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Related: About this forumU.S. Intel probing back-channel ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin (Big Story!)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html(written by Michael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
September 23, 2016)
"U.S. intelligence officials are seeking to determine whether an American businessman identified by Donald Trump as one of his foreign policy advisers has opened up private communications with senior Russian officials including talks about the possible lifting of economic sanctions if the Republican nominee becomes president, according to multiple sources who have been briefed on the issue.
The activities of Trump adviser Carter Page, who has extensive business interests in Russia, have been discussed with senior members of Congress during recent briefings about suspected efforts by Moscow to influence the presidential election, the sources said. After one of those briefings, Senate minority leader Harry Reid wrote FBI Director James Comey, citing reports of meetings between a Trump adviser (a reference to Page) and high ranking sanctioned individuals in Moscow over the summer as evidence of significant and disturbing ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin that needed to be investigated by the bureau.
.....Page came to the attention of officials at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow several years ago when he showed up in the Russian capital during several business trips and made provocative public comments critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Putin. He was pretty much a brazen apologist for anything Moscow did, said one U.S. official who served in Russia at the time.
He hasnt been shy about expressing those views in the U.S. as well. Last March, shorty after he was named by Trump as one of his advisers, Page told Bloomberg News he had been an adviser to, and investor in, Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas company. He then blamed Obama administration sanctions imposed as a response to the Russian annexation of Crimea for driving down the companys stock. So many people who I know and have worked with have been so adversely affected by the sanctions policy, Page said in the interview. Theres a lot of excitement in terms of the possibilities for creating a better situation.
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U.S. Intel probing back-channel ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin (Big Story!) (Original Post)
Tanuki
Sep 2016
OP
Yes. Yes. Yes. Keep digging because the trail to organized crime & Trump is clearly there.
misterhighwasted
Sep 2016
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misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)1. Yes. Yes. Yes. Keep digging because the trail to organized crime & Trump is clearly there.
Thanks for posting.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)3. Traitor tRump
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)4. I sense the opposition research is being released
Hit trump with these major charity and russian scandals a few days before the debates. Im sure the dems are sitting on enough opposition reseach to nuke trumps chances and we are seeing this info being leaked to the media
tanyev
(42,559 posts)5. How the Right Wing Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Vladimir Putin
duncang
(1,907 posts)6. I'm still wondering who they had at the repub platform committee
During the rewriting of the repub platform. There were some grumblings from some of the delegates about being bullied by some of the people dipshit donnie brought in. Also there were estimates of around 100 of them moving around to try to get the pro-russian stances put in. If there were that many who were they and who paid for them being there? This to me has always been something that should have been checked up on.