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(35,454 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 04:27 PM Jan 2019

Apprentice's Mark Burnett Tried to Set Up Meeting w/ Trump Team & Putin-Tied Banker

This all keeps getting dirtier and dirtier

Apprentice Producer Mark Burnett Reportedly Tried to Set Up Meeting Between Trump Team, Putin-Tied Banker

“A new report suggests that an American banker who also has ties to Vladimir Putin tried to get connected with Donald Trump‘s team shortly after he won the 2016 election.

ABC News reports that multiple sources have told them that congressional investigators are looking into the affairs of Robert Foresman, the Deputy Chairman of UBS Investment Bank who also headed a multi-billion dollar investment fund when he used to live in Moscow. The report says Foresman’s company suggests that he has connections with Putin’s inner circle, and also that former Apprentice producer Mark Burnett tried to see if anyone in Trump’s orbit wanted to meet with Foresman after he won the presidency.

From the report:
What is known about Foresman’s efforts to meet with Trump’s team during the post-election period in late 2016 stems from internal presidential inaugural committee emails reviewed by ABC News, testimony and court filings in an unrelated legal matter and three sources who had knowledge of Foresman’s communications, but who would only talk about the subject on the condition that they not be named due the sensitivity of ongoing investigations.

In mid-November, Burnett’s assistance reportedly helped Foresman score a meeting with Thomas Barrack, the real estate financier who was in charge of Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee. Foresman was listed as a “Mark Burnett contact” on Barrack’s datebook, and even though the two of them didn’t end up meeting each other, Foresman continued to pursue meetings with Trump’s team, including one with Michael Flynn.”…cont…

https://www.mediaite.com/online/apprentice-producer-mark-burnett-reportedly-tried-to-set-up-meeting-between-trump-team-putin-tied-banker/


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Apprentice's Mark Burnett Tried to Set Up Meeting w/ Trump Team & Putin-Tied Banker (Original Post) Me. Jan 2019 OP
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2019 #1
Beyond Me. Jan 2019 #2
Yep. Scurrilous Jan 2019 #3
I'm sure he got a very large payoff to bury those tapes FakeNoose Jan 2019 #7
Go after Burnett. His wife is probably guilty too. LiberalFighter Jan 2019 #4
Oh My! malaise Jan 2019 #5
Looks like he needs a subpoena from Mueller and the House of Representattives. Kingofalldems Jan 2019 #6

FakeNoose

(32,587 posts)
7. I'm sure he got a very large payoff to bury those tapes
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:20 PM
Jan 2019

The tapes are either gone or locked up in a safe forever. Some of the unaccounted-for inaugural celebration funds went to Mark Burnett as his payoff, mark my words.

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