‘Putin’s Chef’ Swears His Company Will Show Up For Its Election Interference Trial | Talking Points Memo

In a statement Wednesday that would have come as a shock two years ago, a close ally of the Kremlin said that his company — accused of funding Russia’s 2016 internet trolling — “has every intention of participating in the trial” that is set to start next week.


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Shorter Prigozhin: I am brazenly lying because you cannot touch me or my company.

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and we own Trump

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Is there a russian meaning of “participate” that means “derail”?

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“Participate,” in this context, means “Pay Eric Dubelier lots and lots of money to create a spectacle to attack the Mueller Report while not providing any genuine or non-cherrypicked documents or witnesses located in Russia because you can’t make me.”

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Ah. With a side order of “Misuse discovery rules to send US intelligence data directly to St. Petersburg.”

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What a great picture and look for that guy!

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and has every intention of participating in the trial, appearing through our counsel as U.S. law provides,” Prigozhin said.

They’ll do anything to “participate” except set foot in the courtroom or this country.

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Huh. Prigozhin sounds like he doesn’t expect the US DOJ to go all out to prove that Russians committed crimes to influence the 2016 election in Trumpp’s favor,”.

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the Justice Department… suggested it might “not be either possible or prudent to adhere to the current trial schedule.

After all, you’re just a judge. Mr. Barr is The chief law enforcement officer. You don’t want to get on his bad side. Your Honor.

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What’s the downside? They get to continue to “participate” in making a sham out of the proceedings, and can and will simply ignore any verdict/punishment that may result. Chaos and continued discrediting of American institutions is their only goal.

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Why? Whatever would Barr the US DOJ from doing so?

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“For instance, he claimed he did not become involved with the company until late Feb. 2018”

Not what the wiki says, and how is your mom Prigozhin?

“He also said that Concord Management has a policy of deleting emails every three months”

Because that is always what a Consulting Company in bed with a Military Contractor does. Purge all communications. /s

You can bake on it.

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But…their emails!

Seriously, why would any honorable company delete emails after 90 days? Do they all have short attention spans or something? That ignorant excuse alone should be enough to find them in contempt.

In the last several centuries, is there a Russian meaning of “participate” that doesn’t mean “derail”?

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Atsa nice.

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I think it was warren buffet who said “Never put into an email anything you don’t want read back to you in a court of law.” I don’t know about honorable, but many companies do have an automatic email purge policy.

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Huh. I’ve never encountered that in 30 years of IT work. And what would this ‘fine and upstanding’ company have in their emails that would be ‘disadvantageous’ in a court of law? Either they’re on the up-and-up or they’re engaged in the very nefarious activities they’re accused of perpetrating.