By Carla Feinkind
At the Helsinki press
conference in July 2016, Trump was asked if Putin had "hacked" our
election. With Putin next to him, Trump
said Putin told him he had not hacked our elections. PUBLICALLY, Trump rejected the assessments of
ALL of our security services and deferred to Putin who smiled a smug smile...
Isn't it odd that almost
everyone who worked with the Trump campaign was connected in some way with
Russia?
Who had "contacts"
with Russia? **Michael Flynn (Trump's former National Security Advisor now in
jail) took $45,000 from Russia Today (media) and failed to declare this
TWICE. ** Manafort, former Trump campaign manager, is now in jail for
conspiracy to obstruct the investigations looking into his and Trump's
connections to Russia. A poorly redacted document submitted by Manafort's
lawyers revealed meetings, and the transfer of election data to Konstantin
Kilimnik who has close ties to Russian Intelligence. ** Jared
Kushner, “Senior Advisor” and Trump son in law, met with Russian bankers who were deeply intertwined with Russian Intelligence.
In December 2016, Kushner and
Flynn met with Russian diplomat, Kislyak, and asked for a secure DIRECT line to
the Kremlin that US intelligence agencies could not breach. Even Kislyak was taken aback by that
request! **Trump Jr openly sought
Russian help with the election. **Wilbur
Ross, Sec'y of Commerce, has shares in a publically traded company (HELD IN
OFF SHORE ACCOUNTS!) that contracts with the Russian gas company, Sibur, whose
owners have CLOSE ties with Putin. **Michael Caputo was a Republican
public relations media consultant and later an advisor to Trump's campaign.
Caputo worked for Gazprom-Media from 1994-2000.
Then, he was hired to work on
raising Putin's support level in the US!
Roger Stone, who had
been Caputo's former employer, "lured" him back to the states. But he briefly returned to Europe to manage a
Ukrainian campaign for Parliament. **Rick Gates, Manafort's protégé, was a
senior member of Trump's campaign. Gates
also worked on that Ukrainian campaign. **Carter
Page was a senior foreign policy advisor for Trump's campaign. Prior to
that he had been an investment banker in Moscow with close ties to Podobnyy,
who was later accused of being a Russian spy!
Page also met with Ambassador Kislyak.
** George Papadopoulos was a
foreign policy advisor to the campaign. He tried to set up meetings with Putin
BEFORE the election...He was convicted and got a light sentence and fine. **
Roger Stone, former advisor to Trump (and self declared "dirty
trickster") had contact with Gucifer 2.0, the hacker who publicly claimed
responsibility for at least 1 hack of the DNC. Gucifer
is believed to be operated by Russian Intelligence. **Donald
Trump Jr. met with Aleksander Torshin and Maria Butina at an NRA
dinner. A secret meeting between Trump
Jr., Kushner, and Manafort with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June
2016 was supposedly about adoptions. However, in secret emails, publicist Rob
Goldstone did NOT mention the Magnitsky act but did refer to getting dirt on
Hillary! ** Erik Prince, (Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos' brother) founder
of Blackwater, secretly met with an unidentified Russian with close ties to
Putin to set up that back-channel link between Putin and Trump which would be
undetectable by US security agencies.
Those are some of the "connections" between Trump's campaign and Russia. How did
all of these Russian 'compromised' people find their way into the Trump
operation? This does not even go
into monies that Putin and Russian Oligarchs probably gave to Trump as his access
to investors dried up elsewhere.
And, WHY is the GOP so silent and RESISTANT to
unveiling these COMPROMISING connections?
It could be because Russia has been funneling money into GOP coffers too. In 2016, the political action committees of
Scott Walker, Moscow Mitch, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham (among others) received
$7.35 million from just one Russian Oligarch who is business partners with two
of Putin's "favorite" oligarchs AND a Russian government bank! The
money was often laundered through the NRA and other right-wing groups and
'media' organizations.
Isn't it is INTERESTING that
the Democratically held House passed legislation to protect our elections, but Moscow
Mitch refuses to bring the bills to the Senate floor?
Was this Putin's plan? By attacking our elections, it
looks like Putin installed a puppet who is weakening international alliances against
Russian aggression. When France and
Germany realized Putin's plan, they rebuked him and fortified their security...while
Trump AND the GOP did nothing then and still do nothing. Perhaps Trump meant that Russia would be WINNING
sooo much. Was Putin the REAL winner in
2016???
Need proof that these are
actual factual facts? Check actual archived
newspaper articles.
WE
CAN AND MUST STOP THIS. IN 2020, BE THE
HUGE BLUE TSUNAMI! Vote BLUE no
matter who and Top to Bottom. When
we look at the bills that Trump and the
GOP have passed, they have all weakened our national security, international
alliances, general prosperity, unity, increasing deficits, breaking the 'bank'
so that the GOP can further dismantle all the programs that bring us together,
healthier, happier with more justice and opportunity.
Will
you get busy defeating Putin's "agents": Trump and the GOP? IF NOT NOW, WHEN? IF NOT YOU, WHO?
