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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInside the Online Campaign to Whitewash the History of Donald Trump's Russian Business Associates
Who is paying bloggers on the other side of the globe to scrub the Internet of Trumps Russian business ties?A mystery client has been paying bloggers in India and Indonesia to write articles distancing President Donald Trump from the legal travails of a mob-linked former business associate.
Spokespeople for online reputation management companies in the two countries confirmed that they had been paid to write articles attempting to whitewash Trumps ties to Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who, with former Russian trade minister Tevfik Arif, collaborated with the Trump Organization on numerous real estate deals from New York to the former Soviet Union.
The campaign appears designed to influence Google search results pertaining to Trumps relationship with Sater, Arif, and the Bayrock Group, a New York real estate firm that collaborated with Trump on a series of real estate deals, and recruited Russian investors for potential Trump deals in Moscow.
Saterwho once had an office at New Yorks Trump Tower, Trump Organization business cards, and claims to have worked as a senior adviser to Trumphas recently emerged as a key figure in the federal investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Spokespeople for online reputation management companies in the two countries confirmed that they had been paid to write articles attempting to whitewash Trumps ties to Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who, with former Russian trade minister Tevfik Arif, collaborated with the Trump Organization on numerous real estate deals from New York to the former Soviet Union.
The campaign appears designed to influence Google search results pertaining to Trumps relationship with Sater, Arif, and the Bayrock Group, a New York real estate firm that collaborated with Trump on a series of real estate deals, and recruited Russian investors for potential Trump deals in Moscow.
Saterwho once had an office at New Yorks Trump Tower, Trump Organization business cards, and claims to have worked as a senior adviser to Trumphas recently emerged as a key figure in the federal investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-online-campaign-to-whitewash-donald-trumps-russian-business-ties?ref=home
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Inside the Online Campaign to Whitewash the History of Donald Trump's Russian Business Associates (Original Post)
spanone
Jul 2018
OP
"The elder Trump now says he doesn't even remember Sater" - if that were true, it'd be an admission
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2018
#4
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,494 posts)1. K&FuckingR!
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)2. Time to re write history again, eh, repugs?
malaise
(268,701 posts)3. K & R
For visibility
muriel_volestrangler
(101,270 posts)4. "The elder Trump now says he doesn't even remember Sater" - if that were true, it'd be an admission
of advanced dementia.