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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt just gets worse every day with revelations on Republicans
and ties to Russia oligarchs
Former Senator Bob Dole's law firm represents Oligarchs (https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/new-clues-emerge-about-the-mystery-mueller-grand-jury-case)
Then this thread on twitter: (notice how Russian lawyer got prime seat behind McPaul at hearing--how did she get that seat?)
Link to tweet
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The interesting thing here is that we have our share of deplorables, but a good percentage of those people are true patriots, DeSantis won't be allowed to betray us.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Are in a fast moving spiral downward , and they didn't learn anything from the Mid Terms its looking like. 2020 is going to be much , much worse for them after this now. trump has zero chance of running, especially with a Senate taken back by the Democrats.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,013 posts)KPN
(15,646 posts)our political and financial systems from the day he took the reins in Russia. This didnt just happen in the past few years.
We won the Cold War or so we thought. We let our guard down. We destroyed the USSR and, with it, replaced communism with budding democracy. But there was still Russia and Putin.
ffr
(22,671 posts)Trumps longtime lawyer Marc Kasowitz is representing Russian Govt owned Sberbank against accusations of corporate raiding, even as he represents Trump in the Russiagate case. Apparently, Sberbank agreed to fund an Agalarov project which might include a Trump Tower in Moscow. Sberbank is also a major owner of KAMAZ, which is a long-time partner to Cummins where US VP Pences brother is also VP.
Yesterday the New York Times reported re the Agalarovs of Trump, Jr. email infamy:m The elder Mr. Agalarov had been talking with Mr. Trump about building a Trump Tower in Moscow as part of a $3 billion real estate project involving hotels, a shopping center and office space.
Sberbank was ready to make it happen .. Read A Russian Developer Helps Out the Kremlin on Occasion. Was He a Conduit to Trump? By NEIL MacFARQUHARJULY 16, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/world/europe/aras-agalarov-trump-kremlin.html
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KAMAZ is a longtime partner of Cummins where US VP Pences brother is a VP. KAMAZ is part of Rostec State Corporation, one of a handful of Russian companies which are directly owned by the Russian Federation and who answer more directly to Putin than some Russian state owned entities.
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Currently the Russian government owns 73.4% of KAMAZ via Rostec at 49.9%, 51% Russian government owned Sberbank - Mining Awareness
Oh yes, Mike Pence, the former governor of Indiana, headquarters of Cummins Diesel whose VP up until 12/8/17 was Ed Pence, Vice President Mike Pence's brother.
There's the Pense linchpin I could never figure out,why Manafort chose to push Pense onto Trump.
Big puzzle piece falls into place.
This is a gigantic fucking conspiracy, good lord.
calimary
(81,332 posts)PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)Instantly elected to US House of Representatives without any government experience and now governor of Florida? Manchurian candidate? or should I say, Moscow candidate?
hibbing
(10,098 posts)His whole administration should have all failed theirs.
Peace
debsy
(530 posts)Yet, Occam's Razor allows me to draw this conclusion: The Russians have been cultivating assets across the country for decades, working with the global elite (Koch bros, Adelson, Davos/Prince, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc) to get a stranglehold on our federal, state, and - dare I say - local governments, and we are seeing their labor come to fruition. This is how Vlad and the Saudis have maintained their power and they are propping up puppet governments around the globe using cyber warfare and strategically placed assets. Brexit, Turkey, Brazil, Hungary, Israel (Netanyahu is a criminal too). I'm sure there are more that I have missed...