I originally posted this to my Facebook page on January 11, 2018. It somehow disappeared from my timeline but I managed to retrieve it. I wanted to have it in another location that I can backup and save so I’m reposting it here.
These are my thoughts after reading Glenn Simpson’s testimony to the senate.
Here are the things that stood out to me (they’re ALL things that everyone else skipped over).
There’s no way to explain this in a short post, so stay with me.
A couple of years before Fusion GPS was hired to look into Trump, they were hired by a US law firm representing a Russian “real estate” firm called Prevezon. Prevezon was being investigated by Preet Bharara for stealing and laundering $230 million dollars. The 2 very interesting things you need to know about this, is that:
1. The money was allegedly stolen from a hedge fund called Hermitage Capitol, which is owned by an American expat named Bill Browder.
2. The money was laundered through the purchase of high end real estate in Manhattan.
Okay, so in 2014, Fusion GPS is basically working FOR a company controlled by Russian oligarchs, and created for the purpose of laundering money in the US. One of that company’s lawyers, by the way was Natalia Veselnitskaya who met with little Fredo Junior at Trump tower in June, 2016 to talk about “adoption”. Wanna know why she was in New York at that time? To deal with the Prevazon case that Preet Bharara was prosecuting. That case was settled for a comical $5.9M ($5.9M to settle a $230M crime????) that the acting (remember, they fired Preet Bharara) AG for Southern District Of Manhattan came up with almost exactly a year later. So I guess she thought she would kill two birds with one stone and since she was already in Manhattan to represent Russian oligarch clients, she would just mosey over to Trump Tower to pow wow about “adoption” (I will explain that later).
I’m assuming that at this point I’ve got your interest, and that you’re definitely going to stick with me on this?
Fast forward about a year and a half, and Fusion has now been hired by a republican to investigate Trump. Glenn Simpson’s testimony extensively and emphatically stated that they were not just looking at Trump’s Russia connections, and that they were looking at all of his business dealings.
I call bullshit. I think that Fusion collected enough information when their job was to gather information that was going to help the Russian oligarchs, that they knew exactly where to focus their investigative efforts on Trump.
You guys probably already know everything about Chris Steele’s information, so I’m not going though that again except to tell you that in July, he discovered that the Russians have compromised Donald Trump, and that they’re also meddling in our elections to discredit Hillary Clinton. Steele immediately goes to the FBI with everything he’s gathered on Trump, but hears nothing back. He goes back to them in October, when his FBI contact told him that they never got back to him because they had also collected the same evidence he had collected, and were able to corroborate what he gave them. How? They had a source inside the campaign.
Okay, now on to “adoption”. For this, we have to go back to Hermitage Capital and Bill Browder. Browder realized that $230 million dollars was missing from his hedge fund. He hired a forensic accountant in Russia to investigate. The guy he hired was Sergei Magnitsky, who found that the theft was committed by (among others) Prevezon and that there was large scale theft from the Russian state that was carried out by the Russian oligarchs and Russian officials. He was arrested and subsequently beaten to death in a Russian prison. That prompted more sanctions against Russia, which the Obama administration imposed (it’s called the Magnitsky Act). Putin’s suspension of the adoption of Russian orphans by Americans was a direct response to the Magnitsky Act. Everybody who knows anything about Russian foreign policy knows that “adoption” is code for repealing the Magnitsky Act.
Is it possible that Fredo Junior didn’t know this? It’s extremely possible, given how ignorant these hillbilly Trumps are about everything, but it doesn’t matter because “adoption” was the talking point he was given by either little Natalia or her bosses after the meeting was reported in the press. We all saw the emails that clearly spell out that the meeting was about getting dirt from Russia on Hillary. It’s also irrelevant because the massive money laundering by Trump had already happened.
There’s one thing about the testimony that has me completely flummoxed. Glenn Simpson spent approximately 1/4 of his testimony on portraying Bill Browder as a shady money launderer. If you don’t know anything about Browder, Hermitage, Fusion, or anything else involved in this, his laser focus on Browder would still sound suspicious. Simpson clearly has a hard on for Browder. There is nothing shady about Bill Browder. I know this, because Preet Bharara was the investigator on the Prevazon case, and after he was fired, he had Browder on his podcast to tell his story. I feel pretty confident that Bharara wouldn’t have done that if he had found anything to impeach Browder’s credibility. No, the smearing of Browder is purely a Putin creation. Browder outsmarted Putin by getting all of his money back, and Putin is steaming mad about it. There’s something big we don’t know about Simpson and his motivations in furthering Purin’s propaganda in regard to Browder. But whatever it is, it has nothing to do with what they found in regard to Trump colluding with Putin (there’s NO chance that he didn’t). But, it does make me think that there’s something very shady about Simpson.
So basically everyone involved in this is a varying degree of shady as fuck. Everyone except for Chris Steele and Bill Browder.
