AT:Trump-haters are hoping Alex Van Der Zwaan, the London lawyer (and son-in-law of a Russian oligarch) indicted by Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation for lying, will turn on and implicate Carter Page, who briefly had something to do with the Trump campaign – who will then finally provide the elusive shred of evidence of some sort of “collusion with Russia” that is so conspicuously lacking.
But there is a danger here, in turning over the rock of Ukrainian influence-seeking. You see, Ukraine, like most smart foreign countries that seek to influence American policy, spreads its money around to insiders of both parties. Max Haldevang, writing in Quartz, calls the process engaged in on behalf of the Ukrainians “reputational laundering,” the flip-side of the scurrilous Steele dossier, intended to exonerate rather than slur, but engaged in by a shadow industry of international consultants and law firms.
Special counsel Robert Mueller today indicted (pdf) the Dutch lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan with charges of lying to federal prosecutors and deleting evidence of his contact with top Trump campaign staffer Rick Gates and an unnamed “Person A.” The three were allegedly in touch about a report on the controversial trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Timoshenko. The report was authored by top New York law firm Skadden Arps, where Van Der Zwaan worked at the time.
Gates and Paul Manafort contracted Skadden in 2012 while working as spin doctors for then-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s government. Yanukovych, who fled the country in 2014, has been accused of extraordinary corruption while in office and had locked up rival Timoshenko on charges widely considered to be false. Skadden’s report that year largely supported the charges against her. Manafort then hired the Podesta Group and Mercury Communications to lobby US officials to support Yanukovych, using the report.
I apologize for the long series of tweets that follows, but I have not found the information put together better than Vachel Lindsey does, tracing this mess back to…Hillary and the Clinton Foundation. READ MORE
Greg Craig will be found floating in a river soon.
Make no mistake, anything Mueller, or the MSm do has one common purpose. Remove Donald Trump from office. And that would be when the war begins.
What will the historians call this? There is “Buchanan’s blunder”. Will they call it “Obama. Putin, and Hillary; aka the 3 way”?
DJT is rather cruel actually. When I see an enemy I just want to dispose of it. DJT like to poke it, proud it, tease it, let it die slow. I admire that.
Right now I don’t see a good move the libs can make. In chess it can be called a “fool’s mate”, when one player makes such unbelievably stupid moves they doom themselves. In this case a good name might be determined by the first high profile perp walk. Time will tell.
CNN got an ambush going on the Gun Round Table. Marco Rubio’s getting booed off the stage. Why would a conservative show up for this shit show?
What were Greg Craig’s parents thinking?
I just found out, me stupid, that the crippled porno prick, Larry Flynt, offered 10 million for information that would impeach President Trump. No wonder these whores are running to CNN and MSNBC, The New York Times, and fellow travelers with made up shit. What a joke!
What a den of thieves this was:
Greg Craig, Jamie Gorelick, John Podesta et al…oooh look, there Michael Dreeben! Say, isn’t he on Mueller’s team? Why yes! Yes he is!
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