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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:39 PM Feb 2017

Trump campaign advisors had their own office space in Russia....


Just days after the United States intelligence community exposed four of Donald Trump’s campaign advisors of having colluded with Russian intel agents during the course of the election, now comes another revelation. Adding to the intrigue, two of the four Trump advisors in question allegedly had their own office space in Russia.Earlier this week, former Donald Trump campaign manager and former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone were identified, along with Michael Flynn and Carter Page, as having allegedly colluded by phone with Russian intel agents during the campaign. Manafort’s connection to Russia has long been under the spotlight. During the campaign he was accused of having taken millions of dollars in secret cash payments from the Kremlin while he was trying to get a pro-Kremlin puppet elected in the Ukraine.


Now that the Ukraine has freed itself from Russian control (with the exception of Crimea, which was since invaded by Russia), the Ukrainian press has begun investigative reporting on the dealings of Donald Trump’s associates in that part of the world. The Ukrainian Pravda, which has no connection to the old Soviet Pravda, has reported that Paul Manafort had office space in Kiev, Ukraine, and provided evidence in this article, which you have to run through a translator to read in English. It goes so far as to document Manafort’s named listed on a phone extension in the office. It also reports that Roger Stone had office space in Kiev. But the assertion then goes further.As documented by Scott Dworkin of the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, that same Ukrainian Pravda reporter is also reporting that Paul Manafort and Roger Stone have office space in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It’s not immediately clear what the purpose of that office space was.

Thus far both men are clumsily denying any election collusion with Russia, with Manafort positing that he couldn’t have known if he was speaking with Russian intel officers because they weren’t wearing name badges, and Stone encouraging an investigation in one breath while professing his innocence in the next. But if they weren’t colluding with Russia, why would they have office space there?

http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/two-donald-trump-campaign-advisors-had-their-own-office-space-in-russia/1584/
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Trump campaign advisors had their own office space in Russia.... (Original Post) HipChick Feb 2017 OP
"Paul Manafort and Roger Stone have office space in Saint Petersburg, Russia" dalton99a Feb 2017 #1
Hmmm....definitely something to follow up Lucinda Feb 2017 #2
I was in St Petersburg in January, I didn't see them... pangaia Feb 2017 #3
Didn't see what? yardwork Feb 2017 #4
Manafort, Stone, et al... :)) pangaia Feb 2017 #5
They weren't wandering around Red Square? Lol! yardwork Feb 2017 #6
maybe. Red Square is in Moscow. I was in St. Petersburg. :)) pangaia Feb 2017 #7
Sorry, sorry! I haven't been there... yardwork Feb 2017 #8
I am sorry. I didn't mean to sound... snooty or a know it all pangaia Feb 2017 #9

dalton99a

(81,475 posts)
1. "Paul Manafort and Roger Stone have office space in Saint Petersburg, Russia"
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:40 PM
Feb 2017

What a coincidence:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
The Agency
From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls”
has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities.
By ADRIAN CHEN | JUNE 2, 2015

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
7. maybe. Red Square is in Moscow. I was in St. Petersburg. :))
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 08:07 PM
Feb 2017

at the Mariinsky Theater... Oddly enough seeing an opera version of THE IDIOT at exactly the same time Fuckwad was being sworn in.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
9. I am sorry. I didn't mean to sound... snooty or a know it all
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 08:40 PM
Feb 2017

Although I certainly CAN think I am a know it all.




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