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Bill Browders Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Could Explain Anthony Scaramuccis Bizarre Behavio (Original Post) Gabi Hayes Jul 2017 OP
It is a long article Gabi, glad you posted it, people should go to the link still_one Jul 2017 #1
Yes. It is Gabi Hayes Jul 2017 #2
K&R! nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2017 #3
JFC!!!! Gabi Hayes Jul 2017 #4
Reading this again in its entirety and I have goosebumps Pachamama Jul 2017 #5
Method in bannon's madness, you say? Gabi Hayes Jul 2017 #8
Must read malaise Jul 2017 #6
Full testimony on CSPAN right here....1:45 Gabi Hayes Jul 2017 #7
K&R kristopher Jul 2017 #9
Thanks for posting this. byronius Jul 2017 #10
Agree this is a must-read. But a pocket full of blow could also explain Mooch's cray. flibbitygiblets Jul 2017 #11

still_one

(92,116 posts)
1. It is a long article Gabi, glad you posted it, people should go to the link
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 11:00 AM
Jul 2017

Here is a brief synopsis:

"Browder’s testimony, which received relatively little coverage, is extraordinary with a senator calling it one of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s “most important” hearings.

In it he describes a Russian system of government that operates in the shadows using corruption, blackmail, torture and murder - all led by Vladimir Putin.

Browder said: “Effectively the moment that you enter into their world, you become theirs.”

Browder was a business person in Russia, and accussed of tax evasion.

He goes on to say essentially that his attorney, Magnitsky, was murdered because he was Browder's lawyer

He describe the reason Putin was so upset with the sanctions was because "Putin was a beneficiary of the stolen $230 million that Sergei Magnitsky exposed", and the U.S.
Magnitsky Act which was passed by Congress, would make Putin personally subject to Magnitsky sanctions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act

The article then goes on to discuss the interactions between trump and Putin, with Putin's main goal to get the sanctions removed, and the Magnitsky Act repealled, with the implication that through Trump's influence that could be accomplished.

I encourage people to read it, because it sheds light on Putin's motivations


 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
2. Yes. It is
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 11:07 AM
Jul 2017

No iPad Adblock makes it almost impossible to copy chunks of text

Frickin MEDIA!!!!!

All they're talking about is how great Kelly is going to be

TRANSFORMATIVE is the buzzword for the day

They STILL allow the nazis to control the dialogue

Pachamama

(16,886 posts)
5. Reading this again in its entirety and I have goosebumps
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 11:37 AM
Jul 2017

It lays it all out of what Putin and his criminal Oligarch Cabal is doing. And there is no way any person can honestly argue that all of the people who were at the meeting with Donald Jr, Manafart and Kushner were coincidentally all the same people tied to the repeal efforts and lobbying effort against the Magnitsky Act and even down to the lawyer that was thrown off the 4th floor (and survived) just days before he was set to testify....in a case Prheet Bahara was working on and that Jeff Sessions Justice Dept conveniently "settled" last month.

There is no doubt in my mind that Putin's objective in all of this created Chaos clusterfuck was to get the Magnitsky act repealed. Why? Because if the reasons that Bill Browder stated - and Putin's vast wealth that he wants to be able to access and that the Magnitsky Act may actually with some of the investigations put his own name and assets in the names of his own "proxies".

Chilling. And how interesting - John McCain is the Senator who helped make the Magnitsky Act happen. Wow. Didn't know that.

And there is no doubt in my mind that the crazy shit this last week being tweeted banning transgenders in military, the boyscout jamboree speech, the Scary Mooch insanity, etc - all distractions from the real issue..... This.....

Oh please Mr Mueller....I really hope you are one of the good guys and you bring this all to justice....

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
8. Method in bannon's madness, you say?
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jul 2017

Trump is bannon's idiot with a phone, just as he's Norquist's idiot with a pen

Thank Lordy that the KGOP's vileness is matched only by their staggering incompetence

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
11. Agree this is a must-read. But a pocket full of blow could also explain Mooch's cray.
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 01:20 PM
Jul 2017

As could the fact that he is just as big an attention-whore as his idol. But honestly I give not a crap for Moochie. Intentional or not, he's a distraction.

The Magnitsky story in it's gory entirety is the reason for this whole shit-show of a presidency, and why the Russians committed cyber-warfare to get tRumplethinskin elected.

And the (still unsigned) Russian sanctions bill is the reason Putin is PISSED.

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