Remember Alfa Bank and the Trump server? Deja Vu.
What was a Russian bank — Alfa Bank — sending to a Trump server during the 2016 election? Information? Back-channel voice communication? Some digital linkage in a scheme to transfer money? (that is what banks do, right? Handle money?)
Why was the Trump server also communicating with Spectrum Health? The Health Care Company owned by Dick DeVos — husband of Betty DeVos, our new Education Secretary? A family that has contributed over two hundred million dollars to the Republican Party over the years, but supposedly didn’t fund Trump during the election?
And why did the Trump organization shut down their server in late September, during the election, when the New York Times started asking questions about it?
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/20/1645280/-Alpha-Bank-Putin-Trump-and-Betsy-DeVos-Why-the-bizarre-Russian-Trump-computer-connections
Richard Burt is the chairman of the advisory council for The National Interest, the in-house journal of the Center for the National Interest, where Trump delivered his maiden foreign-policy speech last April. He is also a member of the senior advisory board of Russia’s Alfa Bank, a major Moscow financial institution which, thus far, has escaped Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
Burt was recruited by Paul Manafort to help the Trump campaign write a speech that tried to define his foreign-policy vision. Burt has also repeatedly defended Trump’s foreign-policy ideas, including during periods of time when Trump was under attack for not having enough support from well-respected foreign-policy experts.
On Oct. 31, reporter Franklin Foer broke the story that a group of cybersecurity experts had tracked regular internet communications between Donald Trump’s organization and Alfa Bank.
According to experts interviewed by Foer, Trump’s organization registered a server in 2009 that was mostly responsible for sending mass emails. Recently, however, the server’s traffic was reduced to a suspiciously small amount of data—smaller than what a single person would receive via email in a single day. The server appears to have been designed to allow communications only between Trump’s organization and two other organizations, with 87 percent of those communications taking place with one of two servers belonging to Alfa Bank.
Alarmingly, the communications patterns appeared to many experts who spoke with Foer to be human-to-human communication, rather than automated mail. But the frequency of the messages also seemed to correspond to the news cycle’s focus on the connection between Trump and Russia. Furthermore, after journalists contacted Alfa Bank, Trump’s server was shut down, potentially indicating that Alfa warned Trump’s office that the server was facing scrutiny. Four days later, a new server was set up by the Trump organization.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-russia-all-the-moguls-men
And to bring us up to date -
" President Trump’s nominee to run the Justice Department’s criminal division, Brian A. Benczkowski, has disclosed that he did work for the bank, whose owners have ties to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin."
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/politics/brian-benczkowski-justice-alfa-bank.html
In the position in the DOJ, Benczkowsi will be, if confirmed. able to divulge the details of the Russia investigation to Donald Trump.
He has not been confirmed yet, needs full Senate confirmation.
Man the phones and call your Senators.
This will be my last thread on the subject, I know I've been harping on it, but it's damn important and needs exposure.
Thanks for your patience and forbearance.