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Re: Trump campaign approved adviser's trip to Moscow

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 10 Mar 17 2:54 AM | 82 view(s)
Boardmark this board | The Trust Matrix 		Msg. 21294 of 54959
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Does the context matter here?

Trump's campaign was assisted by the Russians (per 17 intelligence agencies). An MI6 dossier contends there was collusion between Trump's campaign and Putin. The question is whether there was.

There was no love lost between Putin and Obama. There's no dossier. So there's no reason for concern about a lobbyist making contact. The comparison is superficial, at best.

Will Republicans care if their candidate was in cahoots with Putin? They ought to. They ought to want to know. If there's no evidence of collusion after a fair and extensive investigation, I expect to set this aside.

But maybe only partisanship matters.

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Re: Trump campaign approved adviser's trip to Moscow
By: xcslewis in ALEA
Fri, 10 Mar 17 2:36 AM 		Msg. 21293 of 54959

Democrat super-lobbyist Tony Podesta was paid $170,000 over a six-month period last year to represent Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, seeking to end one of the Obama administration’s economic sanctions against that country, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.

Podesta, founder and chairman of the Podesta Group, is listed as a key lobbyist on behalf of Sberbank, according to Senate lobbying disclosure forms. His firm received more than $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign governments, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

Podesta is the brother of John Podesta, who was the national campaign chairman for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s losing 2016 campaign for the presidency. Former President Barack Obama imposed the sanctions following the Russian seizure of the Crimean region of Ukraine in 2014.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/06/exclusive-dem-super-lobbyist-podesta-got-170k-to-end-us-sanctions-on-russian-bank/

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