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Fri Dec 14, 2018, 01:04 AM Dec 2018

Should We Be Asking Where Alexander Torshin Is?

And why he disappeared? Maybe this is why Manafort has clammed up.

“Russian operative Maria Butina has cut a cooperating plea deal today, after a few weeks of increasingly loud hints that she was planning to do so. This is bad news for Donald Trump, the NRA, John Bolton, Dana Rohrabacher, and a number of other people. But as it turns out, it’s really bad news for Butina’s handler in the Russian government.

By all accounts, Maria Butina was taking direct instructions from Vladimir Putin’s ally Aleksandr Torshin, who has previously held high positions in the Russian government, and has most recently been a top official in a Putin-controlled Russian bank. But ten days ago, just as news reports were getting louder that Butina was about to flip, Torshin quietly “resigned” from the bank out of the blue. Now Rachel Maddow is reporting on MSNBC that Torshin appears to have vanished entirely.

By all accounts, Maria Butina was taking direct instructions from Vladimir Putin’s ally Aleksandr Torshin, who has previously held high positions in the Russian government, and has most recently been a top official in a Putin-controlled Russian bank. But ten days ago, just as news reports were getting louder that Butina was about to flip, Torshin quietly “resigned” from the bank out of the blue. Now Rachel Maddow is reporting on MSNBC that Torshin appears to have vanished entirely.

This tells you just how costly and dangerous the Trump-Russia scandal is becoming on Vladimir Putin’s end. That’s before getting to whichever American participants were just given up by Maria Butina. It’s time for everyone in this scandal to panic.”

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/handler-maria-butina-disappears-plea/14643/

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Should We Be Asking Where Alexander Torshin Is? (Original Post) Me. Dec 2018 OP
Palmer Report-I always hope their reporting is accurate. redstateblues Dec 2018 #1
What Makes This Credible Me. Dec 2018 #3
Maybe he was not important enough to Putin so as not to fall out of a window... pecosbob Dec 2018 #2
So When Does The Body Make An Appearance Me. Dec 2018 #4
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