FBI Director Christopher Wray said the FBI has seen "very active efforts" by Russia to influence the 2020 election, primarily to "sow divisiveness and disorder" and "denigrate Vice President Biden." Aired on 09/17/2020.
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FBI Director Says Russia Trying 'Primarily To Denigrate' Biden In Election Interference | MSNBC
Republican campaign finance reports, which are, available to the public, show connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. Bottom line, our campaign finance laws are now a threat to our country.
Len Blavatnik, is a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnik’s family emigrated to the U.S. in the late ’70s from the the Soviet Union and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late ’80s.
In 2015-16, Blavatnik’s political contributions soared as he pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders including Moscow Mitch, Rubio and Lindsey “Two-faced” Graham..
Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Putin’s favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia’s Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the world. Blavatnik holds a stake in Rusal with a business partner.
Nearly 4% of Deripaska’s stake in Rusal is owned by Putin’s state-controlled bank, VTB, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. VTB was exposed in the Panama Papers in 2016 for facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to offshore companies linked to Putin..
We already know that Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, began collecting $10 million a year in 2006 from Deripaska to advance Putin’s interests with Western governments. Deripaska’s name turned up again in an email handed over to Mueller’s team by Manafort’s attorneys. In the email dated July 7, 2016, just two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican nomination, Manafort asked an overseas intermediary to pass a message on to Deripaska: “If he Deripaska needs private briefings, tell him we can accommodate.”
Viktor Vekselberg is one of the 10 richest men in Russia. He and long-time business partner Blavatnik hold a 20.5 percent stake in Rusal. Vekselberg has connections to at least two Americans who made significant GOP campaign contributions during the last cycle.
Andrew Intrater, is Vekselberg’s cousin. He is also chief executive of Columbus Nova, Renova’s U.S. investment arm located in NY. in January 2017 he contributed $250,000 to Trump’s Inaugural Committee. His six-figure gift bought him special access to a dinner billed as “an intimate policy discussion with select cabinet appointees,”
Simon Kukes is an oil magnate who has something in common with Intrater. From 1998 to 2003, he worked for Vekselberg and Blavatnik as chief executive of TNK. In 2016, Kukes contributed a total of $283,000, much of it to the Trump Victory Fund.
In total, Blavatnik, Intrater, and Kukes made $10.4 million in political contributions from the start of the 2015-16 election cycle through September 2017, and 99 percent of their contributions went to Republicans. The common denominator that connects the men is their association with Vekselberg.
Moscow Mitch knew from receiving intelligence briefings in 2016 that our electoral process was under attack by the Russians. Two weeks after the Dept of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement in October 2016 that the Russian government had directed the effort to interfere in our electoral process, Moscow Mitch’s PAC accepted a $1 million donation from Blavatnik’s AI-Altep Holdings. The PAC took another $1 million from Blavatnik’s AI-Altep Holdings on March 30, 2017, just 10 days after Comey publicly testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Russia’s interference in the election..
It’s safe to say that Trump and the GOP have been bought and paid for with Russian money.
It’s why repubicans are fighting so hard to defend him instead of the Constitution. It’s also why Republicans have been repeating the exact same lies and propaganda of the Russian government and Russian security services like the GRU.
The three stages of money laundering are PLACEMENT, LAYERING, and INTEGRATION. Placement refers to the process by which the individual or organization introduces illicit money into the legitimate economy. This first step often involves breaking up large amounts of illegally obtained cash into smaller, less conspicuous amounts, which are then deposited directly into bank accounts or converted into monetary instruments such as checks or money orders.
Once the money has been deposited into the economy, an individual layers the money through repeated transactions, establishing a paper trail that creates the appearance that the money was obtained legitimately through investments in real estate, art, gambling, or payments for goods and services. One common method for doing so is by creating anonymous shell corporations, which allow people to do business without disclosing the identities of the ultimate beneficial owners. The money launderer may pass the money through multiple bank accounts or shell corporations, thus further obfuscating its origins.
The final stage is integration, whereby the funds re-enter the legitimate economy through more transparent purchases of assets or services.
@Jeff Gibson I guess you’re not too brilliant or just don’t do your homework.1-2 examples: Andrew Intrater CEO of Columbus Nova. They are affiliated with COUSIN Vikter Vekselberg oligarchs close ties to Putin. A $250,000 donation number two: Stephanie Winston wolkoff melania’s friend open the so-called shell event for Trump inauguration 6 weeks prior. She was paid 26 million dollars for fake event. Who got paid under the table?
@Jeff Gibson you might want to do some homework. Andrew Intrater CEO Columbus Nova, affiliate with his cousin Viktor Vekselberg oligarchs close to Putin; donated 250,000 to Trump’s inaugural fund. Trump had multi billionaire millionaire oligarchs at his inauguration that they said donated Millions107 million missing. Number2. Melania Trump’s friend Stephanie Winston Wilcoff set up a shell events six weeks prior to the inauguration. She was reported to make 26 million dollars, and that’s just for a portion of the event. I could go on but you guys exhaust me. You just listen to what Trump says in don’t ask for the truth or facts and you just listen to the serial liar. It’s unconscionable how incorrigible …..
@Angelique Nova Will you tell me where I can send money to the Inauguration?
@Angelique Nova Vekselberg is the guy Hillary lied about when she said he never visited her home. am I right?
@Jeff Gibson seldom right and wrong again
Looking forward to the day in 2021 when FBI agents drag t’rump out of Maralago on tax fraud.
He’s gonna pull a David Karesh
Tax fraud ? Get a life lol everyone schemes the system somehow some way .
Ro G…I believe that Wray has been having to lay low and “play both sides” in order to keep doing his job, of gathering information, documents, evidence, etc.etc..on trump, people in his administration and Russia. When Biden is president I’m pretty sure Wray with hand over TONS of intel info to Biden and “Biden and his people” will sit down with Wray and his people and be “informed” about exactly what trump and “his people” have been doing. Wray seems to be the only one left in this administration actually trying to do his job without trump’s constant interference. trump may fire him now but it may be close to election to do that..
@Ro G “Heard mentality” when it’s actually “Herd immunity”. I laughed so hard when he said that…oh my!😮🙄
@Barbara Roberts Yeah! Just when you think t’rump can’t get any more stupid…bam! And I bet in his mind he was thinking “heard mentality.” 😂🤣
Imagine saying Biden is senile and voting for the guy running around bragging he took a test for dementia.
He took the test because the media made him curious enough to take it. He’s really smart. Are you smart?
I am sure Russia wants trump because he will make us a stronger better country. Wake up people.
William H, you just keep on regenerating don’t you? Funny little Q bot.
I still laugh
when I think about it! Person woman man camera TV!😂😂😂😂😂😂 and he was proud to get a reword if he remembered all of it! He even told Chris’s Wallace that he couldn’t have done it! 😂😂😂😂😂
@Jeff Gibson Yup, the smartest CON ARTIST we’ve ever seen. 🤦♂️😡😡🤘
CHUMP “French Fries – Doritos – Cocaine – 3 AM Twitter Rant – Sleep – You get more enjoyment if you do them in order!”
David Waring…You forgot “daily rallies”, daily “fake press briefings” and ‘watching Fox news” for 8 hours! I am positive trump is not sleeping at all right now. Bob Woodward said that trump is “up all night roaming the white house halls not sleeping” and he was calling Woodward in the middle of the night. trump may be hyper manic, but what is he taking to keep a 73 year old man going like the energizer bunny, without sleep? He may be hyper manic but his body isn’t and he will crash and burn soon.
Buffoon is a compulsive habitual LIAR
When Trump talks I hear bla bla blabla💩☠️🙄
You must be very intelligent.
Republicans did nothing to make voting hack proof. They work with Russia now.
7 GOP visited Russia shortly after Trump stole office. When they returned, the vast majority of the republican party fell into lockstep with Trump’s agenda. That was not a coincidence.
DM Tea the gop has been taking Russian rubles for years,the gop senate is complicit,that’s why the traitors remain silent over dumps treason
You mean they work “for” Russia now.
@Fred A – A few months ago the “media” said the Russians wanted Bernie to win. Bernie and the right are soooooo in lock step. Single ticket Democrats are funny.
This guy was appointed by Trump and even he is saying that Russia is interfering. But Barr said that China is the biggest country that is interfering? Barr, Trumps personal attorney running cover for the boss.
The GOP’s nomination for president – Micheal Cohen’s criminal unindicted co-conspirator, Madman Trump.
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Wait for it… Trump will claim Wray didn’t understand the question 🤣 🤣 🤣
I just saw a cite on google called “FiveThirtyEight” that says that black votes are being rejected more then white peoples votes in North Carolina.
What they are doing is so so wrong
@Sandy Allen And what are they doing that is so right?
The Russians have Trump in their back pocket. They have black mailed Trump and the republicans. Why do you think they just go after Biden. They know Trump will deliver what they want.
I see the Russian delegation has weighed in here.
Russia Russia Russia…..when it should be Israel Israel Israel….. I have never heard Russia denigrate Biden…..(I do watch RT and Sputnik) I have heard american media denigrate Putin nonstop. I will probably called a Russian bot or part of” the Russian delegation” for this comment, but only the inbred hick moronic mind will deny that what I said is the truth….😅
@David Adams
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you DON’T VOTE FOR TRUMP AGAIN!!!
do do di do do do di do di do🎵🎶
@Paul Ferrante I love Jim Crocé….. I’m not an American….anyway yous have a defacto 1 party country ruled by the oligarchs via the Pentagon … meaning that America is not a democracy and in practice, not even a constitutional republic anymore
I’ve asked Putin if he’s done it Trump says he Bluemoon says he didn’t
Who elect the president?? ,,,,,American people o Russsia???????
Trump’s strokes are getting more and more obvious. He now cannot remember what he said the day before.
Vote Blue I am sure you meant Biden! He is getting worse!
“Coke Head” Trump!
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“We have become so accustomed to our illusions that we mistake them for reality.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin