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THE CAST OF CHARACTERS

1. Russia-Spygate players that you need to know, and how they are connected. Courtesy of Dan Bongino @dbongino

This information is presented on bongino.com (Epsidoe 804 -Show notes) and authored by Matt Polumbo

2. Chart 1: Chris Steele/Fusion GPS

"Obama’s campaign arm Organizing for Action paid $972,000 to the law firm Perkins Coie............ $168,000 of it made its way to Christopher Steele so he could commission his anti-Trump dossier."

3. "Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele was simultaneously working for Fusion GPS where he was researching Russian collusion, & the FBI, where he was presenting his faux evidence. At least 1 person worked on the Prevezon case & also aided Steele with his dossier, Ed Baumgartner."

4. "It appears as if Veselnitskaya’s meeting with Trump Jr. was just to give the mere appearance of Russian collusion – as evidenced by the fact that she met with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson the day of, and day after the Trump Tower meeting."

5. "Simpson claims the two never discussed the meeting, but are we to really believe he was helping Steele “prove” Russian collusion while working with a Russian who just met with Trump’s son, and this meeting didn’t come up in conversation?"

6. THIS GUY! 👇
"Even more suspicious, during the Trump Tower meeting, Veselnitskaya was accompanied by translator Anatoli Samochornov, who was previously an interpreter for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama."

7. "And then there’s who helped organize the meeting; publicist Rob Goldstone at the request of Aras and Emin Agalarov, ....It’s thus highly likely that the “golden showers” lie originated with the Agalarovs."

8. "Steele also had an “in” to the DOJ through Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Nellie worked with Fusion on the dossier, while Bruce was employed at the DOJ. Nellie worked with Fusion since 2015, which makes it possible she was one of the FBI contractors illegally mining NSA databases.."

9. "...for information on Republican presidential candidates. When Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel would begin in 2017, Bruce kept Mueller’s right-hand-man Andrew Weissman “in the loop” regarding his continued contact with Steel."

10. Chart 2: Intelligence Agencies and Steele

11. "Steele had friends in the Clinton State Department through Victoria Nuland and Jonathan Winer. Nuland was Obama’s Ass Secretary of State & claims to have received the Steele dossier at the passed it on to the FBI before their investigation into the Trump campaign started."

12." Nuland told CBS that “in the middle of July [2016], when [Steele] was doing this other work [on Trump] and became concerned . . . he passed 2 to 4 pages of short points and we said ...That’s something for the FBI to investigate. And that was our reaction when we saw this.”

13. "The dossier made its way to Nuland through a mutual contact, Jonathan Winer, also a State Department employee. Winer later admitted to doing pro bono work for the Clinton Global Initiative while he was working at the State Department and exchanging information with Steele."

14. "Steele passed on his dossier to Winer, Winer had one to give Steele. There was a second dossier, authored by Cody Shearer, a long-time fixer for the Clintons. Shearer’s dossier is suspiciously similar to Steele’s, and even contains the same bogus “golden showers” story...."

15. "...According to The Guardian, Steele passed the Shearer memo on to the FBI in October 2016, because it “corroborated” what he had learned from his independent sources. "

16. "Former UN amb Samantha Powers, in the words of the Washington Free Beacon, “appears to be central to efforts by top Obama administration officials to identify individuals named in classified intelligence community reports related to Trump and his team, according to sources.”

17. "It wasn’t just Democrats finding themselves acquainted with Steele. British ambassador Andrew Wood knew both Chris Steele, and John McCain. In November 2016, he participated in a Canadian conference also attended by McCain and his associate David Kramer..."

18. "At this conference, McCain and Kramer were briefed by the British Ambassador Andrew Wood about making contact with Steele regarding the dossier. Kramer would later obtain the materials from Steele and deliver it to McCain."

19. Chart 3: George (PapaDizzle) Papadopoulos

"George Papadapoulos was a key target of those looking to frame the Trump campaign in giving the appearance of Russian collusion."

20. Papadopoulos’ story began in March 2016 when he was named a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign with a supposed emphasis on improving U.S. relations with Russia. During this time, Papadopoulos traveled to Italy and met Joseph Mifsud,..."

21. "..a Maltese professor of diplomacy based in London. On April 26, 2016, Mifsud met with Papadopoulos in London and told him he had damaging information from the Russians on Hillary Clinton. One contact he claimed to know well was Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov..."

22. "Interestingly, one connection we know that Mifsud has is with the Clinton Foundation, whom he’s donated to in the past. In May, after Mifsud falsely told Papadopoulos about the Russians having dirt on Clinton—something Mifsud now claims he never said—Papadopoulos...."

23. "...went to the Kensington Wine Rooms in London to meet with Australia’s top diplomat in the United Kingdom, Alexander Downer (at Downer’s request).Downer was previously part of Hakluyt, a secretive British intelligence firm founded by former MI6 members. .."

24. "..Downer remained associated with the firm following their departure, and this connects Downer to the British intelligence actors in this drama. Papadopoulos told Downer (allegedly while drunk) about the Russians having material that would damage Clinton, which Downer later.

25. "..reported to the FBI. That bogus claim, of course, was planted in Papadapoulos’ head by Mifsud. The FBI has used this as cover for why they opened a counterintelligence operation into the Trump campaign."

26. "Like Mifsud, Downer is connected to the Clinton Foundation, but to an overwhelmingly greater extent. Downer used his influence as ambassador to broker a $25 million donation from the Australian government to the Clinton Foundation in 2007...."

27. "..Downer also potentially has a connection to Fusion, as Glenn Simpson described the “Downer/Papadpoulos” meeting in Senate testimony before news of the meeting was made public."

28. "Meanwhile, FBI spy Stefan Halper had met with Papadaopoulos two months prior to the election, and immediately asked him if he’d known anything about Hillary’s emails. In other words, he was trying to fish out information that Downer didn’t. ."

29. "Papadopoulos says Halper wasn’t the only suspicious person to approach him. There were two others. Papadopoulos’ wife, Simona Mangiante, told The Daily Caller that one of the contacts offered to pay him $30,000 a month during his time with the Trump team.

30. "Papadapoulos’ wife said that one of the people who contacted him was Sergei Millian, a businessman that’s cited in Steele’s dossier as “Source D where Steele claims to have sourced the “golden showers” story. How it was communicated from the Agalarovs to Millian is a mystery

31. Chart 4: British Intelligence

"British intelligence agency GCHQ was headed by Robert Hannigan, who resigned shortly after Trump was inaugurated without any notice. "

32. "Hannigan intercepted communications of the Trump team, & passed them onto John Brennan, who passed them on to the FBI. Brennan takes responsibility for sparking the FBI’s counterintelligence operation, in direct contradiction to the thesis that Papadapoulos was responsible."

33. "As previously mentioned, Stefan Halper was the FBI’s spy in the Trump campaign. He’d worked for the CIA decades prior, and had connections to the British intelligence agency MI6 (where Steele previously worked) through a man named Sir Richard Dearlove."

34. "Halper believed that a Hillary victory would be better for U.S/U.K. relations, and given the number of actors from British intelligence, perhaps they shared similar motives.
In 2012, Joseph Mifsud worked with Claire Smith, a member of the U.K. Joint Intelligence Committee."

35. As a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Smith participated in overseeing all British intelligence agencies, thus meaning she’s a high ranking member in British intelligence."

36. "This makes it unlikely that Mifsud was a Russian spy – and makes it more likely he’s part of the world of Halper, Steele, and others."

37. Conclusion:

"These are just the characters in the “set-up” stage of the Spygate scandal. For the tangled web of actors in the Robert Mueller special counsel, stay tuned for our next series of flowcharts."

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