The Justice Department asked a federal court to detain Russian agent Maria Butina pending her trial, saying she poses serious flight risk, has ties to Russian intelligence and will likely appeal to people in the Russian government to assist her in fleeing. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4609…
In addition to her ties to the Russian government, there is evidence that Butina is well-connected to wealthy businessmen in the Russian oligarchy.
Butina and GOP operative Paul Erickson are believed to have
cohabitated and been involved in a personal relationship. On at least one occasion, Butina offered an individual other than Erickson sex in exchange for a position within a 'special interest organization'.
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The New York Times has also obtained a copy of the forthcoming memoir by Trump’s niece. nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/…
As a high school student in Queens, Ms. Trump write, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollege test, the SAT, on his behalf. The high score the proxy earned for him helped Trump to later gain admittance as an undergraduate to Penn's Wharton School.
Trump went to see a movie the night his brother died.
Giuliani traveled to Madrid in August to meet with one of President Zelensky's advisers. US officials characterized this unreported meeting as a "direct follow-up" to Trump's call will Zelensky about the "cases" they had discussed.
Remember that Dutch historian who went viral after he suggested in Davos that wealthy people should pay more tax? Tucker Carlson apparently invited him on his show yesterday. That went well! 😂
Here's that video by the way. “No one is talking about tax evasion," historian Rutger Bregman said of those gathered at Davos. "I feel like I’m at a firefighters' conference and nobody is allowed to talk about water.”