While the Special Counsel and two congressional committees look into the Russian-Trump connection, information is coming to light which begins to show that Democrats were as closely connected to Russians, if not more so, than any Republican during the lead up to the 2016 election.
Fusion GPS and the Trump Dossier:
We can begin with the widely disparaged Trump dossier. Supposedly prepared by a form MI6 operative (read spy) from Great Britain, the dossier in fact is filled with demonstrably false information provided and, experts believe, actually written by Kremlin officials. Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who “wrote” the dossier, was paid by Fusion GPS, who in turn received money during the spring and summer of 2016 both from a Hillary Clinton backer and also from a Russian operative. The founder of Fusion GPS, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, when asked to appear before congressional committees, pled the 5th and fled to Europe.
Fusion GPS works with Russia to weaken support for the Magnitsky Act.
Fusion GPS has more hands in the Russian pot, however, and their involvement goes back to an incident in the early 2000s. Bill Browder, the CEO and co-funder of Hermitage Capital, testified before the Senate Committee investigating the Russian interference in the election on Friday. Noticeably absent from the Committee meeting were many Democratic members of the committee. Browder’s firm had been working with investment bankers in Russia when they discovered fraud and corruption. Operating under the assumption that the government would wish to prosecute such criminal acts, they reported their findings to the authorities. Browder was immediately expelled from Russia and not allowed to return. His lawyer, a young man by the name of Sergei Magnitsky, continued to look into the fraud which was tied to government officials. Magnitsky was arrested, imprisoned, tortured and eventually beaten to death in prison. In response to his death, the United States passed the Magnitsky Act, bringing sanctions against Russian Oligarchs who engage in money laundering. In retaliation, Putin refused to allow American couples to adopt Russian babies.
Democrats Work as Russian Agents.
In a personal vendetta against the Magnitsky Act, Russian President Vladimir Putin arranged for a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to come to the United States. Although the U.S. had not granted her a visa, the Obama State Department allowed her to enter the U.S. under “extraordinary circumstances.” She then went to Fusion GPS, and with them instituted a smear campaign against Bill Browder and the murdered Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, contending among other things, that he had never been tortured and had simply died a natural death.
But Fusion GPS was not the only advocate that Ms. Veselnitskaya hired to lobby against the Magnitsky Act. She also hired radical left-wing former California Democratic Representative Ron Dellums and other high-profile Democratic partisans to lobby against the Act. Former Congressman Dellums failed to register as a foreign agent as is required by law.
Christopher Cooper, the founder and CEO of Potomac Square Group, also joined Veselnitskaya to lobby against the Act. His company’s clients have included Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (The Daily Caller).
Ms. Veselnitskaya eventually sought a meeting with Donald Trump Jr., supposedly to provide the Trump campaign with details of wrong doing by Hillary Clinton. In fact, the purpose of the meeting was to try to lobby the Trump camp to support rescinding the Magnitsky Act, which they were not interested in doing. The meeting was quickly ended.
Natalia Veselnitskaya’s bizarre appearance at a U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee Meeting.
Interestingly enough, on June 14, 2016, just eight days after the meeting with Trump Jr., Ms. Veselnitkaya and Emin Agalarov, who had helped set up the meeting with Trump Jr., appeared sitting directly behind then-President Obama’s ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, during a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing about Russian involvement in Ukraine. Why were these two Russian operatives at the Foreign Affairs meeting and why were they seated with Obama’s ambassador to Russia?
Democrats Collude with Ukrainian Government to Interfere in 2016 Election.
And while after months of investigation, we are still waiting for proof of collusioon between the Trump team and Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, Politico has reported that there was undeniably collusion between the Clinton camp and the Ukrainian Government during the 2016 campaign. Andrii Telizhenko, who worked in the Ukrainian Embassy in 2016 but is now a political consultant in Kiev reports: “They (the Ukrainian Embassy) were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort (a member of the Trump campaign team) with Alexamdra Chalupa (a long time employee of the Democratic National Committee).” Chalupa who met several times at the Ukrainian Embassy, then reported back to the DNC and to the Clinton campaign and passed information on to reporters. As a result of the Ukrainian/Democratic endeavors, Manafort was dropped from the Trump team. What effect, if any, that had on the election, we can not know, but the fact is that a foreign government forced one of the candidates for the Presidency of the United States to do something that without their interference he would not have done. Interestingly enough, the investigation by the Ukrainians into Manafort’s financial dealings mysteriously evaporated after the election, suggesting that, rather than a serious investigation of wrong-doing, the investigation was entirely political in nature.
Why is it okay for the Democrats to work with Ukrainians to meddle in our election? Why is it okay for Democrats to fund a dossier of fake news whose origin was the Kremlin in order to discredit the Republican candidate? Why was a Russian lawyer, whose sole purpose in the U.S. seems to be attempting to have the Magnistky Act revoked on behalf of Vladimir Putin, granted special entry into the United States by the Obama State Department? Why was that same lawyer able to hire so many Democrats to lobby for her on behalf of rescinding an Act that dealt with Human Rights Violations?Why were that lawyer and another Russian agent seated behind Obama’s ambassador to Russia during a Foreign Affairs conference on Russian interference in the Ukraine? More and more we see the Democrats, in their zeal to damage President Trump, reveal their own on-going cooperation with the Russians and uncover their own very dirty laundry.