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https://politicalwire.com/2017/08/21/trump-campaign-apparently-met-russian-spy/Trump Campaign Apparently Met with Russian Spy
August 21, 2017 at 4:09 pm EDT
By Taegan Goddard
Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian immigrant who met last summer with senior Trump campaign officials, has often struck colleagues as a classic Washington mercenary loyal to his wife, his daughter and his bank account. He avoided work that would antagonize Moscow, they suggested, only because he profited from his reputation as a man with valuable connections there, the New York Times reports.
But interviews with his associates and documents indicate that Mr. Akhmetshin, who is under scrutiny by the special counsel Robert Mueller, has much deeper ties to the Russian government He has an association with a former deputy head of a Russian spy service, the F.S.B., and a history of working for close allies of President Vladimir V. Putin. Twice, he has worked on legal battles for Russian tycoons whose opponents suffered sophisticated hacking attacks, arousing allegations of computer espionage.
Jonathan Chait: Of all the facts in the Russia scandal, this one seems the most underplayed. Email hacking is one of Akhmetshins basic methods of operation. The Trump campaign met with a Russian spy who is known for pulling the exact kind of crime that was committed in this case.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)The NYT article hints in about nine different ways that Akhmetshin is a spy, without saying so directly. Chait says it out loud.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Let us not forget republican family-values role model Rob Goldstone. He who is on intimate terms with the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and his Cabal of Colluding Comrades. 'Twas he who set up the Treasonous republican-russian tete-a-tete to plan how to undermine American democracy.
Why Robber Boy is himself the very poisonous picture of a Latter-Day anti-American republican:
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The russian and republican TreasonWeasels were having a bigly, gnarly pisser of a pow-wow at Trump Tower as they conspired to BETRAY America.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Don't ever accuse the KGOP of being totally male sexist power pigs. It's a new millennium, and they are totally into Treason Tonkenism.
* I guess technically we can't call Natty a formal traitor to America since she's a russian. Maybe a simple "enemy of the United States democracy" will suffice.
P.S. - Where have I seen that gang sign before?
malaise
(268,998 posts)Lock them up
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)P.S. I've heard that the guilty always "return to the scene of the crime." Do you think that's true? I'm sure the KGOP is hoping that republican Perjurer General Jeff Sessions will be watching closely so he can continue to prevaricate & obfuscate.