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neohippie

(1,142 posts)
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 09:51 AM Mar 2017

Yachts of Trump financial backer, Russian oligarch seen close together

Source: Palm Beach Post

The coincidences are piling up.
Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev last week disavowed any contact with President Donald Trump.

But speculation again was stoked when his state-of-the-art yacht Anna sat anchored in the British Virgin Islands on Friday night and another equally resplendent luxury liner, the Sea Owl, sidled up, according to a website that tracks the movement of yachts.

After disavowing any contact with President Donald Trump this past week, Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev’s state-of-the-art yacht Anna sat anchored in the British Virgin Islands on Friday night when another equally resplendent luxury liner, the Sea Owl, sidled up, according to a website that tracks the movement of yachts.

The owner of the dark-hulled yacht? President Donald Trump’s biggest financial supporter and Breitbart News moneyman, Robert Mercer.


Read more: http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/yachts-trump-financial-backer-russian-oligarch-seen-close-together/gI074W3JLqvEYrQ0hm9zlN/



Coincidentally, Rybolovlev is the same guy who bought Trump's mansion and paid him more than 30 million dollars over the market value at the time.

Also Rybolovlev's private plane was seen last fall at airports in cities around the country the same days that Trump's campaign had stops at those locations, in October in Las Vegas, in November in Charlotte NC and there have been reports of more.


A lot more detail in the linked story
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Yachts of Trump financial backer, Russian oligarch seen close together (Original Post) neohippie Mar 2017 OP
Rybolovlev seems to be a key go between. Vinnie From Indy Mar 2017 #1
The yacht-a-tete was in the first segment of Rachel Maddow last night Kolesar Mar 2017 #2
Rybolovlev's spokesman is right-winger who was Brietbart contributor wishstar Mar 2017 #5
Anna Sendgikoski gave us some good information Kolesar Mar 2017 #6
Wow. One's thing's sure--game's ON for these guys. Hortensis Mar 2017 #7
The cowinkidinks keep piling up. DK504 Mar 2017 #3
Things Botany Mar 2017 #4

Vinnie From Indy

(10,820 posts)
1. Rybolovlev seems to be a key go between.
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:01 AM
Mar 2017

If I were looking into contacts between Trump and Rybolovlev, I would scour the Las Vegas and Charlotte airports for video of the men meeting or going back and forth between planes when their planes were on the same tarmac.

wishstar

(5,269 posts)
5. Rybolovlev's spokesman is right-winger who was Brietbart contributor
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 11:17 AM
Mar 2017

For background on this story- Charlotte Observer ran this article last week:

"Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met, but their jets did — in Charlotte"

BY KEVIN G. HALL, ADAM BELL, RICK ROTHACKER AND GREG GORDON

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article137170553.html#storylink=cpy



Brian Cattell, recently hired (owns public relations firm in NYC) who issues all the statements for Rybolovlev is a British Oxford- educated conservative politician/political advisor who started his business career in Eastern Europe and has Breitbart connection.

Very disturbing to think that right wing extremist billionaire Mercers who own Breitbart and are behind Bannon and Conway, are likely colluding with billionaire Russian Rybolovlev to further their shared political agenda.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. Wow. One's thing's sure--game's ON for these guys.
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 05:06 PM
Mar 2017

Story after story of meetings. Whatever they're doing, it doesn't allow them time to lay low and wait.

Botany

(70,502 posts)
4. Things
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:33 AM
Mar 2017

Rybolovlev paid Trump 60 million $s over the asking price for Trump's property
in Florida. Rybolovlev then bulldozed the house Trump had built shortly after he
bought the property and then sold off the land.

Rybolovlev's plane not only showed up @ some airports where Trump's plane was
but it also was in Bulgaria when Ivanka and Putin's girl friend Wendy Deng were
having a meet up and then later it was in Prague when Trump's lawyer Michael
Cohen was supposed to be meeting with a Russian linked to Putin last September.

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