Company that paid Trump lawyer $500,000 also bought up a host of white nationalist website names

[babylonsister]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/9/1763141/-Company-that-paid-Trump-lawyer-500k-also-bought-up-a-host-of-white-nationalist-website-names

Company that paid Trump lawyer $500,000 also bought up a host of white nationalist website names
Hunter
Daily Kos Staff
Wednesday May 09, 2018 · 1:48 PM EDT


It sure is curious that the Russia-tied company that handed over $500,000 to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for as-of-yet-unclear services had a side gig promoting white nationalism, for some reason.

As NBC reported Wednesday morning, Columbus Nova also spent 2016 and 2017 registering a number of websites aimed at young white supremacists, or members of the so-called “alt-right.”

Among the URLs registered were domains like Alt-Right.co, Altrights.co, Alternate-rt.com, and Alt-rite.com. Some of the domains, like Alt-Right.com and Altrights.co, were registered in late August 2016 — just a few months before the American election — while others, like Alt-rite.com, were created in August 2017

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None of the sites were apparently ever used. They may have been purchased as a "squatting" effort, waiting for another buyer to come along, or they may have been purchased for a larger effort that never came to pass.

Columbus Nova is currently scrubbing all past mentions of their Russian affiliation, which is also Really Damn Curious. Until the end of 2017 they were listed as one of the companies of the Renova Group, Viktor Vekselberg's conglomerate; they're now insisting to reporters that such ties are untrue. No matter—federal investigators have almost certainly sorted all of that out many months ago.

But the purchase of numerous domains targeting the American white nationalist movement is a fascinating little tidbit. How odd it is that a single company would both be paying a large sum of cash to Donald Trump's right-hand man and would have an apparent keen interest in the far-far-right of American politics. Mighty curious indeed, that.

[Kirk Lover]

1. Sure is curious. Must be another coincidence.

[JDC]

4. Yes, just a coincidence I'm sure

[vsrazdem]

2. I want to know if any of Cohen's funds every went to pay for hackers.

[BigmanPigman]

3. They are all connected...the one thing they do not hate is $$$$$.

The NRA, the fundies, alt-right groups, etc. all have ties to Russia.

[erronis]

8. Or rubles, gold, shekels - any type of filthy lucre.

Pass it through a few shells and real-estate transactions and it can be in any currency under this sun.

S.W.I.F.T. and Interpol and other national criminal investigatory organizations have to spend a lot more effort tracking these funds.

[SonofDonald]

5. So much hand wringing over what's going on

I keep a better outlook these days because of that one fact.

We may just be able to take them all down

Expose them, keep up the pressure and just maybe destroy these bastards forever.

Martin Luther Kings words keep coming to mind, "I have a dream"

My dream involves cremation.

[orangecrush]

6. Standard procedure for Duginist Russian ops

they backed ultra right organizations in Europe to destabilise the political process.

[Progressive2020]

7. Not Surprising

Putin's main support, in addition to the super-rich Oligarchs, are Russian Nationalists. These are racist, anti-democratic elements in Russia and in Europe where they promote Right-Wing Politics and Pan-Slavism. These Russian Nationalists are natural allies with European and American Right Wing groups. So, not surprising that there is a connection between Russian interference and the Alt-Right in America. They all support Trump also, even if just as a useful idiot.

[paleotn]

9. Old southern saying....

You can't swing a dead cat in here without hitting a coincidence.


Sorry to offend....I like kitteh's too and I in no way shape or form advocate swinging dead kittehs.

[Generic Other]

10. Hard to erase stuff on the internet

Seems like lots of eyes on them.

[struggle4progress]

11. Freedom Road

[bpositive]

12. This administration is like

The tv series 24.

Can't wait for the season finale where everyone goes to prison.

[babylonsister]

14. Ha! I watched

a season or two. Great comparison...I want to see this finale, too.

[Hassler]

13. No surprise. Fascism is Putin's plan.