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This is not news - it's speculation by Louise Mensch - but it sure makes sense and she seems to have some intelligence connections.
I believe that Jared Kushner is on tape talking to a Russian spy. Worse, I believe that as part of entirely legal and admissible FISA evidence, Donald Trump is also on tape talking to a Russian spy about money laundering.
Here is my reasoning. First,the facts. I reported that two Russian banks, SVB Bank and Alfa Bank, were the subjects, the named targets, of the FISA warrant looking at Russian money being laundered into the Trump campaign. This was a world exclusive on November 7th.
Permission was granted for the FBI to look at intercepts that involved US persons as they related to this campaign / money laundering.
Boris Epshteyn was named in an earlier version of this case to the court, and the warrant was then denied. But it is not a different case; rather, minimization was applied by the FBI before the warrant was granted.
Those are the facts of the matter on the warrant. It is also factually true that Jeff Sessions met with Kislyak, a spy recruiter, and perjured himself over it. It is further factually true that Jared Kushner snuck Kislyak into Trump Tower. Lastly, it is factually true that Jared Kushner met Gorkov, an FSB spy, at the request of Kislyak,
Second, informed speculation.
I believe that on March 3rd, Michael Ellis, newly placed in the White House, gave Donald Trump some very bad news (illegally). First he told him that Kislayaks phone calls had been intercepted and his meetings taped as is normal. Hence Jeff Sessions conversations with the spy-master were on tape. Worse, Ellis told Trump, members of Donald Trumps own family had been taped talking to that same Russian ambassad
https://patribotics.blog/2017/03/28/kushner-and-trump-taped-at-secret-trump-tower-meetings-with-russians/
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)unfold...
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)That might explain the bank server communications every 61 minutes, another money transfer in the amount just below reporting requirements?
brooklynite
(94,483 posts)And the maximum allowable was still $2,700.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)brooklynite
(94,483 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)brooklynite
(94,483 posts)"THIS: "... it was about Russian money being funneled into the Trump campaign...."
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)flagging as "too frequent" ...but I'm out of my element here!
PJMcK
(22,023 posts)Ms. Mensch guesses about some rather potent potential trouble for the president and his team. It will be interesting (and frightening) to see how this story develops.
In the article, she makes a brilliant observation: "Trump garbled this because he is galactically stupid." She's a wonderful wordsmith.
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L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Given the WH counsel had ordered Russia-related document preservation during the week, I suspect the WH had been served a subpoena for said docs that week. Then Trump and advisors knew they were investigation targets and perhaps knew they had been caught red-handed, so they had to come up with a defense strategy. Guilty and caught leads to the need to get the evidence thrown out, so they started blaming Obama and calling it political spying.
Mensch thinks that someone else informed trump, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Special Counsel, Michael Ellis, who now works for Trump.
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TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)(and many might think that was reason enough!) ...but because, if this version is true, it might finally put some bipartisan steam behind the effort to get f-ing DARK MONEY out of elections!
It's disgusting that there are people out there who don't care if their elections are bought by DOMESTIC plutocrats, crooks, and robber-barons. But most of those people at least CLAIM to be against having their elections bought by FOREIGN plutocrats, crooks, and robber-barons.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Didn't the IC deny this?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And then he goes to Trump Tower, probably carrying a cell phone with a microphone. Since he is under surveillance, they probably can turn on any and all devices around him to listen in, except microwave ovens, of course. So all laptop and phone cameras and microphones would be tuned to the conversation.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Lester, lets get up on the Echo Dots, they have one in every room of the trap house, souvlaki platter for lunch from the Greek?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)but other phones in Trump Tower surely were - Paul Manafort lives there. The building has over 40 floors and donnie is far from the only person that lives there.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)The lawyer for the investigating committee went to the White House to represent trump.
Wow, does that ever scream "We need a special prosecutor."
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L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)with her revelations over the past months. She's very well connected in the UK and a former MP
jmg257
(11,996 posts)How the hell were these meetings taped???
No wonder this shit is classified.