Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal...
Source: business insider
Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted
A dossier with unverified claims about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia contained allegations that Igor Sechin, the CEO of Russia's state oil company, offered former Trump ally Carter Page and his associates the brokerage of a 19% stake in the company in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on Russia.
The dossier says the offer was made in July, when Page was in Moscow giving a speech at the Higher Economic School. The claim was sourced to "a trusted compatriot and close associate" of Sechin, according to the dossier's author, former British spy Christopher Steele.
"Sechin's associate said that the Rosneft president was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft," the dossier said. "In return, Page had expressed interest and confirmed that were Trump elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted."
Four months before the intelligence community briefed Trump, then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and the nation's top lawmakers on the dossier's claims most of which have not been independently verified but are being investigated by US intelligence agencies a US intelligence source told Yahoo's Michael Isikoff that Sechin met with Page during Page's three-day trip to Moscow. Sechin, the source told Yahoo, raised the issue of the US lifting sanctions on Russia under Trump.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Ronald Reagan is no doubt rolling & retching in his grave as he sees the Latter Day Republicans sell out all the frikken way.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)And provided great Soviet PR, besides.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)riversedge
(70,245 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)He doesn't do anything that doesn't benefit him or his family.
We are soooooo fcuked!!!
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)And yes, we are absolutely fucked.
tinrobot
(10,903 posts)ananda
(28,867 posts)Trump is as corrupt a traitor as ever was!
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Know who introduced Carter Pagevto the Trump campaign? Sen. Jeff Sessions. Dear God, we need an independent counsel!
KT2000
(20,584 posts)1 + 1 = 2
wonder what Dump's share is.