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Jimbo101

(776 posts)
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 04:13 PM Mar 2017

Russian Oligarch's Plane Shadowed Donald Trump's Plane (VIDEO)

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A jetliner belonging to the Russian oligarch who had previously bought a Florida mansion from Donald Trump shadowed the candidate's plane to at least four US cities - three during the campaign and one since the inauguration.

That seems like an awful lot of coincidence, especially given how much concern the Trump campaign expressed over Bill Clinton's impromptu and ill-advised visit with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on an airport tarmac. Remember the chants of "lock her up"? That was so Hillary Clinton's emails ago.

Dmitry Rybolovlev visited Las Vegas in late October, then tiny Concord and Charlotte, North Carolina five days before the election in November. His plane was also in Palm Beach on the February weekend when Trump held an impromptu national security meeting in front of Mar a Lago diners.

Rybolovlev once purchased a $95 million home from Trump in a deal that appears to have been brokered by Trump's secretary of commerce, Wilbur Ross, in order to shelter assets from Rybolovlev's wife during a nasty divorce. Rybolovlev is also a shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus, where Ross was a vice president until his confirmation by the US Senate. The bank specializes in catering to Russian ‘flight capital.'

The matching flight patterns were the subject of an article published yesterday at DCReport.org, the new website of journalist and author David Cay Johnston. It crashed shortly after Rachel Maddow covered their story in her evening broadcast at MSNBC and remains unavailable at press time.
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Russian Oligarch's Plane Shadowed Donald Trump's Plane (VIDEO) (Original Post) Jimbo101 Mar 2017 OP
plane spotting! KittyWampus Mar 2017 #1
Maybe he wants his money back. nt Buns_of_Fire Mar 2017 #2
the house he bought is haunted? KittyWampus Mar 2017 #13
No better way to pass along orders from Mordor err Moscow lapfog_1 Mar 2017 #3
How y'doin? DefenseLawyer Mar 2017 #4
keeping an eye on their investment. spanone Mar 2017 #5
Keeping an eye on his investment? matt819 Mar 2017 #6
Very much like the mafia randr Mar 2017 #7
I spy creepy.. stillcool Mar 2017 #8
The fertilizer king shadowing the shit king superpatriotman Mar 2017 #9
I saw this on Rachel Maddow this morning. ananda Mar 2017 #10
Repeat on now n/t malaise Mar 2017 #17
Louise Mensch was tracking planes via twitter a while back Lucinda Mar 2017 #11
Here's a link to David Cay Johnston excellent article mentioned in the OP Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #12
Kicking, bookmarked. nt Maru Kitteh Mar 2017 #14
Pass the popcorn. Trump's coming indictment is like watching O.J Simpson's slow-motion Nitram Mar 2017 #15
#mkate (n/t) EarthFirst Mar 2017 #16

matt819

(10,749 posts)
6. Keeping an eye on his investment?
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 04:37 PM
Mar 2017

1. $95 million for a house? Looks more and more like money laundering or a payoff.

2. No way this plane following is a coincidence. At the very least the secret service would consider it s security threat. The fact that it has continued must mean that it has their, or 45's approval. Still creepy and suspicious.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
11. Louise Mensch was tracking planes via twitter a while back
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 05:44 PM
Mar 2017

Not surprising to see the line of enquiry bearing fruit.

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