Discussion: Russian Oligarch Victor Vekselberg Links Russia, Cohen Probes

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This will spread over many in the Republican party like the lava and ballistic rocks from Kilauea Volcano.

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and the griftalicious untraceable inaugural donations that lined the dotard’s pockets.

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Treason. It’s treason.

If the Democrats take control I for one will be demanding the stiffest possible charges and sentences up to and including hanging for the ringleaders.

If not then I simply don’t believe in our government anymore.

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That’s exactly what the Russians and the Republicans want.
Don’t be such a chump.

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I think we may be reading some of this wrong. Buying access to Trump to influence, say, an F-35 deal or some pill regulation, seems like a bad lobbying strategy. It merely buys you in to Trumpian carrot-stick abuse. However, should an act of paying tribute get back to Putin, much better. It is important to remember that Trump is a very poor billionaire, if he even has positive net worth at all. On the other hand, Putin’s personal wealth is somewhere north of $200 billion. Trump is a fly, but a fly that promised to deliver on Magnitsky.

You don’t pay for access to Putin. You present a gift of value, which hopefully he accepts and expresses thanks. Then you wait until he deigns, if ever, to do something for you. He decides that. The Swiss Novartis got nothing from Cohen directly, but what a show of respect! A potlatch of burning cash on the front lawn. A signal fire of fealty. Putin likes that. If anybody knows about pleasing Putin, it’s Vekselberg. He’s a surviving first generation oligarch in a time when second-generation oligarchs are already bracing themselves for the third generation. We should remember that in the big scheme, Trump was always a high risk proposition. Relatively small bets just happened to pay off big time. However, gifting to Putin has been a constant theme for two decades, and I’m sure Putin appreciates that his egg-collecting friend was putting himself out there.

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Who’s the chump here really? I want those right wing pigs to pay. And if the Democrats wimp out and play “can’t we all get along” I’m not fucking having it.

Take chump and shove it somewhere dark.

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Vekselberg (who is a co-owner of RUSAL, Deripaska’s majority owned Russian oil co) and his network to go big

Rusal is one of the world’s biggest aluminum companies. Vekselberg is part of a group of investors who own a 26.5% stake in Rusal. The news earlier this week was the collapse of the sale of a stake in Rosneft to the troubled Chinese CEFC. CEFC was involved in Deripaska’s IPO of EN+, his energy company. Clearly, there are many moving parts here.

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Cohen doesn’t have a friend in the world, including his mobbed up father in law who won’t hesitate to bury him.

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This, their continued obstruction to finding out what happened and who’s involved, inside and outside the US.

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Yep. That’s why they froze when Stormy first showed up. They knew what the potential fallout was.

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It seems from reading this article that extreme vetting needs to be used for anyone entering the United States who used to be a citizen of any territory in the former Soviet Union.

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The Republicans are swimming in this stench and Trump and the Russians made sure they did. As for all the money collected by Cohen, I want to know how much went to the Trumps.