Are there still people out there who think the alarm over GOP-Russia ties in 2016 was cooked up by HRC? It was always about Ukraine. Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik (Russian intelligence agent) took Trump a plan for Ru taking Eastern Ukraine 1/6
Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych played a central role in it and apparently wanted to be elected head of an independent republic in eastern Donbas.
Felix Sater and Michael Cohen took their own plan to Trump for Russia controlling Ukraine. 2/6
Felix Sater and Michael Cohen took their own plan to Trump for Russia controlling Ukraine. 2/6
Check out every major player around Trump. Tom Barrack went way back with Manafort because the biggest client of his Colony Capital for years was pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. Erik Prince had extensive dealings in Ukraine. 3/6
Frank Mermoud, the intermediary between the corrupt Ukrainian politicians and Manafort, was in business with Arron Banks.
Banks & co supported Brexit, which was desired by Putin as a means of weakening NATO.
Cambridge Analytica worked for that campaign as well as Trump's. 4/6
Banks & co supported Brexit, which was desired by Putin as a means of weakening NATO.
Cambridge Analytica worked for that campaign as well as Trump's. 4/6
And they are thought to have been financed, before Mercer, by pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Dmitri Firtash (see connections to Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, their lawyers, Michael Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis etc).
IT WAS ALWAYS ALL ABOUT RUSSIAN POWER AND UKRAINE. 5/6
IT WAS ALWAYS ALL ABOUT RUSSIAN POWER AND UKRAINE. 5/6
It's all in the Mueller Report. I know there are people (@AndreaChalupa @AlexandraChalup ) who have been screaming this from the rooftops. But just in case there are people for whom the penny has dropped, please send them my way. Or don't. Because it's too fucking late now. 6/6
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