This is huge. The revelation of this fact marks a big change in my view of Mueller's case and current events. Truly a must read. Manafort provided campaign polling data to Deripaska. Deripaska had a working relationship with Manafort and Kilimnik in Ukraine. While there are...
...other oligarchs closer to Putin than Deripaska, he is the person who Trump has recently sought to release from sanctions. Why? This is pure speculation, but it may well be Trump trying to provide either before or after th fact a payoff to someone who could take him down...
..It will be incumbent on Manafort to show he had some innocent reason for providing campaign polling data to a Putin contact bc in the absence of any other evidence, it seems easy to infer this is an attempt by the Trump campaign to help Russia help the campaign. And this is...
...coming from the Trump campaign chairman. At that point, it almost doesn't matter what Trump knew--the candidate is responsible for the goings on in his campaign and if the chairman himself is engaging in criminal conduct, the candidate will almost necessarily be implicated. ..
... To clear Trump, Manafort will have to argue he was breaching his fiduciary duties and committing a felony (sharing campaign data with a foreign national and likely agent of a foreign government) for Manafort's personal benefit. One is really bad news for Trump, the other...
...is even worse for Trump. If Trump had direct knowledge of these facts, then not only will he be impeached, but he will likely be imprisoned. In fact, anyone in the Trump campaign who knew Manafort was providing campaign polling data to Russia IMHO likely faces prison. So...
..things just got very real for the Trump and everyone touching these events in Trump's campaign. Now, turning to Ms. Veselnitskaya, her filing today seems an important piece of the mosaic. Even though her charge is handed down in an entirely different case on a diff matter...
...it once again has the feel of Mueller surrounding Trump by establishing one key fact at a time. In this case, the key fact being established is that Ms. V is an agent of the Russian government, not just an independent lawyer. That was probably...
...already a fact that could be proved, but establishing it in a separate case, simply leaves one less thing to prove in a Conspiracy case surrounding the events at the Trump Tower Meeting in June 2016.
So, the 3rd big news story of the day, is that our mystery company that is owned by the mystery country must comply with the (Special Prosecutor's?) subpoena or face a $50k/day fine for contempt of court while they continue to appeal their case on the merits. Basically, SCOTUS...
...ruled that the company was unlikely to prevail on the merits of their case and so was not entitled to a stay of the fine while the appeal proceeded. Further facts revealed today include...
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...the Company has an office in the US and does significant business in the US. Not sure that tells us much, but its something. Anyway, the odds on favorite is still that it's Deutsche Bank. My new 2nd thought is that it might be a Deripaska related company. He owns Rusal ...
...which is the 2nd largest aluminum company in the world and En+ which is a large Russian energy company (mostly does business in Europe and MENA). So, with all that going on it's no wonder Trump wanted to create a massive distraction circus around border issues. //
The odds just increased that it's a Deripaska related company.
