Re: Alfa Bank/Trump server story. Trump advisor Richard Burt is also an Alfa bank advisor.

[pnwmom]

Richard Burt is a Trump advisor who has earned $365K for promoting a Russian pipeline; advised Trump on writing a foreign policy speech calling for closer ties to Russia; and is connected with the Alfa bank.

According to the Slate story, the Trump org appeared to have a server directly linked to the Alfa bank.

Hmmm . . . .

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html

Earlier this month, the group of computer scientists passed the logs to Paul Vixie. In the world of DNS experts, there’s no higher authority. Vixie wrote central strands of the DNS code that makes the internet work. After studying the logs, he concluded, “The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion. The operative word is secretive. This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project.” Put differently, the logs suggested that Trump and Alfa had configured something like a digital hotline connecting the two entities, shutting out the rest of the world, and designed to obscure its own existence. Over the summer, the scientists observed the communications trail from a distance.

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The researchers were seeing patterns in the data—and the Trump Organization’s potential interlocutor was itself suggestive. Alfa Bank emerged in the messy post-Soviet scramble to create a private Russian economy. Its founder was a Ukrainian called Mikhail Fridman.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264

A Republican lobbyist was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote one of Vladimir Putin’s top geopolitical priorities at the same time he was helping to shape Donald Trump’s first major foreign policy speech.

In the first two quarters of 2016, the firm of former Reagan administration official Richard Burt received $365,000 for work he and a colleague did to lobby for a proposed natural-gas pipeline owned by a firm controlled by the Russian government, according to congressional lobbying disclosures reviewed by POLITICO. The pipeline, opposed by the Polish government and the Obama administration, would complement the original Nord Stream, allowing more Russian gas to reach central and western European markets while bypassing Ukraine and Belarus, extending Putin’s leverage over Europe.

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This spring, Burt helped shape Trump’s first major foreign policy address, according to Burt and other sources. Burt recommended that Trump take a more “realist,” less interventionist approach to world affairs, as first reported by Reuters. Trump’s April 27 speech sounded those themes and called for greater cooperation with Russia.

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Burt’s connections to Russia go back many decades. In 1989, former President George H.W. Bush appointed Burt to negotiate the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the USSR, which was concluded in 1991. In recent years, the 69-year-old Burt said he has advised Russia’s Alfa Bank, and he continues to work with the bank’s co-founder, Mikhail Fridman. Burt has also registered for recent lobbying work on behalf of the Ukrainian construction firm TMM, the Polish government-owned airline LOT and the Capital Bank of Jordan.

[wishstar]

1. Hillary was right to call out Trump for being Putin's puppet at that last debate

Everybody laughed, but she was serious and not kidding. It's about time the details of Trump's collusion with Russian interests is getting openly exposed

[ProudProgressiveNow]

2. +1 nt

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Now we are seeing the follow the money trail.

Wow,more Republican shit-head people wrapped up in larceny,nothing new I guess. And again we see the Bush name popping up. Geez,these sleaze balls just don't quit.

[Farmgirl1961]

4. Let's call it for what it is - TREASON

trea·son
ˈtrēzən/Submit
noun
the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.
"they were convicted of treason"
synonyms: treachery, disloyalty, betrayal, faithlessness;


18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason

Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
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Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

IMHO this is an outright disqualifier for Trump to hold any office.

[Madam45for2923]

5. I concur!

[Doodley]

6. I noticed that connection too. Very interesting.

[duncang]

10. I'm still wondering

About the republican platform what was changed prior to the convention. Some of the delegates said they were pressured by trump surrogates including lawyers during it to make a more russian friendly platform. Who were they and who paid for them? There has to be records.

Also wondering about if they are representing a foreign interest would they have to be registered as lobbyist? It is the repub convention not actual laws so probably not applicable.

[Hortensis]

11. No kidding. THIS should have blown the roof

off the Republican campaign all by itself. The FBI suggests they found links to Ukrainian government but no "clear" link to the Kremlin. So Ukraine was trying to influence U.S. policy through Trump that would substantially help Russia's takeover of Ukraine. And this is okay?

[Fast Walker 52]

12. yeah, seriously... truly crazy that the GOP is ignoring this

[Divine Discontent]

13. Now come ON!!!

This is just too much of a coincidence. They can't spew the line, "it could just be a server for direct marketing his hotels".

WTH is going on. Can the president please (if he isn't already) get involved in what is going on. There's gotta be some good Patriots left in the ever growing Putin supporting crowd in our govt!