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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump campaign advisors had their own office space in Russia....
Just days after the United States intelligence community exposed four of Donald Trumps 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. Manaforts 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 Trumps 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 Manaforts 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. Its 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 couldnt have known if he was speaking with Russian intel officers because they werent wearing name badges, and Stone encouraging an investigation in one breath while professing his innocence in the next. But if they werent 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
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dalton99a
(81,475 posts)1. "Paul Manafort and Roger Stone have office space in Saint Petersburg, Russia"
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
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)2. Hmmm....definitely something to follow up
pangaia
(24,324 posts)3. I was in St Petersburg in January, I didn't see them...
In fact on January 20...
yardwork
(61,599 posts)4. Didn't see what?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)5. Manafort, Stone, et al... :))
yardwork
(61,599 posts)6. They weren't wandering around Red Square? Lol!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)7. maybe. Red Square is in Moscow. I was in St. Petersburg. :))
at the Mariinsky Theater... Oddly enough seeing an opera version of THE IDIOT at exactly the same time Fuckwad was being sworn in.
yardwork
(61,599 posts)8. Sorry, sorry! I haven't been there...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)9. I am sorry. I didn't mean to sound... snooty or a know it all
Although I certainly CAN think I am a know it all.