Trumps Inner Circle Met With No Ordinary Russian Lawyer

[kpete]

Natalia Veselnitskaya is a lot more than a “Russian lawyer.” To fully explain who she is would require me to write a novel length post, so I’m going to ask you to do a little of the work here by following some of the links. You can start by skimming through the complaint that then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara filed against Denis Katsyv and his corporations. What you’ll find is a painfully detailed description of the biggest tax heist in modern Russian history and the astonishing amount of work that went into laundering the proceeds from the robbery. You’ll discover that the conspiracy was hatched and carried out by members of the Klyuev Group. Members of the Klyuev Group are described as Russian mobsters linked to the Russian government. In this case they’re linked to the Russian government through connections in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Tax Ministry, and the courts. Without these connections, the tax heist would not have been possible.


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Perhaps Trump Jr. wasn’t conversant on the Magnitsky controversy at the time, but Paul Manafort should have been. He had been working the Russian lobbying circuit for long enough to know where the money was flowing, and Russia was very vocal about the issue. She should have been seen as an agent of a foreign power and of Vladimir Putin in particular.

More than that, though, ***she should have been seen as an attorney for murderous Russian mobsters with high-level connections to the Russian Ministry of the Interior. Simple prudence should have prevented them from getting entangled with such a person, and not just for political reasons. The potential for blackmail or violence were too high to be acceptable to a rational person.***

To put a kind of broader perspective on this, try to imagine a United States president who would be unconcerned about a $230 million tax fraud and who would shrug when members of the FBI beat a whistleblower to death in prison. Then imagine that this president would have the deceased posthumously (and wrongfully) convicted in court. Then this president would hire a lawyer for the criminals and make her his point person for lobbying against the resulting sanctions. And, finally, that he would send this mob lawyer to Trump Tower where she would be accepted with eager and open arms.


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[The Blue Flower]

1. What if bringing down drumpf also brings down Putin?

What if Mueller pulls all these threads together and exposes the breadth and depth of corruption in both countries to the detriment of Putin? It would be a stunning unintended consequence.

[Solly Mack]

3. Glasnost! :)

[calimary]

11. Buy one, get one free!

That was one of the lower-profile slogans used by the first Clinton campaign, to point out how - if you elected Bill Clinton, you'd also get his brilliant, creative, dedicated, focused, and hard-working wife.

[volstork]

14. What a dream!

We can only hope...

[Skittles]

15. Putin help install a BUFFOON into the American presidency

HE IS PROBABLY A HERO to the Russian people

[BainsBane]

17. No

Scandal can't bring Putin down. His greatest risk is when he leaves office.

[YCHDT]

20. Right ... IE he's been in control for a while ... Cover his tracks

[NightWatcher]

21. If Putin felt risk, bodies would start dropping over here.

I'm still a little shocked nothing like that has happened here.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[rzemanfl]

4. K&R n/t

[leftstreet]

5. DURec

[Achilleaze]

6. Donnie J following orders from Donnie Two Scoops

to engage in lowlife, criminal, anti-American betrayal, and thereby to fully embrace the glory of being republican "family values" role models.

[pnwmom]

7. The Trump men were accustomed to hanging out with murderous mobsters,

so this was just par for the course, so to speak.

[madaboutharry]

8. The republicans are trying to make her out to be

some random woman with nothing to say.

They are such con artist, everything is a game to them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. She looks like a Russian spy from a Bond movie. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. nt

[Fred Sanders]

10. Corporate media is again refusing to tell the whole story of this treason. Why?

[Mr. Ected]

12. This shit's getting real

The layers are starting to get peeled back, and the deeper we go, the more sinister the plot. The next thing we'll know is that foreign IC agencies have audiotapes of some of these meetings. The next thing after that is the MOAT...mother of all tapes....the Orange Shitgibbon indicating knowledge of his sycophants' efforts to collude with Russia to throw the election, and his support, tacit or verbal.

Then Trump's goose is cooked. He and countless others will be indicted for crimes ranging from violations of the Emoluments Clause to obstruction to collusion and espionage. It'll be the most shameful moment in American history.

And then he'll pardon every single one of them. Including himself.

And the Republican Congress will cower in fear and do what they do best: nothing. Nada. They'll hide. America will be going crazy, but the Republicans will do nothing...in spite of the peril that awaits them in 2018, and 2020.

And then Eric Schneidermann will play his hand. RICO violations, money laundering, tax evasion, all at an epic level, all calling for decades upon decades of prison time.

And then the William Shakespeare of the 21st century will pen a legendary story about a egotistical mendacious narcissist who became President of the United States, brought disgrace to his family and to his countrymen. The Twit.

[Amaryllis]

13. This response fits about 90% of the posts these days:

[cilla4progress]

16. We are supposed to believe

What they discussed????

[iluvtennis]

18. As Rachel Maddow always says nowadays - Follow the Money

[Volaris]

19. Just from what's posted above she could be Kaiser Sozes fucking attorney...

Jeezus what a resume. Trump's going to die in prison, even if he DOESNT manage to get himself impeached.