Randy Legault
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

Well — there is the testimony of Bill Browder at the Senate Judiciary Committee (TLDR). Testimony that includes, as the Republican Chair of the Committee reports:

… individuals identified in Mr. Browder’s complaint who have been in the news a lot lately. I’ve been writing oversight letters about one of them for months. The first is the Russian lawyer who represents Prevezon Holdings. Her name is Natalia Veselnitskaya. Prevezon is the Russian company that received millions of dollars stolen and laundered from the crime that Mr. Magnitsky uncovered. The other person named in Mr. Browder’s complaint is the one I asked about in March. His name is Rinat Akhmetshin. He is a Russian-American lobbyist with reported ties to Russian intelligence. The New York Times recently described him as “as master of the dark arts.”

These two were reportedly at the meeting with Trump campaign and family members last summer.

Bowder’s story of corruption and bloody murder has the ring of truth and includes motive and opportunity for Trump — Putin collusion (especially read alongside the time-line of the Trump Campaign contacts with Russians, i.e., the infamous June 9 2016 meeting to which Senator Grassley refers).

Taken together all this paints an tremendous story of corruption and Yuge piles of dirty money looking for a home in the US being frustrated by sanctions (code-word: “adoptions”).

Where there is smoke there is fire and, As little Donny is quoted as saying, “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

Whataboutism ain’t going to make this go away. But do keep trying to maintain the support of the credulous folk that make up the base of Trumpism.

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