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[CurrencyChase]

Yall gotta figure out what side your on. @Behelit

This is adult shyt. This isn't some utopia you live in. Theres shyt that has to get done to live the way you want to live.

And I really doubt either you have taken stock of what it really means to get what you've got.

Power fills vacuums. If you aren't eating, you're being eaten.

My parents are from a country whose natural resources were plundered. I already know how this shyt works. I know more intensely than you ever will. I've seen it first hand.

I understand the nature of geopolitics and diplomacy and international business. Its not pretty, but it will be done, WITH or WITHOUT you. PERIOD.

Gotta respect that resolve. So pain and loss made you who you are. Made you a wolf in a land filled with wolves.

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[Dorian Breh]

all my coli cash and eternal rep if a breh in DC can get footage of VDZ blackout on his last days free tour, saying some shyt to jeopardize his plea deal

guarantee hell be at:

camelot
vandal
the graham rooftop


because everyone who works at skadden is the exact same

 

[str8cashhomie87]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/poli...el-investigation-russian-oligarchs/index.html

Exclusive: Mueller's team questioning Russian oligarchs
By Kara Scannell and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN



Updated 5:03 PM ET, Wed April 4, 2018

Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has taken the unusual step of questioning Russian oligarchs who traveled into the US, stopping at least one and searching his electronic devices when his private jet landed at a New York area airport, according to multiple sources familiar with the inquiry.

A second Russian oligarch was stopped during a recent trip to the US, although it is not clear if he was searched, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Mueller's team has also made an informal voluntary document and interview request to a third Russian oligarch who has not traveled to the US recently.

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The situations have one thing in common: Investigators are asking whether wealthy Russians illegally funneled cash donations directly or indirectly into Donald Trump's presidential campaign and inauguration.


Investigators' interest in Russian oligarchs has not been previously reported. It reveals that Mueller's team has intensified its focus into the potential flow of money from Russia into the US election as part of its wide-ranging investigation into whether the Trump team colluded with Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The approach to Russian oligarchs in recent weeks may reflect that Mueller's team has already obtained records or documents that it has legal jurisdiction over and can get easily, one source said, and now it's a "wish list" to see what other information they can obtain from Russians entering the US or through their voluntary cooperation.


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Foreign nationals are prohibited under campaign finance laws from donating to US political campaigns.
The sources did not share the names of the oligarchs but did describe the details of their interactions with the special counsel's team.
One area under scrutiny, sources say, is investments Russians made in companies or think tanks that have political action committees that donated to the campaign.
Another theory Mueller's office is pursuing, sources said, is whether wealthy Russians used straw donors -- Americans with citizenship -- as a vessel through which they could pump money into the campaign and inauguration fund.
The encounters with Russian oligarchs at American airports are another sign of the aggressive tactics Mueller's investigators are using to approach witnesses or people they are interested in speaking with.

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"Prosecutors and investigators like the element of surprise when you can get more instinctive (and often truthful) responses," said Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor, in a text. Mueller's team is using search warrants to access electronic devices and, Goldman added, "surprise is crucial for those searches because you don't want anyone to wipe their phone."
In January, FBI agents stopped and questioned George Nader, a Middle East specialist, when he arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport. They imaged his electronic devices and subpoenaed him for testimony. Nader, who attended secret meetings during the transition between the United Arab Emirates and Trump associates, is cooperating with the investigation. Nader was in the Seychelles when Trump supporter Erik Prince met with Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive of the state-run Russian Direct Investment Fund. Prince denied any wrongdoing when he spoke with congressional investigators.
Ted Malloch, a self-described informal Trump campaign adviser, last week issued a statement saying he was stopped in Boston when returning from an international trip by FBI agents who took his cellphone and questioned him about Republican political operative Roger Stone and WikiLeaks. Malloch is scheduled to appear before Mueller's grand jury on April 13.
Late last year Mueller's team asked some witnesses if they knew of Russians who made donations directly or indirectly to the Trump campaign, sources said.

Trump lawyers told President is not a target at this point
Another source added that Mueller's investigators have asked about a handful of American citizens who were born in former Soviet states and maintain ties with those countries. This person said the inquiry appeared focused on Republican fundraising and how money flows into US politics. ABC News reported in Septemberthat Mueller's team has asked questions about the timing of contributions from US citizens with ties to Russia, citing a Republican campaign aide interviewed by Mueller's team.
Trump raised $333 million for his presidential campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. His inauguration committee raised a record $106.8 million, more than twice as much as any of his predecessors. Watchdog groups have criticized the committee for not fully disclosing how it spent the inauguration funds.
Another potential source of information for Mueller's investigators is Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign deputy chairman who pleaded guilty in February to financial fraud and lying to Mueller's team. Gates worked closely with Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign chairman for part of 2016, and stayed on as deputy chair of Trump's inaugural committee. As part of his plea agreement Gates is required to cooperate fully with Mueller's investigators and answer all their questions.
It isn't clear whether Mueller's team has identified illegal financing or if the questions are more exploratory. A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment.
"One could say either money is fungible wherever it [ended] up," one source familiar with the inquiry said. Or Mueller's team could take the view that "you made a contribution for a purpose."

No words...

 

[THE MACHINE]

Anyone else counting down the days to the next presidential election....


I think i can regain some of my sanity if i start doing this....

Every democrat should switch parties for the primaries and vote for his opposition. Then in the general, just vote for Democrats all the way down the ballot like usual. This way it's a guarantee he doesn't win. Can't risk another 2016 occurring.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Why nobody knows what’s going on inside the Mueller investigation

 

[Serious]

Every democrat should switch parties for the primaries and vote for his opposition. Then in the general, just vote for Democrats all the way down the ballot like usual. This way it's a guarantee he doesn't win. Can't risk another 2016 occurring.

I've thot of this. You think the rethugs will primary him

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[str8cashhomie87]

\THE RUSSIA WEB
Accused Russian Intel Asset Teamed Up With GOP Operative
Konstantin Kilimnik found himself a partner in Sam Patten, a lobbyist and political hand who just happens to have worked previously for Cambridge Analytica
LACHLAN MARKAY
04.04.18 2:43 PM ET



As 2016 campaign season neared, a Russian national who Special Counsel Robert Mueller now believes was working with the country’s intelligence services founded a consulting firm in Washington D.C.

Begemot Ventures International was incorporated in February 2015, occupying an office on Constitution Avenue. Like other firms in the nation’s capital it offered services catering to the politically inclined. But unlike those other shops, Begemot had executives tied not just to an alleged Russian influence campaign, but also a controversial data firm that would later help elect President Donald Trump.

The space that the firm continues to occupy also houses the offices of Sam Patten, a Republican lobbyist and foreign policy consultant who had previously worked to hone the firm Cambridge Analytica’s microtargeting operation during the 2014 midterm election cycle. They don’t just share a location either. Patten is listed as one of two Begemot executives in Washington D.C. incorporation records.

The other is Konstantin Kilimnik, who is currently front-and-center in the federal investigation into Russian government meddling in the 2016 presidential election. A recent court filing by Mueller alleged that “Person A”—believed to be Kilimnik—“has ties to Russian intelligence service and had such ties in 2016.”

Kilimnik has a years-long professional relationship with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, whom Mueller has accused of illegally advancing the interests of foreign clients in the U.S. Kilimnik was a frequent intermediary between Manafort and Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, to whom Manafort offered private briefings on the 2016 presidential race. Kilimnik has long been suspected of having worked with or for Russian intelligence services in the past. But Mueller’s allegations are so explosive because they allege such ties continued through the presidential election—ties that would, by virtue of Kilimnik’s association with Manafort, represent the Trump campaign’s closest known link to Kremlin operatives.

But those close to Kilimnik say the allegations are at a minimum overblown, and at most an outright fabrication. Patten too rejected allegations of Kilimnik’s Russian intelligence ties in an interview this week.


Cambridge Analytica did not respond to a request for additional information.

There is little public information about Begemot, whose name literally translates (from Russian) to hippopotamus but also may be a reference to a character in the Russian novel “The Master and Margarita.” Its emergence on the political scene—and the principles involved in its creation—underscore the smallness of the universe of Republican operatives and foreign policy hands who have done business with those at the center of the Russia investigation.

Begemot’s website says it “helps its clients win elections, strengthen political parties, build the right arguments before domestic and international audiences, and achieve better results.” But it doesn't disclose any of those clients, or even the countries in which they operate. Patten declined to go into any detail about its work.

Patten’s relationship with Kilimnik goes back nearly two decades, when they worked together at the International Republican Institute, a GOP-aligned foreign policy group. In 2007 and 2008, Patten was an Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs in the Bush administration. He has also lobbied for political parties in Iraq and Georgia, and currently represents a group called the Committee to Destroy ISIS, a campaign funded in part, records show, by a Jordanian construction company.

“I operate in a small niche,” Patten said of his work.

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Patten’s association with Cambridge Analytica began in 2014. His personal website says he worked with the firm “to introduce new technologies and methodologies to U.S. campaigns during the 2014 congressional cycle.” The “beta run” of Cambridge Analytica’s microtargeting efforts, the website says, was “adopted by at least one major U.S. presidential candidate.” At the time the website was written, Patten said, Cambridge Analytica was working on behalf of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), though Patten never worked on behalf of the Cruz campaign. Cambridge Analytica would later work to elect Trump.

The data firm is at the center of controversy over the use of social media data in political micro-targeting efforts. A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower claims the company pilfered data from Facebook for use on behalf of its political clients. The company denies any wrongdoing. And Trump campaign officials have tried to downplay the efficacy of the firms work, even though the campaign spent nearly $6 million for its services.

Mueller’s team is examining the role that Cambridge Analytica played in Trump’s election victory, but there is no indication that Patten’s work for the firm is problematic or of any interest to the special counsel’s investigation. Patten himself played down the connection, saying his work for the firm was “wholly unconnected” to Begemot and Kilimnik.

Begemot, Patten said, “is a privately-held, small consulting company that has provided public relations and political strategy advice for clients outside the United States, and [is] not related to the ongoing circus here.”

Patten expressed skepticism about Mueller’s recent allegations about his colleague. “A lot of people in our country wish Mueller well. If this is his ace in the hole, I am profoundly depressed,” he said.

“I have no reason to suspect him of being a Russian agent,” Patten added. “For people to continuously repeat the ‘in contact with/working with Russian intel’ epithet about anyone who lives or works in a country ruled by an ex KGB officer is rather absurd.” Such a description, he said, could include “anyone who rides the Moscow metro.”

Accused Russian Intel Asset Teamed Up With GOP Operative

 

[acri1]

I've thot of this. You think the rethugs will primary him

They'll try, but I don't think Republican voters will have it.

For whatever reason, they seem to be willing to ride for Trump no matter what.

 

[88m3]

 

[THE MACHINE]

I've thot of this. You think the rethugs will primary him

I think he will breeze through the primaries and win presidency again honestly. I'm not seeing anything with these investigations and charges to make me they have anything serious on him, despite my hopes. The FBI is very, very, very conservative. I also think if these investigations end and don't knock him out of office it will give him so much momentum he will be unstoppable. Also, understand no matter how much some republicans say they hate him they will never hate him more than they hate democrats. This is a red country, no matter how much we hope it's not.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

For whatever reason, they seem to be willing to ride for Trump no matter what.

"I'll reduce the number of brown people, folks. Reduce them real good. Bigly. Nobody reduces the number of brown people like I do, believe me. Trump Brown People Reduction. And you know, a lot of people, a lot of people, have been saying that lately."

but really it was the same with W and with Reagan. they're sheep to authoritarians. any old white man who says he's gonna use the stick, they like.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

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[Mook]

Gotta respect that resolve. So pain and loss made you who you are. Made you a wolf in a land filled with wolves.

Nap is the biggest bytch here talking about he's not a pacifist. Dudes dying in in Syria over oil and he's giddy about it. People like that deserve the electric chair.

President Trump To Sign Proclamation To Send National Guard Troops To Mexican Border

He's gonna get away with more illegal shyt.