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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump/Russia ... if this is true it's flat out Treason!!
If this is true it's even worse than I suspected.
There has already been so much revealed about Russian ties with many top Trump aids/advisers
But check out this twitter thread that was copied and posted to dailykos
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/23/1646686/-RussiaGate-blows-WIDE-OPEN-in-Abrahamson-report-High-crimes-and-misdemeanors-by-Trump-Sessions
I don't know anything about Seth Abramson so I'm taking it with a grain of salt, but it sure does connect most of the dots
If this is true then Trump and his top advisers are guilty of Treason!
Over and over I keep thinking back to 2 days after the election when Trump went to the White House, and Trump had this permanent scared shitless look on his orange face
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triron
(21,915 posts)Johnny2X2X
(18,744 posts)Tillerson is the Russian connection. Exon-Russia merger that Obama nixed caused them to hack the election. Then Trump names Tillerson SoS, INSANE!!!!
Yavin4
(35,356 posts)He was involved with Iran/Contra. He plead guilty but Bush I pardoned him.
KelleyKramer
(8,848 posts)It's not in this group of tweets, but ... Manafort has ties to James Baker that go back decades
These kind of criminals seem to gravitate to each other
Yavin4
(35,356 posts)People like these cannot be rehabilitated.
Pachamama
(16,874 posts)I'm feeling sick because he and his wife were good friends of my father and know them since I was in highschool after moving to the DC area from Germany. His wife was even a teacher of mine at highschool. I thought back during Iran Contra "how is it possible he could do this?" And I always thought he reflected the anti-Soviet view point of the Reagan administration. That he now appears 30 plus years and is involved with this cabal, makes me sick.
Yavin4
(35,356 posts)From the article:
Doreen
(11,686 posts)We may be able to call him a traitor but isn't that the same? I think Tillerson is swimming deep in it. Hell he is probably the deepest.
H2O Man
(73,320 posts)Seth is good here.
KelleyKramer
(8,848 posts)I don't know anything about him
H2O Man
(73,320 posts)He is good on the Trump-Russian business. What he said today was accurate.
KelleyKramer
(8,848 posts)I wasn't sure about the guy, if you say he's ok then that's good enough for me
Been reading your posts for years, good to see you around!
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)world wide wally
(21,719 posts)KelleyKramer
(8,848 posts)He is a rightwing hack going all the way back to the Senate Whitewater investigations
And of course what he did right before the election
I hope you are right, but I just do not trust him
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)which he at least "appears" not to be.
KelleyKramer
(8,848 posts)Comey came out with a bunch of bullshit to hurt Hillary right before the election
And he 'appears' not to be a Trump fan?
Really?
enid602
(8,524 posts)And also, Flynn, after registering as a foreign agent after the fact, disclosed in the form that he paid $28K to Agent McCaulley (the one who raided Houma Abedin's computer without a warrant) just weeks before the raid. This is all much too wild. Wonder who might have paid/extorted Comey.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)This is like a must read. Co-exists with the Buzzfeed Dossier nicely too.
https://medium.com/@grantstern/trump-russia-dossier-decoded-yes-there-really-was-a-massive-oil-deal-e33370349b67#.nfm8ho4s1
Circumstantial evidence strongly indicates that President Donald J. Trump and his campaign associates brokered a massive oil privatization deal, where his Organization facilitated a global financial transaction to sell Russian Oil stock to its Syrian War adversary, the Emirate of Qatar.
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Donald Trump and Russia conducted the transaction in three phases; Phase 1 began in early 2016 with a meeting of the minds at The Mayflower Hotel to start the deal and a due diligence period, Phase 2 began just before the Republican National Convention and continued through Election Day, and Phase 3 happened after Trumps shocking win and concluding just days before Buzzfeed published the bombshell dossier describing the deal.
The end result allowed Russia to trade stolen emails to help to Donald Trumps election campaign (as well as that of many Republican Congressmen), in exchange for help circumventing American sanctions to transact the sale of Rosneft, which Putin desperately needed to finance his budget deficit.
The Rosneft transaction also purportedly sent a $500 million dollar brokerage fee to Carter Page, or perhaps the Trump Organization.
Here is a comment from CNFI about the April event, downplaying trump interaction with guests, and Kislyak as being just another one of 4 ambassadors; of course trump wouldn't need to be the one in detailed meets with all these people, would he?...
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/statement-regarding-president-trumps-april-27-2016-foreign-19715
The Center for the National Interest invited Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and several other ambassadors to the speech. We regularly invite ambassadors and other foreign representatives to our events to facilitate dialogue. Ambassador Kislyak was one of four foreign ambassadors who attended the speech that day. We seated all four in the front row during the speech in deference to their diplomatic status. The Trump campaign had nothing to do with the seating arrangement.
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And here is another CNFI report confirming the (strange?) mix of ambassadors, and some attendees..
https://cftni.org/recent-events/donald-trump-delivers-foreign-policy-speech/