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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian 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
Here's a link to David Cay Johnston excellent article mentioned in the OP
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2017
#12
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)1. plane spotting!
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)2. Maybe he wants his money back. nt
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)13. the house he bought is haunted?
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)3. No better way to pass along orders from Mordor err Moscow
then on a private plane owned by a Russian.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)4. How y'doin?
spanone
(135,841 posts)5. keeping an eye on their investment.
matt819
(10,749 posts)6. Keeping an eye on his investment?
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.
randr
(12,412 posts)7. Very much like the mafia
They just give you a little companionship until you pay your debt.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)8. I spy creepy..
maybe they're just measuring according to toy size.
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)9. The fertilizer king shadowing the shit king
If you want to find the shit follow the flies.
ananda
(28,864 posts)10. I saw this on Rachel Maddow this morning.
As she said, some coinkydink.
malaise
(269,022 posts)17. Repeat on now n/t
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)11. Louise Mensch was tracking planes via twitter a while back
Not surprising to see the line of enquiry bearing fruit.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)12. Here's a link to David Cay Johnston excellent article mentioned in the OP
This worked a half hour ago and again just now:
https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-russian-connections/
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)14. Kicking, bookmarked. nt
Nitram
(22,803 posts)15. Pass the popcorn. Trump's coming indictment is like watching O.J Simpson's slow-motion
car chase.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)16. #mkate (n/t)