Let me explain how Paul Manafort's TrumpRussia indictments are rolling rapidly from election infere

[MelissaB]

*** THREAD *** Let me explain how Paul Manafort's #TrumpRussia indictments are rolling rapidly from election inference into a replay of the Jack Abramoff scandal, but on STEROIDS, involving the secretive sale of American foreign policy for dark money.

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Well worth the time and click to read this thread.

[emulatorloo]

1. See also Seth Abramson. Election Interference is still on the table

Thanks for the link.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210281665

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[triron]

3. Trump should also be looking at life with him

[OhNo-Really]

6. Love the DU Teamwork. Thank you

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Veeerrrrry intereshting. Top stooge CNN apologist Brian Lanza works for Mercury, when he can pull

His tongue out of trumps rectal fissure.

From one of the hottest threads ever seen here:

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210282279

[OhNo-Really]

7. Teamwork awesome. thank you

makes it so much easier to fit the pieces together.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. Dig this

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-russia-nra-donald-trump-campaign-election-investigation-mueller-banker-money-a8225581.html

From think progress, reporting on McClatchy


Torshin, from his own tweet, at a2016 NRA murder celebration

Robert Mueller’s investigation is probing whether a key Kremlin figure with close ties with the National Rifle Association may have illegally funneled money through the gun-rights group to influence the 2016 election, according to a new McClatchy report.

In November 2016, ThinkProgress examined the NRA’s strange relationship with the leadership of Right to Bear Arms, a Moscow-based pro-gun organization run by a twenty-something activist named Maria Butina and her close friend and boss, the deputy governor of the Russian central bank, Alexander Torshin.

Photo Illustration by Adam Peck. CREDIT: AP Images/Maria Butina
Why has the NRA been cozying up to Russia?

The Right to Bear Arms in Moscow enjoys a close relationship with America’s leading gun-rights group.

Although the NRA promotes gun rights as a defense against tyranny, it had surprisingly close ties to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. Torshin, who is an NRA Life Member, had attended multiple NRA national conventions in the United States and NRA board member and former national president David Keene, NRA First Vice President Pete Brownell, NRA funder Dr. Arnold Goldschlager and his daughter, NRA Women’s Leadership Forum executive committee member Hilary Goldschalger; Outdoor Life channel head Jim Liberatore, and former Milwaukee County Sheriff and NRA supporter David A. Clarke all braved the biting Moscow winter to attend 2015 event hosted by The Right to Bear Arms.

https://thinkprogress.org/fbi-investigating-whether-russia-funneled-money-for-trump-through-the-nra-according-to-new-report-84d66e68ba0c/

Richard Engel covered this last July

[gopiscrap]

4. yup

[OhNo-Really]

5. Fascinating read, thank you

the puzzle pieces are coming together. Hope they indict Rohrbachter (sp ) before. statute of limitation next month!

[OhNo-Really]

8. Jack Abramoff now a foreign lobbyist w/Rohrabacher? Why isn't Jack banned from lobbying?

Disgraced ex-lobbyist Abramoff goes to Africa — to fight Islamic terrorists
The convicted felon teams up with a Congolese strong man and a controversial GOP congressman.

".....The project, as described by Abramoff and Rohrabacher in separate interviews with POLITICO, looks like a reprise of the lobbyist's previous life of wheeling and dealing in Washington and capitals around the world.

Abramoff agreed to act as a liaison between his European friends whom he declined to name, the president of the Republic of Congo, and Rohrabacher to try to establish a coalition of African states to defeat the terrorist group Boko Haram. Abramoff's friends — who Abramoff said he believes have financial investments in Congo — were in talks with the country's controversial president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, to try to enlist the United States to support the coalition.

Abramoff approached Rohrabacher, whom he has known since the 1980s, with a proposal: Could the California Republican, who at one point was mentioned in news reports in relation to a position in the Trump administration, help secure U.S. backing for the African alliance to defeat Boko Haram? At the behest of his European friends, Abramoff also wanted to see if Rohrabacher could arrange for a meeting between Sassou Nguesso and then President-elect Donald Trump...."
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/abramoff-congress-lobbying-rohrabacher-235465

W T H

[Qutzupalotl]

9. unrolled thread for easy reading

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/967170247202664448.html

[FakeNoose]

10. This is awesome

I didn't know about the threadreader website but what a great app. I will definitely use this.

Thanks for sharing this!

[Duppers]

12. K & R

WOW!