Rachel has just connected another dot in the trump/russia alliance. A mysterious

[mfcorey1]

Russian owned plane that seems to have appeared everywhere that trump appeared during the campaign. Mored to come after the break. This is better than a spy movie. The sad thing is it is real! Feel free to correct anything I got wrong until we can get a video.

[Achilleaze]

1. Shadow jet

The Republican Russian affair has many a peculiar twist

[KewlKat]

2. I don't think he appeared everywhere during the campaign, but certainly quite a few

that makes it seem very peculiar.

[mfcorey1]

6. You are correct!

[kerouac2]

3. Riviting show.

Seriously, she has been on fire. Love love love her show.

[KewlKat]

4. found this about the russian aircraft

The private jet belongs to:

Owner: Dmitry Rybolovlev Registration: M-KATE Type: Airbus 319-133(CJ)
Year: 2012
Seats: 25
Value: US$ 90 million
Owners company: Ural Kali
More info: www.superyachtfan.com/... Dmitry Rybolovlev is the owner of an Airbus A319 business jet. Rybolovlev is a Russian billionaire. He controlled Uralkali, one of the world's largest producers of potash fertilizers. In 2010 Rybolovlev sold his shares in Uralkali for USD 6.5 billion to Suleiman Kerimov. In December 2011, Rybolovlev acquired two thirds of the French-side football club AS Monaco. Dmitry Evgenevich Rybolovlev is also the owner of a large yacht named Anna, after his daughter.

[Volaris]

5. Somebody should do some checking

And see see if he keeps an account in Cyprus at DeutchBank. I'd bet every dollar he has, that he does.

Because in America the oligarchs tell the Government what to do, but in Mother Russia 'Putin is the Czar, and you are his serf (even If you're one of the oligarchs)'.

[Wounded Bear]

7. I'm pretty sure Rachel tied him in with the Cyprus bank Monday night...

Might have to go back and watch that segment again.

[Hekate]

9. She tied him back to Cyprus pretty tightly tonight. She's pulling threads...

...from multiple storylines, then weaving them -- into a rope.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Some people complain...

but I ususally love how she does that night after night.

[monmouth4]

47. I love it because I'm old and she makes it quite clear at a slower pace. n/t

[Hortensis]

46. I am a great Rachel admirer, but let's all remember

she's reporting what others are turning up and reporting the analysis of others. We can bet she's not reporting everything she's being told at this point, either, while others seek to verify and fill in blanks and she and her staff develop the story she will relate over time.

Not to put down what she does so remarkably well at all, but we do need to respect the thousands out there working on this. Not just our own journalists and our intelligence agencies, but those in other countries as well? It seems very likely some have put their lives on the line and some will not survive their efforts to provide information to the world. Rachel is one who will make the most of what they do give her.

[lillypaddle]

49. Nice metaphor

Hope there is enough rope for a noose.

[Ilsa]

16. Louise Mensch (UK) has tied DR and the M-KATE

to Trump as well. Including a recent trip to Palm Beach when 45 and Flynn were present.

[susanna]

21. She (Mensch) has been on this for weeks.

Glad to see someone in the MSM noticing it.

[BadgerMom]

29. She (Mensch) deserves the credit

She was a bit miffed tonight on Twitter when someone else was credited. She recovered quickly. She wants impeachment more than personal recognition, but it is she who deserves the recognition. She has been brilliant.

[susanna]

32. Oh, I know she has - I have been following her for some time.

I understand her frustration, too. She's been working very hard connecting a lot of dots. I hope she gets recognized for the work she has done!

[sarcasmo]

37. Mensch was a little upset on Twitter tonight, all the research she has done and no credit.

[NewRedDawn]

53. Yes this is Louise's research

But glad Rachel brought it mainstream. Keep working Journalists. You are the true defenders of freedom.

[JI7]

23. is this the same guy that bought some property from trump ?

something that nobody uses.

[Ilsa]

35. Yeah, king of fertilizer who bought lots of properties

To cheat his divorcing wife out of the money. Rybolovev.

[Hekate]

8. I watched that segment. My gods, it just goes on and on seemingly forever.

I have so much appreciation for Rachel and the people she brings into her orbit.

[uponit7771]

18. I pray for her life

[mulsh]

10. DC Report.org, David Kay Johnston's non profit site is reporting this info, Rachael is helping it

get out there.
She had Mr. Johnston on her show this evening. Mr. Johnston gave the reporting credit to the author of the article he's posted at his site.

This is yet another reason why we're fortunate that Rachael has a show.

[Gabi Hayes]

27. waiting for that one to load. it might be overwhelmed with hits

it's not connecting as I type, but I'm pretty sure it has a picture of the plane there, along with flight info

this story, which is still not loading, is going to be the foundation, I hope, of the unavoidable shitstorm that should start raining down on these venal crooks

it's not loading, but you can get to it via DC Report

here's the synopsis

no doubt this is where Rachel is getting most of her info

is she attributing it to them?

https://www.dcreport.org/2017/02/25/another-cabinet-pick-with-secret-ties-to-putin-and-oligarchs/

amy goodman interviews johnston and henry here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028737389

[Gabi Hayes]

28. part of dc report synopsis:

A study prepared exclusively for DCReport.org by James S. Henry reveals deep financial ties between Donald Trump’s nominee for Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, and three Russian oligarchs, whose lives and fortunes depend on staying in the good graces of Vladimir Putin.

These connections raise many new questions about Trump’s reliance on the Putin regime, which all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies say interfered in the presidential election on Trump’s behalf, but which Trump disputes.

These relationships between nominee Wilbur Ross and the oligarchs involve ownership and management of a European bank with a reputation for laundering Russian money and making bad loans.

The study also compared flight records of Trump’s campaign plane and a plane used by one of the oligarchs. During the campaign, the two planes often were at the same airports at the same time.

[Gabi Hayes]

38. he's on again, right now. it's the jim henry story, which STILL WILL NOT

load from their DC Report site, as has been mentioned here

wonder if it's overload, as also was suggested

hope so, cause the DC Report site is accessible

[flamingdem]

11. This was noted on twitter right as it happened

As was the mansion story, she's not scooping all of this but she's filling it in

[Wounded Bear]

13. But she's getting it out first over the airwaves in many cases...

good to see some good journalism for a change.

[triron]

14. Louise Mensch was the first to point this out

[CaptainTruth]

15. Sounds like Dmitry Rybolovlev's plane M-KATE. I've been following it.

It was in Palm Beach the weekend Trump & Flynn were there playing golf with Abe, right before Flynn resigned. It arrived in Miami when Trump got to Palm Beach & departed within about 20 minutes of Trump leaving.

[Volaris]

17. Air traffic control would have verifiable logs, right?

[Lithos]

19. It's in a database

If you can get the tail number, you might be able to track it yourself:

http://getawaytips.azcentral.com/track-private-plane-flight-4444.html

Note: sometimes the ultra rich can pay extra to get themselves pulled off of the actual tracking part, though they can't hide some details.

[mchill]

26. Yes, and see my other post for a question about this

A guest on Joy AM said a Russian was visiting Mar-a-lago that weekend, but Joy shut her off saying "that story has not been corroborated."

[mrs_p]

20. Louise Mensch has been

All over this for months.

Check out her twitter feed.

[Leghorn21]

25. Ain't Louise a piece of work?? Does she have ten hands and fifty fingers?? I check her tweets all

day long, but every time I go there I have to "load older tweets" about 6 times to catch up!!

I first found her 3 weeks ago via a Malcolm Nance tweet, and omg omg - this wild woman's going on and on and ON about this "MKATE" and the Ryboloyev (SP!) guy, and others were tweeting that the press corps was holed up in a blacked-out room in the mansion, clueless that DFT and Flynn and Rybolobelv (SP!) and Abe were out there golfing and - well, I've never been quite the same after that night!

She was getting tweeted tonight about Rachel's MKATE, which she was recording for later, and she tweeted the following...so, whoever "AceInCharlotte" is, Louise would like HER to get props for her work on MKATE!:

Louise Mensch
@LouiseMensch

that's not fair, @Maddow - @AceInCharlotte should be on your show. If it's MKATE she and she alone found it
twitter.com/Inspired_Grace…
6:56 PM - 3 Mar 2017

[BadgerMom]

30. +1

[mrs_p]

31. Yeah, she sure tweets a lot

For this to be her evening hobby.

I have a feeling she and I would be in disagreement about many things, but I started following her after the election when she was one of the only (citizen) journalists keeping the Russian Trump reports going. Scott Dworken and Adam Khan are the others who have been putting the pieces together.

[Leghorn21]

34. B-b-but - seems to me she tweets all morning/noon/night, mrs_p! And I believe she has a child or

two and a husband - and, I would assume, a home and a dog and laundry etc?? Hmmm, maybe she's got "help"? But that's good, gives her all this time to set twitterville on FIRE!

Yes, Scott Dworkin and Adam Khan! - and Malcolm Nance, who really jump started my adventures in tweetland - I'm SO grateful these citizen sleuths are working like crazy people to get this nightmare behind us - !!

[mrs_p]

36. Hmm. Intriguing thoughts.

What's your theory? BTW, yes, I agree she is a little too prolific for having a day job, family, and a "real" life for this to be her side gig. You thinking she is the front for a collective or do you think she is possibly a distraction or do you think something other?

Damn this president and his cronies. I've become suspicious that everyone is part of a grand spy ring.

[Leghorn21]

40. Well, I'd have to say it's all her, because her tweets are so very - Louise! But hey, maybe she

dictates to a "collective"? Unknown!!

I just saw gabi's post below - good info - I know she was an MP, is conservative, works for Murdoch?? How - what - BUT also gets published in The Guardian occasionally. Oh, also read last week that she was a consultant or advisor for HRC's campaign as well!? - so, her various gigs in life have put her in a position to have many countless "contacts" all around the world, non?

She has said many times that she loves this country with all her heart and is more than willing to set aside conservative/liberal, right/left stances if it means she can help restore a righteous, robust democracy within the United States of America.

And mrs_p, I believe her.

Also (this just in!) - as of tonight she is loving her some "professor" twitter-sleuth fella I've not heard of before (oh, great, another friggin bookmark!!?):


(((ProfessingProf)))
@ Professing_Prof
Somewhere Near You
Teach law. Support #TheResistance. “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid" Ben Franklin
theprofessingprofessor.com

[Gabi Hayes]

41. her husband is the manager of Metallica, or somesuch job with them

I linked the article that says it, anyway

[mchill]

22. Question

I watched this segment closely and the last connection RM made between Dimitri Rybolovlev and Trump was Rybolovlev ("fertilizer king&quot flying into the Miami Airport from the South of France on a the Friday before the weekend that Trump entertained the Japanese PM at Mar-a-lago.

Now, I was watching Joy AM that weekend, or the following weekend, discussing that Mar-a-lago weekend (frought with other issues) and a female guest on the show mentioned as an interesting fact, a Russian spending that same weekend at Mar-a-lago. Joy quickly shut her off saying "we haven't corroborated that story." I searched and searched for who that woman was or for the video of that segment to find out that woman's name, but couldn't find a thing.

Did anyone else happen to see that and note anything about it?

[Gabi Hayes]

39. was she a brit? mensch:

https://www.google.com/search?q=louise+mensch&biw=958&bih=529&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwip0pPTlbzSAhXh54MKHd8JCCQQ_AUIBygC

former writer/member of parliament

tory!

I think I linked this story....I read it the other day

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/louise-mensch-trump-russia-ties-media-scoop

In the journalistic race to get to the bottom of one of the most closely guarded secrets in Washington – the investigation into the Trump team’s contacts with Moscow – one of the biggest scoops came from an unexpected source: the British former MP and novelist Louise Mensch.

Mensch has lived in New York since resigning as the Conservative MP for Corby in 2012 so that she could spend more time with her children and her American husband, Peter, the manager of the heavy metal band Metallica.

Now 45, the woman born Louise Bagshawe in London who once dominated the chick-lit bestseller lists in the UK has reinvented herself once more: working as an executive for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp by day, and probing Donald Trump’s Moscow connections by night.
Deutsche Bank examined Donald Trump's account for Russia links
Read more

On the eve of the November election, Mensch published a sensational story reporting that a special intelligence court in Washington had granted a warrant to allow the FBI to conduct surveillance of “US persons” in an investigation of possible contacts between Russian banks and the Trump organisation.

metallica!!!!!

and they were making a big deal about FISA warrants today, because it shows that they're onto somebody in the junta.....maybe Flynn

that's the real reason he had to 'resign,' yes?

who's next? after sessions

Tillerson or Ross?

[mchill]

42. I just started following Mensch

Doesn't she have blond hair? This woman had dark hair. Perhaps I can now find a transcript of the show come to think of it.

[Gabi Hayes]

43. did you check the google image I linked? she's been both

british accent?

joy should have back whoever it was, cause it seems her fears of verification should be assuaged

[triron]

24. kick for visibility

[drm604]

33. K&R

[Gabi Hayes]

44. MKATE flight history jpegs from Jim Henry's article at DC Report

sorry for the fuzzy, but>>>>

the article....10 thousand words.....lots of details about the plane:

https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-russian-connections/

[Mike Nelson]

45. Fertilizer man is very interesting...

...love the way Rachel frequently he's into fertilizer!

[Vinca]

48. I've been trying to get on David Cay Johnston's website without luck this morning.

Maybe it's crashed from traffic or something. It's amazing they're tracking tail numbers and following the bad guys around the planet. dcReport.org

[KewlKat]

50. I've been trying that site since I heard the mention on Rachel. Still says

Unable to connect

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at www.dcreport.org.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

[northoftheborder]

51. Journalism at it's best - keep going - thanks for posting - these people are unbelievably brave

[duncang]

52. What about his kids or other of his associates?

Just wondering if that plane turned up at the same place in Africa while his sons were hunting there during the campaign? Or if it turned up in the same spots some of his surrogates were. It could get interesting if it did seem to follow others in his campaign.

[MineralMan]

54. Oh, it's just a coincidence - a series of coincidences...