The
Huffington Post,
11 November 2016:
President Barack Obama
and Vice President Joe Biden are reviewing the Democratic Coalition’s
investigative report highlighting 10 “clear links” that the FBI failed to
investigate about our President-elect’s business ties to Russia, and to the
Putin regime.
It’s named “The Dworkin
Report.”
“The FBI missed at least
10 key connections between President-elect Trump and Russia when they conducted
their investigation and concluded that our President-elect had no links to the
country,” said Scott Dworkin, Senior Advisor to the Democratic
Coalition and author of the report. “It is imperative that the
American people be made aware of this information.”
The Dworkin Report shows
that Donald Trump has incorporated almost 250 registered businesses in Russia.
This hard evidence directly contradicts Trump’s prior statements about
having no business ties to Russia over the summer.
Additionally, the
evidence shows that Trump has travelled to Russia dating back to 1987, before
the end of the Soviet Union.
In particular, a visit
in 2010 included a tour of St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum led by a Russian
government official of sufficient ranking, that he earned a personal photo and
award from Vladimir Putin earlier this year.
The Democratic Coalition
also revealed a 2013 video recorded interview with Donald Trump to MSNBC’s
Thomas A. Roberts - which he has confirmed as authentic - where he claimed
twice to have a relationship with Putin.
Also in 2012, Donald
Trump Jr. told Latvian interviewers in a video recorded interview, that he had
been to Russia many times and that the Trump Organization has a significant
business there.
The Dworkin Report was
also shared with Democratic Congressional leaders Senator Harry Reid, Senator
Dianne Feinstein, Senator Patrick Leahy, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Congressman Keith Ellison on Thursday evening.
Russia’s authoritarian
President Putin himself sent warm congratulations, after Tuesday night’s
Presidential election, in which his government has already openly admitted to
interfering.
Since Tuesday night,
Putin’s regime has publicly admitted to having a hand in the Wikileaks deluge of emails during the election.
Russian government
officials told the New York Times that they had direct contact with Trump’s closest allies this week,
after polls closed....
The Washington Post, 10 November 2016:
MOSCOW — Russian government officials had contacts with members of Donald Trump’s campaign team, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday, in a disclosure that could reopen scrutiny over the Kremlin’s role in the president-elect’s bitter race against Hillary Clinton.
Facing questions about his ties to Moscow because of statements interpreted as lauding Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump repeatedly denied having any contact with the Russian government.
After the latest statement by the Russian diplomat, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied that there were interactions between Russia and the Trump team before Tuesday’s election.
“The campaign had no contact with Russian officials,” she said in an email.
But Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said in an interview with the state-run Interfax news agency that “there were contacts” with the Trump team.
“Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage,” Ryabkov said. “Those people have always been in the limelight in the United States and have occupied high-ranking positions. I cannot say that all of them but quite a few have been staying in touch with Russian representatives.”…..
U.S. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. accused the Russian government last month of deploying hackers to meddle in the U.S. elections. Officials said Russian hackers, possibly with high-level intelligence links, broke into the email account of Clinton’s campaign chief, John Podesta. The emails were then disclosed by WikiLeaks in an effort that Clinton supporters claim was intended to damage her White House bid.
Putin throughout the campaign interfering with the elections.
But neither the administration’s hacking allegations nor reporting of Trump’s apparent ties to Russia dissuaded more than 59 million voters from casting their ballots for the Republican.
Speculation has swirled about Trump’s links to Russia since early in the campaign, both because of his warm words about Putin and past business ventures in Russia. It is not clear whether Trump currently has any investments in the country, because he has not released any tax records.
But he made millions of dollars by bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013. Wealthy Russians also have been an important source of investments in Trump’s businesses. His son, Donald Trump Jr., said in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” adding that “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
Several Trump advisers have also had well-publicized ties to Russia, including his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who managed an investment fund for a Russian aluminum magnate with close ties to Putin. He resigned from the campaign days after his name was found in a ledger of payouts from the party of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in a pro-European street revolution in 2014…..
List of alleged Trump companies registered in Russia here.
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