Trump Campaign/Russia Collusion

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A bombshell U.S. Treasury Department report is exposing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s malicious actions. Now that his lapdog is out of the White House, details about what Moscow really did to the U.S. are unfolding. We knew something was up, because Donald Trump acted so strangely around the man, going well beyond simple admiration. So what have we learned about the Russian leader?

The Treasury report exposed Konstantin Kilimnik as Trump’s former campaign manager’s Paul Manafort’s former employee, business associate, and oh so much more. A bipartisan 966-page Senate Intelligence Committee report revealed Kilimnik is a Russian Intelligence Services officer. And he was the hub for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election. The reason was his close ties to Manafort.

In a Thursday Treasury Department news release regarding the latest sanctions, we learned:

‘KILIMNIK PROVIDED THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES WITH SENSITIVE INFORMATION ON POLLING AND CAMPAIGN STRATEGY. ADDITIONALLY, KILIMNIK SOUGHT TO PROMOTE THE NARRATIVE THAT UKRAINE, NOT RUSSIA, HAD INTERFERED IN THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. IN 2018, KILIMNIK WAS INDICTED ON CHARGES OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE REGARDING UNREGISTERED LOBBYING WORK.

‘KILIMNIK HAS ALSO SOUGHT TO ASSIST DESIGNATED FORMER PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH. AT YANUKOVYCH’S DIRECTION, KILIMNIK SOUGHT TO INSTITUTE A PLAN THAT WOULD RETURN YANUKOVYCH TO POWER IN UKRAINE.’

‘KILIMNIK WAS DESIGNATED PURSUANT TO E.O. 13848 FOR HAVING ENGAGED IN FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN THE U.S. 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. KILIMNIK WAS ALSO DESIGNATED PURSUANT TO E.O. 13660 FOR ACTING FOR OR ON BEHALF OF YANUKOVYCH. YANUKOVYCH, WHO IS CURRENTLY HIDING IN EXILE IN RUSSIA, WAS DESIGNATED IN 2014 PURSUANT TO E.O. 13660 FOR HIS ROLE IN VIOLATING UKRAINIAN SOVEREIGNTY.’

‘THE FBI IS OFFERING A REWARD OF UP TO $250,000 FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST OF KONSTANTIN VIKTOROVICH KILIMNIK.’

‘KONSTANTIN VIKTOROVICH KILIMNIK IS WANTED BY THE FBI FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND ENGAGING IN A CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE WHICH OCCURRED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND ELSEWHERE FROM IN OR ABOUT AND BETWEEN FEBRUARY 23, 2018, AND APRIL OF 2018.’

‘A 2018 INDICTMENT ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ALLEGES THAT KILIMNIK KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY ATTEMPTED TO CORRUPTLY PERSUADE ANOTHER PERSON, WITH INTENT TO INFLUENCE, DELAY, AND PREVENT TESTIMONY IN AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING.’

‘THIS IS NEW PUBLIC INFORMATION THAT CONNECTS THE PROVISION OF INTERNAL TRUMP CAMPAIGN DATA TO RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE.’

‘KILIMNIK WORKED AND SERVED AS A LIAISON TO UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN POLITICIANS AND BUSINESSMEN. KILIMNIK, WHO IS ASSESSED BY THE FBI TO HAVE TIES TO RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE, ALLEGEDLY ASSISTED WITH A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LOBBYING CAMPAIGN IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH WAS ALLEGEDLY CONDUCTED AT THE DIRECTION OF THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT WITHOUT PROVIDING DISCLOSURES REQUIRED BY LAW. KILIMNIK WAS INVOLVED IN MANIPULATING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.’

‘THE COMMITTEE WAS UNABLE TO RELIABLY DETERMINE WHY MANAFORT SHARED SENSITIVE INTERNAL POLLING DATA OR CAMPAIGN STRATEGY WITH KILIMNIK OR WITH WHOM KILIMNIK FURTHER SHARED THAT INFORMATION. THE COMMITTEE HAD LIMITED INSIGHT INTO KILIMNIK’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH MANAFORT AND INTO KILIMNIK’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH OTHER INDIVIDUALS CONNECTED TO RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OPERATIONS, ALL OF WHOM USED COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY PRACTICES. THE COMMITTEE OBTAINED SOME INFORMATION SUGGESTING KILIMNIK MAY HAVE BEEN CONNECTED TO THE GRU’S HACK AND LEAK OPERATION TARGETING THE 2016 U.S. ELECTION.’

https://bipartisanreport.com/2021/04/15 ... collusion/

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So, now we know that Ukraine had nothing to do with the manipulation of the 2016 election. It was Russia and the Trump campaign that was responsible. Makes me wonder what other information was delivered via that illegal communication channel.

How is it that Trump was not aware? Is he so gullible that his campaign cronies kept him out of the loop? Nah... he isn't that stupid!
I strongly suspect that he knew... which makes Trump a traitor to his people and the nation... but given the insurrection traitor Trump instigated, no-one should be surprised.

Trump can also claim responsibility for the demise of the GOP!

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US officials say they are expelling 10 Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions, accusing the Russian government of 'malign' acts.

The United States has imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia to punish it for alleged interference in the 2020 US election, cyber-hacking, bullying Ukraine and other "malign" acts.

The measures blacklisted Russian companies, expelled Russian diplomats and placed limits on the Russian sovereign debt market.

More penalties could come although the US did not want to escalate matters, US President Joe Biden's administration said.

Officials in Moscow reacted angrily, saying this dangerously raised the temperature between the two countries and called into question a possible summit between the US and Russian leaders.

It also summoned the US ambassador for a diplomatic dressing-down.

Russian officials deny meddling in US elections, orchestrating a cyber hack that used US tech company SolarWinds Corp to penetrate US government networks and using a nerve agent to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin to raise concerns about these issues and the build-up of Russian forces in Crimea and along the border with Ukraine even as he proposed a summit.

Mr Biden is trying to strike a balance between deterring what the US sees as hostile Russian behaviour while avoiding a deeper deterioration in US-Russian ties and preserving some room for co-operation.

Among his moves, Mr Biden signed an executive order authorising the US government to sanction any area of the Russian economy and used it to restrict Russia's ability to issue sovereign debt to punish the country's authorities for reputedly interfering in the 2020 US election.

Mr Biden barred US financial institutions from taking part in the primary market for rouble-denominated Russian sovereign bonds from 14 June.

US banks have been barred from taking part in the primary market for non-rouble sovereign bonds since 2019.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/biden-admin ... align-acts

I notice that none of the Trump supporters are defending their traitorous Trump!

You guys were played by a traitor! You were sucked in by an unethical populist...
Trump is more of a democrat than you peeps would ever dare to claim... He spent more time wooing them than he did Republicans.

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So, your source is nonsense and bullshit. Just because you like what you read on the internet doesn't make it true! There was no Russian collusion and interference was limited to buying advertising for an American Candidate. This is the most far left site I may have ever come across.

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