Putin/GRU seem to have new talking points for GOP:
Indicted sanctioned Russian agent Andrii Derkach (helped Giuliani find dirt on Biden) shares 'new evidence' in soon to be released video w/Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos (wife of exTrump advisor George convicted for lying to FBI)
In 2020 Andrii Derkach worked closely with Giuliani to smear Biden.
Derkach is the son of a KGB officer and he was schooled at a KGB academy in Moscow and later became a pro-Russia Ukrainian lawmaker
I created this chart showing the network around Artemenko (Kuchma), Giuliani, Prince, Derkach, Firtash and others - who were working to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine in 2020
An Apr 2020 FARA filing showed that Andy Kuchma (aka Artemenko) & Nabil Bader were hired to represent Andrii Derkach - later indicted, sanctioned as Russian Agent
Andy (Artemenko) Kuchma's company Airtrans is part of Erik Prince's Frontier Resource Group
Derkach also played a key role helping Russia attack Ukraine
@RUSI_org reported Derkach was paid $3-4 million monthly by the GRU to create private security networks and help Russian forces when they attacked Ukraine 2022-2023
As @leesgirl9 noted here are a few of the folks tagged by Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos to follow the 'new evidence' from Derkach - Rudy Giuliani, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson, Roger Stone, Chanel Rion, Dinesh D'Souza, Elise Stafanik, Eric Trump
I can't believe how little the media reported that Giuliani and Erik Prince associate Russian agent Derkach was paid $3-4 million PER MONTH by GRU to help Russia attack Ukraine
I hope coverage of his new Biden smear campaign mentions this detail
Ukraine charges Rudy Giuliani ally with Moscow-linked treason
Ukraine’s security service says MP spread fake news to interfere with 2020 US election, his group was paid $10million+ by Russian military intelligence
Oleksandr Dubinsky, ex-Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach, ex-prosecutor Kostyantyn Kulyk joined an organization formed by chiefs of Russia’s Military Intelligence (GRU)
Dubinsky, Derkach met Giuliani in Kyiv in 2019 while filming documentary to help Trump politico.eu/article/oleksa…
Here's the original statement
According to the materials of the Security Service of Ukraine and the SBU, a current People's Deputy of Ukraine was suspected of treason
The wheels of justice haven't moved in the US for Erik Prince but they are slowly turning in Austria
@StefanMelichar reports that trial starts next Thursday in Austria for Prince and 4 defendants on criminal charges for allegedly illegally arming 2 agricultural planes, HT @RYP__
Trump confidant Erik Prince will be in court in Austria next week
Trial on alleged conversion of 2 agricultural aircraft into “war material” begins Thursday in Wiener Neustadt - Former US mercenary leader Prince denies the allegations, by @StefanMelichar
@StefanMelichar Thread from May 2023 on new that Erik prince was indicted in Austria - public prosecutor's office in Wiener Neustadt filed a criminal complaint against Airborne Technologies GmbH and 5 people including Erik Prince for arming and exporting planes to Libya
Brad Parscale (digital director for Trump's 2016 campaign and campaign manager in 2020) is now working for the Trump 2024 campaign, has many ties to Texas billionaire Tim Dunn - and to a company piloting technology to detect school shooters.
In 2017 Parscale sold his business to Cloud Commerce, now renamed AiAdvertising (AIAD), for $9 mil.
TX billionaire Tim Dunn's Hexagon Partners recently invested $5mil in AIAD and designated Donald Trump Jr's close pal Tom Hicks Jr. as a board director
AiAdvertising's new board director Tom Hicks Jr. was involved in discussions with Giuliani pal Lev Parnas and the Ukraine pressure campaign to disseminate damaging information on Biden before the 2020 election
Michael Szafranski, coconspirator in billion-dollar Rothstein Ponzi scheme, now heads Kushner Companies Florida acquisitions and is on Surfside’s planning and zoning board - overseeing controversial plans for UAE's Damac to develop collapsed Surfside site floridabulldog.org/2023/09/co-con…
Szafranski was a key player in the jaw-dropping $1.3-billion fraud perpetrated by ex-Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein - Szafranski worked for investors as an “independent verifier” while secretly receiving payments from Rothstein.
Before any of the criminal trials, Trump is scheduled for a civil trial in New York in October.
Attorney general, Letitia James, seeks to bar Trump and three of his children from leading the Trump Organization and to pay a fine of around $250 million.
AG James says fraud is so pervasive a trial is not needed for the court to rule:
“Based on the undisputed evidence, no trial is required for the court to determine that defendants presented grossly and materially inflated asset values,” the filing said.
"Trump’s lawyers, in their own motion, argued that the entire case should be thrown out, relying in large part on a recent appellate court decision that appeared as if it could significantly narrow the scope of the case because of a legal time limit."
"A network of political non-profits formed by judicial activist Leonard Leo moved at least $43 million to a new firm he is leading, raising questions about how his conservative legal movement is funded."