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🔥Veselnitskaya’s seat behind @McFaul was reserved by a @GOP consultant w/close ties to the Trump campaign. Lanny Wiles (his wife chaired Trump’s campaign in FL) reserved the seat at the request of Rinat Akhmetshin w/whom he was working on SANCTIONS.🤨

washingtonpost.com/world/russian-…
“Akhmetshin continued receiving checks and wires from Wiles Consulting, a Florida-based company controlled by Lanny Wiles, a longtime Republican operator. Those payments, which began in January 2016, extended to April 2017, and totaled $72,500.”

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Another “weird coincidence.” A @GOP operative (Wiles, whose wife CHAIRED Trump’s campaign in FL) saved a seat for the #Russian🇷🇺lawyer/SPY (Veselnitskaya) at a Congressional hearing on #sanctions, and Wiles PAID “former” #Russian spy Akhmetshin $72,500 in 2016-7.🙄

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Dr. Dena Grayson
@DrDenaGrayson
Fact: Immigrants commit LESS crime than native-born Americans.

Other than Native Americans, we are ALL immigrants. Immigrants help make America great!🇺🇸💙

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Jed Shugerman
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Akhmetshin is a former Soviet spy who lobbies for Russian oligarchs and money launderers against sanctions... who just happens to meet Kushner, Jr, and Manafort in Trump Tower.
Why on earth is a Trump campaign insider paying him big money in 2016-17?
buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/emmalo…
Follow the money. And this could be one of the first money exchanges from the Trump world to Russian agents during the campaign. Could be a significant thread.
More crazy coincidences: Trumpers Lanny and Susie Wiles are linked to Veselnitskaya, too: washingtonpost.com/politics/russi…
3/ Remember this striking photo of Veselnitskaya behind Bill Browder while he testified in Congress in 2016?
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🚨💥Well well >> Russian lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin (key figure at Trump Tower Meeting) received $500,000 in suspicious payments before AND after the June 9 meeting with Trump campaign top brass. #TrumpRussia buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo… via @LoopEmma
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#GOP salivating over someone 6yrs older than Trump with reams of oppo on him and a phalanx of haters among Democrats does not equal "a lot of people." Sanders polls at 12% & #Midterms were about women & POC.

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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
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