employees, his campaign or his family. A real nothingburger, right?

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[MDlaxfan76]

lawyers for Flynn's ex-business partner Bijan Kian, as part of pre-trial discovery, want information on Michael Flynn's "contacts with Russian officials, including Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) following the presidential election in 2016
Flynn-Dmitriev contacts??? Who knew?

Might have been about financing Russian nuc power plants as part of Flynn's Middle East Marshall Plan
(Plan B, for after Trump's loss)

https://www.ft.com/content/6a2cc100-af3 ... a01f1b0fa1

Or it could have been about Israeli run dairies in Russia.

* In January 2017, Nader took part in a meeting in Seychelles, which is also being probed by Mueller. In attendance were Erik Prince, Trump confidante, brother of Education Secretary Betsy Devos and founder of the security company Blackwater, as well as Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian government’s sovereign wealth fund Russia Direct Investment Fund. Dmitriev's fund has in recent months been negotiating with Israeli government ministers on a $100 million project to open Israeli-run dairies in Russia.

Article was May 2018 in Haaretz, but a pretty good run down of these various characters.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premiu ... -1.6116639

[old salt]

lawyers for Flynn's ex-business partner Bijan Kian, as part of pre-trial discovery, want information on Michael Flynn's "contacts with Russian officials, including Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) following the presidential election in 2016
Flynn-Dmitriev contacts??? Who knew?

Might have been about financing Russian nuc power plants as part of Flynn's Middle East Marshall Plan
(Plan B, for after Trump's loss)

https://www.ft.com/content/6a2cc100-af3 ... a01f1b0fa1

Or it could have been about Israeli run dairies in Russia.

* In January 2017, Nader took part in a meeting in Seychelles, which is also being probed by Mueller. In attendance were Erik Prince, Trump confidante, brother of Education Secretary Betsy Devos and founder of the security company Blackwater, as well as Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian government’s sovereign wealth fund Russia Direct Investment Fund. Dmitriev's fund has in recent months been negotiating with Israeli government ministers on a $100 million project to open Israeli-run dairies in Russia.

Article was May 2018 in Haaretz, but a pretty good run down of these various characters.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premiu ... -1.6116639

I considered that too, but the Seychelles meeting did not involve Flynn & his business partner Kian, which is the litigation prompting the discovery request.

[Typical Lax Dad]

lawyers for Flynn's ex-business partner Bijan Kian, as part of pre-trial discovery, want information on Michael Flynn's "contacts with Russian officials, including Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) following the presidential election in 2016
Flynn-Dmitriev contacts??? Who knew?

Might have been about financing Russian nuc power plants as part of Flynn's Middle East Marshall Plan
(Plan B, for after Trump's loss)

https://www.ft.com/content/6a2cc100-af3 ... a01f1b0fa1

Or it could have been about Israeli run dairies in Russia.

* In January 2017, Nader took part in a meeting in Seychelles, which is also being probed by Mueller. In attendance were Erik Prince, Trump confidante, brother of Education Secretary Betsy Devos and founder of the security company Blackwater, as well as Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian government’s sovereign wealth fund Russia Direct Investment Fund. Dmitriev's fund has in recent months been negotiating with Israeli government ministers on a $100 million project to open Israeli-run dairies in Russia.

Article was May 2018 in Haaretz, but a pretty good run down of these various characters.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premiu ... -1.6116639

The articles there are generally pretty good. On my rotation!

[MDlaxfan76]

lawyers for Flynn's ex-business partner Bijan Kian, as part of pre-trial discovery, want information on Michael Flynn's "contacts with Russian officials, including Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) following the presidential election in 2016
Flynn-Dmitriev contacts??? Who knew?

Might have been about financing Russian nuc power plants as part of Flynn's Middle East Marshall Plan
(Plan B, for after Trump's loss)

https://www.ft.com/content/6a2cc100-af3 ... a01f1b0fa1

Or it could have been about Israeli run dairies in Russia.

* In January 2017, Nader took part in a meeting in Seychelles, which is also being probed by Mueller. In attendance were Erik Prince, Trump confidante, brother of Education Secretary Betsy Devos and founder of the security company Blackwater, as well as Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian government’s sovereign wealth fund Russia Direct Investment Fund. Dmitriev's fund has in recent months been negotiating with Israeli government ministers on a $100 million project to open Israeli-run dairies in Russia.

Article was May 2018 in Haaretz, but a pretty good run down of these various characters.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premiu ... -1.6116639

I considered that too, but the Seychelles meeting did not involve Flynn & his business partner Kian, which is the litigation prompting the discovery request.

I was being tongue-in-cheek.

So many oligarchs, so little time.
To. Cash. In.

[old salt]

lawyers for Flynn's ex-business partner Bijan Kian, as part of pre-trial discovery, want information on Michael Flynn's "contacts with Russian officials, including Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) following the presidential election in 2016
Flynn-Dmitriev contacts??? Who knew?

Might have been about financing Russian nuc power plants as part of Flynn's Middle East Marshall Plan
(Plan B, for after Trump's loss)

https://www.ft.com/content/6a2cc100-af3 ... a01f1b0fa1

Or it could have been about Israeli run dairies in Russia.

* In January 2017, Nader took part in a meeting in Seychelles, which is also being probed by Mueller. In attendance were Erik Prince, Trump confidante, brother of Education Secretary Betsy Devos and founder of the security company Blackwater, as well as Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian government’s sovereign wealth fund Russia Direct Investment Fund. Dmitriev's fund has in recent months been negotiating with Israeli government ministers on a $100 million project to open Israeli-run dairies in Russia.

Article was May 2018 in Haaretz, but a pretty good run down of these various characters.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premiu ... -1.6116639

I considered that too, but the Seychelles meeting did not involve Flynn & his business partner Kian, which is the litigation prompting the discovery request.

I was being tongue-in-cheek.

So many oligarchs, so little time.
To. Cash. In.

Rachel Maddow made that same Erik Prince Seychelles connection last night, ...& she wasn't being tongue in cheek.
Her nightly programming is based on google key word searches, but they do not factor in geography, time or place.

[MDlaxfan76]

lawyers for Flynn's ex-business partner Bijan Kian, as part of pre-trial discovery, want information on Michael Flynn's "contacts with Russian officials, including Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) following the presidential election in 2016
Flynn-Dmitriev contacts??? Who knew?

Might have been about financing Russian nuc power plants as part of Flynn's Middle East Marshall Plan
(Plan B, for after Trump's loss)

https://www.ft.com/content/6a2cc100-af3 ... a01f1b0fa1

Or it could have been about Israeli run dairies in Russia.

* In January 2017, Nader took part in a meeting in Seychelles, which is also being probed by Mueller. In attendance were Erik Prince, Trump confidante, brother of Education Secretary Betsy Devos and founder of the security company Blackwater, as well as Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian government’s sovereign wealth fund Russia Direct Investment Fund. Dmitriev's fund has in recent months been negotiating with Israeli government ministers on a $100 million project to open Israeli-run dairies in Russia.

Article was May 2018 in Haaretz, but a pretty good run down of these various characters.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premiu ... -1.6116639

I considered that too, but the Seychelles meeting did not involve Flynn & his business partner Kian, which is the litigation prompting the discovery request.

I was being tongue-in-cheek.

So many oligarchs, so little time.
To. Cash. In.

Rachel Maddow made that same Erik Prince Seychelles connection last night, ...& she wasn't being tongue in cheek.
Her nightly programming is based on google key word searches, but they do not factor in geography, time or place.

interesting, no TV last night...but that's indeed how I stumbled across that Haaretz article...was googling Dmietriev and Vekselberg to see what overlaps they might have, given that the Flynn and Cohen meetings with these characters seemed to be happening in the same sorts of time frames...money, money, money...

Both of these guys tied to Russian intelligence...nothing to see here...
Except for all the lying...

[Trinity]

I smell RICO. Lawyers? Am I too bloodthirsty?

[Typical Lax Dad]

I smell RICO. Lawyers? Am I too bloodthirsty?

I felt all along we would see RICO charges. Time will tell.

[holmes435]

I smell RICO. Lawyers? Am I too bloodthirsty?

I felt all along we would see RICO charges. Time will tell.

I didn't know "Republican In Conscious Only" was a crime.

[Trinity]

Trump wants everyone to see the whole report, but mean old Bill Barr might refuse. Because Trump and his team are innocent but Americans can’t know that.

[old salt]

Since it's also a Counter Intel investigation, there should also be a report that goes to the DNI, which he is required to share with the Gang of 8, & possibly the Intel Committees, at least the less sensitive (non SCI) portion, with an unclass version.
That's where the real good stuff will be.

That's probably why DNI Coats has hung in there so long, despite the abuse.

[Trinity]

Hillary’s email server looks like a SCIF compared to Jared’s phone.

[foreverlax]

Hillary’s email server looks like a SCIF compared to Jared’s phone.

Hubris on a grand scale.