The Russia circle jerk has gone into overdrive – cranking out painful ghost loads of Russophobic witch huntery. Honest to God, this is insanity – all aimed at de-legitimizing a sitting president. What could be more damaging to democracy?
Here’s the latest from the NY Times – in the most condensed and straightforward summary I can manage:
Russian-born businessman Felix Sater, a friend of Trump’s attorney and spokesman Michael Cohen since they were teenagers, emailed Cohen in November 2015 to pitch him on the idea that he (Sater) could use his Russian business contacts to set up a deal where the Trump organization would build a tower in Moscow in exchange for Vladimir Putin’s support – which would ‘get Trump elected.’
Via NYT:
In another email, Mr. Sater envisioned a ribbon-cutting in Moscow. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected,” Mr. Sater wrote.
Mr. Cohen suggested that Mr. Sater’s comments were puffery. “He has sometimes used colorful language and has been prone to “salesmanship,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement. “I ultimately determined that the proposal was not feasible and never agreed to make a trip to Russia.”
Two months after Sater pitched Cohen on this idea, Cohen reportedly reached out to Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, writing: “Over the past few months I have been working with a company based in Russia regarding the development of a Trump Tower – Moscow project in Moscow City,” Cohen allegedly wrote Peskov. “Without getting into lengthy specifics the communication between our two sides has stalled.”
Cohen heard nothing back from Putin’s spokesman, and no Trump properties have been built or scheduled to be built anywhere in Russia.
So: Russian-born friend of Trump’s attorney tries to broker deal to gain Russian support for Trump’s run for President. When the ‘deal’ stalled, Trump’s attorney reached out to Putin’s spokesman, who heard nothing back, and nothing ever came of it.
At worst, Trump’s employee investigated the possibility of ‘buying’ Russia’s assistance in the 2016 election. Trump was never involved, no meetings took place, and no deal was done. Why would Cohen seek this deal if Trump was already a ‘Putin Puppet?’
And just five days ago, CNN reported that Trump’s deputy Chief of Staff, Rick Dearborn, received an email in June 2016 ‘seeking to connect top Trump officials with Vladimir Putin.’ Again, why seek to establish a back-channel if Trump was already an agent of Russia?
Do you liberals see how retarded you’ve sounded for months?
And before you get huffy, did you know Ukraine actively tried to help Hillary Clinton defeat Trump? Keep reading.
Via Politico…
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Wow, so Ukraine actively helped the Democrats try to influence the election by exposing Paul Manafort’s Russian ties. And about those ties… Manafort’s firm earned $17 million between 2012 – 2014 consulting for the sitting president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych’s, centrist, pro-Russia ‘Party of Regions.’ During the same period, Manafort oversaw a lobbying campaign for the pro-Russia “Centre for a Modern Ukraine,” a Brussels based think tank linked to Yanukovych which was pushing for Ukraine’s entry into the European Union.
The Podesta group, run by Tony Podesta and operating under Manafort, earned over $1.2 million as part of that effort, and has been been issued a Grand Jury subpoena by Robert Mueller to testify under oath.
My, what tangled webs of absolute horseshit we weave.
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