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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/9/1763141/-Company-that-paid-Trump-lawyer-500k-also-bought-up-a-host-of-white-nationalist-website-namesCompany that paid Trump lawyer $500,000 also bought up a host of white nationalist website names
Hunter
Daily Kos Staff
Wednesday May 09, 2018 · 1:48 PM EDT
It sure is curious that the Russia-tied company that handed over $500,000 to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for as-of-yet-unclear services had a side gig promoting white nationalism, for some reason.
Among the URLs registered were domains like Alt-Right.co, Altrights.co, Alternate-rt.com, and Alt-rite.com. Some of the domains, like Alt-Right.com and Altrights.co, were registered in late August 2016 just a few months before the American election while others, like Alt-rite.com, were created in August 2017
None of the sites were apparently ever used. They may have been purchased as a "squatting" effort, waiting for another buyer to come along, or they may have been purchased for a larger effort that never came to pass.
Columbus Nova is currently scrubbing all past mentions of their Russian affiliation, which is also Really Damn Curious. Until the end of 2017 they were listed as one of the companies of the Renova Group, Viktor Vekselberg's conglomerate; they're now insisting to reporters that such ties are untrue. No matterfederal investigators have almost certainly sorted all of that out many months ago.
But the purchase of numerous domains targeting the American white nationalist movement is a fascinating little tidbit. How odd it is that a single company would both be paying a large sum of cash to Donald Trump's right-hand man and would have an apparent keen interest in the far-far-right of American politics. Mighty curious indeed, that.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)JDC
(10,133 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)The NRA, the fundies, alt-right groups, etc. all have ties to Russia.
erronis
(15,330 posts)Pass it through a few shells and real-estate transactions and it can be in any currency under this sun.
S.W.I.F.T. and Interpol and other national criminal investigatory organizations have to spend a lot more effort tracking these funds.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)I keep a better outlook these days because of that one fact.
We may just be able to take them all down
Expose them, keep up the pressure and just maybe destroy these bastards forever.
Martin Luther Kings words keep coming to mind, "I have a dream"
My dream involves cremation.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)they backed ultra right organizations in Europe to destabilise the political process.
Progressive2020
(713 posts)Putin's main support, in addition to the super-rich Oligarchs, are Russian Nationalists. These are racist, anti-democratic elements in Russia and in Europe where they promote Right-Wing Politics and Pan-Slavism. These Russian Nationalists are natural allies with European and American Right Wing groups. So, not surprising that there is a connection between Russian interference and the Alt-Right in America. They all support Trump also, even if just as a useful idiot.
paleotn
(17,960 posts)You can't swing a dead cat in here without hitting a coincidence.
Sorry to offend....I like kitteh's too and I in no way shape or form advocate swinging dead kittehs.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Seems like lots of eyes on them.
struggle4progress
(118,345 posts)bpositive
(423 posts)The tv series 24.
Can't wait for the season finale where everyone goes to prison.
babylonsister
(171,092 posts)a season or two. Great comparison...I want to see this finale, too.