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Two Unofficial US Operatives Reporting To Trumps Lawyer Privately Lobbied A Foreign Government In A Bid To Help The President Win In 2020
Reporting directly to Donald Trumps personal lawyer, two operators waged a brazen back-channel campaign that could thrust another foreign country to the center of the next US election.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesallah/rudy-giuliani-ukraine-trump-parnas-fruman
Two unofficial envoys reporting directly to Donald Trumps personal lawyer have waged a remarkable back-channel campaign to discredit the presidents rivals and undermine the special counsels inquiry into Russian meddling in US elections.
In a whirlwind of private meetings, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman who pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into Republican campaigns and dined with the president gathered repeatedly with top officials in Ukraine and set up meetings for Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, as they turned up information that could be weaponized in the 2020 presidential race.
The two men urged prosecutors to investigate allegations against the Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. And they pushed for a probe into accusations that Ukrainian officials plotted to rig the 2016 election in Hillary Clintons favor by leaking evidence against Paul Manafort, Trumps campaign chair, in what became a cornerstone of the special counsels inquiry.
They also waged an aggressive campaign in the United States, staying at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, and meeting with key members of Congress as they joined in a successful push that led to the removal of the ambassador to Ukraine, after she angered their allies in Kiev.
Meanwhile, the two men who both have troubled financial histories rose to prominence in Republican circles, meeting with party leaders while injecting hundreds of thousands of dollars into top Republican committees and dozens of candidates campaigns.
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Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Id say that makes anything coming from the Trump campaign bogus.
Anything.
Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)The Buzzfeed piece is 9 pages long. Most MSM reporting is 6 paragraphs with headlines. The details need to be exposed so people can see just how involved and articulate the plan to subvert the election is. It will not fit under a headline and a few graphs so phone addicts won't read it and streaming news likely won't post the whole.
calimary
(81,238 posts)For the sake of the Short Attention-span Theatre folks.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)This "phone addict" reads pages and pages, even downloads.
But I get the gist of what you're saying: people don't read >.<
That why Mueller had better be forthcoming...damn, wish we could depend on his doing so.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,601 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)I want to hear him testify!
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 22, 2019, 01:25 PM - Edit history (1)
somewhat confusing. What is clear is just how corrupt Giuliani is along with republicans who are funded by Russian oligarchs through a sophisticated network of overseas businesses who were mysteriously created and funded mere months before the election. Republicans are so full of Russian money their eyes are turning green. Imagine the corruption we dont see. Im still curious, did they ever discover who received the missing .05% Roseneft finders fee I believe was about $500 million?
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,256 posts)Was once again just projection on their part. What a surprise.