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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Sex Expert Who Could Be the Missing Link
And why not? Nothing would really surprise me at this point.https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/02/sex-expert-may-missing-link/
The Sex Expert Who Could Be the Missing Link
March 2, 2018 at 9:28 am EST
By Taegan Goddard
Michelle Goldberg writes about the strange saga of Anastasia Vashukevich. She is a Belarusian woman, a self-described sex expert, who is now in a Thai jail and who claims, in a desperate Instagram video, to be the the missing link in the connection between Russia and the U.S. elections.'
It sounds, of course, like an outrageous scam, and perhaps it is. But Vashukevich, who goes by the alias Nastya Rybka, has a documented link to Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch who figures prominently in one of the scandals surrounding the Trump campaign. Indeed, that link may be why shes locked up in the first place. Whether you believe her or not, her bizarre, sordid story offers real clues to the chain connecting Trumps circle to the highest level of the Russian government.
Could a social-media-obsessed escort help explain the degrading nightmare of the Trump presidency? It seems like the preposterously lazy plot of a sub-B movie. But these days, so does everything else in our politics.
It sounds, of course, like an outrageous scam, and perhaps it is. But Vashukevich, who goes by the alias Nastya Rybka, has a documented link to Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch who figures prominently in one of the scandals surrounding the Trump campaign. Indeed, that link may be why shes locked up in the first place. Whether you believe her or not, her bizarre, sordid story offers real clues to the chain connecting Trumps circle to the highest level of the Russian government.
Could a social-media-obsessed escort help explain the degrading nightmare of the Trump presidency? It seems like the preposterously lazy plot of a sub-B movie. But these days, so does everything else in our politics.
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The Sex Expert Who Could Be the Missing Link (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2018
OP
Calling Larry Flynt.... Please pick up the secured phone at the "save our country" security office.
hlthe2b
Mar 2018
#1
If you happened to see the Nalvany video before it was taken down by Putin,
Nevermypresident
Mar 2018
#3
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)1. Calling Larry Flynt.... Please pick up the secured phone at the "save our country" security office.
Javaman
(62,517 posts)2. nothing would surprise me at this point. nt
Nevermypresident
(781 posts)3. If you happened to see the Nalvany video before it was taken down by Putin,
there could be something there. I happened to see Nalvany's video about Anastasia and oligarch Deripaska before it was taken off the internet.
I did see pictures she took of herself and Deripaska on his yacht, which included pictures of a covert meeting between a high level Kremlin official and Deripaska (on the yacht). Nalvany thought this meeting was highly suspicious and possible related to Russiagate.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)4. it is back up