DC: Rep. Louie Gohmert, an outspoken House Republican from Texas, is calling for a congressional investigation of John Podesta’s role with Rusnano, a state-run company founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.
Podesta — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman and former President Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff — first made contact with the Russian firm in 2011, when he joined the boards and executive committees of three related entities: Boston-based Joule Unlimited; Rotterdam-based Joule Global Holdings; Joule Global Stichting, the company’s controlling interest. All are high-tech renewable energy enterprises.
Three months after Podesta’s arrival, Joule Unlimited accepted a 1 billion ruble investment from Rusnano, amounting to $35 million in U.S. currency. The firm also awarded a Joule board seat in February 2012 to Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano’s CEO, who has been depicted as a corrupt figure.
Podesta has attempted to downplay his relationship with Joule and Rusnano, but it could come to haunt him.
Remind me, did the Russians make a $145 million (or so) bribe payment to the Clinton Foundation, essentially in exchange for 20% of America’s uranium reserves, or was it to the Trump Foundation (or whatever the Trump charity was called)?
It was to the Clinton Foundation, of course.
For some reason, Comey’s FBI never pursued that. Weird.
We’ll never win the hypocrisy game with dems. They have no morals and thus no ability to disappoint regarding standards. They have none.
The that’s not to say they don’t know what a moral code is, as they bludgeon conservatives for appearances of moral failings all the time. They simply assert that our moral understanding doesn’t apply to them due to inconvenience for their lifestyle.
@PHenry – no – they see our moral code as a weakness and exploit it.
You are right Gladys.