Friday, January 20, 2017

Trumpf Campaign and the Kremlin




   Today's headline:


These follow the the more salacious "golden shower"stuff of two weeks ago.
And the Mystery of  Trump's national security adviser General Flynn's five phone calls to the Russian ambassador on the day the Obama administration expelled 30+ Russian diplomats over the political hacking scandal.

                                        
                             
                                   Flynn at the Senate                  At dinner in the Kremlin with Putin


The page below between the large parentheses, was posted 5 months ago on 17 August 2016,on the same day as the Kremlin stooge Paul Manafort became too toxic for even the Trumpf camapaign.
                                           The Polonium 190 of Presidential Politics. 

 He was of course replaced by Kelly Anne Conway who proved to be the most effective campaign manager and strategist this cycle.David Axelrod where were you when we needed you?
       
The point of reposting here is of course To allow the King to crow and preen;and to highlight that beneath his parody and BS,50 years of engagement in such matters has taught him something.

But the crowing and preening is the most important.

In any event the financial links to shady Russian actors were being highlighted in the international press.It was also obvious that Manafort
and others had direct, covert and nefarious contacts with the Kremlin espionage operation.Paul Manafort a long time gun for hire directly linked to Putin.



The fact that FBI director Comey used his resources to constantly investigate a decrepit email server rather than the well-known Russian activities and Trumpf team access is beyond a scandal.

Regardless of whether or not Comey's obsession with the Clinton email server cost her the election or not, it is extraordinary that the head of an agency charged with protecting the US and its citizens from foreign espionage gave this nonsense a higher priority than Manafort's operations within the Trumpf campaign.

If the Republican Congress has the patriotism to prevent the White House closing down these investigations then I have little doubt that Manafort will be charged with treason.Failing a full inquiry he may get away with serving time for tax evasion.

                                                    Al Capone Redux

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  • Two days ago the Financial Times published a full one page reporting of Trump's business dealings with the Russian Mob. In this case did not mean with the Russian government or Putin directly. According to the FT, the "Trump Soho" development was funded with shady money. It of course, like many of Trump's business initiatives went bankrupt. Apparently 95% of deposits had to be returned to condominium buyers. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/549ddfaa-5fa5-11e6-b38c-7b39cbb1138a.html#axzz4HXkY2D2o
  • There will be much more on TRUMPf's Russian connections http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/
  • Ties to the Italian Mob in New York being held back till closer to the election.


On the same day as the FT article it was revealed that Trump's campaign manager  Paul Manafort had received over $12 million of secret payments from President. Yanukovych  of the Ukraine. He of course denies receiving such "cash" sums.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=0  Now the fact that Manafort had sold his sold his soul to to the Ukrainian dictator is not news. He has in fact sold it many times over to a series of despots. This is how he makes his living.

 Nor is it surprising that Yanukovych so grossly overpaid. It was just the people's money.  Manafort can be bought for much less than this.

It may not be widely known to King Cyclops readers but back in the day the King was the chairman of a large[by Ukrainian standards] commercial bank from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. The area is now now under threat of annexation from that cuddly Mr. Putin.During the period when I was involved with this bank the board had  to deal with a number of irregular loan activities. The original founder of the bank became Minister of Finance.


 During this period several journalists were murdered by the Kuchma regime.State assets were plundered by a small group of Oligarchs linked to the then president,including Kuchma's son in law.

 These same oligarchs later joined with Putin to fund Yanukovych, then the  governor of Donetsk, to run for President.In 2004 his first opponent VictorYushchenko[a good guy] was subject of  an assassination attempt during the election campaign.Yushchenko was confirmed to have ingested a dioxin contained in Agent orange.                                              
                                                
He suffered disfigurement as a result of the poisoning,but still beat  Yanukovych.
In 2010  following her loss to Yanukovych the second,Yulia Tymoshenko[not such a nice lady]was imprisoned for seven years on trumped up charges--pun intended.
Following a popular uprising, Yanukovych fled the Ukraine in February 2014.Tymoshenko was released a week after his flight to Moscow.Putin gave him asylum and citizenship.Interpol placed issued an arrest warrant in 2015.

                    It seems Manafort left the Ukraine in February 2014
A  favorite story in my time there is of  cooperation between Ukraine and the Bush administration.At the time Ukraine was on an international blacklist as a centre of money laundering.This was very inconvenient for the transfer of money from the then president's clicque.The Bush administration was actively seeking to expand the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq. The Kuchma government sent a single antiaircraft battery with 30 troops to join in the occupation.Ukraine was removed from the blacklist. Cost them a lot less than they later paid Paul Manafort.


I thought that nothing would astonish me about Ukrainian off the book payments,corruption or violence.The Manafort revelations/accusations have shocked me .Less about the money but rather what he did for it.http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/08/17/report-paul-manafort-laid-groundwork-russias-invasion-crimea-trump-will-probably-recognize/"The senior Ukrainian prosecutor alleges that in 2006 Mr Manafort orchestrated a series of anti-Nato, anti-Kiev protests in Crimea led by Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Russian Party of Regions — now designated a criminal organisation. The protests forced planned Nato exercises there to be cancelled. No charges were pursued because of a lack of evidence after Crimea was annexed. "

If true--are you betting against it?-then this is Treason.No really it is Treason.

I guess Paul Manafort is looking forward more to his Tax Audit than to the coming National Security Investigation.Probably not good for future assignments.             

BREAKING NEWS--as I edit this, news is breaking of  a Trump campaign shake up sidelining Manafort.                     No doubt more revelations to follow.


Lets hope Kuchma,Yanukovych or the Ukrainian Oligarchs did not make donations to the Clinton Foundation!!   
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3 comments:

  1. CK London1/21/2017

    Question:is the head of the CIA a presidential appointee?

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  2. kingcyclops1/21/2017

    yep You may recall George H.W.Bush was head of the CIA in the Nixon regime.He became Vice President & then President.His son won the hanging chad vote in Florida.This while his other son was governor of Florida.The supreme court stopped stopped the count in favour of first son;a majority of the court was appointed when George H.W. was President or Vice president.
    He evicted Saddam from Kuwait to save the oil for Exxon and protect Saudi Arabia.
    His son invaded Iraq because of WMD and cos Saddam tried to assasinate his dad--ex CIA chief,VP and President.

    No wonder Vlad -ex KGB-feels its all fair game.

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  3. CK London1/21/2017

    So the CIA isn't going to investigate too hard....

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