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Millionaire Arron Banks, who bankrolled Nigel Farage’s Leave EU campaign, met with high-ranking Russian officials many times before Brexit vote & even invited the RU ambassador to watch voting results at Leave EU HQ.
by @carolecadwalla @peterjukes #Maddow theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
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Arron Banks claimed he only had one "boozy lunch" w/ the Russian ambassador but documents show many visits from Nov 2015-2017, including an invitation to the RU Embassy the week LeaveEU launched its campaign & another before a Cambridge Analytica event.
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"Russia was actively engaged in amplifying Leave messaging, targeting both undecided & Remain voters during the critical hours of June 23, 2016 – the day of the vote." by @J_amesp @Byline_Media
!! Documents show continued contact between Russian officials & Arron Banks in the run-up to the US election when Banks, his business partner & Leave EU spox Andy Wigmore & Nigel Farage campaigned in the US for Trump.
by @carolecadwalla @peterjukes #Maddow
After George Cottrell's arrest, Nigel Farage called him an "unpaid volunteer," but Arron Banks' book details how Cottrell [who is cooperating w/ the FBI] was part of their Brexit inner circle, accompanying Farage "from meeting to meeting at the 2016 RNC."
MPs call for police & parliament to investigate millionaire Arron Banks [who bankrolled Nigel Farage's Brexit campaign] & his links to the Russian govt. Banks, his Leave EU spox Andy Wigmore & Farage campaigned in the US for Trump.
HT @brexit_sham #Maddow bit.ly/2JIB4Mo
Arron Banks & Wigmore met w Russian ambassador to London Yakovenko [named Mueller indictment as having met w Papodopoulos] on Aug 19, the day Bannon became Trump’s campaign mgr. They then travelled w Nigel Farage to a Trump rally in MS on 25 Aug.
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THREAD: In light of the Trump admin lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's companies, recall that Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, conspired with Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings then meets with Kilimnik re the same on Aug 2.

AUG 11, 2016 email from Manafort's CPA: "Paul has indicated $2.4M in fees earned, but not yet received. Expected to be deposited Nov 2016 [post election?]."
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JUL 29, 2016 email from Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik to Manafort [days after Trump accepts GOP nomination]: "I met today with [Deripaska]. I have important messages from him to you. He asked me to go & brief you on our conversation."
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JUN 15, 2016
McCARTHY: There’s two people, I think, Putin pays – Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God.

RYAN: This is an off the record [laughter] NO LEAKS...alright?! This is how we know we’re a real family.

SCALISE: That’s how you know that we’re tight.
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JUN 15, 2016, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, @SteveScalise, and other GOP: "There’s...there’s two people, I think, Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God."

@Evan_McMullin was there and confirmed it was not a joke.
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Per @Evan_McMullin: One senior GOP leader [that's you, @GOPLeader!] dolefully informed his peers that he thought Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll and had been compromised by Russian intelligence. Other GOP leaders were surprised but did not dispute him.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
#Maddow kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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Arron Banks, the businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage’s LeaveEU campaign, had multiple meetings with high-ranking Russian officials in the run-up to the #Brexit referendum, contradicting his denials @carolecadwalla @peterjukes theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
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So the #Brexit folks (@danarohrabacher's friend, Farage, and Wigmore) were doing the exact same thing that the Trump fam and surrounding #MAGAs were doing. Not surprised one bit. No doubt the real story is much worse. (Murdoch owns The Times.)

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