Speaking of Seward (and Russia), here’s a picture from an Islamic school in Chechnya - “we returned Crimea. We’ll return Alaska as well”
If that’s not enough, here’s a video from cadets of a RU military school, promising “Uncle Vova (Vladdy)” to “die in fulfilling his orders” and return, among other places, Alaska to Mother Russia.
What do you say, Steve Bannon?
The Kush in the spotlight… Prediction desiger jump suit & non consensual butt sex…lots of butt sex
It must be Friday…
President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, failed to disclose what lawmakers called a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite” involving a banker who has been accused of links to Russian organized crime, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Kushner rebuffed the request after receiving a lengthy email exchange about it between a West Virginia man and Trump campaign aide Rick Dearborn, the sources said.
“Pass on this,” Kushner responded, according to a letter Lowell sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday evening. “A lot of people come claiming to carry messages. Very few we are able to verify. For now I think we decline such meetings.”
However, Torshin was seated with the candidate’s son, Donald Trump Jr., during a private dinner on the sidelines of a May 2016 NRA event during the convention in Louisville, according to an account Torshin gave to Bloomberg. Congressional investigators have no clear explanation for how that came to be, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Spanish anti-corruption officials have identified Torshin as a “godfather” in the Russian mafia — something Torshin has denied.
One source familiar with Kushner’s testimony before congressional intelligence committees said he specifically denied, under oath, that he was familiar with any attempts by WikiLeaks to contact the campaign. But, according to the source, Kushner was sent an email by Trump Jr. about his conversations on Twitter with WikiLeaks, which were first disclosed by the Atlantic this week. Kushner forwarded an email about the WikiLeaks conversations to communications director Hope Hicks, the source said. A second source familiar with Kushner’s testimony did not dispute that account.
And there’s more. Kushner’s in some shit.
Senate Judiciary Committee leaders said on Thursday that Trump campaign officials had handed over “communications with Sergei Millian, copied to Mr. Kushner,” that Kushner had apparently failed to disclose voluntarily.
Millian is also believed to be a key source in a collection of unverified memos known as the Steele dossier — named after its author, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. The memos outline Trump and his campaign members’ ties to Russian officials and allege Moscow and the Trump campaign worked hand in hand at points to influence the US election.
ABC reported in January that “while the published [Trump-Russia] dossier never names Millian, a version provided to the FBI included Millian’s name as a source.” The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal reported later that Millian was either source “D” or “E” in the dossier, which Millian has denied.
Source D, according to the dossier, had been “present” for Trump’s alleged “perverted conduct in Moscow.”
Source E, meanwhile," acknowledged that the Russian regime had been behind the recent leak of embarrassing e-mail messages, emanating from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to the WikiLeaks platform," according to the dossier.
Source E also claimed that the Trump campaign and Russia had moles in the Democratic Party; that US-based “cyber operators” were coordinating attacks on the DNC and Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta; and that these operators were being paid covertly via Russian “diplomatic staff” in “key” US cities via that Russia’s emigre pension system.
BWA-HA-HA
Who’s Aleksandar Torshin? Well, think of a stereotypical image of a “bookkeeper for the mob”, amplify 1000 times the amount of money he handles and make him prone to extreme violence, despite his “accountant” appearance.
A must read about “The Godfather” Torshin and the useful idiots in the NRA…
Jesus. There have been theories floating around that the GOP is complicit in this Russia scandal too. It’s things like this that make me believe it.
April 10, 2015: Butina, Torshin and Keene meet future Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker during an event in Tennessee.
July 11, 2015: Maria Butina attends Trump Freedom Fest rally in Las Vegas and poses a question to the Republican candidate: “I’m from Russia. My question will be about foreign politics. If you will be elected as president, what will be your foreign politics, especially in the relationships with my country? Do you want to continue the policy of sanctions that are damaging both economies? Or [do you] have any other ideas?”
Trump replies: “I know Putin, and I’ll tell you what, we’ll get along with Putin. … I would get along very nicely with Putin, I mean, where we have the strength. I don’t think you’d need the sanctions. I think we would get along very, very well.”
Nov. 12, 2016: Butina celebrates her birthday with a costume party in Washington, DC. attended by several Trump’ campaign consultants.
January 20, 2017: Maria Butina and Paul Erickson attended the invitation-only Freedom Ball to celebrate Donald Trump’s swearing in as President of the United States.
Feb. 2, 2017: Torshin and Butina are excited to meet newly-elected President Donald Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast. Their hopes are dashed at the last minute when a White House national security aide notices Torshin’s name and flags him as a figure who had “baggage,” a reference to his suspected ties to organized crime, according to Yahoo News.
I didn’t realize that. Here’s where he’s mentioned…along with the overly-decorated Sheriff Clarke.
December 2015: An NRA delegation travels to Moscow to meet with Dmitry Rogozin, the deputy prime minister in charge of Russia’s defense industry who is a subject of US sanctions. The delegation consists of David Keene, Paul Erickson, and Milwaukee County, Wisconsin sheriff David A. Clarke. Right to Bear Arms pays $6,000 for Clarke’s meals, hotel, transportation, and entertainment. (Daily Beast story)
He looks like he’s applying for a job as a waiter at TGI Fridays.
Kush is a hero they say… Saw it on TV… His lawyers say he wanted nothing to do with Russia…He kept meeting them to say no
Well, something’s brewing in Hungary…
Megyesy said he met with Page at the request of Réka Szemerkényi, the Hungarian ambassador to the United States. Megyesy did most of the talking, he said.
Réka Szemerkényi (it’s a she) was the Hungarian ambassador to the United States who boasted of having unprecedented access to the Trump team prior to the election through the infamous Sebastian Gorka.
She met President-elect Trump three times in the period of two months and even had three separate meetings with Jeff Sessions (meetings with an ambassador? Why?), not to mention regularly meeting other Trump associates as can be seen from her social media feed.
In a highly unusual move, she’s been unceremoniously fired and pulled back to Hungary, which is very uncommon for an ambassador in DC.
Sources in the Hungarian opposition media (well, those that still exist) note that the snap decision by the Hungarian pro-Putin president Orban to remove Reka from her post came just days after Muller was appointed special prosecutor.
How many Logan Act violations are we up to now? I’ve lost count…
Damn, guys…
What the hell were all these meetings for…to negotiate better prices on Vodka, Kolbasa, and Borscht for Trump’s Hotels and Resorts???
That’s the thing…none of them know. They all dun forgot.
What meetings? I don’t remember any meetings.
What’s RUSSIA?!
This is a very interesting thread…
