I always thought the Alfa Bank-Trump story was just another dumb Trump-Russia conspiracy theory fed to credulous media stenographers, but now it looks much worse: read between the lines, & it looks like a criminal set-up. Durham is investigating it. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
The story never made sense. A group of "self-appointed guardians of the Internet" (-The New Yorker, sincerely 😂) discover some suspicious activity between a Trump server and Russia's Alfa Bank.
An Alfa suit now alleges this was actually a criminal set-up:
An Alfa suit now alleges this was actually a criminal set-up:
Idea that this was a set-up makes total sense. Which sounds more plausible:
A) "self-appointed guardians of the Internet" discover secret communications between Trump & Russian bank server
B) It was deliberate fraud to fake a Trump-Russia tie. And it would be far from alone.
A) "self-appointed guardians of the Internet" discover secret communications between Trump & Russian bank server
B) It was deliberate fraud to fake a Trump-Russia tie. And it would be far from alone.
I'm going w/ B).
Durham is too. People interviewed by Durham team say that "agents told scientists that they were exploring a potential criminal charge... for giving false information to the government." That would be when the FBI got, and investigated, this insane "tip."
Durham is too. People interviewed by Durham team say that "agents told scientists that they were exploring a potential criminal charge... for giving false information to the government." That would be when the FBI got, and investigated, this insane "tip."
BTW, another fraudster, Christopher Steele, pushed the Alfa Bank story. Steele says he got the "tip" about it from Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie attorney who worked for DNC & Clinton campaign. That has some very interesting implications.
This says everything: Dexter Filkins tries to dismiss the setup theory as "extraordinarily abstruse." Has he considered applying that skepticism to his theory about Trump camp & a Russian bank server?
Meanwhile, he tries to pretend that Steele has not been exposed as a fraud.
Meanwhile, he tries to pretend that Steele has not been exposed as a fraud.
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