The Trump-Putin Collusion Explained

[Star Man]

The Gripping Story behind the Trump-Putin Collusion
by Jefferson Morley

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The Gripping Story Behind the Case for Trump-Putin Collusion
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The most important witness so far in the investigation of President Trump’s ties to Russia didn’t even qualify for CNN.

While the Washington press corps and the rest of the world was distracted last week by the antics of the Mooch, Spicey, and the Donald, Bill Browder, an American-born British banker, was relegated to the side stage of C-SPAN3. For the Senate Judiciary Committee and the hard-core cable audience, Browder laid out what NPR called “a terrifying and complex picture of Putin’s Russia."

A week later, Browder’s testimony remains the #1 article on TheAtlantic.com website, and for good reason. It is a gripping story that makes sense of the motive forces behind the collaboration of Trump and Putin in the 2016 election.

While Browder was only summoned to Capitol Hill to talk about the Foreign Agent Registration Act, his testimony about Putin’s government provided something that Washington and the public at large sorely need. Amid a welter of revelations and allegations, Browder provided a coherent narrative of how and why Putin sought Trump’s help.

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Browder is well qualified to tell the tale. He is the grandson of Earl Browder, the leader of the American communist party who had lived in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. In the ultimate act of familial rebellion, Bill Browder emigrated to Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

“My grandfather had been the biggest communist in America,” he wrote in a memoir, “and as I watched these events unfold, I decided that I wanted to become the biggest capitalist in Eastern Europe.”

Browder founded and ran one of the largest investment firms in Russia, Hermitage Capital Management, from 1996 to 2005. He made a fortune but learned the hard way about the price of crossing Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Browder claimed Putin demands a 50 percent cut of all major business ventures in Russia, making him the world’s richest man with a fortune of more than $200 billion stashed in Western banks. The figure is impossible to confirm, but Browder’s personal story of life among the oligarchs makes it sound plausible.

When a group of Russians muscled Browder and a partner out of $230 million via extortion and forgery, he and his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky went to the authorities with a fraud claim.

"And we waited for the good guys to get the bad guys," Browder said. "It turned out that in Putin's Russia, there are no good guys."

Browder’s account would make for an gripping Hollywood screenplay. Magnitsky was arrested and when he refused to withdraw Browder’s case was mistreated and eventually died in Siberian prison, Browder dedicated his life to exposing Putin. In return, he got a reign of terror. One of the lawyers on his team was poisoned; another was thrown out of a fourth-floor window (and survived).

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This article unifies all the elements and cuts through the Fake News that Trump has tried to use to mislead citizens. Follow the money. Trump owes money to Russian Oligarchs. Putin is prevented from making money in America by the Magnitsky Act. Putin hacked the DNCC's computers and obtained information about Clinton that Trump could use against her. Trump wanted the information and Putin wanted Trump as president so Trump could get rid of the Magnitsky Act.

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[Mark Goldes]

The Gripping Story Behind the Case for Trump-Putin Collusion
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Please click on the link and read the Atlantic story! Extremely important material. So sad to learn of Ron Dellums role. I am sure he was unaware of these facts.

[Mark Goldes]

This is the other side of the story.

A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War

Please be sure to read it if you read the original.

It could help weaken the trend toward a new cold (and all too possibly hot) war.

If you are interested in that subject this is incredibly important!