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babylonsister

(171,065 posts)
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 06:24 AM Aug 2017

Trump Campaign Apparently Met with Russian Spy

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 Akhmetshin’s 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.”
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Trump Campaign Apparently Met with Russian Spy (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2017 OP
Chait does a good job; NYT article all but says he was a spy sharedvalues Aug 2017 #1
Akhmetshin hanging with his KGOP homie traitors to America Achilleaze Aug 2017 #2
Expanding the cast of republican family-values role model TreasonWeasels Achilleaze Aug 2017 #3
Wait, don't forget russian money mob operative Irakly Kaveladze Achilleaze Aug 2017 #4
+1 dalton99a Aug 2017 #5
With yet a Token Traitorette !!! Natalia Veselnitskaya* Achilleaze Aug 2017 #6
K & R for truth malaise Aug 2017 #7
The scene of the crime Achilleaze Aug 2017 #8
Just one? Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #9
Wonder if FBI dusted for stinky, stanky tiny-hands traitor fingerprints? Achilleaze Aug 2017 #10

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
1. Chait does a good job; NYT article all but says he was a spy
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 07:39 AM
Aug 2017

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)
3. Expanding the cast of republican family-values role model TreasonWeasels
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 08:14 AM
Aug 2017

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)
4. Wait, don't forget russian money mob operative Irakly Kaveladze
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 10:02 AM
Aug 2017

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)
6. With yet a Token Traitorette !!! Natalia Veselnitskaya*
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 10:08 AM
Aug 2017

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?


Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
8. The scene of the crime
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 10:45 AM
Aug 2017

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.


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